Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of MI5, but who was the 2nd woman to head MI5 from 2002 until 2007?
"the extent of torture was known. It is the first time that has been said publicly. Asked if she had known of the use of waterboarding and other techniques of pressure while she was Director General of MI5, from October 2002 until her retirement in April 2007, she said she had done, and had disapproved. ""Nothing – not even the saving of lives – justifies torturing people ... the Americans were very keen to conceal from us what they were doing [with suspects]"". Baroness Manningham-Buller giving evidence to the Iraq inquiry in July 2010 said the decision to go to"
"Stella Rimington Dame Stella Rimington, DCB (born 13 May 1935) is a British author and former Director General of MI5, a position she held from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of MI5, and the first DG whose name was publicised on appointment. In 1993, Rimington became the first DG of MI5 to pose openly for cameras at the launch of a brochure outlining the organisation's activities. Rimington was born Stella Whitehouse in south London, England; her family moved from South Norwood to Essex in 1939, due to the danger of living in London during World War"
"she must put up with the patronising sexist attitude from her MI6 partner. Danger lurks constantly for both Liz and the ""invisible"" woman as their paths come closer to each other. ""At Risk"" has received positive reviews with ""The Telegraph"" saying, """"At Risk"" is breezily told, seldom pompous, and the plot, though every bit as hokey as you'd expect, winds its threads together very entertainingly."" Stella Rimington Dame Stella Rimington, DCB (born 13 May 1935) is a British author and former Director General of MI5, a position she held from 1992 to 1996. She was the first female DG of"
"for such work (from the Metropolitan Police). Having been promoted to the Management Board of the Security Service the next year, Manningham-Buller became the director in charge of surveillance and technical operations and did an agent run from Southampton in 2001 where she liaised with senior members of MI6 and an unknown spy who survived an assassination attempt in 2006 and 2014. She was appointed Deputy Director General in 1997, and succeeded Sir Stephen Lander as Director General in 2002, the second woman to take on the role after Dame Stella Rimington. As Director General, she was paid £150,000 a"
"duties, as well as the identity and even photographs of Rimington as Director General. Rimington retired from MI5 in 1996. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DCB) in the New Year Honours List in 1996. Rimington's work after leaving MI5 has been as a non-executive director for companies such as Marks & Spencer and BG Group. Rimington published her memoirs, entitled ""Open Secret"", in 2001. In July 2004, her first novel, ""At Risk"", about a female intelligence officer, Liz Carlyle, was published. Her other novels are ""Secret Asset"" (August 2006), ""Illegal Action"" (August 2007),"
"Benson also considered the character to be ""too nice"". After the long period between ""Licence to Kill"" and ""GoldenEye"", the producers brought in Dame Judi Dench to take over as the new M replacing Robert Brown. The character is based on Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996. For ""GoldenEye"", Dench's M is cold, blunt and initially dislikes Bond, whom she calls a ""sexist, misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War."" Tanner, her Chief of Staff, refers to her during the film as ""the Evil Queen of Numbers"", given her reputation at that stage for"
"from Russia, she was told she had been promoted to Director General. In her first months as Director General, Rimington was subject to a determined campaign by the British press to identify her. The ""New Statesman"" and ""The Independent"" had obtained and published covert photographs of her, despite which Rimington oversaw a public relations campaign to improve the openness of the Service and increase public transparency. On 16 July 1993, MI5 (with the reluctant approval of the British Government) published a 36-page booklet titled ""The Security Service"", which revealed publicly, for the first time, details of MI5's activities, operations and"
"Eliza Manningham-Buller Elizabeth Lydia ""Eliza"" Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, (born 14 July 1948) was Director General of MI5, the British internal Security Service, from October 2002 until her retirement on 20 April 2007, aged 58. She became a crossbench life peer on 18 April 2008. Eliza Manningham-Buller worked as a teacher for three years at Queen's Gate School, Kensington, London from 1971–74, having read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, before joining the Security Service. She was recruited to the Security Service at a drinks party when someone suggested that she see someone at the Ministry of Defence. Specializing in counter-terrorism"
"the High Commission with his office work. She agreed, and when she began, discovered that he was the representative in India of the British Security Service (MI5). Gaining her security clearance, Rimington worked in the MI5 office for nearly two years, until she and her husband returned to London in 1969, where she decided to apply for a permanent position at MI5. Between 1969 and 1990, Rimington worked in all three branches of the Security Service: counter espionage, counter subversion, and counter terrorism. Following the 1979 Department of Health and Social Security computer operators strike, Rimington became an assistant director"
"not made in the later months when funds had become exhausted. The Director-General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996, Dame Stella Rimington, revealed in her autobiography in 2001 that MI5 'counter-subversion' exercises against the NUM and striking miners included tapping union leaders' phones. She denied the agency had informers in the NUM, specifically denying its chief executive Roger Windsor had been an agent. According to John Campbell ""though there was widespread sympathy for the miners, faced with the loss of their livelihoods, there was remarkably little public support for the strike, because of Scargill's methods"". When asked in a Gallup"
"remarks, members of the Commons all-party Home Affairs Select Committee had their first meeting with Stella Rimington, director general of MI5. Committee member John Greenway MP (Conservative) remarked that the recent ""Camillagate"" leak ""strengthens the case for a parliamentary committee to have responsibility to oversee or scrutinise the work of the security services [...] I suspect that colleagues will want to ask how true the allegations [of MI5 complicity in the 'Camillagate' leak] are, and I suspect that she [Rimington] will refuse to tell us."" No record exists of matters discussed at the meeting. High-level eavesdropping in British politics is"
"the UK. In November 2005 she spoke out against national ID cards. She has also described the US response to the 9/11 attacks as a ""huge overreaction."" In remarks reported in 2009, Rimington expressed concerns that the Brown administration was not ""recognizing that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state."" On 5 October 2009 the BBC broadcast a statement from Rimington who claimed that certain MI5 files collected by her predecessors"
"she compared British literary critics to the KGB. In 1963 she married John Rimington, whom she knew from school. In 1984 they separated, with Stella retaining custody of their two daughters. They have never divorced. Rimington's first novel, ""At Risk"", brings her knowledge of spy operations to the thriller genre. Her heroine, 34-year-old Liz Carlyle, an MI5 intelligence officer, receives information that a terrorist threat is imminent, and that it will be assisted by an ""invisible"" young British woman who can easily blend into the background and cross borders easily. Liz must not only deal with the impending crisis, but"
"MI5 management shortly after his appointment as prime minister in 1964 by James Jesus Angleton, Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence at the CIA. The investigation into Wilson's background by MI5, however, failed to produce any conclusive evidence. When Wright retired in 1976, Harold Wilson was again prime minister. Dame Stella Rimington, MI5 Director General from 1992 to 1996, who was in MI5 while Peter Wright was still working there, wrote in 2001 that she believed that in a Panorama programme in 1988, Peter Wright had retracted his allegation made in his book about the MI5 group of thirty officers"
"year. She has been credited with making the agency more open: she established a website and recruited agents through newspaper advertisements. Under her direction, terror risk assessments were made public for the first time. In the 2005 Birthday Honours, Manningham-Buller was appointed to the Order of the Bath as a Dame Commander (DCB). She resigned from MI5 on 21 April 2007, and was succeeded by her deputy, Jonathan Evans. That month marked the end of her 33rd year in the Security Service. She was raised to the peerage as Baroness Manningham-Buller, of Northampton in the County of Northamptonshire on 2"
"Award. In 1989, Judi Dench starred in David Tucker's Behaving Badly for Channel 4, based on Catherine Heath's novel of the same name. After the long period between James Bond films ""Licence to Kill"" (1989) and ""GoldenEye"" (1995), the producers brought in Dench to take over as the role of M, James Bond's boss. The character was reportedly modeled on Dame Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996; Dench became the first woman to portray M, succeeding Robert Brown. The seventeenth spy film in the series and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional"
"espionage, as many were led to believe, but for ""war treason"", despite not being a German national. She may have been recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), and turned away from her espionage duties in order to help Allied soldiers escape, although this is not widely accepted. Rankin cites the published statement of M. R. D. Foot, historian and Second World War British intelligence officer, as to Cavell having been part of SIS or MI6. The former director-general of MI5, Stella Rimington, announced in 2015 that she had unearthed documents in Belgian military archives that confirmed an intelligence"
"the top of MI5 or MI6. It was often suggested that this was Sir Roger Hollis, who had served in MI5 during the war and as its Director-General 1956-65 - and been summoned from retirement to be grilled by his former subordinates, but not to any conclusion. Was he a traitor? The key to the truth was believed to be Red Army Intelligence Colonel Ursula Kuczynski, who was a Soviet agent undercover near Oxford in World War II. But she had vanished behind the Iron Curtain in 1950 and neither the security services nor a posse of investigative journalists appeared"
"Paul McGann was the studio's original choice for it. He would have been cast as Bond only if Brosnan had turned down the role. Brosnan was paid $1.2 million for the film, out of a total budget of $60 million. Judi Dench, an English actress, was cast as M replacing Robert Brown, making this the first film of the series featuring a female M. The decision is widely believed to be inspired by Stella Rimington becoming head of MI5 in 1992. John Woo was approached as the director, and turned down the opportunity, but said he was honored by the"
"In 1995, she spent three months travelling in the United States with Daisy Waugh. In 2003 she won the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for her book ""Pointing from the Grave: a True Story of Murder and DNA"" (), about the murder of biotechnologist Helena Greenwood in California in 1985 and the pioneering use of DNA profiling in tracing her killer 15 years later. When Weinberg's agent, Gillon Aitken, was appointed the literary adviser to Ian Fleming Publications, she and Aitken pitched their idea for a series of James Bond novels centred on the character of Miss Moneypenny, M's personal"
"long hiatus of publishing, and novelist débutantes Alison Moore and Jeet Thayil. In the days and weeks leading up to the announcement of the winner, both media commentators and bookmakers considered Mantel and Self favourites to win, with the other four nominees ranked as outsiders. The 2011 Man Booker Prize attracted a great deal of negative press. The jury's chair, General Director of the MI5 turned spy fiction writer Dame Stella Rimington, was criticised for her statement that what the jury was looking for in the winner was ""readability"". Likewise, jury member Chris Mullin, a former Labour MP, stated that"
"action. A year after the invasion, she said MI5 was ""swamped"" by leads about terrorist threats to the UK. Manningham-Buller was a ""castaway"" on ""Desert Island Discs"" broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007 giving her first interview after her retirement. She talked briefly about her personal life and her former professional life, including her reactions to the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the importance of protecting their agents. She explained that she had decided on her retirement date shortly after she took up the Director General job, choosing to retire with a total of 33 years' service"
"UK's largest supplier of independently produced long -running current affairs shows, making series for ITV and Channel 5 as well as producing many editions of ""Dispatches"" for Channel 4. In 1985 she produced (with Geoffrey Seed) ""MI5's Official Secrets"", based on whistle-blowing testimony from former MI5 officer Cathy Massiter who revealed how the Security Service was monitoring the activities of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. In her autobiography, Stella Rimington, former Director General of the Security Service, described how the film came as ""a massive shock to everyone in MI5"". Milne also produced ""Island of Outcasts"", a film for Channel"
"making her the first female Director of the CIA in history. She was officially sworn as Director of the CIA on May 21, 2018. She was also the second female Deputy Director of the agency. Haspel has attracted controversy for her role as chief of a CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 in which prisoners were tortured with enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. At that time, the Bush Administration considered the techniques legal based on a set of secret, now-rescinded legal opinions that expansively defined executive authority and narrowly defined torture. Haspel's involvement in enhanced interrogation techniques was confirmed"
"(2004), ""Secret Asset"" (2006), ""Illegal Action"" (2007), and ""Dead Line"" (2008), by Dame Stella Rimington (Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996); and Matthew Dunn's ""Spycatcher"" (2011) and sequels. Much spy fiction was adapted as spy films in the 1960s, ranging from the fantastical James Bond series to the realistic ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1965), and the hybrid ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966). While Hamilton's Matt Helm novels were adult and well written, their cinematic interpretations were adolescent parody. This phenomenon spread widely in Europe in the 1960s and is known as the Eurospy genre. English-language"
"Jane Sissmore Kathleen Maria Margaret Sissmore, MBE (1898–1982), was known as Jane Sissmore and then Jane Archer after her marriage in 1939. In 1929 she became the first female officer in Britain's Security Service, MI5, and was still their only woman officer at the time of her dismissal for insubordination in 1940. She had been responsible for investigations into Soviet intelligence and subversion. She then joined the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), but when Kim Philby, later to be exposed as a double agent, became her boss he reduced her investigative work because he feared she might uncover his treachery. In"
"of Jo’s demise to a tearful Ruth and in the following episode, Sarah Caulfield and her CIA associates deliver flowers and condolences to Section D. Jo’s place on the team remains vacant throughout the remainder of series 8 and she is only replaced in the following series when Beth Bailey is installed as junior case officer. Jo Portman Joanna Portman (1979–2010) was a fictional Field Operative in the Counter-Terrorism department at MI5, featured in the British television series, ""Spooks"", also known as MI5 in the United States. She was played by Miranda Raison. A former aspiring journalist, she joined the"
"Andrew Parker (MI5 officer) Andrew Parker (born 1962) is the Director General of MI5, the Security Service, which is the United Kingdom's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency. Parker was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge where he studied natural sciences. He joined the Security Service in 1983. He was seconded to HM Customs and Excise as Director Intelligence in 1999 before becoming Director, International Terrorism at the Security Service in February 2005. After leading the Security Service's response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot, he became Deputy Director General in 2007. Parker went on"
"2005, Beshenivsky and Millburn responded to reports that an attack alarm had been activated at a travel agent on Morley Street in Bradford. Upon arrival the officers encountered three men who had robbed the agent of £5,405; two were armed with a gun, another with a knife. One of the gunmen fired at them immediately at point-blank range, fatally wounding Beshenivsky in the chest and also hitting Millburn in the chest, before all three men made a getaway in a convoy of cars. Beshenivsky was the seventh female officer to die in the line of duty in England and Wales,"
"in 1941. He was Director-General of MI5 from 1965 to 1972. A well-liked member of the community in the Hampstead Garden Suburb where he lived, Jones was a tennis player and bird watcher and loved to perform in amateur theatre in both the local groups; the Play and Pageant Union and Speedwell Players. It was during a production of I Remember Mama that he first met his wife, Margaret. Martin Furnival Jones Sir Edward Martin Furnival Jones CBE (7 May 1912 – 1 March 1997) was Director General of MI5, the United Kingdom's internal security service, from 1965 until 1972."
"of Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor of France and awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In 2015, she received the Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award from the Catholic University School of Engineering. Letitia Long Letitia A. Long served as a civilian in the U.S. Navy and the Intelligence Community between 1978 and 2014, retiring as the fifth Director the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the first woman to lead a major U.S. intelligence agency, in October 2014. She currently is the Chairman of the Board for the Intelligence and"
"same category the next year. Ros Myers Rosalind ""Ros"" Sarah Myers is a fictional character from the BBC television series ""Spooks"", which follows the exploits of Section D, a counter-terrorism division in MI5. She is portrayed by British actress Hermione Norris. The character was a former MI6 officer who joins MI5 in the fifth series. Ros Myers was born in 1973. She is introduced in the first episode of the fifth series as an MI6 officer working under Michael Collingwood. In the same episode, Section D learns that Collingwood is plotting a conspiracy to overrule the Prime Minister, and launch"
"the programme originally aired as ""MI5"" but now airs on BBC Canada as ""Spooks"". The series continued with a film, """", which was released on 8 May 2015. Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Jenny Agutter, and Peter Firth, the initial series of six one-hour episodes premiered 13 May 2002. Due to its combination of stylistic photography with fast-paced action/adventure and spy intrigue storylines the series was a critical and popular success, averaging 7.5 million viewers over its six episodes. The second episode gained notoriety for the violent killing of character Helen Flynn (Lisa Faulkner), which drew the largest"