Spanish Intelligence Community

Spanish Intelligence Community
	Coat of Arms of Spain
Agency overview
Formed	May 6, 2002
Jurisdiction	Madrid, Spain
Agency executives	Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister; Nadia Calviño, Deputy Prime Minister;

The Spanish Intelligence Community (Spanish: Comunidad de Inteligencia Española) is a group of intelligence organizations dependent on the Government of Spain that established themselves as an intelligence community through Law 11/2002.^[1] The intelligence community can be divided into three blocks:

Foreign intelligence: Formed by the National Intelligence Center along with its minor agencies.
Domestic intelligence: Formed mainly by the Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime and other minor agencies.
Military intelligence: Formed by the Armed Forces Intelligence Center and the agencies of each branch of the Armed Forces.

To all these agencies, must to be added the intelligence agencies from the different police corps of Spain. The Intelligence Community responds directly to the President of the Government of Spain and his Cabinet.

Members[edit]

Agency	Parent Agency	Government Department	Date est.
Department of Homeland Security	None	Prime Minister's Office	2012
National Intelligence Center	None	Ministry of Defence	2002
National Cryptologic Center	National Intelligence Center	Ministry of Defence	2004
National Security Office	National Intelligence Center	Ministry of Defence	1983
Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime	Secretary of State of Security	Ministry of the Interior	2014
General Commissariat of Judiciary Police	National Police Corps	Ministry of the Interior	1958
General Commissariat of Information	National Police Corps	Ministry of the Interior	1912
Civil Guard Information Service	Civil Guard	Ministry of the Interior	1941
Central Operative Unit	Civil Guard	Ministry of the Interior	1987
Armed Forces Intelligence Center	Office of the Chief of the Defence Staff	Ministry of Defence	2005
Joint Cyber-Defence Command	Office of the Chief of the Defence Staff	Ministry of Defence	2013
Intelligence and Security Section	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army	Ministry of Defence
Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Section	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army	Ministry of Defence
Central Naval Security Section	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Navy	Ministry of Defence
Intelligence and Security Section	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force	Ministry of Defence
Counterintelligence and Information Section	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force	Ministry of Defence
Aerospace Intelligence and Targeting Center	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force	Ministry of Defence
Customs Surveillance Service	Spanish Tax Agency	Ministry of the Treasury	1944
Information Division	Mossos d'Esquadra	Government of Catalonia	1983
Information and Analysis Unit	Ertzaintza	Basque Government	1982
Information Division	Police of Navarre	Government of Navarra	2004