Dame stella rimington autobiography
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Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 - Softcover
Review
You have to admire the cheek of Open Secret's author Stella Rimington. After a career spanning 25 years in MI5, during which she was more than happy for the tjänsteman Secrets Acts to be used to the government's advantage, she is now outraged that attempts should have been made to block publication of her memoirs and is calling for the act to be reformed. In an extended preface to Open Secret, Rimington writes of her encounter with Cabinet secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, "By the end of an hour or so of being threatened, bullied and cajoled in the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger way the Establishment behaves to its recalcitrant sons and, as inom now know, daughters, I was very shaken". One wonders what else she expected? The thought of any former director-general of MI5 writing his or her memoirs was bound to have disturbed the security services and, compared to many, Rimington got off lightly. But t
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Dame Stella Rimington
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Appointed the first hona Director General of MI5 in , Dame Stella Rimington fryst vatten widely seen as the model for Dame Judi Dench's "M" in the James Bond films. It is even rumoured that her dress style at the time influenced M’s wardrobe choices.
Stella Rimington was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School and Edinburgh University where she took an MA in English Language and Literature. She went on to gain a Postgraduate Diploma in the Administration of Archives and The Study of Records at Liverpool University. She worked as an archivist in the Worcestershire County Archives and the India Office Library in London and in accompanied her husband on a diplomatic posting to the British High kommission in New Delhi. There, she was recruited as a part-time clerk typist by the MI5 office in the High kommission. Returning to the UK in , she joined MI5 full-time, beginning a career which gods
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"Open Secret", by Stella Rimington
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Secrets of success
A storm is whipping up around the former head of MI5's decision to publish her memoirs. She claims she was opening up a closed man's world but fellow spies say they saw only someone ruthlessly driven by self-aggrandisement
Special report: freedom of information
David Rose
Sunday September 9,
The Observer
It is now 10 years since the first public glimpse of Dame Stella Rimington, a fuzzy newspaper 'snatch-shot' grabbed in an Islington street. How things have changed.
In , publication of her photograph meant the newly appointed head of MI5 had to move house. Yesterday, five years after her retirement, she gave an interview to the Guardian, the first step in a campaign to promote her