Spanish Intelligence Community
# Spanish Intelligence Community

The Spanish Intelligence Community (Spanish: Comunidad de Inteligencia Española) is a group of intelligence organizations dependent on the Government of Spain that established themselves as an intelligence community through Law 11/2002. The intelligence community can be divided into three blocks:

* Foreign intelligence: Formed by the National Intelligence Center along with its minor agencies.
* Domestic intelligence: Formed mainly by the Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime and other minor agencies.
* Military intelligence: Formed by the Armed Forces Intelligence Center and the agencies of each branch of the Armed Forces.

To all these agencies, must to be added the intelligence agencies from the different police corps of Spain. The Intelligence Community responds directly to the President of the Government of Spain and his Cabinet.

## Members

| Agency | Parent Agency | Government Department | Date est. |
| - | - | - | - |
| Department of Homeland Security | None | Prime Minister's Office | 2012 |
| National Intelligence Center | None | Ministry of Defence | 2002 |
| National Cryptologic Center | National Intelligence Center | Ministry of Defence | 2004 |
| National Security Office | National Intelligence Center | Ministry of Defence | 1983 |
| Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime | Secretary of State of Security | Ministry of the Interior | 2014 |
| General Commissariat of Judiciary Police | National Police Corps | Ministry of the Interior | 1958 |
| General Commissariat of Information | National Police Corps | Ministry of the Interior | 1912 |
| Civil Guard Information Service | Civil Guard | Ministry of the Interior | 1941 |
| Central Operative Unit | Civil Guard | Ministry of the Interior | 1987 |
| Armed Forces Intelligence Center | Office of the Chief of the Defence Staff | Ministry of Defence | 2005 |
| Joint Cyber-Defence Command | Office of the Chief of the Defence Staff | Ministry of Defence | 2013 |
| Intelligence and Security Section | Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army | Ministry of Defence | |
| Signals Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Section | Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army | Ministry of Defence | |
| Central Naval Security Section | Office of the Chief of Staff of the Navy | Ministry of Defence | |
| Intelligence and Security Section | Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force | Ministry of Defence | |
| Counterintelligence and Information Section | Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force | Ministry of Defence | |
| Aerospace Intelligence and Targeting Center | Office of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force | Ministry of Defence | |
| Customs Surveillance Service | Spanish Tax Agency | Ministry of the Treasury | 1944 |
| Information Division | Mossos d'Esquadra | Government of Catalonia | 1983 |
| Information and Analysis Unit | Ertzaintza | Basque Government | 1982 |
| Information Division | Police of Navarre | Government of Navarra | 2004 |

## Emblems

Most of Spanish Intelligence Agencies emblems and logos have its reproduction prohibited.

* Emblem of the Armed Forces Intelligence Center
* Emblem of the Civil Guard's Central Operative Unit
* Emblem of the CITCO
* Emblem of the MCCE
* Emblem of the General Commissariat of Information
* Emblem of the General Commissariat of Judiciary Police
* Emblem of the Customs Surveillance Service
