Overview
- The Milei administration published DNU 941/2025 in the Boletín Oficial, putting a sweeping reform of the intelligence law into immediate effect.
- The decree elevates the SIDE as the superior authority over the National Intelligence System with control of budgets, reserved spending, and the power to require information from national and subnational bodies.
- The reform renames key agencies, creates a National Cybersecurity Center under the Cabinet, converts the cyber agency into a Federal Cyberintelligence unit within SIDE, and establishes new coordination communities for sharing data.
- All intelligence activities are formally designated covert, and agents are authorized to apprehend persons only on judicial request or in cases of flagrancy with immediate notice to the relevant security forces.
- Military strategic intelligence is transferred to the Joint Chiefs, and opposition blocs are moving to convene Congress’s bicameral commission to review and seek to overturn the decree.