Overview
- Decree 717/2025, published October 8 and signed by President Javier Milei and Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos, creates the Center and places it under the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE), which will direct it and provide staffing and budget.
- The Ministry of Security is designated as the operational arm to activate alerts and coordinate federal forces, with a new operational planning unit whose head will be appointed by SIDE at Security’s proposal.
- Mandates include integrating and sharing data across the full terrorism cycle, issuing directives and protocols, producing national, regional and international reports, publishing statistics, requesting information, signing agreements, and advancing legislative proposals.
- Membership spans SIDE, the ministries of Security, Defense, Foreign Affairs and Justice, the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), the customs and revenue agency ARCA, criminal and military intelligence directorates, and the National Directorate of Migration; the Public Prosecutor’s Office was invited to name a liaison.
- Government justifications cite GAFI recommendations and U.S. and Spanish models and reference past attacks on the Israeli Embassy and AMIA, while early commentary questions civilian oversight, potential militarization and broad definitions, with leadership names and some operating details yet to be disclosed.