history - Dutch state security misled China with fake party

A former employeeof the former Dutch state security (Binnenlandse Veiligheidsdienst or BVD, Frits Hoekstra,) has disclosed that his department has run a China-funded maoist-leninist party, that greatly misled China. The Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad interviewed him on a book he will publish very soon.
The BVD has set up between 1970 and 1980 the so-called Marxist-Leninist Partij Nederland (MLPN) to monitor maoist movement in the Netherlands and tried to figure out how China was trying to recruit students and scientists. The effort was so successful, the party that was dominated by BVD-employees even secured funding from China, through Albania. The article did not disclose any figures.
The party had an own printer, called for strikes and held regular meetings. A strict maintained cell-structure prevented key members to know more than three other members. China saw in the party for years the most trustworthy representative of the Maoist ideology. The BVD concluded on the basis of her research that Maoists in Holland were very loud, but also very small.” The CIA-station in the Netherlands was kept informed about the project.