Which book, by former MI5 operative Peter Wright, was banned by the British government on the grounds of national security?
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
Wright Commission on Government Security Wright Commission on Government Security The Wright Commission on Government Security was a bipartisan group established by a statute of the United States government in 1955 to investigate government policies with respect to secrecy. It was named for its chairman Loyd Wright, a former president of the American Bar Association, whom the Commission's 12 members elected to that position. President Dwight D Eisenhower and the two houses of Congress each named four members. Those appointed by Vice President Richard Nixon on behalf of the Senate were Senators John C. Stennis and Norris Cotton, Loyd Wright, and Susan B. Riley, a