Stella Remington, the first spy president in Britain, to die in 90

London – Stella Remington, the first president of Britain Mi5 Her family said on Monday that the intelligence agency and then a successful excitement writer died. It was 90.

The first woman to head the UK Intelligence Agency, Rimington was an inspiration for Photography by Judy Dench on the head of Mi6 M In seven James Bond films.

Her family said in a statement that Remington died on Sunday “surrounded by her beloved family and dogs and won the life she loved until her last breath.”

The current general manager of Mi5, Kane McCalaum“As the first declared president of any intelligence agency in the world, Mrs. Stella penetrated long -term barriers and was a clear example of the importance of diversity in leadership,” she said.

Remington was born in London in 1935, studied English at Edinburgh University and later worked as an archive. She lived in India with her diplomatic husband in the mid -1960s when she was recruited by MI5, the local security service in Britain, as a part -time writer and writing in her office in New Delhi.

She joined the agency full time after her return to London in 1969 and retreated over the ranks, and overcame the rules that maintained the most famous roles, such as employing running agents, for men only.

In every branches of the MI5-anti-terrorist branches, anti-terrorism and selection-worked at a time when the MI5 work included inhaling Soviet spies, and the infiltration of militant groups in Northern Ireland, controversially, spying on the left, and the leaders of trade union and other alleged alleged.

Rimington admitted in 2001 that the organization “may have been excessive in enthusiasm” in some of its local goals during the Cold War.

Rimington was appointed General Manager of MI5 in 1992, the first president of the organization to be called in public places, and its term witnessed that the Secret Organization became more open.

The first appearance of the Dench as M, the role that men had previously played, was in “Goldneye” in 1995. The film’s producers said that inspiration was inspired by the appointment of Rimington.

After step down in 1996, Rimington became a lady, equivalent to the knight, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Remington later published memoirs, “Open Secret” – to resent the government – and a series of stinging excitement that includes the Mi5 fictional officer Liz Carlel.

The “Devil’s Deal”, published in 2022, presented a new hero, Central Intelligence Agency officer Monon Tyler.

Other women continued their higher intelligence functions. Elisa Maningham-Poller led Mi5 between 2002 and 2007. Ann Curt Butler He became the head of the electronic agency and the electronic college Gchq in 2023.Blaise Metreweli It was called in June as the first head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, MI6.

Rimington and her husband, John Remington, separated in the eighties, but they returned together during the insurance of Covid-19 in 2020.

She said, “It is a good recipe for marriage, as she says.” “Divide, live separately, and return to it later.”

She survived her husband, two daughters and five grandchildren.