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Cargando... Open Secret: The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 (2001)por Stella Rimington
   Review 3 (10) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) cazfrancis | Jan 10, 2014 |  The most interesting things about the book were her persistence in pushing for promotions and lying to her daughters about what her real job was. Read this if you are a fan of Rimington's novels and want some insight into the author. Don't read this if you didn't even know Rimington wrote novels and want some insight into working for MI5. 2.5 rounded up to 3. I didn't really like it or dislike it, it just left me cold. That's ok, I'll probably forget about it soon. ( ) Petra.Xs | Apr 2, 2013 | Although the book deals largely with her 27 years with MI5, it also covers her childhood during WWII, her time as a foreign service wife in India and Belgium as well as the impact her career had on her family life. Since the publication of the autobiography, she has published several spy novels. I read the book because Ms. Rimington spoke at Chautauqua this summer and her talk was excellent. I enjoyed the book, and would definitely recommend it, although it wasn't quite as "I can't bear to put it down" as I had expected. (  ) RebaRelishesReading | Sep 29, 2012 |  ) john257hopper | May 15, 2010 | Her career started as a secretary for MI-5, in India in 1965. She was in India with her husband, and she was just looking for a job to fill her time until they started a family. When they returned to England, she continued working as an "assistant officer". (Women were never made full officers.) In 1973, at age 37, she was promoted to the position of "officer" the same position as male graduate new-hires. She continued working after her two children were born; which was unheard of in that era. I could easily relate to her descriptions of coping as a working mother. When her husband left, she had to continue working to survive. Also in this time, the service was going through significant transitions in their business practices and philosophy. She describes the impact of the break-up of the Soviet Union (who she spent most of her time spying on). A very interesting book, from a different era, about an unusual topic. P.S. MI-5 does not employ "agents". MI-5 employees "officers" who "run agents"; i.e. get information from people who are willing to give it. Sometimes the agents are paid, but lots of time they are politically motivated. ( )1  Miche11e | Dec 3, 2005 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Stella Rimington was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School, and Edinburgh and Liverpool Universities. In 1959 she started work in the Worcestershire County Archives, moving in 1962 to the India Office Library in London, as Assistant Keeper responsible for manuscripts relating to the period of the British rule in India.In 1965 she joined the Security Service (MI5) part-time, while she was in India accompanying her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi. On her return to the UK she joined MI5 as a full-time employee.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. During her time as DG she pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5, giving the 1994 Dimbleby Lecture on BBC TV and several other public lectures and publishing a booklet about the Service.She was made a Dame Commander of the Bath (DCB) in 1995 and has been awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Nottingham and Exeter.Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996, she has become a Non-Executive Director of Marks & Spencer, BG Group pIc and Whitehead Mann GKR. She is Chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research and a member of the Board of the Royal Marsden NHS Trust.She has two daughters and a granddaughter. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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