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'''Dame Stella Rimmington''' joined [[MI5]] and was reportedly "[[Deputy Director General of MI5|Senior Deputy Director General]]" from 1990<ref>Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.222.</ref>-1991/1992<ref>http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Spy-Chiefs.htm</ref><ref>Stella Rimington, Open Secret, Arrow Books, 2002, p.241.</ref> and [[Director General of MI5]] from 1992-1995.
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==Career==
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Rimington has defended [[Security Service|MI5]]'s surveillance of left-wing groups, commenting that
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|text=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.
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Rimington has defended [[Security Service|MI5]]'s surveillance of left-wing groups.
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::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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As Director General Rimington disbanded a specialist section of [[MI5/G Branch#G7|G7]] responsible for "[[Islamic terrorism]]" in 1994 against the protests of experienced counter-terrorist officers{{who}}.<ref>[[Document:UK Intelligence And Security Report, 2003]]</ref>
 
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Latest revision as of 08:16, 13 April 2019

Person.png Stella Rimington   Amazon Powerbase SourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Spook, author)
Stella rimington.jpg
Born13 May 1935
South London, England, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
SpouseJohn Rimington
Member ofTrilateral Commission

Dame Stella Rimmington joined MI5 and was reportedly "Senior Deputy Director General" from 1990[7]-1991/1992[8][9] and Director General of MI5 from 1992-1995.

Career

Rimington has defended MI5's surveillance of left-wing groups, commenting that

“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.”
Stella Rimington [10]

As Director General Rimington disbanded a specialist section of G7 responsible for "Islamic terrorism" in 1994 against the protests of experienced counter-terrorist officers[Who?].[11]

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