Stella Rimington

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Born13 May 1935
Member ofTrilateral Commission

Dame Stella Rimmington joined MI5 and was reportedly "Senior Deputy Director General" from 190-1992[1] and Director General of MI5 from 1992-1995.

Career

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]

Islamic Terrorism

Stella Rimington as Director General disbanded a specialist section of G7 responsible for Islamic terrorism in 1994 against the protests of experienced counter-terrorist officers[Who?].[3]

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