Overview
- Effective immediately, the decree makes the Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado the lead authority, consolidating budget approval and control — including reserved funds — and empowering it to request information from national and provincial bodies.
- The measure rebrands key agencies, shifting the Agencia de Seguridad Nacional to the Agencia Nacional de Contrainteligencia, converting the cyber agency into the Agencia Federal de Ciberinteligencia, and creating a National Cybersecurity Center under the Cabinet Chief.
- It dissolves the military strategic intelligence directorate (DNIEM), concentrating that production in the Armed Forces’ Joint Chiefs of Staff to eliminate overlaps.
- All intelligence activity is formally defined as covert and a legal framework for preventive “intelligence investigation” is set, while agents are authorized to apprehend people in flagrancy or under judicial order and to protect installations and repel aggressions.
- The reform creates two coordination bodies to integrate intelligence producers and data providers across the state, draws political focus to Santiago Caputo’s influence and Karina Milei’s role over cybersecurity, and now heads to review by Congress’s bicameral intelligence commission.