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Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional () or DINA was the Chilean secret police in the government of Augusto Pinochet.

DINA was established in November 1973, as a Chilean Army intelligence unit headed by General Manuel Contreras and vice-director Raúl Iturriaga, who fled from justice in 2007.

It was separated from the army and made an independent administrative unit in June 1974, under the aegis of decree # 521.