Patricio Miguel Finnen
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Patricio Miguel Finnen was an Argentine
intelligence
operative - a SIDE
agent and intelligence director who became publicly known because of the AMIA bombing
investigation.
Finnen was fired from the organisation in December 2001. He started working for SIDE in 1974. He was the Subsecretary of Foreign Intelligence Collection (Subsecretario de Reunión Exterior), as well as the delegate to Israel
from 1989 to 1993. In 1994 he became Subdirector of Counter-intelligence
. He was the head of the Sala Patria intelligence group.
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
intelligence
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
operative - a SIDE
Side
Side was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, in the region of Pamphylia, in what is now Antalya province, on the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey...
agent and intelligence director who became publicly known because of the AMIA bombing
AMIA Bombing
The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina building in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, that killed 85 people and injured hundreds. It was Argentina's deadliest bombing...
investigation.
Finnen was fired from the organisation in December 2001. He started working for SIDE in 1974. He was the Subsecretary of Foreign Intelligence Collection (Subsecretario de Reunión Exterior), as well as the delegate to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
from 1989 to 1993. In 1994 he became Subdirector of Counter-intelligence
Counter-intelligence
Counterintelligence or counter-intelligence refers to efforts made by intelligence organizations to prevent hostile or enemy intelligence organizations from successfully gathering and collecting intelligence against them. National intelligence programs, and, by extension, the overall defenses of...
. He was the head of the Sala Patria intelligence group.