 Suárez proposed making the SIDE expense account, long a source of controversy in Argentina due to its classified nature, a matter of Congressional purview.Though the proposal was not enacted by Congress, Suárez made the agency's budget public, and during his 1986—89 tenure, this amount doubled.His tenure coincided with a number of scandals, however, including the filming of the UCR's 1989 presidential campaign television ads on a SIDE base, with employees in the background, the involvement of numerous SIDE officials in the far-right "Carapintadas", and the surveillance of opposition senators for human weaknesses to be used against them in future political operations.