Federal Intelligence Agency

"Federal Intelligence" redirects here. For other uses, see Federal Intelligence Service.

Federal Intelligence Agency

Agencia Federal de Inteligencia
Agency overview
Formed	March 5, 2015
Preceding Agency	Secretaría de Inteligencia (SI)
Type	Intelligence
Headquarters	Ave. 25 de Mayo 11, Buenos Aires
Employees	2,000
Agency executive	Gustavo Arribas, Director-General

The Federal Intelligence Agency (in Spanish: Agencia Federal de Inteligencia) also known as AFI is the principal intelligence agency of the Argentina.

This organization is the successor to the Intelligence Secretariat (formerly SIDE) and has two purposes: to collect national intelligence for governmental needs and criminal intelligence. It also was transferred from the Ministry of Security, to the National Criminal Intelligence.

The agency was created by Law 27126 3 amending the National Intelligence Act entering into force 120 days after enactment of the Act. According to regulations shall govern all communication by the Director General or Deputy Director General any interaction being punished by the members of the AFI any action or relationship regulated by the law establishing the Federal Intelligence Agency. In turn AFI officials should make affidavits without distinction of degrees.