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She was a role model for “M” in “James Bond”: Ex-secret service manager Rimington is dead
The The first woman at the head of the British Mi5, Stella Rimington, died. She headed domestic intelligence between 1992 and 1996 and led to an era of openness.
The former MI5 boss Stella Rimington-the first woman at the head of the British domestic intelligence service-is dead. Rimington, who is a model for the secret service officer “M” embodied by actress Judi Dench in several James Bond films, died on Sunday at the age of 90, as the MI5 announced on Monday. Between 1992 and 1996 she had headed the legendary secret service.
Rimington, born south of London in 1935 in the south of London, joined the MI5 in 1969. Already four years earlier she started working as a writer for the secret service at the British embassy in Neu Delhi. She worked in the MI5 in the areas of espionage defense and terrorist defense and finally rose to the head of the secret service.
Stella Rimington first Mi5 boss, whose name was made public
Rimington was also the first personality at the head of the MI5, whose name was made public. Before that, the public was not aware of who headed the secret service. After her, a woman Mi5 boss: Eliza Manningham-Buller, who headed the service between 2002 and 2007.
Today’s MI5 boss Ken McCallum said that Rimington has long broken through “barriers” as the first publicly known boss of a secret service worldwide. It was “a visible example of the importance of diversity in the leadership”. She also led the MI5 into a “new era of openness and transparency”.
With Blaise Metreweli, a woman had been nominated for the first time at the British foreign intelligence agency MI6 last June.
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