From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   danny burstein  wrote:   
      
   >[AFP via Yahoo!]   
      
   >Stella Rimington, first woman to lead UK's MI5 dies at 90   
      
   >Stella Rimington, the first woman to head the UK's domestic secret service   
   >MI5, has died at the age of 90, the spy agency announced on Monday.   
      
   >Rimington, who led MI5 from 1992 to 1996, was widely believed to be the   
   >inspiration behind the female role of M in the James Bond movies, played   
   >by UK star Judi Dench.   
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   >rest:   
   >https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stella-rimington-first-woman-lead-201438828.html   
      
   I've been hearing this crap all day. James Bond was MI-6, not MI-5. The   
   producers were feeling some pressure to have more females in positions   
   of power, so Judi Dench was cast. She proved to be an excellent choice,   
   so they kept her with the Daniel Craig reset.   
      
   There's no fucking way the fictional character, newly created for the   
   movie GoldenEye (1995), was based upon this real woman who would have   
   entirely been kept out of the public eye.   
      
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