The organization was dissolved in July 2024 by president Javier Milei,[1] restoring the Secretariat of Intelligence (SIDE).

[3] This agency was ruled by the Law of National Intelligence #25,520, promulgated in March 2015 and entered into force 120 days after that.

Likewise, the Ministry of Security transferred the "National Direction of Criminal Intelligence" to AFI.

[4] The organization was put under the Supreme Court in 2015, alleging that "...the execution of a communication intervention order is carried out by a body other than the one that is part of the investigation"[5] The Argentinian Federal Prosecutor Cecilia Incardona indictment against the former director of the AFI Gustavo Arribas and his deputy director Silvia Majdalani in 2020, for illegal espionage against 50 politicians, including the then president Cristina Kirchner in 2018.

[3] The AFI main authorities (general director and vice-director) were appointed by the President of Argentina, then confirmed by the Senate.