Secretaria de Inteligencia Argentina

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SIN - SISTEMA DE INTELIGENCIA NACIONAL (National Intelligence System)
Sistema de Inteligencia Nacional (National Intelligence System - NIS) is the accepted base structure of Argentinas national intelligence community (NIC) adopted under Reform Law 25.520. in 2001. Reform Law 25.520. is often referred to in the legislation fields of Argentinas intelligence and security services found in these pages. The following agencies represent Argentinas primary intelligence gathering and security services: Secretara de Inteligencia (Secretariat of Intelligence, SI)
Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia (National Intelligence School, ENI)
Direccin de Observaciones Judiciales (Directorate of Judicial Surveillance, DOJ)
Direccin Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence, DNIC)
Direccin Nacional de Inteligencia Estratgica Militar (National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence, DNIEM) ________________________________________________________________________
SI - Secretara de Inteligencia (Intelligence Secretariat). Formerly Secretaria de Intelligence de Estada - SIDE. http://www.mundoandino.com/Argentina/Secretaria-deInteligencia Secretaria de Intelligence de Estada defunct web site http://www.side.gov.ar/
NOTES: Secretaria de Inteligencia (Intelligence Secretariat, SI) is the premier intelligence agency of the Argentine Republic and
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BACKGROUND
head of the countrys National Intelligence System. Chaired by the Secretary of State Intelligence who is a special member of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Secretariat of Intelligence is a technical and operational service charged with the collection and production of intelligence and counterintelligence in internal and foreign areas, as well as the analysis and formation of a national intelligence strategy in order to handle state affairs. The Secretariat is charged with the duty of producing a complete intelligence cycle. Structurally, SI has the biggest intelligence gathering capability in Argentina, due to its many operational directorates and collaborations with other Argentinian intelligence agencies inside and outside the country. SIs current Secretary of State Intelligence is Hctor Icazuriaga (since 2003).
SECONDARY NOTES: Under the law, the Secretariat is subordinated to the National Presidential Office - President of Argentina. Presidenta de la Nacion Argentina http://www.presidencia.gov.ar/ In 2005, the Senate of Argentina abolished secrecy laws, it is not clear how it has affected the Secretariat. Even though the official acronym was renamed SI as the new intelligence system became active, Article 51 of the Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 renames SIDE (Secretaria de Inteligencia de Estado) to SI (Secretaria de Inteligencia) and abolishes secret decree 416/76. During most of its history it was called Secretaria de Inteligencia de Estado (Secretariat of State Intelligence, SIDE) and it still is referred to as SIDE by the public.
The Secretariat of Intelligence was created in 1946 when Juan Peron's first presidency established it by Executive Decree 337/46 under the denomination of Coordinacion de Informaciones de Estado (State Intelligence Coordination, CIDE). Its mission was to act as a national intelligence agency to be run by civilian personnel and to handle foreign and domestic intelligence operations for the federal government.
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Before CIDE was established, national intelligence was jointly handled by the Division de Informaciones (Information Division, DI) of the National Presidential Office, and the military intelligence services such as the Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejercito (Army Intelligence Service, SIE) and the Servicio de Inteligencia Naval (Naval Intelligence Service, SIN). Even though throughout Argentina's history military intelligence organs have been involved in handling both internal and external intelligence, reforms enacted in the last few decades have legally given them a role alongside civilian managed services in the National Intelligence System. Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 also created the National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence, charged with the coordination of all the Argentine Armed Forces military intelligence services. The Secretariat (as it is commonly referred) had its first structural and functional reform in 1956, under the Pedro Aramburu government when by Executive Decree 776/56 of 20 January, CIDE adopted the name Secretaria de Informaciones de Estado (Secretariat of State Information), and the subsequent famous acronym "SIDE". The newly restructured agency was closely modelled on the British intelligence system. During Juan Carlos Ongania's government, SIDE was under the administration of Gral. Senorans, one of the most well regarded Secretaries of Intelligence of all time. During those years, SIDE started to orchestrate its first complex foreign espionage missions, the staff was increased substantially to about 1,200, and the knowledge and operational capabilities were dramatically improved. During Senorans administration, many Argentine women began participating in what was then a male-only field. The Secretariat began appreciating certain advantages of the female sex, especially when operations required the exploitation of human weaknesses. However, in 1966, Senorans restructured the Secretariat, expelling 900 employees (of about 1,200 total), including all of the female intelligence operatives contracted at the time. It has been noted that Senorans had a phobia of females, and would not tolerate women working in administrative positions.
In that same year, a failed kidnapping attempt of the Soviet Consul in Buenos Aires, led the USSR to enact a formal protest, threatening to take the matters to international organizations. Ongania, against his will, had no other choice but to ask Senorans to resign, the Secretary in his final statement exposed that "Consul Petrov commands a group of spies of the KGB in Argentina".
After Senorans departure, women regained their positions in the civil intelligence community, but it was at that time, with the onset of the Cold War, that the CIA began taking special interest in SIDE. The growth of communist groups and guerrillas in Latin America, backed by Fidel Castro's regime, as well as the special interest the Soviet Union began to take in Latin America, made the American intelligence community influence what was then thought as an area of minor concern to American interests in the war. The Secretariat of Intelligence was no exception, the 'communist problem' was made a priority, and surveillance of foreign embassies and delegations of communist countries became common. Secret law N 20.195/73 came into effect on February 281973 during the government of Gral. Lanusse, literally establishing the mission, functions, personnel, and other important aspects of the agency; it is also known as the secret decree N 1.792/73, dated 9 March 1973. During the defacto government of Jorge Rafael Videla, on 13 May

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1976, by Executive Decree 416 it adopted the name Secretaria de Inteligencia de Estado. Under the National Reorganization Process, SIDE transformed itself into a secret police conducting espionage on guerrilla organizations, labour unions, or any other organization or person considered subversive, or a supporter of subversive activities. SIDE also took part in coordinating Operation Condor with other Latin American intelligence services. After the return of democracy in 1983, during Raul Alfonsin's government, SIDE began to renew its staff, and to become a civilian intelligence agency who would entirely focus its activities on national interests. In December 2001, the Intelligence Reform Law was approved, Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 created the National Intelligence System. changing the structure, denomination and functions to adapt it to the new National Intelligence System. In February of 2001, during the Fernando de la Rua government, SIDE was suffering from budget cuts (reduced by half) and political pressure to renew itself. The staff was reduced by half, 1,300 personnel were laid off. One of the reasons given for the clean-up were that many staff members had been involved in human rights violations during the National Reorganization Process. This restructuring included laying off personnel who were past their retiring age according to the agency's standards, and removing most of the personnel from the return to democracy under the Alfonsin administration. During October of 2003, under Nestor Kirchner's government, a crackdown on illegal phone taps, as well as political and ideological espionage was ordered to Secretary of Intelligence Sergio Acevedo. More than 160 personnel were expelled from the organisation for violations of regulations. An integral security review was also conducted, later producing a report which stated several security holes and cases of corruption and theft in the organisation (i.e, theft of food, extraction of gasoline from cars and poor security at facilities.).
In the aftermath of the 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, SIDE augmented its focus on terrorist activities in the Triple border region. The lingering threat of another act of Islamic terrorism on Argentine soil, especially against Jewish entities in Buenos Aires, required the Secretariat to adapt to a previously unknown national security threat. Foreign intelligence agencies cooperated in the formation on subjects as Islamic terrorism and how to neutralize it. The CIA provided SIDE with extensive training, and experts from all over the world were contracted to teach classes in the National Intelligence School. SIDE also began instructing its personnel on Persian and Arabic languages and history, and how to handle operations with people and organizations pertaining to such cultures. After the 1994 AMIA Bombing, SIDE recognized that Islamic terrorism became an extremely serious threat to national security. A plan codenamed Operation Centaur (Operation Centauro) to monitor terrorist organizations on the Triple border was orchestrated in cooperation with the CIA, and included phone taps, mail interceptions, and covert surveillance of many suspects. Its reports detailed the existence and activities of terrorist organizations in the area, which benefited from the huge black market in Paraguay and served as a financial laundering centre for other organizations abroad. A 1997 report including evidence of such
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Headquarters of SIDE (SI) in central Buenos Aires
activities was shared with the intelligence agencies of the United States, Brazil, Paraguay, France and Germany. The Sala Patria group, Sala Patria was a covert operations group depending of the Subsecretariat of Foreign Intelligence. Two famous staff members named by the Argentine press frequently, Alejandro Brousson and Patricio Miguel Finnen led this group. Sala Patria was first assigned to capture Enrique Gorriaran Merlo and then leading the AMIA investigation on foreign soil. The group was also involved in famous operations such as the Nasrim Mokhtari fiasco, and the Telledin bribes. The group was recently dissolved, both Patricio Miguel Finnen and Alejandro Brousson no longer work for SIDE, and the group now became a division known as "Division 34: Transnational Crime and International Terrorism". It is important to note that "Sala" is a group of people from many divisions of the organization put together to work on a specific operation, i.e: Sala Independencia, created to work on the investigation of the Israeli embassy bombing. formed to investigate clues about the AMIA bombing outside of Argentina, started operating in Paraguay and gave crucial information that led to the capture of many suspected terrorists and the neutralization of a suspected plan to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay. Organization
SIDE is the head of the National Intelligence System, and also the biggest intelligence agency of Argentina. Executive and legislative oversight of the intelligence system in Argentina, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. It depends of the National Presidential Office and reports to the President of Argentina, who is required to set the national intelligence plan and policy.
Besides being an intelligence agency that handles foreign and internal intelligence, it also assists nationwide criminal investigations, Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 created the National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence, charged with the coordination of internal criminal intelligence from the security forces. Like the American FBI, SIDE frequently collaborates with the Justice System.

Objectives The Secretariat's objectives in the functions of intelligence as mandated by law are: Assist the different areas of the national government about the capacities and vulnerabilities of the different actors -in the national and international spectrum- who might prevent the attainment of national objectives, thus collaborating in the process of decision making. Identify acts and processes that could be taken advantage of as "opportunities" in function of national interests. Other more specific objectives of the Secretariat:
The Secretariat embodies special internal sub-organizations that aid its duties. The Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia (National Intelligence School, ENI) acts as the main intelligence academy, training and recruiting agents for SIDE, and providing tuition and assistance for personnel of other intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The ENI also analyses Argentine intelligence doctrine and gives specialized intelligence postgraduate formation to students in the country, including courses given over the Internet. In 2001, the Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 came into effect, subsequently making significant modifications to SIDE's traditional internal organization, as well as branching out some of its tasks to other newly created organizations such as the National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence. The Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 also established new legislation regarding the Directorate of Judicial Surveillance, to make the organization more efficient and transparent. The President of Argentina is charged to assign the positions of Secretary and Sub-secretary of Intelligence, but restrictions apply on the Secretary of Intelligence's authority to assign his or her own contracted staff to the organism. Article 24 of the Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 approved in 2001, mandates that no more than 2% of the Secretariat's personnel can be appointed by the current Secretary of Intelligence, and such personnel must exit the organization when the Secretary of Intelligence that appointed them ends his term. Furthermore, such agents contracted by the Secretary are classified as "assessing personnel" [Sic] and are included in the Cabinet of Personnel. The Secretariat itself counts with three Sub-secretaries of Interior and Exterior Intelligence, and Apoyo (support). They are subsequently codenamed A, B and C, or with numbers. In the foreign field, officers are usually disguised with diplomatic immunity in Argentine embassies and consulates around the world (practice common to the world of espionage). The positions of 'Media consultant', 'Cultural attache', or 'Tourism consultant' are the most frequently used.
Protect the general well being of society, prioritising the safeguarding of individual and collective rights in a frame of legality, integrity and objectivity. Identify and interpret, anticipated and coherently, threats against national territory as well as individual and collective human security, in function of the nation's vital interests.
Promote and strengthen the relations with the greater possible number of foreign agencies and/or intelligence services, in order to create fluid channels of information exchange and intelligence.
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Formulate the National Intelligence Plan (as mandated by Law 25.250) Coordinate the functional relations with the different members of the National Intelligence System.
Ecological problems that can be considered potential risks for national security. National and foreign advances in scientific areas.
Collaborate with other areas of the government providing information and intelligence in order to detect and neutralize potential terrorist acts. Produce information in time and opportunity on important actors, events and processes of the regional, continental and worldwide frame with incidence on the country.
Elaborate hypothesis international terrorism, drug trafficking, traffic of arms, etc., in the worldwide, continental and regional frames
Carry out intelligence in the regional scope to forecast of important processes.
Respond to the requirements of the Bilateral Commission on Control of Intelligence Organisms and Activities of the National Congress (as per Law 25.520) Elaborated prospective scenarios in the international spectrum and evaluate its impact on the country.
Collaborate with the Justice system providing information necessary to fight crimes such as smuggling, organized crime, money laundering, fiscal evasion, etc. Assist different investigations authorised or ordered by competent judicial authorities referred from crimes such as extortion, kidnapping, smuggling, drug trafficking, piracy of information technology material, falsification of money, etc.
Plan and execute programs of qualification, training and improvement for the personnel of the Secretariat of Intelligence, the National Intelligence System, as well as for civil employees of other areas of the National Government.
Expand the bonds with public and private studies centres and NGOs, both in the national and international scope. Subjects of interest
The Secretariat's main interest points are the following:
International terrorism, including the terrorist attacks against the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) and the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Religious fundamentalism.
Organized crime, including mafias, drug trafficking, arms trafficking and identity falsification.
Evolution of integration developments (NAFTA, MERCOSUR, FTAA, APEC, EU, etc.) and analysis of international economic negotiations regarding free market. Legal and illegal migrations and development of Indians of the Western Hemisphere.
Proliferation of massive destruction weapons (nuclear, chemical, biological).

Evolution of the official politics on national defence and security. Subsecretaria de Inteligencia Interior (Subsecretariat of Interior Intelligence) (8): responsible for production and dissemination of intelligence in internal areas. For this purpose, it is subdivided into several Direcciones (Directorates) which are in charge of specific political, economic and social factors. Subsecretaria de Inteligencia Exterior (Subsecretariat of Foreign Intelligence) (3): responsible of the collection and production of intelligence on foreign areas.
Current situation in the South Atlantic, including Argentine Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. Analysis of political situations in major Latin American and European countries with the purpose of identifying instability, conflicts and crises which may cause a direct or indirect repercussions on national interests. ________________________________________________________________________ STRUCTURE ________________________________________________________________________ Internally composed of three Sub-secretaries (Sub-secretariats): Interior, Exterior (Foreign), and Apoyo (Support). all of its divisions have specific identification numbers assigned.
Direccion de Inteligencia Interior (Directorate of Interior Intelligence): responsible for searching and collecting of information on national affairs, for which task it has technical, operational and management areas. Direccion de Reunion Interior (Directorate of Internal Collection): responsible for the collection and diffusion of intelligence corresponding to the internal areas. For the achievement of its mission it is subdivided in Departments assigned to specific political, economic and social issues. Direccion de Observaciones Judiciales (Directorate of Judicial Surveillance) (84): responsible for carrying out telephone, mail, and other communication interceptions mandated by judicial officers. Direccion de Contrainteligencia (Directorate of Counterintelligence) (85): responsible for counterintelligence and counterespionage activities. It has intelligence and technical-operational areas which carry out specific duties. Direccion de Comunicacion Social (Directorate of Social Communication): responsible for the analysis and collection of public information (i.e: mass media).
Direccion de Reunion Exterior (Directorate of Foreign Collection): responsible for the collection and diffusion of intelligence on facts and/or processes pertaining to foreign affairs. It comprises different areas with different technical and operational targets. It is responsible for the liaison with foreign services (i.e: intelligence delegates in foreign countries). Direccion de Inteligencia Exterior (Directorate of Foreign Intelligence)
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(32): responsible for the production of state intelligence on the foreign area. For this purpose, it has specific areas analysing different issues and the continental and global frame by country/ country by country/in each country. International Political, Economical and Social Processes. Transnational Crime and International Terrorism (34)
Processes of the Proliferation of Weapons of Massive Destruction. Subsecretaria de Apoyo de Inteligencia (Subsecretariat of Support Intelligence): responsible for logistical support, staff, communications and data-processing centres of the Secretariat. In order to achieve this it has several directorates in charge of these specific areas. Facilities
The Secretariat is a nationwide intelligence agency, and has delegations and bases in most provinces of Argentina, as well as representations in most important countries. Reports state that SIDE has about 24 operation bases around the world (within embassies).
Its main building is located in Ave. 25 de Mayo 11 (with a backdoor access through Ave. Leandro N. Alem 10), at the heart of Downtown Buenos Aires, near to the Presidential Palace and Plaza de Mayo. Although the central base is the 25 de Mayo building and annexes, many buildings, known as bases or operation centres, are spread throughout the city of Buenos Aires. The main building was built in 1929 by architect Alejandro Bustillo, for the original proprietary Federico L. Martinez de Hoz. Inaugurated in 1930, was originally used as a housing called "Martinez de Hoz Building". In 1940 the federal government bought it. Valued at U$S 1.607.022, its street surface is 413 square metres, inside it is 5430 square metres; and it has ten floors, the fifth floor being the Secretary of Intelligence's office, and the tenth floor the special operations division.
Security on the facility is meticulously strict, the whole building is covered with dark tinted windows, and when a person approaches the door, guards inquire the visitor for his or her name and the reason of visit. Once they are approved to enter, they must go through a metal detector and be accompanied throughout the visit by

a staff member who will guide the visitor through the building and provide the necessary magnetic card to access restricted areas. Infrastructure Personnel Recent reports (since the Secretariat does not declare the exact amount of personnel it embodies) state that about 2,500-3,000 employees operate within and outside of Argentina for the Secretariat. Only the Secretary and the Sub-secretary of Intelligence are public functionaries, the rest of SIDE personnel must act and work secretly, as stated by the Intelligence Reform Law 25.520.
Two annexes in Ave. 25 de Mayo are internally connected to the main facility thus extending the Secretariat's offices. Surveillance around the whole surroundings of the Presidential Palace and Plaza de Mayo is tight for obvious reasons. In the late 1960s, there was a serious incident when members of Montoneros breached the building and stayed inside for a whole weekend, taking objects, folders, and other sensitive material. During the late 1970s and 1980s, the tenth floor of the Correo Central building was provided to the Secretariat to be used for mail interception.
Communications in the agency are a crucial infrastructure and policy issue. For the southern bases in Patagonia, communications is provided by the Servicios y Tecnologia S.R.L. (SyT) company. The rest of SIDE's communications, phone tapping abilities, data transfer, etc. are handled by Telecom and Telefonica of Argentina, Movistar, Nextel, CTI Movil, and Compania de Radiocomuncaciones Moviles, S.A. Data processing computers for SIDE are provided by Bull. In 2001, under Secretary of Intelligence Fernando De Santibanes, the Secretariat began a major upgrade of its computer infrastructure.
About 80% of personnel work in areas depending of the Interior Subsecretariat, and the remaining on the Exterior and Support Subsecretariats. According to the agent's rank, they get paid from 1.800 to 2.678 Argentine Pesos a month; directors, reach $3.000 ARS. Delegates abroad are inserted in the frame of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, but receive monthly salaries by the Secretariat. Their job mainly consists of producing reports on current events of interests
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in the country they are stationed in, as well as establishing links with the local intelligence services. Recruitment
Citizens are recruited into SIDE using a well-known and widely used method by worldwide intelligence agencies during the Cold War. The procedure was simple, recruiting students from national universities based on an assessment of their character, behaviour and intelligence. The method was first used during the Ongania government, under the command of Secretary of Intelligence Gral. Senorans, who himself said "a person who enters at 20 years of age having studied in an university, should be an excellent professional at 30 years of age". During the process of recruitment, experts focused on four essential points when assessing their targets: Language and expressiveness.
Discretion in the way they dress. A meticulous way of life.
Possession of personal life experiences allowing them to adapt their personality to different situations.
When the student accepted the invitation to join SIDE, he was sent to be trained in the National Intelligence School. Nevertheless, not all spies where chosen from universities; it was common that experienced agents recommended people they dealt with their personal life, and who they thought were apt to develop a career in the world of intelligence.
Spies recruited that way were classified as "confidants", they received a monthly pay while their abilities to carry out espionage activities were being tested. Once a confident proved that they could be trusted they were promoted to the "contracted collaborators" category. In those cases, agents were targets of specific controls, an "covert" surveillance on them done by the counter-intelligence division. If agents met their superiors expectations, they signed a temporary work contract which was renewable periodically. In the "confident" career, the third step was denominated "temporary personnel" (Personal Temporario, in Spanish), as soon as they reached that stage, they were allowed to take courses in the National Intelligence School.
Finally, after two years of being assigned as temporary personnel, they were reassigned as permanent "civil personnel" (PC, in Spanish). There was not a specified period of time between the steps of a "confident" and "civil personnel", there were cases of people who took 15 years before they were fully integrated. SIDE is recognised as a "very closed family". Staff are usually recommended by existing operatives. Interviews with agents state that "the first rule is to forget your name", and that new personnel are baptized with a fake identity. Associates
'Associates' are companies used for support in covert operations, known cases detailed by Argentine justice include masquerade companies such as: Tecnit, CF COM, OSGRA S.R.L, Tiumayu S.A, AMSUD S.A, EMCOSUD S.A, IDIS (Instituto de Investigaciones y

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Servicios) S.R.L, and Canteras Brandsen S.R.L. Apparently all of them are run by SIDE personnel, and are used for covert operations inside of Argentina, and as well to set up agents in foreign countries. One known example is that of an agent acting as a broker of EMCOSUD in Santiago de Chile.
The Secretary and Sub-secretary of Intelligence are referred as "Senor Cinco" (Mr. Five) and "Senor Ocho" (Mr. Eight) respectively, because of the location of their offices, the fifth and eight floor of the 25 de Mayo building. Other aliases include "Senor Tres" (Mr. Three) for the Sub-secretary of Foreign Intelligence and "Senor Nueve" (Mr. Nine) for the Sub-secretary of Logistics. Cafeterias in buildings of the Secretariat are referred to as "casinos". Although unconfirmed, the name "Senor Cinco" is alleged to the 1956 restructuring of SIDE, closely modelled on the British MI6 whose first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield SmithCumming. Often dropping the "Smith", Cumming used his initial "C" (Chief) as a codename which was also used by all subsequent directors of MI6. The name "Senor Cinco" was allegedly adapted from it. The main building in Ave. 25 de Mayo is referred to as "Central". Agents working for SIDE call the Secretariat simply as "La Casa" (The House). Foreign personnel whose function is to act as a link between their agency and SIDE are referred as "COI". Also, spies are sometimes referred by politicians as "Servis", meaning somebody pertaining to "The Service" (in English). The official mascot of SIDE is the Fox (Zorro). Among SIDE personnel the Direccion de Observaciones Judiciales (Directorate of Judicial Surveillance, DOJ) is referred to as "Ojota" (Sandal); furthermore, "Ojota" implies "Ojo" (Eye).
An interesting and sometimes confusing fact about the Secretariat's internal organization is the use of a specially structured sequence of numbers to refer to different internal divisions. For example, the Subsecretariat of Interior Intelligence is numbered '8', and its dependencies, such as the Directorates of Counterintelligence and Judicial Surveillance are numbered '84' and '85' respectively. The same case applies for the Subsecretariat of Exterior Intelligence, or '3', its divisions go from '32' for the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence to '34' for the Division of Transnational Crime and International Terrorism. Even though it is still hard to discern how exactly SI operate under the law, the Secretariat is subordinated to the National Presidential Office, President of Argentina and is ruled by secret decrees and laws. In 2005, the Senate of Argentina abolished secret laws, it is not clear how it has affected the Secretariat. Even though the official acronym was renamed to SI as the new intelligence system became active, during most of its history it was called Secretaria de Inteligencia de Estado (Secretariat of State Intelligence, SIDE) and it still is referred to as SIDE by the public.
As with most intelligence agencies, the Secretariat only makes public statements when dealing with national issues or scandals. For the Secretariat, the AMIA investigation, the Sofia Fijman incident, and the participation in the Senate Bribes scandal were the most notorious episodes of media attention.
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During the AMIA investigation, Claudio Lifschitz, a judicial employee involved in the investigation wrote a book about his experiences and theories that the Secretariat knew beforehand about the bombing and could not stop it. In 2005, Tiempo de Valientes, a comedy made by Damian Szifron dealt with the age old rivalry between the Secretariat and the Federal Police. The Secretariat had a major role in the film's plot, it was portrayed as containing very sinister and corrupt individuals for the most part. In the end, the movie vindicates the role of intelligence in the national government.
In the American ABC TV show Alias, Nadia Santos (Mia Maestro) is an ex-SIDE agent who now works for the CIA. 'Argentine intelligence' has been referenced several times in the show. Publications
Every three months, SIDE publishes an official magazine through the National Intelligence School. Books dedicated to the Secretariat's history and scandals include Los sospechosos de siempre: Historia del espionaje en la Argentina Los sospechosos de siempre: Historia del espionaje en la Argentina, Jorge Boimvaser. The book was to be published in 1995, but then Secretary of Intelligence Hugo Anzorreguy allegedly made a monetary deal with its author and Editorial Planeta to hold off on the book's publication. The book was finally published in 2001, and actually is one of the most complete sources of information about historical SIDE facts, even though it elegantly evades a clear definition of its inner structure.
In July 2006, SIDE: La Argentina Secreta by Gerardo Young was published. Young's book is aimed towards more personal aspects of the Secretariat, such as its most famous members, internal rules, and details about its management and operations. ________________________________________________________________________ HISTORICAL OPERATIONS - SIDE ________________________________________________________________________ DIRTY WAR
The SIDE played a role during the Dirty War and participated to Operation Condor, the international network of South American intelligence agencies. A secret detention camp for Operation Condor in Buenos Aires, known as Automotores Orletti (also known as Tactical Operations Centre 18), functioned under the orders of SIDE from 1976 to 1979.
One of the most important operations carried out by SIDE was the planning of a triple assassination attempt in Europe with the collaboration of the Chilean DINA, and the Uruguayan intelligence service. The objective was to murder, if possible at the same time, three special personalities living in Paris, France: Isabel Allende (daughter of Salvador Allende, Chile), Rodolfo Matarollo (member of the ERP , Argentina), and Enrique Erro (ex-senator, Uruguay), all of them opposed the South American defacto regimes, and well known dissidents. The idea was originally suggested by DINA director Manuel Contreras, and was planned out in the Billinghurst base in Buenos Aires, previous approval of Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. The assassinations were to be carried with 9 mm or 22 calibre guns brought to France via Argentine diplomatic carriage. The operation

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failed due to the Argentine Ambassadors reluctance in Paris to give the bag to the agents without first revealing what was in it. ________________________________________________________________________
When Hector Jose Campora assumed the presidency of Argentina on 25 May 1973, Cuba sent a wave of diplomats and official delegates to Argentina, proposing that was the time to resume cultural interchanges with the Argentine government. However, the Argentine intelligence services, under the hood of the anti-communist paranoia that covered much of the western hemisphere those days, distrusted the real motives for the influx of the Cubans. It was then that an analyst in the Secretariat discovered a human weakness in the Cuban delegates: their extreme sensitivity for blonde women that stood out. The 'La Biela' cafe bar in the neighbourhood of Recoleta was a common place for the Cubans to be spotted hunting for their female counterparts by SIDE agents. The Secretariat orchestrated a plan to infiltrate, assess and obtain information as fast as can be possible. In this operation, the main actors would be blonde women, SIDE began recruiting capable women in known 'hot' spots of the city, some of them managed by people closely connected with the Secretariat. Three women were cited for an interview in downtown Buenos Aires, proposed a job opportunity that involved establishing a solid and stable link with the Cuban delegates, all accepted. They would be paid almost the same money they earned at their previous jobs, plus a few honouraries for the services provided. During a week, the agents were taught basic intelligence theories and practices, they observed photographs of the Cubans they were going to 'mark', and they had time to elaborate complex backstories for their supposed identities. The director in charge of Operation Marylin selected divorced women with children on purpose, so they would not raise any suspicions in their families or targets. The three females claimed to work doing 'sales' for a living, allowing them to be available at many hours in which to be in direct contact with the Cubans. Finally, after a subtle approximation scene played out in the 'La Biela' cafe bar, two of the Cuban delegates fell for the trap, but the third one apparently was not interested in establishing relations. After six weeks of observations and wire-taps (the spies made sure to plant the Cuban's rooms with microphones), the Cuban embassy unexpectedly ordered its delegates to return to La Habana. SIDE did not obtain any relevant information about their suspicions that the Cubans were assisting and supporting Argentine leftists groups, but the agency realised that women are a very useful tool in the espionage world. All three females that participated in the operation were offered permanent jobs in SIDE; only once accepted, the rest went back to the Buenos Aires night scene. Operation Marylin proved that using women to exploit weaknesses in men was a feasible and convenient method of extracting information, and observing both foreign and internal adversaries of Argentina. Although the real insertion of females into the Argentine espionage community started in the mid-1960s, during the 1970s, one of Argentina's most agitated eras, the women of SIDE started playing a crucial role in its operations.
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________________________________________________________________________ OPERATION VEINTE ANOS On 28 October 1995, Enrique Gorriaran Merlo, Argentina's most wanted terrorist, was captured in the little town of Tepoztlan, 60 miles away Mexico City, and flown back to Argentina in a plane rented by SIDE. Merlo had been involved in numerous criminal, activities during the 1970s and 1980s, most notably the assassination of Anastasio Somoza Debayle on 17 September in Paraguay, and for orchestrating the 1989 attack on the La Tablada military barracks by the MTP group. Several critics blame SIDE for failing to stall the attack on the AMIA as the warnings of an impeding attack on Argentine soil were received. Judicial evidence presented during the AMIA investigation show that the Argentine Embassy in Beirut, the Brazilian Intelligence Service, and the Argentine Consulate in Milan warned SIDE about the attack on the Jewish organization. ________________________________________________________________________ OPERATION CABILDO
Merlo, who claims it was a kidnapping orchestrated by SIDE, Gorrarian Merlo's narration of the story of his kidnapping was published in a Pagina/12 newspaper interview. had travelled to Mexico to meet with Mexican politicians of the PRD, who were cooperating in an international push to free the guerrillas responsible for the La Tablada attack who were, and still are, serving prison term in Argentine jails. Merlo arrived in the Mexican capital with a fake Uruguayan passport, where he soon realized that the Mexican security forces were following him. He thought they were just doing basic surveillance on him to see if he was doing any illegal activity in Mexican territory. On 28 October he spotted three Argentine-looking men in Tepoztlan Square, "one of which -he said- looked like he was from the Argentine intelligence service or the police". Merlo was driving a friend's truck, after spotting the Argentinians, he tried to lose his entourage of followers by driving into the town of Cuatula. A few minutes later, Merlo claims he was stopped, surrounded, and shot several times until he put his hands out the truck's destroyed window. Merlo goes on to claim that the Mexican security services handcuffed him, and made him face the Argentine, who nodded silently (affirming that he was who they were looking for).
Merlo was taken into the Mexican Migrations Department, where he claims was interrogated three times by SIDE agents. The last time they interrogated him, they asked if he was Gorriaran Merlo, he answered back "yes", and simultaneously asked for asylum. (Mexico has a tradition for giving asylum to politically prosecuted people in other Latin American countries). One of the Mexican police man told them that there was "receptiveness" about his request, but at five in the morning, Mexican authorities took him to the airport and put in him in SIDE's plane, where the same SIDE agent from Tepoztlan and the interrogation was present. The operation was carried out by the Sala Patria group of the Secretariat. Gorrarian Merlo served prison time in Argentina for his crimes, but was later pardoned in 2003 by President Eduardo Duhalde. AMIA investigation
Judicial reports during the investigation have displayed sufficient evidence of SIDE's involvement in the AMIA case investigation. In 2003, President Nestor Kirchner signed a decree that opened all SIDE's files (about 15,000) and allowed the ex-Secretary of Intelligence, Hugo Anzorreguy, and many intelligence personnel involved in the case (including Horacio Antonio Stiusso, Patricio Miguel Finnen, and Alejandro Brousson) to be available to declare in the investigation about Judge Galeano's mishandling during his job as official judge of the case.

The operation was described thoroughly by SIDE agents who testified later on, during President Nestor Kirchner's push for truth and new leads on the case. Surveillance of foreign embassies OPERATION CIPRES
Juan Jose Galeano, the judge in charge of the AMIA Bombing investigation, asked Hugo Anzorreguy to help him advance the investigation by bribing a key witness who refused to testify, Carlos Telledin. The Secretariat provided 400 thousand dollars so he would change his testimony, thus forcing progress on a case that had been stuck for two years. SIDE explicitly participated in the operation to give the money to Telledin's wife, Ana Boragni in a Lloyds Bank located on Ave. Cabildo in Buenos Aires. The public importance about this operation is that it explicitly implied SIDE working to orchestrate a cover-up in the AMIA case.
During the 1960s, SIDE set up constant surveillance on embassies from the Eastern bloc as well as other communist nations in Buenos Aires. During the investigation of the AMIA case, then counter-intelligence operations director Horacio Antonio Stiusso, was asked about why SIDE had been tapping the phone lines and setting bugs in the embassies of Iran and Cuba in Buenos Aires. Stiusso alleged that those tasks were simply counter-intelligence operations and had no relationship with the AMIA case. Nevertheless, in 1998, Argentina fired many Iranian diplomats on the basis of "phone taps" that provided evidence Iran was involved in the AMIA bombing. ________________________________________________________________________
In the late nineties, Nasrim Mokhtari an Iranian prostitute and hairdresser, who was believed to be involved with an Iranian support group that helped carry out the bombings of the Israeli Embassy in 1992, and the AMIA building in 1994, was tricked by the Secretariat into coming back to Argentina from Europe. The information on her involvement came from Wilson Dos Santos, a suspect in the AMIA case. Dos Santos was a Brazilian taxi boy and thief who did a significant amount of smuggling in the Triple Frontier. Mokhtari had a romantic relationship with Dos Santos in Buenos Aires, and claims he knew about the plot to bomb the AMIA building through her connection in the Buenos Aires Islamic community. It is suspected that Dos Santos worked, or works for the Brazilian Intelligence Service, or the Brazilian Police. Furthermore, a few weeks before the bombing, Dos Santos entered the Argentine, Israeli, and Brazilian consulates in Milan, Italy, to warn about the up-coming attacks. There was no trace of him until he was captured in Switzerland years later, holding 8 passports, and
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extradited to Argentina on charges of false testimony, of which he is currently serving prison time. When Dos Santos was declared for the Argentine justice ministry, even though there were weak points in his statements, he named Mokhtari and alleged she knew about the bombings (he later testified that he warned the consulates on information he got from her). The Argentine justice system, needing new leads because of all the pressure that put on them to solve both bombings, ordered SIDE to find Mokhtari and bring her back to Argentina for interrogation. A plan codenamed Operation Cipres was orchestrated to locate her in Europe and bring her back to Argentina. Once located in Switzerland, she was conned into coming back to Argentina by SIDE agents, who posed as meat businessmen who proposed her a job as a translator to do business with Iran.
The operation was carried out by the Sala Patria group, and it has been said that the operation cost the Secretariat about half a million dollars, which included locating her, paying costs, agents and buying information in Cyprus, France, Belgium and Switzerland. The French intelligence service also helped SIDE locate Mokhtari in while she was living in Paris, France. Mokthari was on an Air France flight to Montevideo, Uruguay, that made a stop in Buenos Aires. When she got off to change planes, she was arrested by a special counter-terrorism team of the Federal Police. Mokhtari was eventually let free, there were no sufficient proofs to incriminate her in anything, or even being involved in the Iranian support group that carried out the AMIA bombing.
A restriction on leaving the country was imposed on her, and later lifted, but Nasrim Mokhtari had already lost her contacts in Paris, had no money, and become a publicly known 'international terrorist'. The Secretariat declined to provide sufficient accommodations for Mokhtari to stay in Argentina, and Iran did not want her in its territory because of the sufficient international problems she brought to them with Iran being blamed in participating in the AMIA bombing. She currently is hospitalized at a mental institution in Buenos Aires. ________________________________________________________________________ BREAKDOWN OF CIA RELATIONS
In January of 2001, the Pagina/12 newspaper published an article on the Secretariat's troubled relations with the American CIA. Along with the article was a photo and personal details of Ross Newland, then CIA Station Chief in Buenos Aires, who was expected to become head of the Latin American division in the CIA. Official reports say that the CIA wanted SIDE to investigate the operations of the Russian Mafia and ex-KGB agents who had just arrived in Argentina. The reasons were that the Russian Mafia was using Argentina as an intermediate country for smuggling illegal aliens to the U.S. At the time, Argentinians did not require visas for tourist visits to the United States, and obtaining Argentine citizenship had recently been relatively easy.
Other reasons to investigate the recently arrived ex-KGB and Russian Mafia was that many ex-CIA and ex-FBI personnel had private security businesses in Argentina and in many other Latin American countries. The arrival of the Russian gang in Argentina put their businesses at risk of competition. A few months before, Newland, a 50-year-old who loved living in Buenos Aires, accused SIDE of following him and fellow CIA operatives in Argentina, as well as doing audio surveillance on them.

BRIBES IN THE SENATE
Information leaked out that Patricio Finnen and Alejandro Brousson, two old notorious important staff members of the Secretariat, were responsible for carrying out the operation from the Billinghurst base. The Americans were not the only ones affected by the Secretariat's peculiar attention, the Israeli Mossad and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). American reports state that the Secretariat never helped the CIA on its requests, instead, the U.S. alleged that SIDE helped the "newcomers" insert themselves in the market by selling them information. The CIA became furious since they had historically contributed funds for SIDE to do their operations, and SIDE was indirectly helping the Russians in their smuggling operation. They expected the Secretaria to be on their side, and to make the 'Russian problem' a government issue, therefore putting pressure on the Russians. The head of the Secretariat's counter-intelligence service at the time, retired Major Alejandro Broussoun, an ex military servicemen from the Argentine Army Engineers Corps, and an ex-follower of the ultranationalist right wing Carapintadas organization in the 1980s and 1990s, was blamed by the CIA for the leak of their station chief on the popular newspaper. The United States investigation into the incident with SIDE, revealed that the picture and information of Ross Newland was given to the newspaper by the Secretariat itself. Meanwhile, SIDE tried to repair relations by explaining the scandal through another theory. At the end of the scandal, with Ross Newland's identity uncovered, and the episode becoming a major embarrassment for the U.S. and Argentina in the worldwide intelligence community, the CIA removed its Station Chief from Argentina, and said they were going to permanently move their offices to Montevideo, Uruguay because of their problems working together with SIDE. Also, as a result of this, the head of the SIDE counter-intelligence service, retired Major Alejandro Brousson was expelled because of the American diplomatic pressure to punish the responsible of an act they considered "a violation of game rules" (in the intelligence community, that is). The scandal not only put a stain in the CIA's relations with SIDE, but also made the Americans distrust the Argentine intelligence community which they had come to collaborate extensively during the Carlos Menem administration. ________________________________________________________________________
In 2001, the National Executive Power (Poder Ejecutivo Nacional, PEN) under President Fernando de la Rua used the Secretariat's reserved funds to orchestrate the bribery of several senators in the Argentine Congress. The motive behind the operation was to assure the promotion of the new labour reform law that the De La Rua was promoting. When it became known to the public the level of involvement of the Executive Branch a national scandal broke out, and De La Rua's administration took heavy criticism. The Secretariat was then under the command of banker Fernando De Santibanes, a close friend of then President De La Rua, who promised to make sweeping changes to the Secretariat of Intelligence. The opposition parties in Argentina, specially during the government of Carlos Menem, saw SIDE as a political tool and promised sweeping reforms if it won the 1999 presidential elections. After the details participation of SIDE in scandal became publicly known, then President Fernando de la Rua asked then Secretary of
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Intelligence, Fernando De Santibanes to resign. He is currently charged with participating in the Senate bribes case. Recently more details were described about the operation by Pontacuarto, the participation of SIDE was so deep to even include visits of people involved with the bribes to the main SIDE headquarters. ________________________________________________________________________ ASSASSINATION OF PIQUETEROS
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The Justice system and the press blame the Secretariat participating in the organization of events on 2002 that led to the deaths of Dario Santillan and Maximiliano Kosteki, two piqueteros that were protesting in the Pueyrredon Bridge in Buenos Aires. Both men were shot in the back by Buenos Aires Police's officers armed with shotguns. Months before the tragedy, the Secretariat had produced intelligence reports that the Piqueteros' assemblies and protests were being attended by the Colombian extremist group FARC. Furthermore, minutes before the assassinations, there were three phone calls, between Alfredo Fanchiotti, a policeman involved in the incident, and the Sub-secretary of Intelligence, at the time, Oscar Rodriguez. During the trial, police officers involved in the scene that day, declared that a man from SIDE approached them and told them that "Today there will be incidents", furthermore incriminating the Secretariat on the assassinations.
Carlos Soria, then Secretary of State Intelligence, later declared that "democracy works in order, we needed to establish order", making the public theory that the assassinations were orchestrated by SIDE to psychologically reduce the Piqueteros movements motivation and their influence in Argentine society. The assassinations, which sparked outrage by Piquetero groups, made then interim President Eduardo Duhalde to call for elections earlier than planned, and since then, the federal government has established a non-repressive policy towards the Piqueteros.
In 2005, President Nestor Kirchner, signed a decree that released all of the Secretariats's files about the tragedy to the public, and made some SIDE staff and agents available for questioning if necessary. The files released don't include any relevant information in them.
Nobody in SIDE has yet been charged with participating in the case. On the second anniversary of the assassinations, protesters and piqueteros marched towards the Billinghurst base were the phone calls originated and proceeded to deface the property and manifest public outrage towards the organization. It was the first time ever people protested at one of SIDE's facilities. ________________________________________________________________________
The Defunct SIDE archives (limited) can be viewed at: http://web.archive.org/web/19970619124458/ www.side.gov.ar/SIDEOOO.htm
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CIM - Central de Inteligencia Militar (Military Intelligence Center, CIM) NOTES: CIM is an Argentine intelligence agency liaising and overseeing the functions and operations Argentinas Army intelligence services.

DOJ headquarters in Buenos Aires
DOJ - Direccin de Observaciones Judiciales (Directorate of Judicial Surveillance) NOTES: Direccin de Observaciones Judiciales (Directorate of Judicial Surveillance, DOJ) sometimes referred to as Division or Directorate 84 is an Argentine intelligence service responsible for intercepting communications as required by judicial officers. It is part of the Secretara de Inteligencia (SI), the main intelligence agency; and is a subagency of the National Intelligence System. The DOJ is located in a tall, nondescript building on Ave. de los Incas 3834, in Buenos Aires. The building has an internal surface of 27,000 square feet and an estimated monetary value of US$ 1,577,443. Before moving into its own building it operated out of Telecom Argentinas Belgrano facility.
SEFECONAR - Servicio Federal de Lucha contra el Narcotrfico (Federal Counternarcotics Service)
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DNIC - Direccin Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence) NOTES: Direccion Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal is an Argentine intelligence agency and part of the National Intelligence System. It depends of the Secretaria de Seguridad Interior (Secretariat of Interior Security), which itself depends of the Ministry of Interior; the DNIC is not a division of the SIDE, which has its own Directorate of Interior Intelligence. The Direccion Nacional de Inteligencia Criminal (National Directorate of Criminal Intelligence, DNIC) was initially created by the 1992 Interior Security Law 24.059 as Direccion Nacional de Inteligencia Interior (National Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DNII). In December of 2001, as the new Intelligence Reform Law 25.520 passed, the National Intelligence System was created, and Article 47/48 renamed the old DNII to its current name. At the time of the writing of the 1992 Interior Security Law 24.059, the National Aeronautical Police (Policia Aeronautica Nacional, PNA) was controlled by the Argentine Air Force, therefore, the handling of its information was done by military intelligence. In 2005, after the Southern Winds Narcobags
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Scandal, President Nestor Kirchner dissolved the PNA, and created a civil organism similar to the National Gendarmerie and the Naval Prefecture, the Airport Security Police (Policia de Seguridad Aeroportuaria, PSA). DNIC also handles intelligence from the mentioned organism that has inherited from the militarycontrolled PNA. DNIEM - Direccin Nacional de Inteligencia Estratgica Militar (National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence) NOTES: Direccion Nacional de Inteligencia Estrategica Militar (National Directorate of Strategic Military Intelligence, DNIEM) is an Argentine intelligence agency part of the National Intelligence System, created by the 2001 Intelligence Reform Law 25.520. It is structurally dependent of the Ministry of Defense. Its main mission is to produce strategic military intelligence and analysis. The intelligence services of the Argentine Armed Forces (see this list) have the job of producing strategic operational and tactical intelligence for the planning and conduction of military operations as well as the national strategic intelligence plan. DNIEMs current director is Carlos Anibal Aguilar. ENI - Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia
(National Intelligence School) http://www.eni.gov.ar (ENIs web site is undergoing review) NOTES: ENI is the national intelligence academy of the Argentine Republic. It depends of the Secretaria de Inteligencia, the main intelligence agency; and it is a dependent sub-organization of the National Intelligence System. Its motto is De Omni Re Scibili or From Every Knowing Thing. History
The School was created on 24 January 1967 by Executive Decree N 17/1967. It was initially established in the fifth floor of a traditional building located on Diagonal Norte and San Martin avenues in Buenos Aires. On 5 June that year it instructed its first class to personnel of the Secretariat of Intelligence.
In 1982, the school was moved to the building on Ave. Libertad 1235, where it functions today. Since 1992, it established students exchange with foreign countries, strengthening the links with many foreign intelligence agencies. ________________________________________________________________________ ORGANISATION - ENI ________________________________________________________________________ OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON ENIS MISSION AND ROLE
Its mission is the instruction and recruitment of the Secretariat of Intelligence's personnel with a specialized technical and humanistic formation, the analysis and study of the national intelligence doctrine and providing of online courses and long-distance teaching for agents who belong to the Secretariat and other Argentine intelligence or security organisms. Graduating from the ENI awards a title and diploma certified by the National University of La Plata, Buenos Aires. Facilities
The School's main building, a big belle epoque academic-style mansion, is located on Ave. Libertador 1235 in Buenos Aires. Estimated to be worth about U$S 724.178, it was built in 1922 and

Director Seal Staff and materials Recruitment and training
a parking lot was added in 1970. It has small rooms and wooden floors, a street surface of 2.515 m2 and an internal surface of 3.775 m2. The ENI mansion is protected by a heavy 5.000 kilogram steel gate and a constant surveillance through a closed circuit television (CCTV) system that records all activity around the building. The School also has a library of 7000 volumes, and through its webpage it offers online courses to all regions and provinces of Argentina.
Mrs Silvia Beatriz Cucovaz de Arroche is the current director; having a geographical sciences degree, is considered a highly-experienced and valuable woman with a long history in the Secretaria de Inteligencia. Mrs Cucovaz was also a professor at the Faculty of History and the Geographical Sciences School of the University of Salvador, at the Faculty of Business of the University of Buenos Aires, and at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Mar de la Plata. Her previous jobs in SIDE included being the intelligence delegate in the Argentine Embassy in Germany (Bonn), the Director of Foreign Intelligence, the Chief of Strategic Affairs, the Advisor of the Secretary of Intelligence, and an ENI professor. She has participated in many conferences of international organizations, most notoriously serving as Chairman of arms and explosives experts at the United Nations disarmament area. In Argentina, she is also Counsellor of the Council of International Relations (CARI) and member of its International Security Committee. Cucovaz wrote many dossiers and books such as El rol de los servicios de Icia en el campo de la contraproliferacion and Croatia as a stabilizing factor for peace in Europe; proceedings from an International Symposium.
The ENI seal (Escudo) is a Spanish-style coat of arms, composed of a chess board, symbol of strategy; a triangle, representing straightness; and a fox, which signifies the force of intelligence. The white colour represents the virtues of obedience and firmness; the black represents honesty; and the green symbolizes an oath to service. The ENI motto appears in Latin words: "De Omni Re Scibili", which means "From every knowable thing".
During the 1960s, teachers in the ENI were mainly retired military officials who specialized in the intelligence service, or exceptionally, in the infantry branch. The materials taught were completely written in Argentina, usually by the military.
Citizens that are recruited for SIDE (see SIDE's recruitment procedures), are expected to go through the ENI's screening and training program before becoming a part of the organism. During the 1960s, the basic courses that were taught by the school included specific materials that no agent with a pretension of passing could fail. Teachers taught normal subjects on the matter of espionage, such as the ability to open any kind of lock they could encounter with very basic tools. Photography, distant following of
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subjects, infiltration, and even lip reading formed part of the menu of basic knowledge taught. Establishing a well known method used by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, agents that passed all the exams could move on to the final steps of their training, which included: shooting practice, weapons handling, and personal defense.
Students in the ENI, are not only taught basic theories, skills and techniques about intelligence and SIDE, but also the developing of their "instinct" is heavily promoted. During "class", there are several "immediate reaction" tests. For example, these tests can be hidden in a simple routine, such as making students do a simple task, like working with a document. When the student least expects it, a simulation of a small fire break out begins, which helps evaluate a student's response capability under spontaneous and stressful situations. Students must be fully aware and attentive to their teachers and the material they are being taught. By being attentive it means remembering and analysing any detail that could alter the routine of the classroom, like a phone call received by a professor to his/her cellphone, or if he or she suddenly coughs strongly.
After the bell rings, without notice, students are usually interrogated about the previous circumstances, therefore evaluating a number of "correct answers". That is, seeing how attentive to details they were, and their capability to remember, analyse and discern all kinds of information, acts, things said, etc. The second level of teaching is not reachable without first passing a whole set of psychological and physical examinations. Afterwards, the program becomes more complex, that means that the assignments become more technical, with subjects like Electronic Intelligence, where students are submerged into the art of phone tapping and the other uses of electronics in the intelligence world. If a student gets good grades, then he or she can become a part of SIDE. Magazine
SIDE publishes every three months a magazine called "La Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia" ("The Magazine of the National Intelligence School") about the studies and works of Argentinians and foreigners on the subject of intelligence. Contact
Available phone and fax numbers: 4752-4001, 4812-4930 (FAX), 4812-9230, 4812-4577, 4813-6132, 4813-2947, 4813-7736, 4811-1041/42/43/44/45, 4811-44930, 4812-9230 (FAX). ________________________________________________________________________ Sofia Fijman incident
Sofia Fijman was a 75 year old, middle-class, Argentine woman who fed cats that inhabited the garden of the ENI building. On 26 February 1998, she was killed by Ricardo Dattoli (a SIDE agent who was in charge of the ENI's security) who closed the 5.000 kilogram steel gate while she was feeding the cats through it. Fijman's hand became trapped in the gate, subsequently dragging her and causing a fatal injury to her head. Allegations by Fijman's domestic employee state that Dattoli told her "We are going to kill you, and the cats", as he warned her not to feed the cats any more.

SIGN - Inteligencia de la Gendarmera Nacional Argentina (Argentine National Gendarmerie Intelligence) Inteligencia de la Polica Federal Argentina (Argentine Federal Police Intelligence)
NOTES: The Service is the intelligence wing of the Policia Federal Argentina, and it is controlled by the Ministry of the Interior. PFA - Policia Federal Argentina (Argentine Federal Police)
Ricardo Dattoli, an agent who got paid 1,700 Argentine Pesos (U$S 1,700 at that time) for working six days a month doing a 36 hour surveillance shift and then resting for five days, claimed that he activated the door opening mechanism (when no car was going in or out, and Fijman was feeding the cats) because he fell and accidentally pushed the switch. He described the incident stating that he fell and accidentally activated the mechanism because his shoe laces were untied. When Dattoli activated the gates to open, and trapped Fijman's hand by doing so, an Australian tourist couple was passing by Libertad Avenue. The man tried to stop the gate, he uses physical force and calls for help, but finally the gate overpowers him and kills the woman. During that time, Dattoli did not activate the button to make the gate close and free the woman, even though there was a button for it. Even though Dattoli could see what was happening through the video surveillance system, he did not do anything to avoid further damage to Fijman. The judicial investigation stated that the video of the incident has "edited parts", and that the part where Fijman receives the fatal wound has been erased. Since the incident, the ENI moved all its guards to other units or facilities and has changed its gate mechanism to a manual opening and closing procedure rather than a fully-automatic one. The investigation reported that 8 cameras and 16 monitors were focused on the ENI's entrance. Dattoli and his accomplices were watching from the inside of the Mansion, and did nothing to stop the incident. Dattoli has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for premeditated murder. ________________________________________________________________________
SIPBA - Inteligencia de la Polica Bonaerense (Buenos Aires Police Intelligence) NOTES: The Service is an internal intelligence agency of Argentina. It is the intelligence service of the police of Buenos Aires Province, and it is controlled by the Ministry of the Interior.
NOTES: Inteligencia de la Gendarmeria Nacional Argentina (Argentine National Gendarmerie Intelligence) is the intelligence service of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, commonly referred as SIGN (Servicio de Inteligencia de la Gendarmeria Nacional, National Gendarmerie Intelligence Service) within the Intelligence Secretariat.
http://www.policiafederal.gov.ar/
NOTES: Self-described as an FBI-type organisation, the Service is controlled by the Ministry of the Interior. OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Argentine Federal Police) is a nationwide police force, it is the federal police agency of Argentina, with detachments in each of the country's provinces, with a jurisdiction and organization similar to
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the United States' FBI. Because of this, most routine police work is carried out by the provincial police (equivalent to state police in the United States), with the exception of the capital city of Buenos Aires, where the PFA also assumes the role of the local police. History
* Direccion General Autonoma de Asuntos Juridicos (General Autonomic Directorate of Legal Affairs) * Direccion General Autonoma de Asuntos Internos (General Autonomic Directorate of Internal Affairs)
The history of this police force starts in 1580 and is divided in three stages. The first one includes the Policia de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Police), for the first three hundred years up to 1880. The second stage (1880-1943) corresponds to the Policia de la Capital (Police of the Capital), and the last one to the present PFA (since 1943). General Organization
The PFA is subordinate to the Ministry of Interior. The organization is headed by the Chief of the PFA, the Comisario General, assisted by the Deputy Chief of the PFA. The PFA's main facility, known as the Departamento Central de Policia, is located at 1650 Moreno Street, Buenos Aires. The organization and departments of the PFA: * Jefatura (Headquarters)
* Subjefatura (Sub-headquarters)
* Superintendencias (Superintendencies)
* Superintendencia de Administracion (Superintendency of Administration) * Superintendencia de Bienestar (Superintendency of Welfare)
* Superintendencia Federal de Bomberos (Federal Superintendency of Firemen) * Superintendencia de Interior (Superintendency of Interior)
* Superintendencia de Investigaciones Federales (Superintendency of Federal Investigations) * Superintendencia de Planificacion y Desarrollo (Superintendency of Planning and Development) * Superintendencia de Seguridad Metropolitana (Superintendency of Metropolitan Security)
* Superintendencia de Personal, Instruccion y Derechos Humanos (Superintendency of Personnel, Instruction and Human Rights) * Superintendencia de Policia Cientifica (Superintendency of Scientific Police)
* Superintendencia de Comunicaciones (Superintendency of Communications) * Direcciones Generales Autonomas (General Autonomic Directorates)

Grupo Albatros (Albatross Group) NOTES: A special operations service of the Argentine Naval Prefecture. Located in the province of Buenos Aires, it conducts river and maritime operations in the lakes and rivers and anything close to the coast line. In addition to Counterterrorist missions, Albatros conducts search and rescue missions and responds to criminal gangs and activities. BEOH - Brigada Especial Operativa Halcn (Hawk Special Operations Brigade) NOTES: BEOH is a special operations division of the Buenos Aires Police in Argentina. BACKGROUND
Superintendencies are commanded by a superintendente, a less common word in Spanish. Both superintendente and the much more common Spanish word comisario normally translate into English as superintendent, which creates some translation problems when discussing Argentine police services. ________________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL PARAMILITARY POLICE INTELLIGENCE/SECURITY UNITS ________________________________________________________________________
Argentina did not possess a viable counter-terrorist capability until 1978, when it hosted the football World Cup. At that time, the military dictatorship ruling Argentina accepted the possibility that such a widely-televised event was a likely forum for a terrorist incident. The result was the formation of a special counter-terrorist team, the Brigada Halcn. Today, the unit is made up of seventy-five commandos, subdivided into fifteen-man tactical teams. Each team has two snipers, one medic, one negotiator, an explosive ordnance disposal expert, a communications specialist, an intelligence specialist, and eight tactical troops. Initial training is divided into three two-month stages. Skills such as combat shooting, helicopter insertion, HALO/HAHO parachuting, explosives, sniping, intelligence gathering, martial arts, and offensive driving are covered in this period. The unit also handles VIP protection and is also responsible for hijacked aircraft throughout the nation. While many current members are veterans of the Argentine Army, the Brigada Halcn is under the operational control of the federal police, under the direct command of the Buenos Aires Police Department. Brigada Halcn members use foreign weapons and gear, as well as locally manufactured protective gear and uniforms. Weapons include: GLOCK 17, HK MP5, M4 Carbine, HK UMP , M16A2 and the Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun. For sniping purposes the Heckler & Koch G3 GS/1 is commonly used. This special operations group was involved in the "Ramallo massa-
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cre", when operatives from the Brigada Halcn shot dead one alleged bank robber and his two hostages. GEOF - Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Federal Operations Special Group, GEOF) NOTES: GEOF is a special security unit of the Argentine Federal Police trained to strategically perform counterterrorist and counternarcotics missions. It is also used for VIP protection and hostage rescue situations. BACKGROUND
The GEOF is a specialized police unit of the General Directorate of International Terrorism and Complex Crimes. Although the existence of special forces in Argentina began in 1930, the unit was officially created after the AMIA bombing. In 1994 its first section was established in Tucumn and in 1997 a second division was constituted in Rosario. In 1998 the Buenos Aires group was formed.
The unit's main training course lasts for 20 weeks and is divided in two sections. Only 15% of applicants are approved. Training subjects include sniping, HALO/HAHO parachuting, martial arts, offensive driving, and explosives. The GEOF trains regularly with special units of other countries including the FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, the US Army Green Berets and numerous SWAT groups. The GEOF, nicknamed 4T because it operates throughout Argentina (4T todo tiempo-todo terreno - all time-all land). TOE - Compaa de Tropas de Operaciones Especiales (Special Operations Troops Company) NOTES: TOE is the premier special operations force of the Santa Fe Province Police, Argentina. BACKGROUND
The service was created on 4 May 1990, and answers directly to the Chief of the Province Police. Operatives and officials of TOE have received specialist training by organisations such as Britains NCIS, and Israels YAMAM. ________________________________________________________________________
Inteligencia de la Polica de Seguridad Aeroportuaria (Airport Security Police Intelligence) NOTES: The Service is the intelligence agency of the Policia de Seguridad Aeroportuaria of Argentina. UIF - Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (Financial Intelligence Unit) DEDICATED MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
J-2 - Jefatura de Inteligencia del Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas (Intelligence Department of the Joint General Staff of the Armed Forces) NOTES: J-2 Intelligence - Joint Staff of the Armed Forces. J-2 is an Argentine federal agency in charge of controlling all the military intelligence services. The name J-2 refers to Jefatura 2, the official denomination assigned to military intelligence divisions of each service branch. SEFECONAR - The Servicio Federal de Lucha contra el Narcotrafico (Federal Counternarcotics Service)

CRIM - Central de Reunin de Inteligencia Militar (Military Intelligence Collection Center) Ministra de Defensa (Ministry of Defense) http://www.mindef.gov.ar/index.asp [2007 REORGANISATION] Link to pdf of the 2007 modernisation and restructuring of Argentinas armed forces. Servicio de Hidrografa (Argentina Navy) Navalhttp://www.mindef.gov.ar/hidrografia.html
NOTES: SEFECONAR is an Argentine intelligence agency with special police tasks closely modelled on the American Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA). It was created through the Executive Decree N 717 of 18 April 1991, and it is currently under the jurisdiction of the Sedronar. A matter of controversy, its existence has not been acknowledged by the Menem administration.
NOTES: Army Intelligence, including a G-2 within the Army General Staff and a Military Intelligence Collection Center (CRIM)3, with several small units all over the country and formerly known as Army Intelligence Battalion 601 (Batalln de Inteligencia 601).
SIE - Servicio de Inteligencia del Ejrcito (Army Intelligence Service) web site under construction http://www.ejercito.mil.ar/EMG/Jef2icia/Icia1.htm NOTES: The intelligence section[s] of Argentine Army. It is a part of J-2 and report directly to the Army's Jefatura II (the General Staff's intelligence service). The Service is made up of a variety of intelligence groups, companies and units. Also within the Service is Batalln de Inteligencia 601 and 602 2 Combat Army Intelligence Detachment and several specialist intelligence collection units. SIN - Servicio de Inteligencia Naval (Naval Intelligence Service) NOTES: SIN is the intelligence agency of the Argentine Navy. It is part of J-2 and under the jurisdiction of the Navy General Staff. Its current director is Vice Admiral IM (Infanteria de Marina) Enrique Salvador Olmedo. SINs duties include gathering naval intelligence relevant to Argentina. SIFA - Servicio de Inteligencia de la Fuerza Area (Air Force Intelligence Service) NOTES: SIFA is the intelligence wing of the Argentine Air Force. It is part of J-2 and it's current director is Commodore Garcia. SIFA is a primary component within the Air Force Staff. AFOE - Agrupacion de Fuerzas de Operaciones Especiales (The Special Operations Forces Group) NOTES: AFOE is a special operations unit of the Argentine Army, created on 6 December 2005 as the first operational element of the Proyecto Ejercito Argentina 2025. It consists of the 601 Air Assault Regiment, the 601 Commando Company, and the 602 Commando Company; and it is designed to act under the Rapid Deployment Force command.
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Fuerza Aerea Argentina (Argentina Air Force) www.fuerzaaerea.mil.ar/
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PNI - Prefectura Naval Argentina Organization
NOTES: Within the range of national institutions, the Prefectura Naval Argentina Organization - PNA is a part of the National Intelligence System, Safety and Security Force and reports to the Domestic Security Secretariat and President.
SIPN - Inteligencia de la Prefectura Naval Argentina NOTES: The Service is the intelligence agency of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.
PNA Intelligence tasks have been performed since its historical beginning in 1756, when the first Captainship of the Port was established, with primarily police functions related to the safety of navigation or the port area. However, 12 March 1951 marks a milestone in its history, as a provision from the Commandant- at that time known as National Maritime Prefect- provided for the creation, on a provisional basis, of the Information and Security Division, which finally became the present Service, after undergoing different transformations. The Intelligence Service, as an advisory body to the top rank authorities of the Institution and to the Central Government, is continuously and permanently involved in the collection, analysis and integration of the data required in the jurisdictional area and its environment.
Within that framework, the spectrum of incumbent tasks is very wide. Its activity is reflected in the production of intelligence on all kinds of actions which are likely to endanger the operation of ports and waterways, as well as the safeguard of the maritime, river, fishing and port interests of the Nation. In addition, the preservation of the ecological balance and the fight against a number of offences, such as drug trafficking, currency forgery, terrorism, smuggling , the illegal traffic of people or those circumstances affecting the free operation of PNA as a security force, constitute the permanent goals of the Intelligence Service activities. PNA comprises different working committees of the National Intelligence Central Office. At the Interior Security Secretariat, PNA personnel perform different functions intended to meet the requirements necessary for the maintenance of the basic principles laid down by the Interior Security Law, such as freedom, life, the inhabitants property, rights, guarantees and the full validity of democratic institutions.
At its Intelligence Units, which are distributed all along the maritime, river and lake coasts - operationally integrated to the organization structure of the Area Districts, Districts and Units - a human team especially trained for the demands of these times performs its activities advising the operations leaders and being supported by adequate technical elements.
The dynamics of the integration process among member countries of the Mercosur generated -from the police viewpoint- the need for implementing a work style which had been already used in other communities, such as the European. In that respect, the exchange of

The PNA does not only have a wide geographical field of action, characterized by particular local problems, buy also carries out a wide spectrum of highly technically complex functions within a switching environment under increasingly technological development. Within this context, the safety of life and property at sea, in port and on shore is a high priority activity demanding timely and accurate responses. In order to meet these requirements, the PNA has adopted a flexible and adjustable approach, keeping in mind centralized standards and executive decentralization. SENIOR MANAGEMENT AREA EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT AREA SUPPORT AREA
information and intelligence with national bodies as well as agencies from the involved countries, was intensified with the purpose of carrying out a constant follow-up of the criminal organizations which constitute a real danger to society. The PNA can also be defined as a specialized Police Service with particular dimensions, directed towards functions such as the Safety of Navigation Police, Security and Public Order Police, Judicial Police and Navigational Issues Police. Likewise, Prefectura provides many other services within the scope of its functions, such as Environmental Preservation Police, Maritime and River Fishing Police, and by delegation- Customs, Migratory and Sanitary Auxiliary Police.
Prefectura Nacional (Commandants Office): it is the body by means of which the Commandant directs the Service at the top level, with the assistance and counselling of the General Secretariat, the Intelligence Service, the Naval Technical and Legal Advisory Service and the High Rank Officer Council and Consultative Councils. Subprefectura Nacional (Vice Commandants Office): through this body the Vice Commandant assists the Commandant in planning the whole range of PNA activities, monitoring and controlling all departments and units at the highest level.
It consists of the Safety of Navigation Police Direction, the Safety and Judicial Police Direction and the Environment Protection Direction. They report to the Commandant, as the remaining directions do. These Directions perform a Naval Police Service with auxiliary police functions, the normative and registry aspects thereof and their supervision.
It consists of the Personnel, Material, Training and Administration Directions, which are responsible for the recruitment, distribution, support and maintenance of personnel and materials, as well as the economic, finance and accounting management of Prefectura.
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OPERATIONAL AREA It consists of the Operations Direction. Its purpose is to ensure that statutes, rules and orders are enforced. With this purpose it coordinates the work of its different units in order to guarantee that PNA functions are fulfilled at every point within its jurisdiction. Scope and Geographical Deployment
*************************** 1- UPPER PARAN DISTRICT It is made up of the following units: Prefectura de Posadas; Prefectura de Iguaz; Prefectura de San Javier; Subprefectura de Ita Ibat; Subprefectura de Ituzaing; Subprefectura Libertador General San Martn; and Subprefectura de Eldorado. This area has the largest number of Reinforced Detachments and units of all PNA. Here the river forms the natural borderline with Brazil and Paraguay.
The geographical features of the different areas in which Prefectura Naval Argentina (PNA) carries out its functions impose different modalities on the tasks performed by this service.
According to the provisions of its Organic Act, PNA performs its tasks in the following areas: seas, lakes, rivers, channels and navigable waters devoted to interjurisdictional traffic and trade; ports under national jurisdiction; Argentine Antarctic Territory; Malvinas and other South Atlantic islands; sea and river shores and beaches; Maritime Frontier Security Areas; and navigable river shores. PNA carries out its function on vessels in jurisdictional waters and on Argentine flag vessels at high seas and foreign ports, as regards matters connected to navigation safety
Enforcement, navigation administrative affairs supervision, and in all cases which fall outside the jurisdiction of a local State according to the provisions of public international law. PNA operational structure and administrative resources are organized according to the different areas of activities and functions imposed by legislation. The territorial jurisdiction is divided into 10 Prefecturas de Zona (Coast Guard Districts), each one with several units, as follows: Prefectura Naval Argentina Districts distributions

*************************** *************************** *************************** 4- LOWER URUGUAY DISTRICT It includes Prefectura de Concepcin del Uruguay; Prefectura de Concordia; Subprefectura de Gualeguaych; Subprefectura de Coln; Subprefectura de Salto Grande; and Subprefectura de Federacin. ***************************
The river extension and narrowness, as well as the wild vegetation, create a favourable environment for drug trafficking, smuggling and other offences.
2- UPPER URUGUAY DISTRICT The following units can be found within its jurisdiction: Prefectura de Paso de los Libres; Prefectura de Santo Tom; Subprefectura de Monte Caseros; Subprefectura de Yapey; Subprefectura de Alvear; and Subprefectura de Garruchos. In this area the river forms the natural borderline with Brazil and Uruguay and PNAs main duties here are the prevention and control of drug trafficking and smuggling as well as the migratory control.
3- UPPER PARAN AND PARAGUAY DISTRICT EIt comprises Prefectura de Barranqueras; Prefectura de Corrientes; and Prefectura de Formosa; Subprefectura de Reconquista; Subprefectura de Goya; Subprefectura de Paso de la Patria; Subprefectura de Itat; and Subprefectura de Pilcomayo. This is a heavy traffic area, and trade vessels mainly sail to and from Paraguay. Continuous migratory control and strict surveillance is kept on this borderline area in order to prevent and control drug trafficking and smuggling. In addition, there is an increasing sports fishing activity.
Recreational boats, trade vessels and sand and boulder barges are active in this area. Here the river forms the natural borderline with Uruguay and PNA is therefore in charge of preventing and controlling drug trafficking and smuggling.
5- LOWER PARAN DISTRICT The following units can be found within its jurisdiction: Prefectura de San Nicols; Prefectura de Villa Constitucin; Prefectura de Rosario; Prefectura de San Lorenzo; Prefectura de Santa Fe; Prefectura de Paran; Subprefectura de Ramallo; Subprefectura de Diamante; and Subprefectura de La Paz. This is a heavy traffic area engaged in farming exportation and liquid
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fuel transport, with a large number of recreational boats. It is the only waterway to and from Alto Paran and Paraguay ports. ***************************
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6- DELTA DISTRICT It is composed of: Prefectura de San Isidro; Prefectura de Tigre; Prefectura de Campana; Prefectura de Zrate; Subprefectura de Olivos; Subprefectura de Escobar; Subprefectura de San Pedro; Subprefectura de Guaz Guazucito; and Subprefectura de Paranacito. This area shows an important traffic of sea-going and passenger vessels as well as ships engaged in national and international coastal sailing. Moreover, the highest number of recreational boats in the country are found in this area.
*************************** 7- RIVER PLATE DISTRICT The following units are found: Prefecturas de Buenos Aires; Prefectura de Dock Sud; Prefectura de La Plata; and Subprefectura General Lavalle.
The port of Buenos Aires receives a large percentage of the total sea-going and coastal sailing traffic. Dock Sud and La Plata ports are not only well-prepared to receive chemicals, oil and by-products but also well-equipped with casualty prevention equipment. ***************************
8- ARGENTINE NORTHERN SEA DISTRICT It consists of the following units: Prefectura de Mar del Plata; Prefectura de Quequn; Prefectura de Baha Blanca; Prefectura de Puerto Madryn; Subprefectura de Patagones; Subprefectura de San Antonio Oeste; and Subprefectura de Rawson.
The areas main features are fishing activities, at Mar del Plata and Madryn ports, and large grain terminals with deep sea ports, located at Quequn and Baha Blanca. Fruits and vegetables from the upper valley of Ro Negro are sent abroad through San Antonio Oeste. ***************************
9- ARGENTINE SOUTHERN SEA DISTRICT Prefectura de Comodoro Rivadavia; Prefectura de Puerto Deseado; Prefectura de Ro Gallegos e Islas Malvinas; Prefectura de Ro Grande; Prefectura de Ushuaia e Islas del Atlntico Sur; Subprefectura de San Julin; and Subprefectura de Santa Cruz comprise the Argentine Southern Sea District.
Fishing activities are very important at Deseado and Punta Quilla ports, and Comodoro Rivadavia is the most important port devoted to oil traffic in the country. Moreover, Ushuaia port is a strategically important area and constitutes the last continental call on the way to Antarctica. ***************************
10- COMAHUE AND LAKES DISTRICT Over 80 navigable lakes are found in the southern provinces of Neuqun, Ro Negro and Chubut.
Recreational boating is very important - many passengers visit the lakes as well as the national parks in the region. This area is particularly controlled by Prefectura de San Carlos de Bariloche, Subprefectura de Neuqun and their corresponding units due to the high ecological sensitivity of the area.

Inteligencia del Servicio Penitenciario Federal (Federal Penitentiary Service Intelligence)
NOTES: SER 2000 origins lie in the years of Argentina transition to democracy, shortly before the latest military uprising, when a group of political, military and academics agreed on the need to create a space for mature dialogue between these sectors. This dialogue called for the urgent need to establish common communication codes to truly overcome those problems that historically had limited a harmonious and productive relationship between civil authorities and the military.
ADC - Asociacion por los Derechos Civiles (Association for Civil Rights) http://www.adc.org.ar/ home.php?iDOCUMENTO=540&iTIPODOCUMENTO=1 NOTES: ADC is a non-profit, non-governmental and non-partisan organization. It was founded in 1995 in Argentina with the purpose of contributing to the establishment of a legal and institutional culture that would guarantee fundamental rights to the inhabitants of Argentina, based on respect for the Constitution.

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