Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa
Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP) is a state structure in Portugal that coordinates its intelligence services . It has existed since 1984. SIRP is the superordinate authority of the Serviço de Informações de Segurança , which is responsible for intelligence activities within the country, and the Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa (SIED), which is responsible for military reconnaissance.
Origins
It is the successor organization of the Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE) under the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar . PIDE was a secret police and was directly controlled by him. He was nominally assigned to the Ministry of Justice. PIDE was renamed Direcção Geral de Segurança Serviço de Informações de Segurança (DGS) in 1968 and abolished after the Carnation Revolution in 1974.
Because of the PIDE / DGS activities, it took more than a decade to set up a new civilian secret service. After the murder of a representative of the PLO at the Socialist International in 1983 and a terrorist attack on the Turkish embassy, the Portuguese government saw it as a necessity to establish a new intelligence service.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Official website of the SIRP (Portuguese)