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

TheArmed Forces Intelligence Center (Spanish:Centro de Inteligencia de las Fuerzas Armadas,CIFAS) is a Spanishintelligence agency dependent of theDefense Staff (EMAD). It has the function of providingJEMAD, theMinistry of Defense and thePrime Minister with information on risk situations and crises from abroad. In his charge is a director with rank ofgeneral.^[1]

It is a unique and joint body of theSpanish Armed Forces in matters ofmilitary intelligence, it controls the systems of intelligence andelectronic warfare, maintaining the intelligence centers of theArmy,Navy andAir Force, functional dependence on the CIFAS. Founded in 2004, it replaces the former Intelligence Division of theDefense Staff.

• 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 theNational Intelligence Center, with whom it is coordinated through theJoint 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]

• Brigadier GeneralValentín Martínez Valero (2004–2008) (Army)
• Lieutenant GeneralMiguel Romero López (2008–2011) (Air Force)
• Vice AdmiralJuan Antonio Cuadrillero Pinilla (2011–2013) (Navy)
• General of divisionFrancisco José Gan Pampols (2013–2017) (Army)
• General of divisionFrancisco Rosaleny Pardo de Santayana (2017–2019) (Army)
• General of division Antonio Romero Losada (2019–) (Army)^[3]

• 2004 establishments in Spain
• Government agencies established in 2004
• Government of Spain
• National law enforcement agencies of Spain
• Spanish intelligence agencies
• Military intelligence agencies

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