Published January 09,2024
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A person who labored for Dutch intelligence in 2005 sabotaged an Iranian nuclear facility with out the data of the Dutch authorities, a media report stated Monday.
Dutch nationwide Erik van Sabben was recruited in 2005 by the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD), the each day Volkskrant revealed.
Van Sabben, whose partner is Iranian, infiltrated a nuclear facility within the metropolis of Natanz in 2007 and put in Stuxnet spy ware, aiming to shorten the centrifuges’ lives and make them unusable in the long run.
He was working as an engineer at a transport firm in Dubai on the time and returned there after the mission in Iran. He died in a bike accident in 2009.
Van Sabben was “used” by the US and Israel, and Dutch politicians weren’t knowledgeable in regards to the state of affairs, the report stated.
Only a bunch of political occasion leaders knew in regards to the operation, however the coalition authorities led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was not knowledgeable, it added.
Source: www.anews.com.tr