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| − | *David Rose, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/sep/09/freedomofinformation.Whitehall Secrets of success], ''The Observer'', 9 September | + | *David Rose, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2001/sep/09/freedomofinformation.Whitehall Secrets of success], ''The Observer'', 9 September 2001. |
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Revision as of 18:53, 15 February 2012
Former head of the Security Service MI5 from 1992 to 1996.[1]
Rimington has defended MI5's surveillance of left-wing groups.
- Well all I can say is that Communist and Trotskyist organisations, by their philosophy, their published aims, would have fallen within the definition of subversion.[2]
According to The Sunday Times, Rimington worked alongside Michael Bettaney running Willie Carlin as an agent in the IRA in 1980.[3]
References
- ↑ Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
- ↑ True Spies 1. Subversive My Arse, BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.
- ↑ Liam Clarke and Nick Fielding, BETRAYAL: HOW MI5 LOST THATCHER'S MOLE, The Sunday Times, 21 May 2000.
External Resources
- David Rose, Secrets of success, The Observer, 9 September 2001.
