Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1965 and during her 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. She was 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. Her autobiography, Open Secret, was published by Hutchinson in 2001.
Intelligent... pacy <br>-- Guardian <br> Tense and terrifying <br>-- Cosmopolitan <br>Praise for Stella Rimington's autobiography Open Secret : <br> The story of MI5's transformation is fascinating. So too is Rimington's account of her rise in what was very definitely a man's world. <br>-- Guardian