European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 c the stars and stripes sunday december 29, 1991british espionage ranks gain female flair by William Tuohy the los Angeles times London a that fictional master spy James Bond the quintessential male chauvinist intelligence agent might be found brooding darkly these Days at his pall mall club. More and More the espionage specialists who Are moving up in the British intelligence services Are the Jane Bonds. Britain s Mi-5, the internal Security service and Mi-6, its overseas espionage network Are increasingly recruiting women. Recently Mi-5 named Stella Rimington As its first female director general. It was almost As if miss Moneypenny executive Secretary to James Bond s spymaster Boss a pm a had taken Over the service. The Home office announcement about Rimington a appointment was the first Public disclosure of the name of an Mi-5 chief. Beyond saying that she would take Over in february when sir Patrick Walker retires the announcement had Little else to say about her a nor was there even a current photo. Although details Are classified Rimington is said to be Only the most visible member of a growing number of female agents a spies counter spies and spymaster a in the formerly All male bastion of British intelligence. There Are even rumours that when the director general of Mi-6, Colin Mccoll retires he May be succeeded by a woman. Mi-6, the overseas network also known As Beach filth hurts Brazil s tourist Trade Rio de Janeiro Brazil a six year old Claudia Felguieras had a simple Christmas wish when she visited a department store Santa Claus. Quot can you make the Beach clean Santa so Mommy will take me swimming tomorrow a she asked. The wish was tougher than most to Grant. At a time when tourism is already slumping the beaches of Rio de Janeiro famed in Many a song and tourist brochure Are anything but Golden or Pristine this Holiday season. Murky smelly sea water and filthy Sands Are keeping tens of thousands of Sun seekers away from riots shores at the Start of the Southern hemispheres summer and the tourist season. Pollution has become the talk of the town. Newspapers and radio stations each have a different theory an underground waste Drain that broke a garbage Barge that tipped Over a chemical Plant that dumped waste illegally. Not even a week of blistering Sun and torrid 100-degree temperatures could coax tourists or Rio residents known As Carioca into the water. Quot in be never seen the water so filthy a said Sandra Mattos 39, a resident of the upscale beachfront District of Copacabana. A a in a afraid of setting foot in mat a i might get some skin  seeking to Salvage the situation technicians of the City a environmental commission have appeared on television to try to reassure the Public that the water is Safe for bathing although they reportedly have also warned people not to eat seafood caught in the area. They say the seats dark color and acrid smell is caused naturally by a sudden Rise in temperature and nutrients in the water that create Large amounts of algae. The unpleasant Simeti will last about two weeks they say women Are extremely Good in intelligence jobs. They have All the right talents and Are very Good at keeping their Eye on the  a a Diplomat with intelligence connections the secret intelligence service already has women serving As station chiefs insiders said. Mi-5 is concerned with counter espionage mainly inside Britain monitoring the activities of suspected subversives foreign agents and terrorist groups such As the Irish Republican army. Its role is comparable to a combination of the Fri and the counter espionage Wing of the Cia and its members Are known collectively As a the  currently Mi-5 is thought to have about 2,000 officers of whom half Are younger than 30. Of that younger group about 50 percent Are women. A women Are extremely Good in intelligence jobs a said one Diplomat with intelligence connections. A they have All the right talents and Are very Good at keeping their Eye on the  Rupert Allason a member of parliament from the at a time when brazilian tourism is already slumping the beaches of Rio de Janeiro famed in Many a song Are anything but Golden or Pristine this Holiday season. Still the empty beaches Are a slap Quot a a a Yaj in the face for the local government which promised last year to spend $2 billion beautifying Rio before the City hosts the . World environment conference in june 1992. The project was to include construction of underground drains and recycling plants and the cleanup of the postcard pretty Guanabara Bay where 520 t 1 tons of Industrial waste Are dumped daily. Due to a 40 percent drop in visitors to Rio since 198/, mostly caused by rising crime and pollution the City has lost More than $4 billion in revenues. On Christmas Day steel Gray Waves broke on the Chic beaches of Ipa Nema Copacabana and Sao Conrado where neighbouring Guanabara Bay a Waters Tass. Brown blotches As Large As football ields floated ominously off the Atlantic coast. Scores of reeking dead fish washed up on Shore alongside bottles wrappers and even syringes. The Sand normally a Light Golden color was Brown. There were few tanned beauties in the shops or cafes along Copacabana Ipa Nema Sao Conrado and Leblon beaches. No surfers no volleyball players no joggers no soccer players. To beat the heat residents headed for Small Mountain resort towns outside of Rio while tourists flocked to the Lush Tiju Ca Forest atop Corcovado Mountain or strolled through riots botanical gardens. Conservative party who has written authoritative accounts of the British intelligence services under the pen name Nigel West said a i am pleased that mrs. Rimington has been appointed and that it has been done in such a Public Way. Women have always been Good Security operatives. While men tend to gossip about their Job to impress friends women gossip about trivia and keep their real  certainly Rimington has kept her secrets. The biographical facts offered by the Home office Are so scarce As to be almost non existent. But other sources indicate that she attended private schools and Edinburgh University. In 1963, she married John Rimington also a civil servant and accompanied him to at least one of his overseas postings in India. There he served As first Secretary in the embassy As a commercial attached a and possibly As an intelligence officer. Around 1969, she formally became a member of Mi-5. During her career she specialized in anti terrorist activities and is said to have been an excellent spy master putting together a dossier on the leading Ira terrorists. In the 1980s, she Rose to director of counter terrorism continuing to focus on the Ira. Having focused on counter terrorism rather than on the Kab and other espionage agencies Rimington is thought to be ideally placed to move Mi-5 in Post cold War directions. Eight tourists Pilot die in Kenya crash Nairobi Kenya apr eight German tourists and their Pilot were killed in a plane crash in a Southwest Kenya game Reserve the German embassy said Friday. The twin engine plane crashed thursday As it landed at an Airstrip in the Masai Mara one of kenyans largest and Best known game Parks. There were no survivors. The passengers were in route from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean coast to one of several tented Camps that Dot the game Reserve. The Pilot was an american said a . Embassy spokesman and a police spokesman. The officials refused to further identify the Pilot. Andre Janssens resident manager of the Mombasa office of Neckermann Rei sen a Frankfurt based travel company said the German victims were five men and three women. Boat Crew finds plane wreckage cd Loggia Italy up an italian judicial official said saturday the decomposing body of an unidentified Pilot pulled from a crashed plane found in the Adriatic sea could have been underwater for up to two months. Public prosecutor Luca Tampieri said the unidentified Man May have been an executive of an american overnight shipping company but gave no further details. An autopsy was ordered on the body which was found still strapped into the pilots seat of a six seater plane. The plane was discovered Early saturday 12 nautical Miles off the coast near Venice by fishermen whose nets got caught on the aircraft officials said that documents on the Corpse bore the name of John Richard Hawke of Truro great Britain. Tampieri said that according to initial medical examinations the body could have been underwater for nearly two months