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The Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Portuguese: Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, ABIN) is the main intelligence agency in Brazil. ABIN's mission is to ensure that the Federal Executive has access to knowledge related to the security of the State and society, such as those involving foreign defense, foreign relations, internal security, socioeconomic development and scientific-technological ...
Although there have been secret police in Brazil since at least the Vargas era, military involvement reached new heights with the creation of the SNI. It grew out of the Institute for Research and Social Studies (Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos Sociais or IPES), which Couto e Silva had established to undermine the former Goulart government ...
The Subsecretaria de Inteligência (Under-Secretariat of Intelligence) or SSI was the Brazilian Intelligence Agency that replaced the Brazilian military junta intelligence agency called the SNI.
Building logo. The Ministry of Justice and Public Security (Portuguese: Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública), previously known as Ministry of Justice (Portuguese: Ministério da Justiça) and Ministry of Justice and Citizenship (Portuguese: Ministério da Justiça e Cidadania), is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil.
Secret police and intelligence agencies can usually be considered secret services. [1] Various states and regimes, at different times and places, established bodies that could be described as a secret service or secret police – for example, the agentes in rebus of the late Roman Empire were sometimes defined as such.
The Institutional Security Bureau (Portuguese: Gabinete de Segurança Institucional da Presidência da República, GSI; English: Institutional Security Bureau of the Presidency of the Republic, ISB) is an executive cabinet office of the federal government of Brazil responsible for providing direct assistance at a moment's notice to the President on matters of national security and defense policy.
The Ministry of the Public Security (Portuguese: Ministério da Segurança Pública) of Brazil, is the civilian cabinet organization responsible for managing federal police offices and penintentiary departments. It is headed by the Minister of the Public Security.
A security agency is a governmental organization that conducts intelligence activities for the internal security of a state. [1] They are the domestic cousins of foreign intelligence agencies, and typically conduct counterintelligence to thwart other countries' foreign intelligence efforts.