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082 0 4 _a920 RIM
100 _aRimington, Stella.
_93292
245 1 0 _aOpen secret :
_bthe autobiography of the former Director-General of MI5 /
_cStella Rimington.
260 _aLondon :
_bHutchinson,
_c2001.
300 _axviii, 296 pages, [16] pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c24 cm
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _aStella Rimington writes: 'Nothing in my life ever turned out as expected. Having originally chosen a safe career, I ended up as leader of one of the country's intelligence agencies and a target for terrorists. Having conventionally married my schoolfriend, I ended up a single parent. Having begun work in the days when women's careers were not taken seriously, I ended up advising ministers and Prime Ministers. I have experienced all this from an unusual position, inside the secret state. 'In the 1980s I was seen by some as Mrs Thatcher's stooge, the leader of an arm of the secret state which was helping her to beat the miners' strike and destroy the NUM. I was portrayed as the investigator of CND and even as the one who had ordered the murder of an old lady peace campaigner. In 1992, when I first emerged into the public gaze as Director-General of MI5, I became a female James Bond, 'Housewife Superspy', 'Mother of Two Gets Tough with Terrorists'. And finally, with the writing of this book, I have become, to some, 'Rickless Rimington', careless of our national security. I don't recognize myself in any of those roles. 'The unexpected course of my life has involved me closely with some of the significant issues of the late 20th century: the rise of terrorism, the end of the Cold War and some of the big social questions: women's place in society - how can work and family be combined? Civil liberties - how far should the state intrude on the citizens' privacy to ensure their safety? Open government - how much should the public know about the secret state and how should it be controlled? These are some of the issues that concerned me throughout my career in MI5, and which I discuss in this book.'
600 0 _aRimington, Stella.
_93292
600 0 _aRimington, Stella,
_d(1935- ...)
_xBiographies.
_2ram
_923278
610 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bMI5
_xOfficials and employees
_vBiography.
_923279
610 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bMI5.
_2fast
_923283
648 4 _aGeschichte 1967-1991.
650 0 _aWomen intelligence officers
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
_923280
650 0 _aIntelligence officers
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
_923281
655 0 _919965
_aBiography.
_2fast
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/2002327996.html
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