Peru: President Alejandro Toledo Dissolves Intelligence Service

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Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo announced that he would be eliminating the Consejo Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), or National Intelligence Council, after the resignation of the seventh director of the agency to hold the post during Toledo's tenure. The CNI was originally set up to replace the Servicio Nacional de Inteligencia (SIN), which lost credibility when proof of massive corruption within the SIN, run by former spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos, became public (see NotiSur, 2000-10-06). Peruvian officials said too many agents with ties to Montesinos remained in the scandal-plagued agency to allow it continue running.

Repeated resignations lead to dissolution

In late March, Vice-Admiral Ricardo Arbocco became the seventh man to …