Director-General of MI5
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The Director-General of MI5 is the head of the Security Service (MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter terrorism and counter espionage service. The Director-General is assisted by a Deputy Director-General and an Assistant Director-General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.
The present Director-General is Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, daughter of the late Viscount Dilhorne, a former Lord Chancellor. Dame Eliza is scheduled to be replaced by Deputy DG Jonathan Evans in April 2007.
[edit] List of Directors-General
- Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, 2002–
- Sir Stephen Lander, 1996–2002
- Dame Stella Rimington, 1992–1996
- Sir Patrick Walker, 1988–1991
- Sir Antony Duff, 1985–1988
- Sir John Jones, 1981–1985
- Sir Howard Smith, 1979–1981
- Sir Michael Hanley, 1972–1979
- Sir Martin Furnival Jones, 1965–1972
- Sir Roger Hollis, 1956–1965
- Sir Dick White, 1953–1956
- Sir Percy Sillitoe, 1946–1953
- Sir David Petrie, 1940–1946
- Major-General Sir Vernon Kell, 1917–1940
- Sir William Melville, 1903–1909
