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	www.smh.com.au - Spooked by reality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So began Dame Stella Rimington's career at MI5, Britain's internal security service, of which she eventually became the first female director-general and the first director-general whose name was made known to the public.
		Rimington remains reserved; those 27 years of keeping mum made her "quite self-reliant and cautious in relationships of all kinds".
		Rimington was keener to stress what MI5 had not done: it had not spied on former British prime minister Harold Wilson; it had not spied on the cycling spinsters and bearded vicars of anti-nukes lobby CND and it had not done anything Peter Wright, the author of Spycatcher, said it had.
	www.smh.com.au /text/articles/2006/08/17/1155407946113.html (1212 words)

	Seattle Writergrrls - Haunted By Your Conscience?
		Rimington does not sellout her former profession and provide fascinating insights to set this spy novel apart from the countless others available on airport racks.
		Stella Rimington wanted to be a novelist (don't we all?) but to become one, she had a publisher pushing her all the way and another novelist to help her write it.
		(Rimington's first book was her autobiography—was it ghost-written too?) Similarly in nonfiction, the source of the book may have the knowledge necessary, and can claim the ideas as their own, but not the skills to render this knowledge into elegant, readable prose.
	www.seattlewritergrrls.org /uncapped/2005i1_ghostwriting.html (1224 words)

	U-Press Telegram - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stella Rimington, who directed Britain's MI5 spy agency during a high point of IRA terrorism in the 1990s, has never liked the way that James Bond movies portray secret agents.
		Rimington, a well-known public figure in Britain, is no stranger to terrorism or to controversy.
		Rimington's appointment was the first time Britain's secretive MI5 spy agency had ever publicly announced the name of its leader, and the British media and the public were shocked.
	u.presstelegram.com /Stories/0,1413,218~24542~2647312,00.html (965 words)

	Review \| At Risk by Stella Rimington
		Rimington knows full well the dangers she is portraying here: She was formerly the first woman director general of British Secret Service MI5, and her considerable experience brings a frightening realism to this yarn.
		Rimington only slowly reveals the fire behind Mansoor's willingness to take lives, and while his acts may be repulsive and violent on their face, his motivations are not wholly unsympathetic.
		Stella Rimington was a groundbreaker in her previous career, and current indications are that she will be as commanding and courageous in her new chosen profession.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/atrisk.html (1513 words)

	At Risk, by Stella Rimington
		What we need from Stella Rimington is the novel she can never write: a morally ambiguous, Le Carré-style drama rooted in the murky domestic intrigues of the M15 she served so well.
		The news that Stella Rimington, the former Director General of MI5, was writing a thriller about the secret services provoked hostile comments: the book, it was suggested, would probably be unreadable and certainly a breach of security.
		Rimington's admission that 34-year-old Liz Carlyle, is "obviously in large part autobiographical" is illuminating but also rather worrying since most of her decisions seem to be based on "gut instinct".
	www.arlindo-correia.com /stella_rimington.html (2761 words)

	Amazon.com: At Risk: Books: Stella Rimington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stella Rimington raises the bar for thriller writers with her compelling observation to detail, and shows a deft ability to create mounting suspense as the story unfolds.
		Rimington's first novel is a good example of a small-scale contemporary novel of intrigue and espionage.
		However, Rimington shows considerable promise as a thriller writer and I hope her next novel will be more focused, have fewer unnecessary characters and subplots, and keep the tension rising right up to the end.
	www.amazon.com /At-Risk-Stella-Rimington/dp/1400043700 (2978 words)

	"Open Secret", by Stella Rimington
		Its brochures (one of Rimington's 'modernising' innovations) trumpet the new glasnost by proclaiming that it isn't true that staff can be prosecuted for disclosing the colour of the carpet at headquarters (blue) or the fact that its restaurant 'serves a particularly good chicken Madras'.
		Stella Rimington was a bored 32-year-old housewife when she was first approached by MI5 in Delhi to do some light secretarial work.
		Rimington not being a rebel, she allowed the text to be strained through a thickish blanket of bureaucracy and politics.
	members.tripod.com /arlindo_correia/140901.html (14659 words)

	BookPage Interview February 2005: Stella Rimington
		Rimington was a diplomatic housewife living in India in 1965 when she was offered a part-time clerical position by the MI5 operative in New Delhi.
		Rimington held that post until 1996, opening opportunities for women in actual intelligence gathering as opposed to the traditional administrative and clerical roles as characterized by Miss Moneypenny in the Ian Fleming novels.
		Rimington followed her distinguished 30-year intelligence career with a tell-some memoir, Open Secrets, that raised plenty of eyebrows at Thames House.
	www.bookpage.com /0502bp/stella_rimington.html (937 words)

	British Journalism Review Vol. 12, No. 4, 2001 - David Shayler on Dame Stella Rimington
		If of course Dame Stella had chosen to demonstrate that she is capable of real public service, she would have commented on my disclosures.
		Dame Stella also does the Establishment’s PR work when she claims that MI5 was good at identifying hostile intelligence officers during the Cold War.
		Dame Stella is touchingly oblivious to the obvious political correctness and tokenism inherent in her appointment as DG.
	www.bjr.org.uk /data/2001/no4_shayler.htm (3375 words)

	Rimington: US can't win terror battle
		Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, today delivers a damning critique of America's response to the September 11 assault on the US and says she was not surprised by the al-Qaida terrorist attack.
		Dame Stella's comments, which are certain to ruffle feathers in Whitehall as well as Washington, are made in a new preface to the paperback edition of her memoirs, Open Secret, published tomorrow.
		When Rimington gave her evidence, in camera, to an inquiry into the affair by the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee, she said she could not remember what she had been told about Norwood, and could not explain her service's inaction.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/745485/posts (2676 words)

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		Rimington was a diplomatic housewife in New Delhi, India in 1965 when she was offered a part time job in clerical by M15.
		Rimington thinks that women should go about intelligence work in a different style than men, which adds diversity when you put the two styles together, you get a good mix.
		Rimington is an author who is enjoyable to read and look forward to the next book.
	www.suffolk.lib.ny.us /libraries/matt/Authorsprof.htm (889 words)

	Amazon.de: Open Secret: English Books: Stella Rimington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		In an extended preface to Open Secret, Rimington writes of her encounter with Cabinet secretary, Sir Richard Wilson, "By the end of an hour or so of being threatened, bullied and cajoled in the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger way the Establishment behaves to its recalcitrant sons and, as I now know, daughters, I was very shaken".
		When she gets to any contentious issues, such as MI5's role in infiltrating CND and breaking the miners' strike, all she has to say is that MI5 never did anything wrong, that that those who say otherwise are conspiracy theorists and that we'll just have to take her word for it because she's right.
	www.amazon.de /Open-Secret-Stella-Rimington/dp/0091793602 (505 words)

	Bookselling This Week: Former MI5 Director Creates a True-to-Life Heroine At Risk
		Stella Rimington, author of the espionage novel At Risk (Knopf), is surely one of the most high-profile first-time spy-thriller writers of this or any year -- and, perhaps, the best informed.
		Rimington -- or Dame Stella Rimington, as she is properly known in her native England -- is the former Director-General of Britain's MI5 Security Service.
		Stella Rimington, first-time novelist, chuckles at the mention of this next thriller's announced publication date: "If I spend too much time touring around America, I don't think it will be out in August of 2005… We'll just have to see." --Tom Nolan
	news.bookweb.org /features/3162.html (1073 words)

	Stella Rimington : At Risk : Book Review
		Dame Stella Rimington was born in 1935 in South London, England.
		Rimington left work in 1965 in order to accompany her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi, India.
		In 1996 Dame Stella was appointed non-executive Director at Marks and Spencer and British Gas plc.
	mostlyfiction.com /spy-thriller/rimington.htm (706 words)

	1994 Alumna Award presented to Stella Rimington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mrs Rimington, who graduated with Honours in English Language and Literature in 1958, joined the Security Service in 1969 and in 1992 became the first woman Director of the Service in its 85 year history - and indeed, the first Director to 'officially' exist.
		She joked that the nearest she came in her student days to her future career was during a visit to Edinburgh in 1956 by the then leaders of the Soviet Union, Bulganin and Krushchev, when she took part in a demonstration carrying a placard saying `Bulge and Krush go home'.
		Stella Rimington displays her Award flanked by Angus Grossart of The Royal Bank of Scotland and Principal Stewart Sutherland.
	www.cpa.ed.ac.uk /bulletinarchive/1994-1995/03/Rimington.html (475 words)

	Stella Rimington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dame Stella Rimington, DCB (born May 1935) was the Director-General (DG) of MI5 from 1992 to 1996.
		Born Stella Whitehouse in South London, England, Rimington's family moved from South Norwood to Essex in 1939, due to the danger of living in London during World War II.
		Rimington controversially continued her policy of openness about the Service by publishing full and frank memoirs after her retirement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stella_Rimington (722 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MI5 was plunged into disarray last night after the disclosure that its former head, Dame Stella Rimington, has written her memoirs about her experience in charge of the security service.
		"I understand that Dame Stella shares that view and that is why she submitted the text in accordance with the rules and it is being considered.
		Dame Stella and MI5 will be open to the charge of hypocrisy if it allows her memoirs to be published when the security service is trying to suppress information about its workings.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4019061,00.html (605 words)

	MI6 News :: Former MI5 chief Stella Rimington says her new novel won`t be like James Bond
		Stella Rimington made it to the top of MI5, the British intelligence agency, in 1992, becoming the first woman in that position.
		Rimington said she was the duty officer the night a Bulgarian dissident was purportedly stabbed with a poisoned umbrella tip on the Waterloo Bridge in London.
		In a memoir titled "Open Secret," published in 2001 after she left MI5, Rimington chronicled the agency's transformation from an introverted, male-dominated and anonymous place into an organization more open to the population it is meant to serve and protect.
	www.mi6.co.uk /news/index.php?itemid=2068 (1269 words)

	AlterNet: Spy's Eye View
		Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to head the British spy agency MI5 and the real-life inspiration for the James Bond spymaster 'M,' says the notion of a war on terror obscures what it takes to fight terrorism.
		SAN FRANCISCO – Dame Stella Rimington finds the whole idea of a "war on terror" a little puzzling, and when Stella Rimington is confused the intelligence community should pay attention.
		Rimington says she doesn't know the details of the case, but "on my side of the Atlantic you cannot be arrested and tried unless you can actually be shown to have done something or are planning to do something."
	www.alternet.org /story/21303 (952 words)

	The prospect of Stella Rimington's memoirs may not give John le Carre Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		DAME STELLA Rimington is a woman of mystery as would befit the first woman head of MI5.
		Dame Stella has carefully helped to create the image that MI5 is a rather bland bureaucracy and gives the impression that the most exciting thing ever to happen to her was being fined pounds 10 in 1997 for using her pensioner's bus-pass before 9.30am.
		Dame Stella may know where MI5's skeletons are buried, but she will not be resurrecting them for public examination.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000518/ai_n14314209 (852 words)

	Stella Rimington - The London Speaker Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dame Stella Rimington was the first woman to hold the post of Director General of MI5.
		Stella Rimington left work in 1965 in order to accompany her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi, India.
		In the late 1980's she was in charge of the Service's work against International and Irish terrorism at the time of the Lockerbie airline disaster and when the Provisional IRA was actively targeting British military personnel on the continent of Europe.
	www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk /speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=295 (419 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: At Risk: Books: Stella Rimington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With At Risk, Dame Stella Rimington's first novel, she is probably aware that she'll be under negative pressure for her literary efforts quite as she was for her true-life revelations concerning the world of spooks in her autobiography Open Secret.
		Perhaps Stella was a little too obvious with the target but otherwise she kept us guessing until the last.
		First, Ms Rimington seems to have pretensions towards being a literary, rather than commercial, author, which has resulted in somewhat bizarre phrases and sentences being elbowed into the text.
	www.amazon.co.uk /At-Risk-Stella-Rimington/dp/0091799961 (1204 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Terror war 'unwinnable' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Former UK spychief Stella Rimington has attacked the failure of US intelligence to investigate properly the threat posed by al-Qaeda ahead of 11 September.
		Dame Stella says that only in a grievance-free world could terrorism be eliminated making a war against it unwinnable.
		Dame Stella also criticises President George W Bush's decision to create a new department of homeland security saying that the move would "merely add to the confusion" in the US intelligence community.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2235604.stm (376 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Stella Rimington: Spying Dame
		Former spy chief Dame Stella Rimington has given her first television interview, in which she revealed the difficult balancing act her job involved.
		Dame Stella was director general of the internal security service for four years until 1996.
		Dame Stella's secret service career began in 1965 in India, when as a dutiful, but bored diplomatic housewife, she was approached by a first secretary and asked if she would be interested in part-time work assisting the local MI5 representative.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1683350.stm (880 words)

	WAG: Stella Rimington's At Risk
		She’s alert to setting and character details, her dialogue is fairly strong (if a little staged in its comic touches), her plot is compelling, and she keeps the pace up.
		Perhaps more importantly, though, Rimington has created a protagonist who is engaging enough to make a strong reading companion.
		Hopefully, Rimington will produce a second thriller with Liz as its center — she is certainly interesting enough to carry a series.
	www.thewag.net /books/rimington_at_risk.html (666 words)

	EX
		Officials are desperate to get Dame Stella Rimington's explosive £1MILLION memoirs banned but she has vowed to go ahead.
		Dame Stella refused to divulge the name of the publishers with whom she is negotiating.
		Dame Stella was the first woman ever to be appointed to head MI5 - and Bond film bosses hired Dame Judi Dench to play 007's boss M in recognition of the fact.
	www.newsmakingnews.com /MI5rimington.htm (1472 words)

	BG Board and Executive - Dame Stella Rimington DCB
		Dame Stella Rimington was appointed to the Board of BG plc as a non-executive Director in February 1997.
		She was the first woman Director General of MI5 and the first person to hold the post to have her name made public.
		Dame Stella Rimington will stand down as a Director at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting on 4 May 2005.
	www.bg-group.com /executive/sr.htm (82 words)

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