The Subsecretaria de Inteligência (Under-Secretariat of Intelligence) or SSI was the

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ian Intelligence Agency that replaced the Brazilian military junta intelligence agency called the

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. In 1995, the SSI was replaced by the ABIN. This Subsecretaria de Inteligência was subordinated to the

Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos The Brazilian Intelligence Agency ( pt, Agência Brasileira de Inteligência, ABIN) is the main intelligence agency in Brazil. ABIN's mission is to ensure that the Federal Executive has access to knowledge related to the security of the State a ...

(Strategic Affairs Secretariat) or SAE, which replaced the

during the

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government (se
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and was replaced by the ABIN in the FHC government (1997). In the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government the ABIN received more powers for telephone tampering.

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