In the afterword, he said that he wrote the book chiefly to work to regain compensation for losses of significant pension income when the British government ruled his pension for earlier work in GCHQ was not transferable. ![]() Wright examines the techniques of intelligence services, exposes their ethics, notably their "eleventh commandment", "Thou shalt not get caught." He described many MI5 electronic technologies (some of which he developed), for instance, allowing clever spying into rooms, and identifying the frequency to which a superhet receiver is tuned. Wright also tells of the MI6 plot to assassinate President Nasser during the Suez Crisis of joint MI5- CIA plotting against Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson (who had been secretly accused by Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn of being a KGB agent) and of MI5's eavesdropping on high-level Commonwealth conferences. He explores the history of MI5 by chronicling its principal officers, from the 1930s to his time in service. His book also discusses other candidates who may have or may not have been the mole. In Spycatcher, Wright says that one of his assignments was to unmask a Soviet mole in MI5, who he says was Roger Hollis, a former MI5 Director General. In 2021, the Cabinet Office was still blocking freedom of information requests for files on the Spycatcher affair despite the rule that documents should be released after 30 years. These efforts ensured the book's notoriety, and it earned considerable profit for Wright. Published first in Australia, the book was banned in England (but not Scotland) due to its allegations about government policy and incidents. He drew on his own experiences and research into the history of the British intelligence community. ![]() Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (1987) is a memoir written by Peter Wright, former MI5 officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass.
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