Spanish Armed Forces Intelligence Center

Spanish Armed Forces Intelligence Center
Centro de Inteligencia de las Fuerzas Armadas
Coat of Arms of the CIFAS
Active	2004–present
Country	Spain
Branch	Defence Staff
Type	Military intelligence agency
Size	Classified
Garrison/HQ	Retamares Base, Madrid
Website	Official website
Commanders
Current commander	DG Francisco Rosaleny Pardo de Santayana

The Armed Forces Intelligence Center (Spanish: Centro de Inteligencia de las Fuerzas Armadas, CIFAS) is a Spanish intelligence agency dependent of the Defense Staff (EMAD). It has the function of providing JEMAD, the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister with information on risk situations and crises from abroad. In his charge is a director with rank of general.^[1]

It is a unique and joint body of the Spanish Armed Forces in matters of military intelligence, it controls the systems of intelligence and electronic warfare, maintaining the intelligence centers of the Army, Navy and Air Force, functional dependence on the CIFAS. Founded in 2004, it replaces the former Intelligence Division of the Defense Staff.

Functions

• Provide the Chiefs of Staff of the Armies with information for the development of their functions in peacetime missions.
• Provide the Chief of Defense Staff (JEMAD) with the necessary military intelligence for the direction of operations and the design of the strategy.
• Coordinate his task with the General Staff of Defense and its Headquarters.
• To be a complementary military intelligence body of the National Intelligence Center, with whom it is coordinated through the Joint Military Intelligence Plan.
• Collaborate with the intelligence structures of the international organizations of which Spain is a part and with those of the Allied countries.^[2]

Directors

• Brigadier General Valentín Martínez Valero (2004-2008) (Army)
• Lieutenant General Miguel Romero López (2008-2011) (Air Force)
• Vice Admiral Juan Antonio Cuadrillero Pinilla (2011-2013) (Navy)
• General of division Francisco José Gan Pampols (2013-2017) (Army)
• General of division Francisco Rosaleny Pardo de Santayana (2017-2019) (Army)
• General of division Antonio Romero Losada (2019-) (Army)^[3]

References