• Military
• WMD

• Intelligence Menu               

• Systems
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Imagery
• Links

• Homeland Security
• Space

Argentina - Intelligence

Argentina is a country is full of spies, financed by the national and provincial states, infiltrating organizations of workers, leftist parties, human rights organizations and even media. Obviously their acts are camouflaged and identities changed. During the discussion of the law of National Intelligence in 2015, Defense Minister Agustin Rossi acknowledged that the military had 1,403 intelligence agents. By 2015 there were more than 5000 spies, only counting federal forces, funded with a budget of $2,500,000,000 annually.

The Kirchner government began to defund the Secretariat (by distrust that began to sow the spies) and to increase the budget of Army intelligence. Between 2003 and 2015 intelligence budget grew 1000% from $ 228 million to $ 2,411 million. The budget this year, $ 837 million was for the Ministry of Defence, $773 for the Ministry of Security and $801 for AFI.

The draft budget for 2015, considered and voted by the Deputies scheduled a sharp increase for the area of ??Army Intelligence. The money for espionage would be $ 568.5 million, 31.8% more than 2014. The distribution of $ 836.9 million for the military intelligence apparatus in 2015 was as follows: $568.5 million for the Army; $ 123 million for the Navy, and $ 104 million for the Air Force. The Ministry of Defence reserved for intelligence $ 40.7 million. To take as a parameter the areas that are dedicated to intelligence and espionage, the Intelligence Secretariat (formerly SIDE) had a budget increase of 16%. Knowing that she was on the way to losing the election, Kirchner increased the budget for the agency for 2016 by 81.2% more than in 2015, a phenomenal growth compared with other areas of management.

The State has two systems centralization of various information. The SINTyS is the National Identification System Tax and Social under the Ministry of Social Development (led throughout by Alicia Kirchner Kirchner). It coordinates the exchange of information between national, provincial and municipal utilities agencies. It is a huge database containing the address of each citizen, data on who works and who is retired or pensioned, who have unemployment insurance or social plan; who is a client and health system patients, who studies and where, who lives in a social housing; who has auto, real estate and shipping, who is a financial debtor and who owe taxes. And even who used public services and receive subsidies.

The SIBIOS was born by decree in late 2011. It is the Federal Biometric Identification System for Safety [Sistema Federal de Identificación Biométrica para la Seguridad], which centralizes individual patronymic and biological records to identify persons and traces without error. The system "reads" fingerprints, facial features and even the iris of the eye.

A political crisis was opened by the death of Nisman, which stripped open the cesspool of intelligence and espionage. President Cristina Fernandez decided to dissolve the Secretariat of Intelligence [SI] after public investigator Alberto Nisman was found dead in his home in 2015, a mysterious case that the government said was a murder perpetrated by rogue agents from the SI.

Nisman was found dead in his apartment in Buenos Aires the same day he was scheduled to attend a congressional hearing on the 1994 Mutual Israeli Argentine Association bombing case, which left 85 people dead. Fernandez, whose husband and late President Nestor Kirchner ordered the investigation into the AMIA bombing, was quick to cast doubt on the apparent suicide of the attorney.