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[[Image:StellaRimington.jpg|thumb|right|Stella Rimington<br><i>© Crown Copyright 2007</i>]]
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Rimington has defended [[Security Service|MI5]]'s surveillance of left-wing groups.
 
Rimington has defended [[Security Service|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.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/true_spies/transcripts/truespies_prog1.txt True Spies 1. Subversive My Arse], BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.</ref>  
 
::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.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/true_spies/transcripts/truespies_prog1.txt True Spies 1. Subversive My Arse], BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.</ref>  
 
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==References==
 
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[[Category:spooks|Rimington, Stella]]
 
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Revision as of 02:18, 22 September 2014

Person.png Stella Rimington  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Born13 May 1935
Member ofTrilateral Commission

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.[1]

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References

  1. True Spies 1. Subversive My Arse, BBC News, accessed 10 April 2008.