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On August 9, 1937, Prieto decided to create a new secret service, the Servicio de Información Militar or SIM, merging all the intelligence services inside the Republican zone. The main goals of the SIM were to combat the Nationalists' intelligence service, the SIPM (Servicio de Información y Policía Militar) , to neutralize the Fifth Column ...
Around 1957 the Department of State for Security, headed by General Arturo Espaillat was dissolved, replaced by SIM and its sister agency, the Servicio Central de Inteligencia (SCI). [1] Under the leadership of Johnny Abbes García , SIM employed thousands of people and was involved in immigration, passports, censorship, supervision of aliens ...
The Italian Military Information Service (Italian: Servizio Informazioni Militare, or SIM) [1] was the military intelligence organization for the Royal Army (Regio Esercito) [2] of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) from 1925 until 1946, and of the Italian Republic until 1949. The SIM was Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's equivalent to the ...
The SIM was largely focused on France, Austria and Yugoslavia, and was not involved in quelling anti-fascist opposition during Mussolini's reign, which was handled by the Ministry of the Interior and the OVRA. By January 1934, the SIM had approximately 40 people in service (in addition to informers) and a budget of around two million lire.
Following the dissolution of the Information Service and Military Police, Servicio de Información y Policía Militar (SIPM) at the end of the civil war, the intelligence organizations of the Francoist period were the Central Documentation Service, Servicio Central de Documentación (SECED), the Political-Social Brigade, Brigada Político-Social (BPS)—a special branch of the plainclothes ...
The intelligence agencies of the Russian Federation, often unofficially referred to in Russian as Special services (Russian: Спецслужбы), include: . Federal Security Service (FSB), an agency responsible for counter-intelligence and other aspects of state security as well as intelligence-gathering in some countries, primarily those of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS ...
A drug trafficking investigation in Bogalusa, Louisiana, has led to the arrest of the city's mayor, Tyrin Truong, and several other people, police said Tuesday. The Louisiana State Police ...
SIM is an international, interdenominational Evangelical Christian mission organization. It was established in 1893 by its three founders, Walter Gowans and Rowland Bingham of Canada and Thomas Kent of the United States.