‘Our concern – and we’ve communicated this over the weekend to all stations – is that the opposition may be about to deploy an invisible.’An invisible is CIA speak for the ultimate intelligence nightmare: the terrorist who, because he or she is an ethnic native of the target country, can cross its borders unchecked, move(…)
Stella Rimington
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.
Stella 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.
