Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa

Defense Strategic Information Service
Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa
Agency overview
Formed2004
Preceding agency
  • Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa e Militares (SIEDM)
TypeForeign intelligence service
Jurisdiction Portugal
HeadquartersLisbon
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • José Casimiro Morgado, Director of the SIED
Parent agencyIntelligence System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP)
Websitewww.sied.pt

The Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa or SIED (Portuguese for: Defense Strategic Information Service) is the foreign strategic intelligence agency of Portugal.

SIED's mission is to produce information aimed at safeguarding the national independence, the national interests and the external security of the Portuguese State.

Together with the SIS (Portugueses domestic intelligence agency), the SIED is a component of the SIRP (Portuguese Intelligence System).

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