Counterintelligence failures highest counter-intelligence officers, with severe effects on morale. Peter Wright, while later extremely controversial about revelations his 1987 book, "Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer", also developed techniques that allowed the UK to track numerous Soviet clandestine agents, and agents under diplomatic cover . James Jesus Angleton, the legendary CIA director of counterespionage and a poet himself, used T. S. Eliot's term "an infinity of mirrors" to describe the intricacies of agent to double agent to triple agent so common in counterespionage, with works describing him as paranoid, while others described him as brilliant. Perhaps the truth
Peter Wright Minister Margaret Thatcher in March 1981. Peter Wright, on the basis of his interviews with Sir Dennis Proctor and his friends, also alleged in his book that Proctor, former Permanent Secretary at the UK Ministry of Power, was at the very least, by Proctor's own account, an unwitting source of secret information to the Soviets via his close friend and Soviet spy Guy Burgess, from whom he had kept no secrets which, in Proctor's opinion, obviated the necessity to recruit him. Wright's sights were also focused on Labour prime minister Harold Wilson, suspicions about whom were initially triggered amongst the