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Serviço de Informações de Segurança

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Security Information Service
Serviço de Informações de Segurança
State Security Agency & Intelligence Agency (Internal and External Operations) overview
Formed1984
TypeIntelligence service
Jurisdiction Portugal
HeadquartersLisbon
Minister responsible
State Security Agency & Intelligence Agency (Internal and External Operations) executive
  • Adélio Neiva da Cruz, Director of the SIS
Parent State Security Agency & Intelligence Agency (Internal and External Operations)Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa (SIRP)
Websitewww.sis.pt

The Serviço de Informações de Segurança or SIS (Portuguese for: Security Information Service) is the Portuguese security agency and intelligence agency founded in 1984 that specialized in clandestine and covert operation, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, HUMINT, intelligence assessment, and SIGINT.[1]

The function of SIS is to guarantee the internal security and prevent assassination of a high-ranking official, cyber attacks, espionage, insurgency, sabotage, terrorism, and the practice of acts which, by their nature, can change or destroy the Rule of Law as constitutionally established.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ "História SIS". www.sis.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ^ "Missão SIS". www.sis.pt (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 January 2013.
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