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The General Commissariat of Information (, CGI) is an intelligence service within the
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of
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responsible for the collection, analysis and distribution of information relevant to domestic security, as well as its exploitation or operational use, especially in matters of
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, both nationally and internationally. It is colloquially named secret police, though in Spain the name of secret police is usually used to any police officer in plainclothes.


History

The General Commissariat of Information was created in November 1912 along with the Directorate-General for Security (currently Directorate-General of the Police) as a "center where all the data and information from the national territory flows, related to the maintenance of general order and the prevention and prosecution of crimes (...)". In 1939 it was renamed as General Commissariat of Information. According to the agreements of the
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, this service has the rank of secret, and his structure, budget, resources, procedures and agents can not be revealed.


TEDAX

From the General Commissariat of Information depends the special unit called TEDAX-NRBQ. TEDAX is the Spanish name for the units trained in
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.


See also

*
Civil Guard Information Service The Civil Guard Information Service (, SIGC) is an intelligence service within the Spanish Civil Guard responsible for the collection, analysis and distribution of information relevant to domestic security, as well as its exploitation or operation ...
( Civil Guard counterpart) * General Commissariat of Judiciary Police *
Spanish Intelligence Community The Spanish Intelligence Community ( es, 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 intellige ...
* National Intelligence Center


References

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