Spycatcher (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Wright
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Politics, Twentieth century, England or English people, Political science, Government, Espionage or spies, Great Britain, Secret service, Geopolitics
The Work
In 1985 Peter Wright, a senior officer in Britain’s counterintelligence agency MI5, attempted to publish his memoirs. They detailed his work from 1955 to 1976 and advanced the largely discredited thesis that the former head of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, was a Soviet spy. The British government denied Wright permission to publish on the grounds that he would be violating the Official Secrets Acts, which bound civil servants not to divulge without prior approval official information acquired in the course of duty. However, Wright was then a resident of Australia and...
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