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Paz Esteban López will cease to be the interim director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) to become the director of this body and substitute for Félix Sanz Roldán , as reported by Moncloa, thus confirming Esteban López in the position. Born in Madrid in 1958, her appointment will be approved at the next Council of Ministers.

The future director of the CNI, which depends on the Ministry of Defense, has a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the Autonomous University of Madrid and entered the then known as the Higher Defense Information Center ( Cesid ) in 1983. After passing the Reserve in 2019 of the previous director, General Félix Sanz Roldán, Esteban López held the position of director on an interim basis.

Now she will become the first woman in the history of Spanish democracy to carry out this responsibility at the head of the CNI, an agency that coordinates the work of some 3,500 people and that assumes the task of facilitating the President of the Government and the Government of Spain. necessary answers to face the new challenges of the national and international scene.

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