Overview
- Decree 941/2025, published in the Official Gazette, modifies Law 25.520 and installs the SIDE as the superior authority with control over strategy, budgets and information requests across the system.
- All intelligence activities are designated covert as a general principle to reduce national strategic risk.
- Intelligence personnel are authorized to apprehend individuals during operations, by judicial order or in cases of flagrancy, with immediate notification to competent security forces.
- The reform restructures agencies by converting the National Security Agency into the National Counterintelligence Agency, reconverting the Federal Cybersecurity Agency into a Federal Cyberintelligence Agency under SIDE, and creating a National Cybersecurity Center under the Cabinet Chief.
- Military strategic intelligence shifts to the Joint Chiefs as the DNIEM is dissolved, two permanent coordination bodies are created to integrate intelligence and data‑providing agencies, and opposition lawmakers signal challenges as the bicameral review begins.