Defense Strategic Information Service

Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa
Agency overview
Formed	2004
Preceding agency	Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa e Militares (SIEDM)
Type	Foreign intelligence service
Jurisdiction	Portugal
Headquarters	Lisbon
Minister responsible	Luís Montenegro,Prime Minister
Agency executive	José Casimiro Morgado, Director of the SIED
Parent agency	Intelligence System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP)
Website	www.sied.pt

TheServiço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa orSIED (Portuguese for: Defense Strategic Information Service) is theforeign strategicintelligence agency ofPortugal.

SIED's mission is to produce information aimed at safeguarding the national independence, the national interests and the external security of the Portuguese State.^[1]

Together with theSIS (Portugueses domestic intelligence agency), the SIED is a component of theSIRP (Portuguese Intelligence System).

The existence of SIED was originally envisaged by the Law of the Information System of the Portuguese Republic in 1984. However, even before being activated, it was merged with the Military Information Service (SIM), originating the SIEDM (Strategic and Military Information Service). This was activated in 1997.

In 2004, the SIEDM lost its military component and was renamed SIED.^[2]

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