Ze Weten Alles Van Je (2022): Season 1, Episode 1 - Where is Arjen Kamphuis? - full transcript

Title: Ze Weten Alles Van Je
ep. 01

Based on a true story
about a missing person.

The people who the journalist interviews are real.
Her experiences are dramatized.

Dutch cops are going to Norway on Sunday.

To search for the 47 year old
Arjen Kamphuis.

Who went missing 2.5 weeks ago.

Kamphuis is a well known
cybersecurity-expert...

and worked for WikiLeaks.

Kamphuis went to vacation
to Norway.

To go kayaking
at the fjorden...

but he never arrived.



On the 20th of august 2018...

the Dutch Arjen Kamphuis
went missing.

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One of the most famous names in
the cybersecurity-world of The Netherlands.

It is still not known what happened to him.

But his four best friends
are not satisfied with that.

They never stopped searching...

for answers,
for an explanation.

When I read the story what
the police told me:

Most likely it was just an accident.

But if you go deeper into
the rabbit hole...

things don't match up.

I even thought 'maybe he is a
spy for the Russians.'

Thought about when he was working for
WikiLeaks, maybe he was doing some secret stuff.



Was thinking 'will he go to the
Americans with this?'

When there is no body,
he is not dead.

And if still no theory matches...

all theories are up for debate.

If you listen carefully, you'll know why.

Because no one should be able
disappear like that right?

The Norse police says
that he had an accident.

The Dutch police still has him up
their website as a missing person.

Never found a body.
While a whole pandemic passed by.

The puzzle is never completed.

Sources left and right all
believe...

that nothing ever happened.
-And nobody really knows anything.

You're making yourself mad.

And myself included.
-But it's a good story.

That man fought with his heart and soul.

for the safety
of journalists.

But the investigation on him
totally jammed.

That's to good to be true, isn't it?

Four days, and you will be back.
-Ten

Four.
-Eight.

Six.
-OK.

And 'Find My Friend' activated,
non-stop.

You'll not regret this.
-I regret it already.

I don't think about Arjen daily,
but every other day, I think.

And certainly when more topics
are coming up...

of the society where he was
always talking about.

I miss him every time when I read
something in the papers...

that crosses his topics.

I think:
If only Arjen was still around now.

Ancilla van de Leest
is Arjens best friend.

She knows him from work...

After that they grew very close.
Soulmates you could say.

We all keep working...

on it.

For a long time now we want to go
investigate what happened to him.

Piecing together everything ONCE more
as friends together.

To understand why he went to Norway.

That he was planning something
but we didn't know what.

Also Sanne Terlingen is a
good friend of Arjens.

She is an investigative journalist...

and used Arjens expert opinion
in her investigations.

Maybe it's just an attempt...

to get to know Arjen a little more...

than I did when he was still around.

Arjen is born on 26th January 1972
in Groningen.

He was fascinated by the internet
from the very beginning.

The way it made the world smaller.

and everyone connected with each other

Mam, care to put your stuff away?
We are going to land.

Arjen told me the last time I saw him.

that he planned to go to Spitsbergen.

There he went to earlier,
he told.

There he saw how the glaciers melted.

And he said: I want to go back
to that exact same spot...

to go look how it is there now.

so I can tell people with my
own voice...

that we really have a problem
with the changing climate.

At some point I got a message from
a colleague of Arjen.

That he missed a work appointment.

I knew at that time that
was very unusual.

That's when I started to get worried.

There where also friends who said:

Arjen has an important hackers-camp
in England this weekend.

There he would meet Jos.

So we said: let's just wait until
he shows up there.

Before that I received a phone call
from Ancilla:

He missed a business meeting.

He missed this and that.

He never went on that plane.

Still no reason to panic,
because sometimes he was like that.

But he never showed up at the
hackers conference.

Oh, hold on, that's weird.

For me that was a serious red flag.

Jos and Arjen know each other
for years.

They've encountered each other
within the hackers scene...

after that they became friends.

Jos does committees for
governments and businesses...

where there is talked about
digital security.

You can't go to Spitsbergen,
you can't go physically...

without having booked at a hotel.
That's common sense over there.

Then I started calling all the hotels
in Spitsbergen.

We got a quick response back...

he never went there.

So we came up with a time schedule.

When did he tell us he went
to Spitsbergen?

When did he cancel that hotel
booking?

So my conclusion is...

that he lied very deliberately
about that.

That made me a little mad.

I was thinking, why weren't you
more honest with me?

I am fully convinced that he...

had his reasons to do that.

And good reasons.

But that doesn't make it less sad
for me.

His friends went looking at the data
in all possible ways.

That felt very transgressing.

For instance somebody had reset
the password for his e-mail...

server-sided...

so we could read his last
send e-mails.

At one moment we found out...

that he went to Norway...

but not really up north,
to Spitsbergen...

but he took the plane too Trondheim...

where he stayed 2 nights...

before he flown to Bodo...

Very far up north.

And then you'll go looking on a map:
where is that place?

And why would he go there?

And you'll get nowhere.

When we googled, we thought:

What is he doing there?

This is not a place where you go
on vacation for weeks?

but it has beautiful surroundings.

You can hike up there. But it is
not THE place to for a hike.

Arjen almost always went to
the best places.

So what can you do there?

De Norse police keeps searching...

for cybersecurity expert
Arjen Kamphuis.

He disappeared a month ago
in northern Norway.

The police searched with
dogs today...

around the Saltfjord
for new tracks.

Raymond Johansen is born and raised
in Fauske.

A village near Bodo.

He browsed the 'find Arjen'--forum,
an online think tank...

where tips and ideas get shared
for the search of Arjen.

It's nice up there...

but other places are more
impressive.

It is a pass-through town.

It is not more scenic then
the rest of the country.

Bodo, a town where few people
stick around.

This is where you come to gather supplies
for a mountain hike...

or a trip across water.

There is little reason to stay here
longer than 2 days.

But Arjen went for 10 days.

What was he doing there all
that time?

What's it like there?

On 9th August I got a a very strange
Signal message...

Arjen was not registered anymore.

I knew he wanted a vacation,
really wanted a vacation.

But I have to say that this has not
happened before either.

On signal he was always available,
to me at least.

The only reason I can think of...

on which he might be inclined to
do so...

is that he talked to a
Snowden-like person...

who says: 'Signal is broken
and compromised."

Ok deleted, and we continue
the conversation elsewhere.

The disappearance of the cyberspecialist
gets more mysterious.

He was last seen on 20 August...

when checking out of his hotel
in northern Bodo.

Did he have an accident, or
was it something else?

What did he do there?
Then you think of the camera footage.

Norway has a very strict
privacy policy.

That means normal camera footage is
gone in seven days.

We where not searching by then.

So you know the chances of finding him
there are very small.

Still no trail of
Arjen Kamphuis.

For the time being investigators
are not assuming a crime.

Nothing indicates that anything happened to him,
but we don't rule anything out

For weeks I tried to get in touch
with Bjarte Walla from the police.

But it seems he doesn't want to
talk to me.

Within our group there was a lot
of frustration...

about how little the police did.

It took days before they knew he
stayed in Bodo.

We thought: why did you not track
his phone?

Why did you not track all
his hotels?

We were still believing he had
an accident.

That it still mattered that
he was found quickly.

But they just didn't get on with it.

That was the most frustrating,
maybe he could still be saved.

Police asks everyone who thinks they
saw something...

even if you think it doesn't matter...

please report it to the police.

What did you do next?

In consultation with the rest
of his friends...

we decided to place it on
social media.

Knowing that we have a lot of contacts
with the press and media....

and that it might be picked up
big time.

I posted a very neutral and factual
message.

That he was missing.

And that his family, friends and
co-workers wanted him back.

WikiLeaks posted that also...

with notation that it was about
a WikiLeaks associate.

Arjen Kamphuis is missing,
last seen in Bodo.

11 days ago, on the 20th of August.

And then it went very quick.

That really didn't felt bad right then...

because that meant that it would
snowball more quickly...

and we liked that, right then.

Because media liked it when they
heard he was part of WikiLeaks...

that meant it got the CIA-stamp
quickly.

He is a bit part of the world
of whisteblowers.

There the rumors went:
maybe it is the CIA behind this.

Or MI6.

Just because he is always...

involved for clubs like
WikiLeaks...

to keep them out of the hands
of intelligence agencies...

and learning people how to
encrypt their messages.

He is not making friends
with that of course...

especially not with the American
intelligence agencies.

The police works with 3 theories.

He may have voluntarily disappeared,
this data-export would be very good at that.

Something criminal could have happened.
At last some accident could have happened.

Roy Salater works as a local-
reporter at TV2.

His reports on Arjens
disappearance...

gave him temporary fame in
Norway.

A bigger story, whispered by
an anonymous source.

Is this sensationalism?
Attention-seeking?

Or could it be a serious clue?

Why wouldn't they give me answers,
again and again?

Kripos, the national police
investigators from Norway.

Could it really be they had influence...

on the local witnesses and police?

To hide something I can't
find out?

What exactly happened here in
Norway?

What was Arjen doing here?

With every missing person the first
48 hours are crucial.

Most people will be found by then.

But if it takes any longer, that
chance gets way smaller.

Does it mean this is all to
long ago?

It has no meaning to search
anymore?

Or am I not making progress because there
is something about Arjen being withheld?

At the hashtag 'Find Arjen' attention is
sought for the disappearance.

An online community emerges...

where people around the world start
searching.

Friends, colleague's and admirers
of Arjen...

who behind their computer screen...

try to explain what happened.

Very quickly when it had the
media attention...

and was shared online
that Arjen was missing...

There where people who reached
out to help...

even local people.

First a factual summary...

then the timelines got conducted.

So what happened when and where?
Maps where made.

So we weren't against that.

People are going to search again
who knows what emerges.

Go for it!

Nadia?

Truthseeker91?

Welcome, do you want something to drink?

Cappuccino with oat milk, please.

So you go on the 'Find
Arjen'-forum

Yes, but not from the beginning.

Arjen was very involved with
journalists and activists.

He always helped them. Was
always saying on conferences...

how important the role of
journalists are...

in a fair democracy.

I think he was more powerful
as an individual...

then as an WikiLeaks associate.

He wasn't the best hacker in
the world, or something.

His superpower was...

like they they say in English
'the gift of gab'.

He could explain things
very well.

He could convince people...

and enthuse people for
certain topics...

and that was his superpower.

That was not a secret at
WikiLeaks.

That was in the spotlight at
a podium.

Through the official channels
you don't stand much chance.

Since 2018 we have to delete the
camera footage every two weeks.

So moving images of Arjen are
nowhere to be found.

What you could try...

Is searching the hotel where he
slept, Scandic Bodo.

One cappuccino.
-Thank you

is there anything else I can do for you?
-No, thank you.

Can I hear from you back, please?
Jolein.

At these times when electronic
devices...

are so intertwined with our lives...

that we can't live without...

we are not free anymore...

and Arjen was inexhaustible...

to get the facts straight with
everyone.

Where were we?

In a society were everyone gets
spied on every day...

you need security measures...

To protect your information
and your sources.

Why are you doing this?

I think you are looking for
someone who you don't understand.

And, are you going to say it?

What else am I going to say?

That I was right?

That something happened here.

I never said that
nothing happened.

I only said you will never find out.

Don't bet money on it.

My money is in your vacation
in Norway.

Not so cynical.

I'll go to Rognan tomorrow.
-To who?

A village an hour and a half from here.
There is somebody who says that...

Who says what?

Nadia? Nadia,hallo?

Oh god, Fuck.

It is gone.
-What is gone?

What?

The basic questions I should have
asked myself according to Arjen.

Who could be your opponents?

What is the worst thing they
could do to you?

How easy are you going to make
it for them?

There is still no clear
understanding...

about what happened to cyberexpert
Arjen Kamphuis in Norway.

Today it was announced that
his kayak has been found...

But Arjen himself has been lost
for 24 days already.

At a certain time we got a hit
from his telephone.

It came on.
-Ten days after he went missing?

10 days after, from a long distance.

We had given al his phone numbers
to the police.

And it turned out his
phone was turned off.

Then we got a sort of ping...

his phone was at least on for
one moment...

but in the south of Norway,
on 30th August.

The phone from the missing
Dutchman Arjen Kamphuis...

was turned on for a short while
in Norway. The police said.

Ten days after his missing his
phone goes on

1700 km south from here.

In Vekesa, Rogaland, are signals from
his phone recorded.

Ping, and there was the phone.

And it moved.

And that is... that's something!

So it had to be him,
he had to be alive.

At that moment all things
changed...

from 'he had a hiking accident'...

to 'he traveled on without
telling us'.

What is the explanation for that?

I have no idea.
I think it's weird.

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