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Former head of the [[Security Service]].
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[[Image:StellaRimington.jpg|thumb|right|Stella Rimington<br><i>© Crown Copyright 2007</i>]]
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Former head of the [[Security Service]] MI5 from 1992 to 1996.<ref>[http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/former-dgs.html Former Directors General], MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.</ref>
  
 
Rimington has defended [[Security Service|MI5]]'s surveillance of left-wing groups.
 
Rimington has defended [[Security Service|MI5]]'s surveillance of left-wing groups.

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Stella Rimington
© Crown Copyright 2007

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]

References

  1. Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
  2. True Spies 1. Subversive My Arse, BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.