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Director-General of New Netherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of Directors-General, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland in Dutch) in North America. The largest settlement in New Netherland was New Amsterdam, which became the city of New York when the English took control of and renamed the Dutch colony in 1664. This page was last modified 12:52, 26 November 2005. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_director_generals_of_New_Netherland   (102 words)

Peter Stuyvesant The fourth and last Director-General of New Netherland was the somewhat notorious Peter Stuyvesant. As the new governor, Stuyvesant's charge was to improve the economic status of the colony and to quell the Indian hostilities that interfered with the growth and economic development of Dutch settlements like Pavonia. New Netherland was divided to become the English colonies of New York and New Jersey. www.njcu.edu /programs/jchistory/Pages/S_Pages/Stuyvesant_Peter.htm   (573 words)

Intelligence: MI5 Archives The director general of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, warned the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, in November that her service was having difficulty coping with the rise in Islamic terrorism as a result of inadequate resources. MI5 agents and anti-terrorist officers were questioning eight young Britons last night after the discovery of the ingredients for a half-tonne fertiliser bomb in a storage unit in West London. MI5 officers committed a series of security blunders in 2000, including one who left a briefcase full of secrets on a train and another whose laptop was stolen at a station. www.ladlass.com /intel/archives/cat_mi5.html   (573 words)

Sir Percy Sillitoe When he became Director General of MI5 he found, however, that the ramifications of the Service were somewhat baffling even to a man of his experience. MI5 emerged from the war in better shape than SIS, trailing clouds of glory from the double cross system but handicapped by the suspicion of the Labour government as well as by its diminished resources. Of all heads of MI5 he was the one who never made any nonsensical pretence of not having anything to do with the organization. members.aol.com /FenianRam/sillitoe.html   (573 words)

OPEN SECRET. The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5. - RIMINGTON, Stella: On returning to the U.K., she joined MI5 as a full-time employee, and in 1996 was the first woman to hold the post of Director General. In 1965 Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) part-time, while she was in India accompanying her husband on a posting to the British High Commission. During her time as DG she pursued her policy of greater openness for MI5. www.clentbooks.co.uk /si/2610.html   (573 words)

Military Intelligence 5 The MI5 report said "although the level of the threat is no longer the same, spying continues." Both the SVR, the Russian civilian agency, and the GRU military intelligence service, have renewed their efforts to post intelligence officers to London. She had informed MI5 when she was approached by the KGB to spy for them, but MI5 seemed more interested in recruiting her to spy on a group of left-wing Labour MPs. MI5 and the Anti-Terrorist Branch are urging the DTI to grant such access. lavender.fortunecity.com /rocky/206/SecretKingdom/mi5.html   (573 words)

BBC - h2g2 - MI5 - the British Security Service MI5 is currently staffed by around 1900 people, and it still carries on in pretty much the same role that it did towards the end of the 1990s. MI5, or The Security Service to give it its proper name, is a part of the intelligence community in the UK, and they work closely with GCHQ, MI6 and the police. MI5 has had a long and colourful history, most of which is only just coming into the public eye - some of it is good, though some of it the Security Service would rather forget. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1080136   (573 words)

New Netherland Project Historical Calendar Johan Rising, governor of New Sweden, surrenders the Swedish colony to Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland. The place name New Netherland appears for the first in a resolution of the States General of the United Provinces concerning trading licenses between New France and Virginia. Alexander d'Hiniyossa, former director of Nieuwer Amstel, Amsterdam's colony on the South River, beheaded at Edam for inciting to mutiny and leaving his post at Wesel. www.nnp.org /project/historical.html   (827 words)

Sullivan - History of New York State 1523-1927 The States General, though not very strong at that time, had, of course, a certain degree of authority over all the provincial governments, and it was their wish to establish or to get the Company through its provincial Director to establish a governmental system like that of the home provinces in New Netherland. Next in magisterial authority were the directors of the company, who exercised supervision of, and accepted responsibility for, the judicial acts of their provincial officials, the superintendents of the trading posts and the ship captains. The government was vested in a general court which exercised executive, legislative, or municipal and judicial functions, and which was composed of two commissaries (gecommit teerden), two councillors styled indiscriminately by raets-personen, gerechts-personen or raeds-vrienden, or schepenen, and who answered to modern justices of the peace. www.courts.state.ny.us /history/elecbook/sullivan/pg2.htm   (9609 words)

Guardian Sir Michael Hanley Sir Michael Hanley, who has died aged 82, was appointed director-general of MI5 in 1972, at a time when the agency was consumed by paranoia over the search for a Soviet mole in its ranks. And Stella Rimington, who became the first woman to head MI5, also made her mark in the branch responsible for domestic subversion, an MI5 task, we are told, that is now virtually redundant. He left it in 1978 with a new priority: targeting leftwing groups under what MI5 called "domestic subversion" - a legacy that was inherited with such enthusiasm by Margaret Thatcher. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4113247-103684,00.html   (9609 words)

Books Former MI5 chief blasts secrets act She was the first director general of MI5 to be officially identified and the first woman head of the agency. In her first interview since leaving MI5, she also admits the agency was "overenthusiastic" in its targeting of leftwing groups during the cold war. Asked what attracted her to MI5, she says: "Even though there were all of these tweedy guys with pipes, I still thought the essence of the cold war and spies and stuff was fun. books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4252828-99819,00.html   (9609 words)

Muslim leader meets MI5 MI5 officials reassured him that there was no deliberate targeting of Muslims in the country. At the meeting, which took place before the Madrid blasts, Sacranie reportedly pointed out that the number of arrests was disproportionate to those convicted, and voiced concern over a perceived image of Muslims as fanatics. After the Madrid blasts, Sacranie had written a letter to imans of all mosques in Britain urging them to guard   "against any mischievous or criminal elements from infiltrating the community and provoking any unlawful activity," the paper said. in.rediff.com /news/2004/apr/19uk.htm   (9609 words)

MI5.html As a reforming Director-General in the 1990s, she was credited with cutting through the obsessive secrecy surrounding MI5, debunking myths of it being run by "fascist swine" and updating its image as a counter-terrorist organisation. Dame Stella, now in her early sixties, was dubbed the "housewife superspy" by the tabloid press after MI5 decided to name, but not to supply a picture, of its new Director-General. Despite police objections and fear that MI5 was not an appropriate organisation to be involved in these matters, Parliament supported the widening of their role. atgbcentral.com /MI5.html   (9609 words)

MI5 The Security Service The Director General is statutorily responsible for all aspects of the operations and efficiency of the Service, and for ensuring that it obtains and discloses information only in accordance with its functions under the Act. The Home Secretary is briefed by the Director General on major current investigations and has a close knowledge of the most sensitive aspects of the Service’s work through the procedure by which the Home Secretary personally authorises warrants allowing the Service to intercept letters or telephone calls, or to interfere with property. The Director General is appointed by the Home Secretary in consultation with the Prime Minister and is required to submit a report to them annually. cryptome.quintessenz.at /mirror/mi5.htm   (9609 words)

BBC News UK POLITICS Ex-MI5 chief book 'to be published' The former director-general of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington, is to be allowed to publish her memoirs of her time in office, it has been reported. The heads of the security and intelligence services - MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - are resigned to the book's publication despite viewing it as a "moral betrayal", according to The Daily Telegraph. In September a 338-page manuscript believed to be her book was delivered to Downing Street by The Sun newspaper, which said it had received the manuscript anonymously. news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/uk_politics/newsid_1089000/1089050.stm   (9609 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Books: Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 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. Subjects > Biography > War & Espionage > General After a career spanning 25 years in MI5, during which she was more than happy for the Official 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. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099436728   (9609 words)

MI5 > About MI5 > Director General > Speeches Dame Stella Rimington was the first Director General of the Security Service to be named publicly and the first to deliver a public speech when she gave the BBC Richard Dimbleby lecture in June 1994. The Director General of the Security Service, Dame Stella Rimington, gave the Richard Dimbleby Memorial lecture broadcast on BBC1 on 12 June 1994, the first public speech by a Director General of the Security Service. The Director General of the Security Service, Eliza Manningham-Buller, gave a speech at the Royal United Services Institute "Oversight of Intelligence and Security" conference on 17 June 2003. www.mi5.gov.uk /output/Page61.html   (9609 words)

Scotsman.com News - UK - Ex-MI5 chief spies an honour THE first female director-general of MI5 was due to be awarded an honorary degree today. She was the first MI5 chief to be named publicly and the first to publish an autobiography. MI5 recruitment drive 'may open doors to terrorists' (27-Jul-05) news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=738852005   (9609 words)

BBC - BBC THREE - Spy Chief for a Day Eliza Manningham-Buller is the current Director General and took on the post in October 2002. Two members of the public are pitted against one another as Director General of MI5. To this day, the head of MI5 still signs official documents as K. The title MI5 was adopted in 1916 when the bureau became part of the Military Intelligence directorate. www.bbc.co.uk /bbcthree/tv/foraday/spychief.shtml   (9609 words)

Telegraph News Anthony Simkins He rose from Director, C Branch, in charge of protective security, to Deputy Director-General under Sir Martin Furnival Jones in December 1965. Having avoided controversy throughout his professional life, in 1981 Simkins publicly defended Roger Hollis, the former Director-General of MI5, against accusations that he had been a Soviet spy. Anthony Simkins, who has died aged 91, joined MI5 in 1948 and served as Deputy Director-General from 1965 until his retirement in 1971. www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/02/db0203.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/01/02/ixportal.html   (9609 words)

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 Jan 1995 Does the director general of MI5 now accept that when she was in a responsible position in the organisation, but not yet director general, the decision taken under her supervision to target my hon. As has always been planned, the Director General of the Security Service is expected to retire in February 1996, when she will have completed four years in the post. To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when the Director General of MI5 is expected to retire. www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199495/cmhansrd/1995-01-12/Orals-1.html   (9609 words)

MI5 chief warns business of terrorism risk Jonathan Moules of the Financial Times reports that Eliza Manningham-Buller, director-general of MI5, warned business leaders that they face a "serious and sustained" risk of terrorist attack, at the annual Confederation of Business Industry (CBI) conference yesterday. The survey also indicated that the recently upgraded MI5 website for business was proving successful with 60 per cent of firms stating that they were likely to use it. The FT reports that in her first public speech to a business audience, Mrs Manningham-Buller called for companies to broaden their thinking about security issues, regularly reviewing and updating their business continuity plans. www.qinetiq.com /home/newsroom/qitms/2004/4th_quarter/MI5_chief_warns_business_of_terrorism_risk.html   (9609 words)

MetroMagazine Thanks both to her period as Director General and to the controversies surrounding her memoirs, she is the first intelligence chief in modern British history to become something approaching a household name. Before and during her term as Director General, the MI5/MI6 joint departments, which appear to have worked well during the 1980s, were wound up, perhaps in part as a result of budget cutbacks after the Cold War. When she became Director General, she tried "once and for all to knock on the head the Wilson plot allegation" by inviting former Labour Home Secretaries and other senior Party figures to her office. www.metronc.com /Volume_II/br110901/attack/page2.html   (9609 words)

BBC NEWS UK New boss starts at MI5 The new director general of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, takes up her post on Monday. MI5, which was founded in 1909, has embarked on a campaign to recruit more widely, as only four per cent of staff are black and Asian at the moment. MI5 has been criticised for failing to penetrate such groups. news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk/2305015.stm   (9609 words)

Military Intelligence (MI5) Knight played a significant role in helping to defeat the General Strike in 1926 and by the early 1930s was placed in charge of B5b, a unit that conducted the monitoring of political subversion. After the ARCOS raid in London in 1928, where MI5 smashed a large part of the Russian espionage apparatus in a police raid, the Russians concluded that their legal residences, the embassies, consulates, and the like, were unsafe as centers for agent running. The head of MI5 did not inform the Leader of the Opposition of MI5's doubts about Wilson, either, or reveal the contents of the file on Wilson that he had inherited from his predecessor, Furnival Jones, and which was kept in his safe, filed under the name "Henry Worthington". www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWm5.htm   (9609 words)

British Journalism Review Vol. 12, No. 4, 2001 - David Shayler on Dame Stella Rimington She was a director of MI5 at the time of the SAS’s Gibraltar operation and when flight PA103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie. Her book confirms that the same conformity of attitude continues to exist within MI5 and to such an extent that the service was still using the Cold-War methods it used against subversives and spies to tackle fast moving targets like the Provisional IRA in the mid-1990s. Of her first MI5 post in the counter-subversion section, she confides: “After I had found out what I was supposed to be doing, I whiled away the time reading Dornford Yates novels under the desk. www.bjr.org.uk /data/2001/no4_shayler.htm   (9609 words)

Guardian Tinker, tailor, soldier, mum It was the first time the appointment of a director-general of MI5 had ever been formally announced. Two years later, I was promoted to director of counterespionage, a position known in those days as "K". Stella Rimington was a bored 32-year-old housewife when she was first approached by MI5 in Delhi to do some light secretarial work. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4253258-103680,00.html   (9609 words)

WAG: Stella Rimington's At Risk Appointed director general of MI5 in 1992, she was the first woman to hold the post and the first director general whose name was publicly announced on appointment. his strong debut thriller from the former director general of MI5 offers an insider’s look at the office politics behind British spycraft as well as a bang-up, terrorist-centered plot. During her nearly thirty-year career, she worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities — counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism — and became successively director of all three branches. thewag.net /books/rimington_at_risk.html   (9609 words)

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