National Information Service (Brazil)

National Information Service
Serviço Nacional de Informações
Agency overview
Formed13 June 1964 (1964-06-13)
Preceding agency
  • Federal Service of Information and Counterinformation (SFICI)
Dissolved15 March 1990 (1990-03-15)
Superseding agency
  • Department of Intelligence (DI/SAE)
JurisdictionFederal government of Brazil
StatusDissolved
HeadquartersBrasília, Federal District, Brazil
Agency executives
Operation Condor
Background histories
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The Serviço Nacional de Informações (English: National Information Service) or SNI was the intelligence agency of Brazil during its military dictatorship. It was created by President Castelo Branco via Law 4371/64[1] and remained active until dissolved by Fernando Collor in 1990. Intelligence activities in Brazil were then subordinate to the Brazilian Federal Police until Fernando Henrique Cardoso sanctioned Law 9883/97, which created the Brazilian Intelligence Agency.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Law 4341/64" (in Portuguese). Presidency of the Republic. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  2. ^ Natália Rodrigues. "Serviço Nacional de Informação (SNI)" (in Portuguese). InfoEscola. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Law 9883/97" (in Portuguese). Presidency of the Republic. Retrieved 2 August 2023.