Lux Ex Umbra: A mystery wrapped in an Enigma?

The keys are punched, the rotors turn, the lamps light up, and out of the reshuffled wiring comes a new organization chart and a new set of alphabetical designators for CSE's groups.

Presumably there are good reasons behind CSE's frequent reorganizations, not just an inclination to encipher the organization chart every now and then. But to CSE's oft-shuffled employees the process sometimes must feel like being trapped in an Enigma machine.

By my estimate, CSE has undergone major reorganizations at least nine times in its short post-war existence, on average at least once every six years. It reorganized three times in the five years between 1995 and 2000. Throw in the 1998 transformation of the Supplementary Radio System into the Canadian Forces Information Operations Group, and for a while there the CSE staff must have needed a Bombe just to figure out who was who.

The most recent reorganization that I am aware of took place on 5 September 2000, when the organization shown below was established. I'd be surprised if there hasn't been at least one other reorganization since.

Organization Chart as of September 2000

Chief CSE	SIGINT	Deputy Chief SIGINT	Dir E Group Mission Applications/Systems Development
			Dir G Group Acquisition
			Dir K Group Facilitation
			Dir J Group Analysis
			Dir L Group Client and Mission Operations
			Critical Infrastructure Protection
	INFOSEC	Deputy Chief Information Technology Security	Dir I Group ITS Information Protection
			Dir T Group ITS Operations
			Dir S Group ITS Strategic Services
	ADMIN	Director- General Corporate Services	Counselling and Advisory Program
			Dir Review Services
			Dir R Group Policy, Plans & Financial Management
			Dir F Group Assets Management
			Dir U Group Human Resources Management
			Dir Z Group Information Management/Information Technology
	Chief Information Officer
	Dir Legal Services
	Canadian Special Liaison Officer/Washington (CANSLO/W)
	Canadian Special Liaison Officer/London (CANSLO/L)