Finally, after two years of being assigned as temporary personnel, they were reassigned as permanent "civil personnel" (PC, in Spanish). There was not a specified period of time between the steps of a "confident" and "civil personnel", there were cases of people who took 15 years before they were fully integrated. Today SIDE is rumored to be a ""very closed family"", one which nobody enters without a recommendation. Interviews with agents state that ""the first rule is to forget your name"", and that new personnel are baptized with a fake identity.