Dirección Estatal de Inteligencia

Dirección Estatal de Inteligencia
(DEI)

Emblem of the DEI
Headquarters of the DEI
Intelligence agency overview
Formed	3 August 1960 (1960-08-03)
Jurisdiction	Ministry of the Interior (MININT)
Headquarters	Guaitiao, Montilla
Motto	"Liberación, Seguridad e Información"
Employees	20,000
Minister responsible	Samuel Rosalez Najarro, Minister of the Interior
Intelligence agency executive	Leonardo Alonzo Conrado, Director

The State Directorate of Intelligence (Spanish: Dirección Estatal de Inteligencia, DEI), is the main intelligence agency of the government of Montilla. The DEI was founded in 1960 under Montilla's Ministry of the Interior, shortly after the Montillan Revolution. The DEI is responsible for all foreign intelligence collection and comprises six divisions divided into two categories, which are the Operational Divisions and the Support Divisions.

The State Directorate of Intelligence was created after the purge of the former Sovereignity Protection Service, the foreign and domestic intelligence agency which acted as a secondary secret police during the Renovationalist dictatorship. The current DEI is largely influenced by the principle of the "intelligence trident", idealized by guerrilla fighter Emanuel Sancho Consuegra, which deems that the priorities of national foreign intelligence should be: "protection of the revolution, advancement of the revolution and vigilance of possible enemies of the revolution".