Towards a strategic review of the intelligence sector in El Salvador

Abstract

The intelligence sector analysis in El Salvador allows to gauge the reach and orientation of the strategic review of this specialized area of the State, as a proposal and main management resource. It contributes to the process of developing the concept and qualitative approximation of the intelligence generating organizations. This non-conventional discipline has registered an expansion in its field of study due to global influence. For this reason, and given the limited access to statistics and reports, an elite survey was used for experts in the sector. The processing of said survey has allowed to rebuild the situation of this sensitive governmental sector at a medium scale, as well as allowing to identify the challenges of future professionalization and transformation that must be faced. Everything mentioned before provides a fundamental contribution to locate key strategic factors where the changes in the sector need to be driven to.