List of Senior U.S. Liaison Officers at CSE

I've finally managed to get a reasonably complete list of the Senior United States Liaison Officers, or SUSLOs, assigned to CSE over the years.

SUSLOs are assigned by NSA to all of the Five Eyes SIGINT agencies, with the various SUSLOs distinguished from one another by suffixes. The SUSLO assigned to Canada is known as the SUSLO/O, for Ottawa.

The photo above shows Velva Klaessy, who served as SUSLO/O from 1970 to 1971. Klaessy was the first woman to serve as SUSLO at any location.

SUSLO/O list (with years of arrival and departure)

Lt. Robert Carl, USN (Acting)	1950	1950
Maj. Oval Jones, USAF	1950	1952
LCdr. Arthur Conant, USN	1952	1953
Maj. Robert Morin, USAF	1953	1955
Maj. Ralph Barch, USA	1955	1958
LCol. Robert Maurer, USA	1958	1960
Fred Sims	1960	1963
William Kaczmar	1963	1966
Maurice Edens	1966	1970
Velva Klaessy	1970	1971
Francis Irons	1971	1974
Martin Sullivan	1974	1977
Melville Boucher	1977	1981
William Gerdes	1981	1984
George Abbott	1984	1990
Gary Kirkey	1990	1992
Robert Arndt	1992	1995
John Dirks	1995	1999
Maria O'Connor	1999	2002
Cindy Farkus	2002	2005
?	2005	2008
Donna Marie Barbano	2008	2011
Cynthia Daniels	2011	2014

The SUSLO identities from 1950 to 1974 are from a recently released version of History of CBNRC (Access release A-2015-00045). The more recent identities were assembled by me from public domain materials, with invaluable assistance from U.S. intelligence historian Matthew Aid, and may still contain some errors. I haven't included the current SUSLO/O on the list.

For earlier compilations of CSE's own liaison officers, the CANSLOs, see here and here.