Serviço Nacional de Segurança do Estado

Serviço Nacional de Segurança do Estado

The Serviço Nacional de Segurança do Estado (SNSE) was the first intelligence service in East Timor , which became independent in 2002 . Ricardo Ribeiro was the boss .

history

The SNSE was founded in September 2002 with the help of the Australian and Portuguese secret services .

The Canadian diplomat Scott Gilmore , who was responsible for the establishment of a national secret service during the United Nations interim administration for East Timor , criticized 2015 with a view to the possible expansion of the competences of the Canadian intelligence service , in the first term of office of Prime Minister Marí Alkatiri (2002-2006 ) the service has degenerated into a "private spy network of the prime minister". The elements of surveillance were gone and there was no parliamentary committee to control the intelligence agency's growing budget. After the unrest in East Timor in 2006 and the resulting resignation of Alkatiri, this secret service was disbanded. Successor in 2009 was the Serviço Nacional de Inteligência (SNI).

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Guardian: Timor-Leste v Australia: what each country stands to lose , January 23, 2014 , accessed July 31, 2019.
2. ↑ Serviço Nacional de Inteligência : História , accessed on May 2, 2017.
3. ^ Scott Gilmore: The time I started a spy agency , February 9, 2015 , accessed May 2, 2017.