Servicio de Inteligencia Aeronáutica
Aeronautical Intelligence Service (SIA)
Servicio de Inteligencia Aeronáutica / Aeronautical Intelligence Service (SIA) is the intelligence agency of the Argentine Air Force. It is part of J-2 and of the General Staff of the Air Force. Its duties include gathering Air Force intelligence relevant to Argentina.
The systematic plan of repression during the civil-military dictatorship was possible from the creation of a regulatory body that would support the atrocities. This legal and bureaucratic framework was formed by the decree 261/75, by which the Executive Branch ordered the General Command of the Army execution of military operations to "neutralize and / or annihilate subversion".
Among the directives and decrees were issued subsequent to regulate and coordinate the struggle, the directive 404/75 which, in his "guiding principles", argues that "should not act on reaction, but take the initiative of action stands, initially with intelligence activities without which they can not be executed by operations and psychological operations. " In one of its annexes, the action of intelligence is emphasized: "drive, with primary responsibility, effort intelligence community information against subversion".
The SIDE (Secretariat of State Intelligence), Intelligence Battalion 601, the SIE (Intelligence Service of the Army), SIN (Service Naval Intelligence), the SIGN (Intelligence Service National Gendarmerie), the SIPNA (Intelligence Service of Naval Prefecture Argentina), SIA (Service Aeronautics Intelligence), SF (Federal Security) and DIPPBA: all services intelligence security forces and the armed forces came together in the constitution of a state community that was responsible for the ideological and political follow - up, and that proved essential to the accumulation of information and the identification of victims of state terrorism.
On 15 September 2010 the intelligence chief of the Air Force, Brigadier Rodolfo Centurion, was removed from office for being involved in a case of alleged mistreatment of a soldier during an interrogation. The removal was due to a volunteer soldier who complained to the National Human Rights Defense Ministry that he was subjected to interrogation that passed the "limits of severity." The inquiry was related to the theft of long and short arms that made the past August 18 in units of Group Electronic Warfare Command Air Operations, located in the neighborhood of Palermo.
This soldier next to a lieutenant and two non - commissioned officers serving in the arms depot in the theft of automatic rifles (FAL), machine guns and pistols was committed. After the robbery, the Air Force presented the corresponding complaint at the police station 51 and judicial investigation was in charge of the Federal court 7, subrogated judge Norberto Oyarbide. However, apparently within the military aeronautics wanted to know how security Group Electronic Warfare was violated so that weapons were stolen, so which interrogation personnel stationed in the garrison of Palermo were made. In recent months they had committed a series of theft of weapons to military units, mainly the Army. These events would be organized by criminal gangs who needed FAL rifles for attacks on armored trucks.
Centurión, who was promoted to brigadier in December 2009, was in charge of the Headquarters II (Intelligence) of the Air Force for more than a year.
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