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Stella Rimington: Former MI5 Director General

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Spies, Technology, and Espionage

Chautauqua Institution

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Partner:: Chautauqua Institution
Location:: Chautauqua Amphitheater
Chautauqua, NY
Event Date:: 07.13.11
Speaker:: Stella Rimington
Tags:: espionage; MI5

Summary: American Intelligence: Technology, Espionage, and Alliances

In two months, our nation will confront the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. In the decade since, what have we learned? What is our espionage history, and why is it important? What is the appropriate balance between civil liberties and national security? In this week, a collaboration with the International Spy Museum, we will examine American intelligence capabilities, the methods by which we collect and analyze data, how our justice system works, and what these issues tell us about who we are and how we form alliances. We’ll learn about our technical capabilities in an information-based global environment with billions of bits of information. What do we know about our espionage efforts, and how do we know our strategies are working?

Chautauqua, according to the late, great Teddy Roosevelt, is "the most American thing in America." It's also the country's oldest ideas festival. Since its founding in 1874, Chautauqua has attracted the likes of Amelia Earhart, FDR and Susan B. Anthony. The rich tradition continues in 2011. Speakers include New York Times contributor Stanley Fish, groundbreaking religious commentator Karen Armstrong, leading foreign policy analyst Robin Wright, noted historian Gordon Wood and several others. Take advantage of this exclusive offer from FORA.tv and the Chautauqua Institution, and join the discussion as these important thought leaders address the most pressing issues facing America and the world.

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Stella Rimington

Dame Stella Rimington is the retired director general of the British Security Service (MI5). Appointed director general in 1992, she was the first woman to hold the post and the first director general to be publicly named on appointment.

After gaining a postgraduate diploma in the study of records and the administration of archives at Liverpool University, Rimington worked in the Worcester County Record Office and the India Office Library in London. In the mid 1960s, while accompanying her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi, she worked part time for the Security Service, which at that time had an office in New Delhi.

On her return to the UK in 1969, Rimington joined MI5 as a full time employee. She worked in all the main fields of the service's responsibilities, counter subversion, counter espionage and counter terrorism, becoming successively director of all three branches. During her tenure as director general, Rimington pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5, giving the 1994 Dimbleby Lecture on BBC TV. She retired from MI5 in April 1996.

Rimington was a non-executive director of Marks & Spencer from 1997 to 2004 and of BG Group from 1997 until May 2005. Amongst other recent appointments she has been chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research, a trustee of the Royal Marsden Hospital, a trustee of the Royal Air Force Museum and a school governor. She is also a trustee of the charity Refuge.

Rimington was made a Dame Commander of the Bath in the 1996 New Year Honours List. She is the author of an autobiography, Open Secret, and the novels At Risk, Secret Asset and Dead Line.

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01.: Introduction

01 min 48 sec

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02.: The Beginning of British Intelligence

05 min 21 sec

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03.: War Period Intelligence

04 min 04 sec

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04.: India and MI5

03 min 50 sec

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05.: How MI5 Works

02 min 00 sec

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06.: Balance Between Privacy and Intelligence

02 min 47 sec

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07.: Cold War Intelligence

01 min 57 sec

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08.: Women and MI5

04 min 33 sec

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09.: The Seeds of Terrorism

03 min 46 sec

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10.: Changes Since 9/11

05 min 36 sec

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11.: International Collaboration

03 min 11 sec

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12.: The End of the Cold War

03 min 17 sec

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13.: Becoming Director General of MI5

05 min 49 sec

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14.: What Lies Ahead?

02 min 40 sec

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15.: Reinvention as an Author

02 min 51 sec

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16.: Q1: Failures of Imagination?

02 min 30 sec

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17.: Q2: Counteracting Radicalization?

01 min 22 sec

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18.: Q3: British Intelligence and Murdoch Hacking Scandal?

01 min 29 sec

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19.: Q4: Britain's Policy Toward Water Boarding?

01 min 25 sec

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20.: Q5: Approaching War on Terror Through Military?

01 min 50 sec

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21.: Q6: Changing Your Appearance?

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22.: Q7: Relations with Soviet Intelligence?

01 min 59 sec

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23.: Q8: Book Recommendations?

01 min 03 sec

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24.: Q9: MI5 TV Show?

00 min 59 sec

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25.: Q10: Balance Between Privacy and Security?

01 min 43 sec

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26.: Q11: Most Important Tools?

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Housewife Superspy: Stella Rimington on Leaving Anonymity

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Stella Rimington, former director general of MI5, recalls the complications that followed her emergence into the limelight as head of MI5 after spending decades in anonymity as a secret agent. As Rimington explains, she faced discrimination and tabloid scandal when she came to direct MI5 in 1992.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Articles

Chautauqua movement: Popular U.S. educational and cultural movement founded in 1874. It began as a training assembly for Sunday-school teachers at Chautauqua Lake, N.Y., but gradually spread to various circuit “chautauquas” and broadened in scope to include general education and popular entertainments, many of which incorporated religious themes. Outstanding speakers were brought in for summer lectures and classes. The movement declined after reaching a peak in 1924 (though the Chautauqua Institution still holds meetings), but its legacy contributed to the growth of community colleges and continuing education programs. See also lyceum movement.; Chautauqua movement on britannica.com
MI5: British Security Service. Originally organized in 1909 to counter German espionage, in 1931 it assumed wider responsibility for assessing threats to national security, including communist subversion and subsequently fascism. Today the Security Service Act (1989) forms its statutory basis. As Britain's domestic-security intelligence agency, its purpose is to protect the country against threats such as terrorism, espionage, and subversion. Since the passing of the Security Service Act (1996), its role has been expanded to include supporting law-enforcement agencies in the field of organized crime.; MI5 on britannica.com