Structure
In theory, the SNI supervised and coordinated the intelligence agencies of the three services, but in practice the service agencies maintained their autonomy.
The three service agencies were:
- The Army Information Center (Centro de Informações do Exército, or CIE)
- The Air force Information Center (Centro de Informações da Aeronáutica, or CISA)
- The Naval Information Center (Centro de Informações de Marinha, or Cenimar).
The branch chiefs of staff were technically responsible for the intelligence work in their designated service. But in fact, CIE activities followed a parallel chain of command, and so the officers were often left uninformed.
Each command also had an Internal Operations Department-Internal Defense Operations Center (Departamento de Operações Internas-Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna—known as DOI-CODI).
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