National Intelligence Secretariat ( Secretaria Nacional de Inteligencia , SENAIN) was the principal intelligence agency of the Republic of Ecuador . The agency was created in September 2009. Directors include Rommy Vallejo, Francisco Jijon, Homero Arellano, Luis Yepez, Raul Patino (brother of Ricardo Patino ) ^[1] and Pablo Romero Quezada.

In June 2013, news and entertainment website BuzzFeed published documents that revealed SENAIN's domestic surveillance program using equipment purchased from two Israel-based companies, Elkat Security Engineering Ltd and UVision Air Ltd. SENAIN reportedly purchased the equipment via an intermediary named Gabriel Marcos Guecelevich. ^[2]

SENAIN was also involved in the Hacking Team scandal. ^[3]

Although Paul Manafort had not logged into the Ecuadoran embassy in London , SENAIN had records of his visits in 2015 and March 2016, which SENAIN had recorded him as "Paul Manaford [sic]", along with Russians. ^[4] Julian Assange , the founder of WikiLeaks , was using the embassy as a refuge at the time. ^[4] The account of an Assange-Manafort meeting was not corroborated by other news organisations. ^[5]

In March 2018, SENAIN was shut down by Ecuador's President, Lenin Moreno , who said closing the agency was necessary to “guarantee the security needs of the country”. ^[6]

See also [ edit ]

• List of intelligence agencies

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish) ^{[ dead link ]}