Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa
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The Serviço de Informações Estratégicas de Defesa or SIED (Portuguese for: Defense Strategic Information Service) is the foreign strategic intelligence agency of Portugal.
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Formed | 2004 |
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Type | Foreign intelligence service |
Jurisdiction | ![]() |
Headquarters | Lisbon |
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Parent agency | Intelligence System of the Portuguese Republic (SIRP) |
Website | www.sied.pt |
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SIED's mission is to produce information aimed at safeguarding the national independence, the national interests and the external security of the Portuguese State.[1]
Together with the SIS (Portugueses domestic intelligence agency), the SIED is a component of the SIRP (Portuguese Intelligence System).