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- ↑ Author notes, John Rimington, "Public Management and Administration: a Need for Evolution", The Political Quarterly , vol. 80, no. 4 (2009), pp. 562–568.
- ↑ The London Gazette , 30 December 1986 (supplement, issue 50764), p. 3.
- ↑ Rimington, Stella (10 July 2011). "The Perfect Spy". Daily Telegraph.
- ↑ Rimington, Stella (23 April 2022). "I fell into intelligence by chance". Daily Telegraph.
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