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The former head of the British Intelligence service and author Stella Rimington was the first female (and publicly-named) MI5 ...
Widely regarded as the inspiration for the recast of the James Bond character “M,” she was the first British spy chief to be ...
LONDON -- Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller ...
There were indeed, Dame Stella felt, clever men in MI5. There were also “a lot of stupid men”. On the prevalence of galloping ...
She was credited as the inspiration for Judi Dench’s M in James Bond films and was the first publicly named chief of ...
Rimington was the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, a successful thriller writer and the inspiration ...
Stella Rimington, the first female director general of Britain's MI5 security and counter-intelligence service who ushered in an era of greater transparency at the agency, has died aged 90.