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Anglo–Dutch Cooperation During World War II CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Cogitatio Press (E-Journals) Politics and Governance (ISSN: 2183–2463) 2018, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 159–167 DOI: 10.17645/pag.v6i4.1556 Article Loyalty and Secret Intelligence: Anglo–Dutch Cooperation during World War II Eleni Braat Department of History and Art History, Utrecht University, 3512 BS Utrecht, The Netherlands; E-Mail: [email protected] Submitted: 25 April 2018 | Accepted: 21 June 2018 | Published: 28 December 2018 Abstract Secrecy and informal organisation produce, sustain, and reinforce feelings of loyalty within intelligence and security ser- vices. This article demonstrates that loyalty is needed for cooperation between intelligence partners as well as within and between services. Under many circumstances, loyalty plays a larger role in the level of internal and external collaboration than formal work processes along hierarchical lines. These findings are empirically based on the case study of Anglo–Dutch intelligence cooperation during World War II. By demonstrating that ‘loyalty’ critically affects the work of intelligence com- munities, this article contributes to current and future research that integrates history, intelligence studies, and research on emotions. Keywords emotions; history; informal organization; intelligence; international relations; loyalty; secrecy; World War II Issue This article is part of the issue “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying Emotions within Politics and International Rela- tions”, edited by Alex Prior (University of Leeds, UK) and Yuri van Hoef (Utrecht University, The Netherlands). © 2018 by the author; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribu- tion 4.0 International License (CC BY). 1. Introduction of intelligence primarily focus on the (at times spectacu- lar) operational history of services, putting adventurous Secret intelligence is the missing dimension in the his- agents and their handlers in the limelight, who seem to tory of international relations, as Christopher Andrew act in a strategic and calculated manner. This focus ne- and David Dilks argued (Andrew, 1998; Andrew & Dilks, glects both a broader selection of intelligence personnel 1984, p. 1). Since this famous observation, a new gener- and the less-adventurous emotions that influence their ation of scholars has challenged this neglect, leading to actions, which have not been given much thought when the emergence of ‘intelligence studies’ as a new field of reflecting upon intelligence and its institutions. More historical research. We now know more about the oper- knowledge on a broader variety of internal socio-cultural ational history of intelligence and security services, their factors and dynamics and better insights into structural sources and methods, and to a lesser extent, their role characteristics and factors of influence contribute to our in political decision-making processes. For example, we understanding of intelligence communities and similar know that secret services can be of decisive operational organizations that deal with classified information. Relat- and political importance, as shown by the significance ing to the growing body of literature on emotions in inter- of signals intelligence (SIGINT) for the Allied victory of national relations (Clément & Sangar, 2018, pp. 3-4), this World War II, the decisive role of Stalin’s spies in copying article contributes to current and future research that Anglo–American plans to build an atomic bomb, and the integrates history, intelligence studies, and research on repressive and ever-present East German Ministerium emotions. I show how loyalty as an emotion may become für Staatssicherheit (‘Stasi’) (Childs & Popplewell, 1996; institutionalized within secret services (Crawford, 2014). Lichter, Loeffler, & Siegloch, 2015). In this article, I argue that secrecy and informal or- However, we still know little about the social fabric ganization produce, sustain and reinforce feelings of loy- that binds intelligence communities together. Scholars alty in the socio-cultural structure of intelligence and se- Politics and Governance, 2018, Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 159–167 159 curity services. Loyalty is crucial to the level of coop- sion was set up in 1947 to hold the government-in-exile eration between intelligence partners, within and be- retrospectively accountable due to the lack of parliamen- tween services. As such, I argue that loyalty, as a build- tary oversight during the war. This commission, initially ing block of the relationship between individuals, plays aiming to complete its work within one year, worked be- a larger role in the level of internal and external intelli- tween 1947 and 1956 and produced eight large reports gence cooperation than formal work processes which oc- in 20 volumes. These contain the commission’s findings cur along hierarchical lines. In order to assess the role of and, more interesting for the purpose of this article, the loyalty in intelligence communities, I focus on the Dutch word-for-word testimonies of 850 witnesses. Five out of secret services-in exile in London and their British coun- these eight volumes relate to the Dutch secret services- terparts during World War II. We know Dutch wartime in-exile. intelligence history mainly through the lens of opera- Another valuable source is the ‘London Archive’ of tional causes célèbres such as the Venlo-incident (1939) the Ministries of the Interior and of General Affairs in the in which the Sicherheitsdienst trapped two SIS officers Dutch National Archives. It contains, for example, infor- and a Dutch officer (e.g., De Jong, 1969), the disastrous mation on Dutch personnel, correspondence between Englandspiel (1942–1943) that drove 40 agents on Dutch ministers and heads of Dutch services and their British soil right into German hands, eventually killing most of opposite numbers, reports on the training of agents them (e.g., Foot, 2005a, 2005b; Wolters, 2005), and the as well as on the division of labour between Dutch motives of the double agent Christiaan Lindemans, nick- and British services. Also, the NIOD Institute for War, named ‘King Kong’ (De Graaff, 1997). Lou de Jong’s work Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam has a on wartime intelligence (De Jong, 1979) has a broader small number of files on the ‘Bureau Inlichtingen’. Finally, strategic-political and socio-cultural focus. For the pur- this research draws on memoirs of individuals involved in poses of this article, de Jong’s work has proven particu- the Dutch wartime intelligence community. larly interesting due to the combination of its detailed op- Below I first conceptualize loyalty in secretive envi- erational account and its eloquent and detached insights ronments and then briefly introduce Anglo–Dutch intel- into the characteristics of the Dutch wartime intelligence ligence cooperation during World War II. The empirical community. Finally, the meticulous, encyclopaedic work part of the article scrutinizes the two phases (crisis and of Kluiters (1993) provides an impressive amount of de- recovery) of the Dutch services’ work, the key players, tailed information on services’ official tasks, organisa- and their collaboration with their British opposite num- tion, addresses, dates, and agents. bers. In conclusion, I assess how secrecy and informal The case study of the Dutch secret services-in-exile organization sustain and reinforce feelings of loyalty in and their British counterparts is particularly interest- intelligence communities, and I suggest ways to further ing for a number of reasons. First, during World War II integrate research of emotions into intelligence studies. the Dutch intelligence community was forced to collab- orate not only internally, but also externally with their 2. Conceptualizing Loyalty in Secretive Environments British counterparts on whom they depended heavily. The relatively high, external dependence (or low orga- ‘Loyalty’ is a special attachment to a state (‘our coun- nizational autonomy), strong internal dependency rela- try, right or wrong’), an individual or an organisation tionships, and the ‘young’ age of the Dutch organizations (Hirschman, 1970, p. 77). In the context of this research involved, make it a case in which it is likely that loyalty ‘loyalty’ concerns the attachment to individuals (col- would strongly influence working relationships. At the leagues) and organisations (the Dutch secret services-in same time, the secret nature of the work of intelligence exile and/or their British counterparts). It is related to, communities, as further noted below, seems to encour- but distinctive from sympathy. While ‘sympathy’ is un- age loyalty-based relationships. Even if the wartime se- derstood as a feeling of likeness and recognition towards cret services-in-exile are an atypical context for 20th and another person (Schliesser, 2015), I understand ‘loyalty’ 21st centuries intelligence and security services, the se- is possible on both the individual and the group level. cret environment in which the services functioned make ‘Loyalty’ presupposes that feelings of sympathy towards it to a large extent a typical case study with relatively another individual are related to the other’s affiliation broad external validity for contemporary and historical and the connotations that this affiliation evokes. As such, intelligence organizations. loyalty can be closely related to individual and collective Second, this case study provides us
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