Subsecretaria de Inteligência
The Subsecretaria de Inteligência or SSI was the Brazilian Intelligence Agency that replaced the Brazilian military junta intelligence agency called the SNI. In 1995, the SSI was replaced by the ABIN.
This Subsecretaria de Inteligência was subordinated to the Secretaria de Assuntos Estratégicos or SAE, which replaced the SNI during the Fernando Collor de Mello government and was replaced by the ABIN in the :pt:Fernando Henrique Cardoso|FHC government. In the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government the ABIN received more powers for telephone tampering.
