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Institutional Security Bureau

Executive cabinet office of the federal government of Brazil, responsible for security/defense

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Institutional Security Bureau

Portuguese: Gabinete de Segurança Institucional
Bureau overview
Formed	1 November 1930; 93 years ago (1930-11-01)
Type	Ministry
Jurisdiction	Federal government of Brazil
Headquarters	Planalto Palace, Praça dos Três Poderes Brasília, Federal District
Annual budget	$2.29 b BRL (2023)[1]
Bureau executives	Gen Marcos Antonio Amaro dos Santos, Chief-Minister Div Gen Ivan Corrêa Filho, Executive-Secretary Brig Gen Ricardo do Amaral Peixoto, Secretary of Presidential Security C Adm Francisco Barros Conde, Secretary of Monitoring and Management of Strategic Affairs Lt Brig Marcos Vilela Valença, Secretary of Coordination and Aerospace Affairs André Molina, Secretary of Cyber and Information Security
Parent Bureau	Presidency of the Republic
Website	www.gov.br/gsi/

The Institutional Security Bureau (Portuguese: Gabinete de Segurança Institucional da Presidência da República, GSI; English: Institutional Security Bureau of the Presidency of the Republic, ISB) is an executive cabinet office of the federal government of Brazil responsible for providing direct assistance at a moment's notice to the President on matters of national security and defense policy. It is currently headed by retired general Marcos Antonio Amaro dos Santos.^[2]

Responsibilities[edit]

• Assist the President directly in the performance of their duties;
• Prevent the occurrence of serious and imminent threats to institutional stability;
• Organize crisis management response to a threat to national and institutional stability;
• Provide personal advice on military and security issues;
• Coordinate federal intelligence activities and information security;
• Ensure the personal security of the President, the Vice-President of the Republic and their families and, where determined by the President of the Republic, the holders of the essential organs of the Presidency and other authorities and personalities, having received law enforcement powers for this purpose;
• Serve as the central government organ which oversees and organizes the Brazilian Nuclear Program Protection System;
• Provide planning and coordination to events which the President is expected to attend both and home and, with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also abroad;
• Provide assistance to activities pertaining to the Brazilian Aerospace Sector;
• Provide assistance to activities pertaining to terrorism and the actions necessary to prevent and neutralize it, providing subsidies when necessary.

History[edit]

Created by Provisional Measure (MP) No. 1911-10 of 24 September 1999 by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

The existence of a body responsible for institutional security is not new in Brazilian history, having been the responsibility of multiple government agencies prior to the creation of the Institutional Security Bureau:

• 1930 – 1934: General Staff of the Provisional Government
• 1934 – 1938: General Staff of the Government
• 1938 – 1992: Military Office
• 1992 – 1999: Ministry of Defence
• 1999 – 2015 (temporarily deactivated): Institutional Security Bureau
• 2016 (re-activated by President Michel Temer): Institutional Security Bureau

List of ministers[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website (in Portuguese)