{
  "slug": "es-defensa",
  "register": {
    "slug": "es-defensa",
    "name": "Ministry of Defence (Spain)",
    "local_name": "Ministerio de Defensa",
    "abbr": null,
    "jurisdiction": "foreign",
    "state": null,
    "state_name": null,
    "country": "Spain",
    "country_code": "ES",
    "category": "defense",
    "agency_type": "ministry",
    "parent": null,
    "parent_name": null,
    "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/es-defensa",
    "website": "https://www.defensa.gob.es",
    "reading_room": "https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es",
    "subject_to_foia": true,
    "law": {
      "id": "es-transparencia",
      "citation": "Ley 19/2013, de 9 de diciembre",
      "statutory_days": 30,
      "business_days": false,
      "appeal_deadline_days": 30
    },
    "intake": [
      {
        "channel": "portal",
        "detail": "https://transparencia.gob.es",
        "label": "Portal de la Transparencia",
        "verified": true,
        "verification": "verified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      },
      {
        "channel": "mail",
        "detail": "Ministerio de Defensa, Paseo de la Castellana 109, 28046 Madrid",
        "label": "Postal mail",
        "verified": false,
        "verification": "unverified",
        "verification_source": null,
        "last_checked": null,
        "automatable": false,
        "preferred": false,
        "reliability": null,
        "instructions": null
      }
    ],
    "submission_readiness": null,
    "holdings": [
      "The Ejército del Aire UFO expedientes — some 80 files covering 1962–1995, declassified 1992–1999",
      "Digitised copies in the Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa",
      "Air operations centre (Mando Operativo Aéreo) sighting reports"
    ],
    "tips": [
      "The declassified expedientes are digitised and free in the Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa — search 'expedientes OVNI'; file only for what postdates 1995.",
      "Portal requests require Cl@ve identification — the practical hurdle for non-residents; the CTBG reclamación is free."
    ],
    "tracking": "Expediente number issued by the transparency unit.",
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
  },
  "scorecard": null,
  "components": [],
  "requests": []
}