Peter Wright on 27 April 1995 aged 78, he was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease. Peter Wright Peter Maurice Wright (9 August 191627 April 1995) was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book "Spycatcher", written with Paul Greengrass, became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. "Spycatcher" was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. He is said to have been influenced in his counterespionage activity by James Jesus Angleton, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief from 1954 to
Peter Wright (police officer) adviser to the Ministry of Defence Police. An independent panel with access to previously unreleased papers related to the Hillsborough Disaster reported in September 2012 that Chief Constable Wright was instrumental in an effort to ensure that the South Yorkshire Police Force was not blamed for it. The Coroner's Inquest, which reported in April 2016, found that Wright was "instrumental in the effort to ensure the [South Yorkshire] force was not blamed for the tragedy", "amending" contemporary accounts that criticised the police, and attempting to ensure that "drunken ticketless individuals" were blamed, not the police. Peter Wright (police officer) Peter