Stella Rimington - Open Secret

Agra, 49

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND):

Allen, Alex, 174

communists attempt to influence, 101,

Alwyne Place, Islington, 104

113; counter-subversion against, 112; SR

Alwyne Villas, Islington, 117, 142

accused of investigating and undermining,

Ames, Aldrich, 101

113

Amin, Idi, 171-2

Canada, 143

Amis, (Sir) Kingsley: Lucky Jim , 33

Canonbury Grove, Islington, 83. 104

Amritsar massacre (1919), 50

Carew Hunt, R.: The Theory and Practice of

Angleton, James, 80, 143-4

Communism , 79

Ann (London flatmate), 41-2

CAZAB link, 143-4

Apprentice Boys (Northern Ireland), 82

Cecilia, Sister, 25

Archer, Mildred, 43

Christie, Linford, 166

Archer, William George, 43

Churchill, Sir Winston, 73, 143-4

Armstrong, Robert ( later Baron), 116, 126

City of London see London Civil Rights Movement

Asquith, Herbert Henry ( later 1st Earl), 71

(Northern Ireland), 82

Attlee, Clement ( later 1st Earl), 74, 76

Civil Service Selection Board (CSSB), 124

Australia, 143-4

Clarke, Kenneth, 151, 171

Clarke, Margaret, 37

Bakatin, Vadim V., 157, 158-9

Cold War, 57, 73, 80, 93, 101, 102-3, 143; ends,

Barrow-in-Furness, 20-1, 23-4

155-7, 160

BBC World Service, 184

Comac (company), 70, 84

Beeching, Richard ( later Baron), 41

Committee of Imperial Defence, 71

Belfast: disorder in, 82

Commonwealth Security Conferences, 172

Berlin: intelligence activities in, 102

Communism: MI5 intelligence on, 73-4, 76;

Bettaney, Michael, 119-20, 152,

subversive activities, 112-3; and end of

BG plc: SR serves on Board of, 159

Cold War, 155-6

Blair, Cherie, 164

Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), 73-4,

Blunt, Anthony, 79, 89

76-7, 79, 94, 113

Bombay, 48

Cook, Peter, 42

Borromeo, Sister, 24

Costanzo, Sam, 70

Braithwaite, Sir Rodric, 157

Crosslands Convent, Furness Abbey, 24

Brenda (archivist), 37

Cuban missile crisis (1962), 45

Brewster, Ernie, 42

Cumming, Captain Mansfield, RN (‘C’), 71

Bridge, Nigel Cyprian, Baron Bridge of Harwich,

Curzon Street House, London, 111, 141

115

Brighton: IRA bomb in (1984), 150

D-Day: misinformation on, 73

Brussels, 94-8, 153

De La Rue Company, 177

Bulganin, Nikolai, 34

Dench, Dame Judi, 163

Bulgarian Secret Service, 142

Denning Report (on Profumo Affair), 43, 54, 128

Burke, Edmund, 171

Desai, Moraji, 53

Butler, Sir Robin ( later Baron), 170

Devlin, Bernadette ( later McAliskey), 82

Dimbleby Lecture (1994), 170

Cabinet Office: SR’s dealings with, 115-6;

Directorate of Military Intelligence, 72

Intelligence Coordinator, 154; vets SR’s

Dobson, Frank, 114

book, 183

Docklands (London): IRA bomb, 173, 177

Cadbury Committee on Financial Aspects of

Dominic, Sister, 24

Corporate Government (1992), 180

‘Double Cross’ Operation, 73

Cairncross, John, 89-90

Downing Street (No.10): mortar bomb attack on,

Hattersley, Roy ( later Baron), 260

150

Heads of Commonwealth Security Services, 171

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: His Last Bow , 72

Heath, (Sir) Edward, 94

Duff, Sir Antony, 120, 121-2, 126, 129, 131, 141,

Henderson, Miss (Worcestershire archivist), 37

154

Hollis, Sir Roger, 80, 89, 165

Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 19, 20

Holstein (of Peacock Hotel, Leith), 72

Dyer, Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry,

Home Affairs Select Committee (parliamentary),

50

170-1

Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 158

Home Office: security responsibilities, 54;

recommends MI5 take responsibility for

eavesdropping, 129; see also telephone-tapping

counter-terrorist intelligence, 150; and

Edinburgh University, 30, 32-3, 34-5

MI5’s openness policy, 169; and business

Elizabeth II. H.M. The Queen: SR attends lunch

planning, 179

with, 166

Home Secretaries: relations with MI5, 114-5, 127,

Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 176-7

170, 181

Establishment Club, London, 42

Howard, Michael, 127, 169, 173, 174

European Convention, 129-30

Hurd, Douglas ( later Baron), 112, 127, 157, 174

European Heads of Services, 171

Hussey, Marmaduke ( later Baron), 114, 174

European Union ( formerly EEC): British

referendum on membership, 95; see also

Ilkeston, 25, 32; Grammar School, 26

Brussels

‘illegals’, 124

Independent (newspaper), 165

Falklands War (1982), 109

India: SR and John move to (1965), 45, 46-9; war

Farrell, Terence, 155

with Pakistan, 47, 49-50; border conflicts,

Faux, Julian, 152

49; hippies in, 51; diplomatic protocol in,

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 173

52-3; international struggle for influence

Fergusson, Sir Ewen, 95

in, 56; SR and John leave (1969), 68-9

Feydeau, Georges: Hotel Paradiso , 55

India Office Library, 40, 42-3, 47

‘Fifth Man, the’, 90

Information Research Department (IRD), India, 66

Foot, Operation, 100

Ingatestone, Essex, 19

Foreign Office: attitude to wives, 96-7; and

Institute of Cancer Research, 114

exclusion policy, 101

Intelligence and Security Committee

France: SR studies language in, 152

(parliamentary), 171

FSB (Russian intelligence service), 160

Intelligence Services Act (1994), 171

Interception of Communications Act (IOCA, 1985),

Gandhi, Indira, 49, 56

115, 129

GCHQ (Government Communication

IRA (Irish Republican Army): mainland bombing

Headquarters): role and responsibilities,

campaign, 95, 172, 173, 177; see also

73; intelligence leakage, 102; legislation

Provisional IRA

on, 130

Iran, 146

General Election (1992), 171

Iraq, 146

General Election exercise, 115

Islington Gazette , 164

Germany: pre-1914 spying in Britain, 71-2; in

ITN (Independent Television News), 169

World War II, 73; Provisional IRA

terrorism in, 131, 148

James, Elizabeth Margaret, Lady, 53

Ghosh, Dr (Bengali poet), 42

James, Sir Morrice ( later Baron St Brides of

Gibraltar: operation in, 144-5

Hasguard), 53

Gigou, Elizabeth, 164

Jenkins, Roy, Baron, 127

Gillmore, Sir David ( later Baron), 170

Jenkins, Simon, 168

Goa, 52

Johnson, Lyndon B., 67

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 101, 157

Joint Intelligence Committee, 120, 149

Gordievsky, Oleg, 90, 102, 119

Jones, Sir John, 115

Government Communication Headquarters see

Justice, James Robertson, 32

GCHQ

Gower Street, London, 111, 141, 153

Kabul, 66, 68

Griffith, Kenneth, 104

Kampala, Uganda, 171

Grosvenor Street, London, 83

Kashmir, 47, 52

Kazakhstan, 159

Hanley, Sir Michael, 88, 153

Keeler, Christine, 43, 128

Hardy, Jean, 28, 34

Kell, Captain Vernon (‘K’), 71-3, 124, 163

Kennedy, John F., 45

training and early duties in, 77-9; use of

Kerala (India), 56

‘agents’, 77, 81; fear of infiltration, 79-80;

KGB: recruits agents in Britain, 83, 90, 93, 102;

personnel and management, 80-1, 121-2,

Peter Wright lectures on, 89; activities

154, 178; counter-terrorist activities, 83,

abroad, 101; SR visits in Moscow after

111, 130-1, 144-5, 148-50, 168, 172-3;