On January 26, 1961, President
Manuel Prado Ugarteche created the National Intelligence Service (SIN) by Supreme Decree in a stage characterised by the triumph of the
Cuban revolution, the phenomenon of unconventional war, and the process of recent modernisation carried out by the
Peruvian Army. During the
government of
Juan Velasco Alvarado, the SIN was
related to the
KGB, the intelligence agency of the
Soviet Union. Negotiations were held between the SIN and the KGB for the training of agents, exchange of intelligence and cooperation in security measures. The KGB assigned two operations officers and a technical specialist as liaison points with the SIN in Lima. With the support of the SIN, the KGB carried out actions in Peru against the
CIA and against the embassies of
Mexico, the
United States and
Chile present in the
Peruvian capital. In addition, joint operations were carried out in Chile,
Argentina and other Latin American countries. Years later, the regulations of the SIN in Peru would be modernised only in 1984, during the government of President
Fernando Belaúnde, under the always inconvenient modality of delegated legislation, that is, through Legislative Decrees No. 270 and 271. Both constitute the first real attempt to institutionalise Peruvian intelligence, creating and designing for such purposes the Superior Intelligence Council (, CSI), a collegiate entity for decision-making of the intelligence system and to promote its specialisation.
Fujimori government In July 1992, the Government of Emergency and National Reconstruction of
Alberto Fujimori promulgated Decree Law No. 25635, which specified that the National Intelligence Service (SINA) was the central and governing body of the National Intelligence System, it had a ministerial rank, depended on the
President of the Republic and is responsible for producing, integrating, directing, coordinating, controlling and carrying out intelligence and counterintelligence activities required by National Security and Defence. During Fujimori's administration, the agency's power expanded, and its
de facto chief,
Vladimiro Montesinos, used the agency for political purposes. In 2000,
La República reported that around 2,300 people were agents of the organisation.
Wiretapping was common by SIN agents under Montesinos. According to them, those killed were
cremated in an
incinerator and a smell of burnt hair was present within the facility. For that, 45 days were offered to proceed with the complete deactivation by Marcial Rubio. The service was deactivated by President Alberto Fujimori in October 2000, under pressure from the
Organization of American States. Law No. 27479 of June 5 ultimately created the National Intelligence Council (, CNI) and the
National Directorate of Strategic Intelligence (, DINIE), themselves dissolved through Law No. 28664, which created the National Intelligence System (, SINA) and the
National Directorate of Intelligence (, DINI). ==Chiefs==