Stella Rimington
Stella Rimington was the 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]
Rimington was made Assistant Director (head) of a section within F Branch in 1983.[4] This was probably F2.
Rimington worked as acting director of F Branch for a few months in 1985, before being put in charge of recruiting and staff security.[5]
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Director K Branch
Rimington became head of the counter-espionage MI5 K Branch in December 1986.[6]
Counter-Terrorism Director
Rimington was head of the counter-terrorist G Branch from 1988 to 1990.[7]
According to Rimington, she was asked by Patrick Walker to take over the post during a CAZAB meeting in Australia which coincided with the Gibraltar shootings.[8]
Deputy Director General
Rimington succeeded David Ranson as Deputy Director-General for Administration at the end of 1990.[9]
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.
- ↑ Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.159.
- ↑ Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.181.
- ↑ Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.185.
- ↑ Christopher Andrew, Defence of the Realm, The Authorized History of MI5, Allen Lane, 2009, p.772.
- ↑ Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.210.
- ↑ Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.222.
External Resources
- David Rose, Secrets of success, The Observer, 9 September 2001.
