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
Jeremiah Wright Barack Obama later adapted Wright's phrase "audacity "to" hope" to "audacity "of" hope" which became the title for his 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address, and the title of his second book. Wright, who was Barack Obama's former pastor, gained national attention when he was uninvited from giving a public invocation at Obama's February 10, presidential announcement. Wright was still able to attend the event. In an interview he stated, "When his enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli" to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than