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New head of MI5

01 January 1992

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The Home Office broke with tradition by officially announcing the name of the new head of MI5 in a press release. Stella Rimington, the first woman head of MI5, takes over in February with the retirement of Sir Patrick Walker. Mrs Rimington, one of two deputy directors-general, has been in MI5 for 22 years. According to security sources she has spent much of her career as a desk officer in MI5's F branch responsible for monitoring domestic subversion . Indeed she ran F branch during the miners strike and over the period when Cathy Massiter, who left MI5, claimed there was intrusive surveillance of legitimate political and trade union activity.

Home Office press release, 16.12.91; Guardian, 17.12.91; Times, 17.12.91.

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