Predecessors

The Agência Brasileira de Inteligência or Brazilian Agency of Intelligence is the successor of the former (and infamous) SNI. During the dictatorship that ran from the 1960s to the middle 1980s in Brazil, the SNI through its DOI-CODI department was responsible for censorship, torture, murder and actions against members of student movements, artists or politicians that dared to defy the government. The National Intelligence Service (Serviço Nacional de Informações, or SNI) of Brazil was an intelligence agency formed by the Castelo Branco government in 1964. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ... Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... The Destacamento de Operações de Informações - Centro de Operações de Defesa Interna (English: Department of Operations of Information - Center of Internal Defense Operations) was a department of the Brazilian SNI during the military regime responsible for repressing what was then called the enemy within. See Also ABIN...

It is said by some that SNI has been a member of the CIA "Condor Operation", an operation to maintain and spread dictatorship and anti-communist ideas in Latin America. The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the American foreign intelligence agencies, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ...

SNI was eventually replaced by the shortlived SSI which in its turn was replaced by ABIN. The National Intelligence Service (Serviço Nacional de Informações, or SNI) of Brazil was an intelligence agency formed by the Castelo Branco government in 1964. ... The Subsecretaria de Inteligência (Sub-General Office of Intelligence) or SSI was the Brazilian Intelligence Agency that replaced the Brazilian military junta intelligence agency called the SNI. In 1995, the SSI was replaced by the ABIN. Categories: Brazil-related stubs | History of Brazil ...

The current agency

Today, ABIN is a fairly unknown agency that went through a lot of changes and names to clean itself of the old SNI reputation, and deals with internal intelligence and the military.

Current Functions

ABIN's main function is to investigate real and potential threats to the Brazilian society and government and defend the Democratic State of Law, the Brazilian sovereignty and the effectiveness of the public power.

Motto

The ABIN motto is "A Inteligência em defesa da sociedade, do Estado Democrático de Direito e dos interesses nacionais." which is Portuguese for "The intelligence defending the society, the Democratic State of Law and the National interests".

External Links

• ABIN Official site (in Portuguese) (http://www.abin.gov.br/abin/index.jsp)