Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada
 Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada(spook) | |
|---|---|
| Start | 1941 |
| Head of the Canadian cryptologic agency Communications Security Establishment | |
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), formerly called the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), is the Government of Canada's national cryptologic agency.
ECHELON
- Full article: ECHELON
- Full article: ECHELON
Under the 1948 UKUSA agreement, CSE's intelligence is shared with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), and New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).[1]
Along with these services from the United States, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, CSE is part of the ECHELON system. Its capabilities are suspected to include the ability to monitor a very large proportion of the world's transmitted civilian telephone, fax and data traffic. The intercepted data, or "dictionaries" are "reported linked together through a high-powered array of computers known as 'Platform'."[2]
Heads of the CSE
| Name | Appointed | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Examination Unit | ||
| Herbert Yardley | 1941 June 10 | |
| Oliver Strachey | 1942 January | |
| F.A. (Tony) Kendrick | 1942 July | |
| Gilbert de B. Robinson (acting) | 1945 April | until July 1945 |
| Edward Drake | 1945 August 1 | |
| Communications Branch of the National Research Council | ||
| Edward Drake | 1946 September 1 | died in office |
| Kevin O’Neill | 1971 February | |
| Communications Security Establishment | ||
| Peter Hunt | 1980 July | |
| Stewart Woolner | 1989 July | |
| Ian Glen | 1999 July | |
| Keith Coulter | 2001 August | |
| John Adams | 2005 July | |
| John Forster | 2012 January 30 | |
| Greta Bossenmaier | 2015 February 9 | |
| Shelly Bruce | 2018 June 27 | |
An Office Holder on Wikispooks
| Name | From | To |
|---|---|---|
| John Adams | July 2005 | January 2012 |
References
- ↑ https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/culture-and-community/history
- ↑ Rudner, Martin. (2007). "Canada's Communications Security Establishment, Signals Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism". Intelligence and National Security: 22(4) pp. 473–490
- ↑ https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en/culture-and-community/history/timeline
