The General Counterintelligence Office was the military counterintelligence agency of

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. According to the ''

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'', the agency was replaced by the

Dirección de Inteligencia Militar The General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence ( es, Dirección General de Contrainteligencia Militar, DGCIM) is the military counterintelligence agency of Venezuela, whose function is to prevent intelligence or espionage internally and ...

in 2008.Simon Romero
"Chávez Decree Tightens Hold on Intelligence"
''New York Times'', June 3, 2008,

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