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 (Jesuit) to him and he was allowed to hang until he was dead, being thus spared the agonies of being eviscerated alive. Peter Wright was beatified by Pope Pius XI on December 15, 1929. His feast day is May 19. Peter Wright (Jesuit) Peter Wright (1603 – 19 May 1651) was an English Jesuit Catholic priest and martyr. Peter Wright was born in Slipton, Northamptonshire, one of twelve children. Peter was still young when his father died. He had to work in a country solicitor's office at Thrapston in his home area. After spending ten years with the solicitor he enlisted