About the CNI
Objectives and values
The Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) is the public institution responsible for providing the president of the Government and the Government of Spain with information, analyses, studies or proposals that allow for the prevention and deterrence of any danger, threat or aggression against the independence or territorial integrity of Spain, its national interests and the stability of its institutions and the rule of law.
The CNI combines competences that in other countries are split between two or more Intelligence Services, which allows us to coordinate and exchange Intelligence between complementary areas to tackle issues using an agile and comprehensive approach. In turn, this helps dispel uncertainty in an increasingly complex and globalised world.
Objectives
To collect, assess and interpret information and disseminate the necessary Intelligence to protect and promote the interests of Spain.
To promote relations of cooperation and collaboration with other Intelligence Services.
To prevent, detect and provide for the neutralisation of the activities of any foreign Service, group or person that might endanger, threaten or act against our national interests.
To coordinate the activities of the Administration institutions that use cypher means or procedures and to guarantee the security of information technologies.
To obtain, assess and interpret the traffic of strategic signals.
To guarantee the security and protection of its own facilities, information, material and human resources.
To monitor compliance with the regulations on the protection of classified information.
Objectives
To collect, assess and interpret information and disseminate the necessary Intelligence to protect and promote the interests of Spain.
To coordinate the activities of the Administration institutions that use cypher means or procedures and to guarantee the security of information technologies.
To promote relations of cooperation and collaboration with other Intelligence Services.
To obtain, assess and interpret the traffic of strategic signals.
To guarantee the security and protection of its own facilities, information, material and human resources.
To monitor compliance with the regulations on the protection of classified information.
To prevent, detect and provide for the neutralisation of the activities of any foreign Service, group or person that might endanger, threaten or act against our national interests.
The principles that define us
The people who work at the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI) commit themselves to uphold the principles that inspire our institution: Service, Truth and Future.
We are Service, because it is in our DNA to serve Spain and the Spanish people..
We seek the truth against disinformation to assist our authorities in decision-making.
We work with our eyes on the future, anticipating threats against our way of life and protecting our best asset: the people.
Service
Truth
Future
The CNI’s Code of Ethics is a combination of shared values and good practices that guide our work.
Our raison
d'être
Our fundamental purpose is to achieve a freer and safer society.
The main reason behind the new edition of this publication is to provide society with a better understanding of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. This document sets out the basic principles that inspire the nature and modus operandi of the Spanish Intelligence Service, whose main mission is to serve Spain and its citizens, seeking to guarantee their security and the interests of the nation.
The values and principles that guide the behaviour of its members - including loyalty, discretion, a spirit of service and a sense of commitment - are those that define the organisation’s raison d'être. The anonymous work of all of them contributes to the goal of a freer and safer society that must know the CNI for what it is, what its mission is and how it is carried out.
We thus hope that this publication will bring the CNI closer to society, to which it devotes all its efforts.
Our raison d'être
Our fundamental purpose is to achieve a freer and safer society.
The main reason behind the new edition of this publication is to provide society with a better understanding of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. This document sets out the basic principles that inspire the nature and modus operandi of the Spanish Intelligence Service, whose main mission is to serve Spain and its citizens, seeking to guarantee their security and the interests of the nation.
The values and principles that guide the behaviour of its members - including loyalty, discretion, a spirit of service and a sense of commitment - are those that define the organisation’s raison d'être. The anonymous work of all of them contributes to the goal of a freer and safer society that must know the CNI for what it is, what its mission is and how it is carried out.
We thus hope that this publication will bring the CNI closer to society, to which it devotes all its efforts.