Argentina’s Official Gazette, Decree 852/25: “Mr Sergio Darío Neiffert is hereby removed from the post of State Intelligence Secretary of the Office of the President.” That was how the Government dismissed the head of the Secretaría de Inteligencia de Estado (SIDE), formerly the AFI federal intelligence agency, formerly the Intelligence Secretariat, originally SIDE and now back to its original name. A series of rebrandings aimed at glossing over what has been a cursed office under every administration.
Reports this week described the chain of events that left Neiffert out of a job. Some were laughable or, rather, shameful. One involved the former chief being approached at midnight at his home in his underwear and told by subordinates, including the man who would replace him, that the axe was about to fall. Journalists Alejandro Rebossio and Pedro Lacour revealed the incident in elDiario.ar.
Neiffert fell under the weight of libertarian infighting, a saga so exhausting that it is impossible to identify the good guys. Linked to presidential advisor Santiago Caputo, the departed SIDE chief appears to have tried switching to the winning camp of
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