Dame Stella Rimington, the trailblazing first female director general of MI5, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, died aged 90.

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.

Dame Stella Rimington, who has died aged 90, was the first female director-general of MI5 – and the first intelligence chief to become something approaching a household name.

Dame Stella Rimington, who was the first female director general of MI5, has died, her family has announced.