Stella Rimington

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Stella Rimington
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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

  1. Former Directors General, MI5, accessed 30 June 2009.
  2. True Spies 1. Subversive My Arse, BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.
  3. Liam Clarke and Nick Fielding, BETRAYAL: HOW MI5 LOST THATCHER'S MOLE, The Sunday Times, 21 May 2000.

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