Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller writer, has died, her family said Monday. She was 90. The first woman to head a U.K.

Widely regarded as the inspiration for the recast of the James Bond character “M,” she was the first British spy chief to be ...

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to lead MI5, the UK’s domestic intelligence service, has died. She was 90.

Rimington was the first female chief of Britain’s MI5 intelligence agency, a successful thriller writer and the inspiration ...

Dame Stella Rimington, the first woman to lead the UK's domestic secret service and the person believed to have inspired Judy ...

Rimington, who led MI5 from 1992 to 1996, was widely believed to be the inspiration behind the female role of M in the James ...

Stella Rimington, the first female chief of Britain's MI5 intelligence agency and later a successful thriller writer who was ...

Stella Rimington, Britain’s first female MI5 director and the real-life inspiration for James Bond’s M, has passed away at 90 ...

The job is said to come with a £200,000 salary, a central London des res, and the vague-sounding cover title of ...

Blaise Metreweli, who is currently the foreign intelligence agency’s director of technology and innovation, will take over from Richard Moore to become MI6’s 18th leader.

LONDON, June 27 — Britain’s incoming MI6 chief Blaise Metreweli is facing uncomfortable scrutiny after revelations surfaced linking her paternal grandfather to Nazi war crimes in Ukraine ...