A atividade de inteligencia em Minas Gerais no raiar do século XXI: propostas de integração, disputas corporativas e busca por legitimidade (2000-2007)

Abstract

We analyze the attempt of Minas Gerais government to create an institutional instance that could integrate the intelligence efforts of all public security organizations, as well as to centralize the knowledge gathered by them. This process started when the state of Minas Gerais applied a new management and action policy for its security agencies, seeking for its operational integration through the creation of a political instance, the Secretaria de Estado de Defesa Social. Those measures for integration, part of the Plano Nacional de Segurança Pública launched by the federal Government in the year 2000, ended up not achieving success. The cabinet of Gestão Integrada de Segurança Pública de Minas Gerais (GISP/MG) and the Assessoria de consolidação de Informações de Inteligência (ACII), instances created to integrate the intelligence capabilities of the state security institutions, failed to carry out effectively this intent. Some possible causes of this failure were mapped through a historical-institutional analysis. These are separate corporations, with deferent functions and identities, competing for the same institutional space, visibility and resources, which forged an inadequate context for integration, especially regarding intelligence functions, seen as a strategic sector by those organizations.