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; Carlos Cuerpo, 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. 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 Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers.

Members

Agency	Parent Agency	Government Department	Date est.
Department of National Security	None	Prime Minister's Office	2012
National Intelligence Centre	None	Ministry of Defence	2002
National Cryptologic Center	National Intelligence Centre	Ministry of Defence	2004
National Security Office	National Intelligence Centre	Ministry of Defence	1983
Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime	Secretariat of State for 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 and Space Force	Ministry of Defence
Counterintelligence and Information Section	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force	Ministry of Defence
Aerospace Intelligence and Targeting Center	Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air and Space Force	Ministry of Defence
Customs Surveillance Service	Spanish Tax Agency	Ministry of Finance	1944
Information Division	Mossos d'Esquadra	Government of Catalonia	1983
Information and Analysis Unit	Ertzaintza	Basque Government	1982
Information Division	Policía Foral	Government of Navarre	2004

Supervision

According to Law 11/2002, of May 6, the intelligence community is supervised by the three powers of the State.

In the case of the government, article 6 of the law establishes the Government Delegated Committee for Intelligence Affairs, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister, whose purpose is "to ensure the proper coordination of all State information and intelligence services for the formation of an intelligence community".

It has three main responsabilities:

To propose to the Prime Minister the annual objectives of the National Intelligence Centre, which must be incorporated into the Intelligence Directive.
To monitor and evaluate the progress made toward achieving the objectives of the National Intelligence Centre.
To ensure the coordination of the National Intelligence Centre, the intelligence services of the State Security Forces and Corps, and the civil and military administrative bodies.

With regard to parliament, article 11 of the law obliges the Congress of Deputies to have a committee, chaired by the President of the Congress of Deputies, to supervise its "expenses, functioning and activities".

Finally, the judiciary oversees and, where appropriate, authorizes some clandestine activities. According to Organic Law 2/2002, of May 6, regulating the prior judicial control of the National Intelligence Centre, the Plenary of the General Council of the Judiciary must designate a Supreme Court justice responsible for the CNI affairs—and a substitute justice—, who will be responsible for authorizing those activities of the intelligence services that involve the violation of fundamental rights such as the inviolability of the home and the secrecy of communications.