The Nationale SIGINT Organisatie (NSO) was the Dutch

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(SIGINT) organisation, which was part of the

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, but worked for both the military intelligence and security agency MIVD as for its civilian counterpart AIVD. The NSO was established in 2003, in the aftermath of the

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and became fully operational in 2007. Early 2014, the NSO merged into the newly created Joint Sigint Cyber Unit (JSCU).Project Symbolon completed: the Dutch Joint SIGINT Cyber Unit (JSCU) is born
September 24, 2013 The facilities of the NSO were a high frequency radio interception station in

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in the

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municipality, and a satellite ground station in Burum in the Kollumerland c.a. municipality.Nationale SIGINT Organisatie

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. Retrieved on 13 June 2013. There are also some mobile SIGINT units which can be deployed at military operations abroad. The operation of both listening stations and the mobile units has been taken over by the JSCU.

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