Stella Rimington is considered the main inspiration of the character ‘M’, from the James Bond movie saga.
Died at the age of 90 Stella Rimington, a secret agent and British writer who was known to have been The first woman to direct the Mi5. The announcement was made by the family.
Stella Rimington died on Sunday night “surrounded by family and dogs.”
“She clung to determination to the life she loved until her last sigh,” the family said in a statement.
The first lady of espionage
Stella Ritington was nicknamed “First Lady of Espionage” when she reached the position of Director General of the Mi5 Security Service, which she held between 1992 and 1996, in an area where male culture predominated.
Stella Rimington joined the full -time Mi5 in 1969, after working part -time as an employee of British secret services in India, where she lived for four years with her husband, diplomat John Rimington.
He directed the Operational Branches of Counter-Rvers, Counter-Rvers, and Counter-Terrorism of the Security Agency and also held the position of Assistant Director-General before becoming head of the MI5.
During the period in which he was at the head of the British secret services, received threats from the Irish Republican Army (Ira) and Russiawhile the Islamic terrorism was beginning to emerge.
After leaving Mi5 in 1996, was named Dame of the Bath (In Portuguese, Lady of Bath Order) for services to the country, and started a career as a novelist, with books such as “Immediate Danger” (2004) and “The Hidden Hand”, published in January this year.
