National Information Service (Brazil)

National Information Service
Agency overview
Serviço Nacional de Informações

Formed	13 June 1964 (1964-06-13)
Preceding agency	Federal Service of Information and Counterinformation (SFICI)
Dissolved	15 March 1990 (1990-03-15)
Superseding agency	Department of Intelligence (DI/SAE)
Jurisdiction	Federal government of Brazil
Status	Dissolved
Headquarters	Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Agency executives	Golbery do Couto e Silva, First Head Ivan de Sousa Mendes, Last Head

Operation Condor
Background histories Argentina (1976 coup d'état) Bolivia Brazil (1960s) Chile (1973 coup d'état) Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay
Events Dirty War National Reorganization Process Operation Colombo Operation Charly Night of the Pencils Operativo Independencia Ezeiza massacre Margarita Belén massacre Death flights Desaparecidos
Government leaders Jorge Anaya Hugo Banzer Basilio Lami Dozo João Figueiredo Leopoldo Galtieri Augusto Pinochet Alfredo Stroessner Jorge Rafael Videla
Targeted militias Montoneros Tupamaros People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR)
Principal operatives Alfredo Astiz Orlando Bosch Hugo Campos Hermida Manuel Contreras Stefano Delle Chiaie José López Rega Virgilio Paz Romero Luis Posada Carriles Paul Schäfer Michael Townley
Organizations responsible Central Intelligence Agency Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional Caravan of Death Batallón de Inteligencia 601 Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations Serviço Nacional de Informações Argentine Anticommunist Alliance
Locations Esmeralda Estadio Nacional de Chile Villa Grimaldi Colonia Dignidad Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics
Laws Full stop law Due obedience law
Archives and reports Archives of Terror Rettig Report Valech Report National Security Archive
Reactions National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons Trial of the Juntas Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

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 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.