The Armed Forces Intelligence Center (Spanish: Centro de Inteligencia de las Fuerzas Armadas, CIFAS) is a Spanish intelligence agency dependent of the Defense Staff (EMAD). It has the function of providing JEMAD, the Ministry of Defense and the Prime Minister with information on risk situations and crises from abroad. In his charge is a director with rank of general.[1]
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 the National Intelligence Center, with whom it is coordinated through the Joint 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]