Eliza Manningham-Buller
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Manningham-Buller LG, DCB |
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Manningham-Buller speaking at Chatham House, May 2016
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| Allegiance | United Kingdom 
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| Service | MI5 | ||
| Active | 1974–2007 (33 years) | ||
| Rank | Director General of MI5 | ||
| Operation(s) | Investigation of Lockerbie bombing | ||
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Lady of the Order of the Garter Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath |
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| Birth name | Elizabeth Lydia Manningham-Buller | ||
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14 July 1948 Northampton, England, UK |
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| Nationality | British | ||
| Religion | Anglican | ||
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The Viscount Dilhorne Mary Manningham-Buller, Viscountess Dilhorne |
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| Occupation | Chair of The Wellcome Trust | ||
| Alma mater | Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | ||
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Elizabeth Lydia "Eliza" Manningham-Buller, Baroness Manningham-Buller, LG, DCB (born 14 July 1948) was Director General of MI5, the British internal Security Service, from October 2002 until her retirement on 20 April 2007, aged 58. She became a crossbench life peer on 18 April 2008.
Eliza Manningham-Buller worked as a teacher for three years at Queen's Gate School, Kensington, London from 1971–74, having read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, before joining the Security Service. She was recruited to the Security Service at a drinks party when someone suggested that she see someone at the Ministry of Defence. Specializing in counter-terrorism rather than MI5's then-classical counter-espionage, she was active at the time of the Lockerbie bombing by Libya in 1988. She worked for K-branch against the IRA. During the early 1980s she was reportedly one of only five people aware that Oleg Gordievsky, the deputy head of the KGB at the Soviet embassy in London, was actually a double agent.
She was a senior liaison working out of Washington, D.C. to the US intelligence community over the period of the first Gulf War, before leading the newly created Irish counter-terrorism section from 1992 when MI5 were given the lead responsibility for such work (from the Metropolitan Police). Having been promoted to the Management Board of the Security Service the next year, Manningham-Buller became the director in charge of surveillance and technical operations and did an agent run from Southampton in 2001 where she liaised with senior members of MI6 and an unknown spy who survived an assassination attempt in 2006 and 2014. She was appointed Deputy Director General in 1997, and succeeded Sir Stephen Lander as Director General in 2002, the second woman to take on the role after Dame Stella Rimington. As Director General, she was paid £150,000 a year. She has been credited with making the agency more open: she established a website and recruited agents through newspaper advertisements. Under her direction, terror risk assessments were made public for the first time.
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