The Federal Cybersecurity Agency, by Ariel Waissbein, is the third leg of Argentine intelligence and perhaps the most important. It works away from everything on the site called Citefa on the side of General Paz Avenue, attached to the Technopolis site in the Buenos Aires Conurbano.
On Wednesday, August 6, Waissbein received a surprise visit from Sergio Neiffert, Alberto Magaldi of Counterintelligence (Stiuso Man) and José Lago Rodriguez, the person that Santiago Caputo put for legal and administrative issues. These three men within the Secretariat of Intelligence arrived to verify the tasks that the official was doing. The visit was a cimbronazo in the cybersecurity area and the radiopasillo that began to circulate was that they took the place because Waissbein is reluctant to share information with their peers, with the superiors and much more with the lower ranks, as counterintelligence. There was anger and discomfort because “the info was enclosed.”
Waissbein knew nothing about the boss’s visit and, when he saw it, he began to perspire. The counterintelligence area was the one that was most annoying with Waissbein’s work ways and after several exchanges, they found the arguments to convince Neiffert that it was necessary to “intervene” the Federal Cybersecurity agency.
