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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

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

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. During her time as DG she pursued her policy of greater openness for MI5. 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. www.clentbooks.co.uk /si/2610.html

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. The offices aren't new, and have been occupied by several other government departments before they were allocated to MI5. lavender.fortunecity.com /rocky/206/SecretKingdom/mi5.html

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

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. He was also embroiled in the smear campaign against the Labour prime minister, Harold Wilson, propagated by a group of MI5 officers and described by, among others, Peter Wright, in his book, Spycatcher. In Spycatcher, Peter Wright recalled an MI5 conference called by Hanley soon after his appointment: "The prime minister and the Home Office had left [Hanley] in no doubt that they wanted a major increase in effort on this target. www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4113247-103684,00.html

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

Muslim leader meets MI5 MI5 officials reassured him that there was no deliberate targeting of Muslims in the country. To say that the names of Muslims who speak out in support of the struggle or the jihad should be given to the police or MI5 is an act of apostasy, and that is punishable in an Islamic state by capital punishment," the paper quoted  the UK leader of the radical al-Muhajiroun, Anjem Choudary,  A British  Muslim leader and the head of MI5 have held talks about improving co-operation in the War on Terror, reports the Times, London. in.rediff.com /news/2004/apr/19uk.htm

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

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. In addition, the Service fills the post of Director and Coordinator of Intelligence (Northern Ireland), who reports separately both to the Director General and to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. cryptome.quintessenz.at /mirror/mi5.htm

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 June Foreign Secretary Robin Cook urged the former head of MI5 to rethink her decision. news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/uk_politics/newsid_1089000/1089050.stm

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. 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. This is a biography of the woman who ran MI5. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099436728

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

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

BBC - BBC THREE - Spy Chief for a Day 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. Former MI5 officer Annie Machon is Director of International Counter-terrorism. www.bbc.co.uk /bbcthree/tv/foraday/spychief.shtml

Telegraph News Anthony Simkins 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. He rose from Director, C Branch, in charge of protective security, to Deputy Director-General under Sir Martin Furnival Jones in December 1965. 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

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

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. It is important to make the Chief Security Officer's job easier". www.qinetiq.com /home/newsroom/qitms/2004/4th_quarter/MI5_chief_warns_business_of_terrorism_risk.html

MetroMagazine 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. Her time as Director K, however, was dominated not by Soviet spies but by the furore over the publication of Spycatcher, the memoirs of the former MI5 officer and conspiracy theorist Peter Wright, whom Stella Rimington had found "strange and untrustworthy" when she first met him early in her career. 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

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

Military Intelligence (MI5) 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. 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. 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

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

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

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

MI5 director-general tells companies to invest in business continuity Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director-general of MI5 has told UK businesses that the most effective thing they can do to protect themselves against terrorism is to develop a simple but effective continuity plan and to ensure that business continuity plans are considered at board level not ‘left to specialists’. The MI5 website(www.mi5.gov.uk) has been redeveloped for that purpose and you can also access it through a link on the main CBI website. To support your judgements and you and your employees’ security, we have recognised the need to make you better informed about the nature of the terrorist threat and what practical steps can be taken to protect your business. www.continuitycentral.com /news01598.htm

CI Centre Book Review by Nigel West of: Richard M. Bennett's ESPIONAGE: An Encyclopedia of Spies and Secrets For example, his harsh verdict on the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence is that “the CIA does not seem to have an efficient, centralized analytic apparatus, one that can distinguish credible intelligence from fantasy”. In terms of what has occurred over the previous thirty years, he alleges that there was a “battle for control between SIS and MI5” for Ulster and, in mentioning Maurice Oldfield, says “MI5 decided to expose his latent homosexuality anonymously to the media”. Another is to take a general view of the way particular topics are handled. cicentre.com /BK/BOOKS_West_Bennett.html

Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002327996 Stella Remington tells her own story from early childhood in World War II, through her life as a young wife in India where she was first recruited by MI5, to her 27 years at the heart of the country’s internal security service where she rose to become Director-General. The extraordinary life of the first woman Director-General of MI5, Britain’s internal security service. The purpose of the Security Service is to protect British national security from threats such as terrorism, espionage and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, to safeguard the economic well-being of the UK against foreign threats, and to support law enforcement agencies in preventing and detecting serious crime. www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0410/2002327996.html

UK - Post-CW - 2000 - Rimington Stella Rimington's appointment in 1991 as head of MI5 was the first to be publicly announced, and she became "the public face of MI5.... By the time she moved aside in 1995, the public image of MI5 had been turned around.... Dame Stella even agreed to talk to passengers on the QE2 on what it was like to work for MI5..... intellit.muskingum.edu /uk_folder/ukpostcw_folder/ukpostcw00_folder/ukpcw00rim.html

Everywoman.co.uk :conference : She was appointed Director General of MI5 in 1992, the first woman to take the post and the first Director General to be publicly named. She is Non Executive Director of Marks & Spencer plc and BG Group plc. She was previously Chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research and Trustee of the Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust. www.everywoman.co.uk /brandshatch/biog_stella_rimington.asp

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