Intelligence Institutions, between Transparency and Secrecy
Intelligence Institutions, between Transparency and Secrecy

Summary/Abstract: In the context of public rhetoric in recent years that raises the possibility of exceeding the legal framework for intelligence institutions and the need to make their activities transparent, the author presents the legal framework for access to information of citizens and institutional transparency, indicating legal limitations of exercising the right of access to information, for reasons related to national security. The author develops the idea of the need to open intelligence institutions to the relationship with civil society, while maintaining the institutional discretion assumed and respected by the social partners, essential for increasing their credibility and gaining the support of citizens, showing that, for this purpose, they have conceptualized and implemented security culture development programs, in the context in which it has become essential to indicate the right decisions, in a world of latent and permanent vulnerabilities that manifests itself globally. Circumscribed to this modern approach, intelligence institutions have initiated partnerships with civil society, advocating for a change in specific approaches from the need to know to the need to share.

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