num_pages: 320
description: During her career in MI5, which lasted from 1969 to 1996, Stella Rimington 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. She 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.
language: English
title: Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5
titlecomplete: Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5
genres: British Literature, Autobiography, History, Biography, Espionage, Memoir, Crime, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 972
publisher: Random House UK