Spanish Intelligence Community

The Spanish Intelligence Community is a group of intelligence organizations dependent on the Government of Spain that established themselves as an intelligence community through Law 11/2002.[1] The intelligence community can be divided into three blocks:

Spanish Intelligence Community
Agency overview
FormedMay 6, 2002
JurisdictionMadrid, Spain
Agency executives

To all these agencies, must to be added the intelligence agencies from the different police corps of Spain. The Intelligence Community responds directly to the President of the Government of Spain and his Cabinet.

Members
Agency Parent Agency Government Department Date est.
Department of Homeland Security None Prime Minister's Office 2012
National Intelligence Center None Ministry of Defence 2002
National Cryptologic Center National Intelligence Center Ministry of Defence 2004
National Office of Security National Intelligence Center Ministry of Defence 1983
National Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence National Intelligence Center Ministry of Defence 2002
Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Secretary of State of Security Ministry of the Interior 2014
Executive Coordination Committee Secretary of State of Security Ministry of the Interior 2004
General Commissariat of Judiciary Police National Police Corps Ministry of the Interior 1986
General Commissariat of Information National Police Corps Ministry of the Interior 1986
Civil Guard Information Service Civil Guard Ministry of the Interior 1941
Central Operative Unit Civil Guard Ministry of the Interior 1987
Armed Forces Intelligence Center Office of the Chief of the Defence Staff Ministry of Defence 2005
Joint Cyber-Defence Command Office of the Chief of the Defence Staff Ministry of Defence 2013
Intelligence and Security Center of the Army Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army Ministry of Defence
Intelligence Section of the Navy Office of the Chief of Staff of the Navy Ministry of Defence
Directorate of Security and Force Protection Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Ministry of Defence 2007
Customs Surveillance Service Spanish Tax Agency Ministry of the Treasury 1944
Information Division Mossos d'Esquadra Government of Catalonia 1983
Information and Analysis Unit Ertzaintza Basque Government 1982
Information Division Police of Navarre Government of Navarra 2004

Emblems

Most of Spanish Intelligence Agencies emblems and logos have its reproduction prohibited.

Emblems of members of the IC

See also

References
  1. Ley 11/2002, de 6 de mayo, reguladora del Centro Nacional de Inteligencia.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.