Information on a government organization under the name cited above could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC. For the given timeframe, the only reference to a government organization whose name closely resembles the given one is the Servicio de Investigaciones Criminales (SIC, Criminal Investigations' Service), reported in an Amnesty International document on El Salvador (El Salvador: Case Studies July 1976-December 1977; London, 1978). The report mentions the group in three cases of arrests resulting in unacknowledged detention and possible disappearance. According to the report, the SIC was a section of the National Police, formed by plainclothes detectives in possession of automatic guns.

Other corroborating information could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.

2 May 1990

1990/05/00eSubject:

Follow-up on request for information on a special investigation section possibly called Servicio de Investigaciones Especiales (SIE), 1975-1979 - El Salvador
From:

Immigration and Refugee Board Documentation Centre, Ottawa
Keywords:

El Salvador / document request / political control / national security

Please find attached a copy of pages 204-221 of The American Connection, Volume I (London: Zed Books, 1985), which contain information on the SIE, its activities and its relation to other investigation or security services of El Salvador.

Additional information on this subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.