Peter Wright 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 1975. Wright was educated at Bishop's Stortford College, a boarding independent school for
Peter Wright (mining entrepreneur) Wright during the 1960s. The agreements entitled Hancock and Wright 2.5 percent of revenue generated by Rio Tinto's Hamersley Iron mines. Peter Wright (mining entrepreneur) Ernest Archibald Maynard "Peter" Wright (24 February 1908 – 13 September 1985) was an Australian mining entrepreneur. He was best known as the business partner of Lang Hancock. After his death, his estate became worth over 1 billion. Wright was born in Kalgoorlie to parents who were originally from Victoria. The family moved to Perth at a young age and Wright was educated at several schools, including Hale School. He left school before graduating. In