The Council of State is the
highest Dutch judicial authority. It has
stated that the general intelligence service, AIVD, must intensify its efforts
in locating files about the Dutch army captain, Raymond Westerling, and the
revolution he led in 1950 against the Indonesian government of President
Sukarno. A Dutch historian had raised
the issue as he wanted to write a book about Westerling and was informed that
all that would be available to him was a single document of 11 pages, only part
of it which he would be allowed to read. The historian says that a book about
the intelligence service mentions a file consisting of 12 parts. The book also
mentions a letter, dated 1956, from the police stating that Westerling is being
closely watched.
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