Villa Maarheeze was home of the Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 Foreign Intelligence Service (Inlichtingendienst Buitenland, IDB), a service that existed from the end of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 to 1994.

The villa

Villa

A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity,...

 is located in the city of Wassenaar

Wassenaar

Wassenaar is a town in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. A fairly affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies 10 km north of that city on the N44 highway near the North Sea coast. It is part of the Haaglanden region...

, at Rijksstraatweg 675, but is currently not in use by the Dutch government anymore.

Villa Maarheeze was also used as name of a work on the Foreign Intelligence Service, Villa Maarheeze: de geschiedenis van de inlichtingendienst buitenland (1998), a book written by Bob de Graaff and Cees Wiebes.