Dame Stella Rimington obituary
Dame Stella Rimington, who passed away at the age of 90, was the first female head of the UK's Security Service, commonly known as MI5. She was the first person to be officially identified as the head of the agency, which had been heavily dominated by male culture. Rimington, who was attracted to the "essence of the cold war and spies," rose to the top of MI5 after leading its counter-subversion, counter-espionage, and counter-terrorism divisions. Her tenure was marked by her reputation as a formidable Whitehall "street fighter," particularly in her success in transferring the lead role in countering Irish Republican terrorism in mainland Britain from the police Special Branch to MI5.
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