Stella Rimington
Biography
Dame Stella Rimington joined the Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all the main fields of the Service: counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism. She was appointed Director General in 1992, the first woman to hold the post. She was the author of her autobiography and of two series of spy novels, one featuring MI5 agent Liz Carlyle, and the other featuring CIA operative Manon Tyler.