Spy Catcher: The Candid Autobiography Of A Senior Intelligence Officer By Peter Wright

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ISBN 0670820555

Publisher: Viking Penguin 1987

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In Spy catcher, Wright says that one of his assignments was to unmask a Soviet mole in MI5, who he says was Roger Hollis – a former MI5 Director General. His book also discusses other candidates who may have or may not have been the mole. He explores a history of MI5 by chronicling its principal officers, from the 1930s to his time in service.

Wright also tells of the MI6 plot to assassinate President Nasser during the Suez Crisis; of joint MI5-CIA plotting against Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson (who had been secretly accused by Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn of being a KGB agent); and of MI5's eavesdropping on high-level Commonwealth conferences.[3]

Wright examines the techniques of intelligence services, exposes their ethics, notably their "eleventh commandment", "Thou shalt not get caught." He described many MI5 electronic technologies (some of which he developed), for instance, allowing clever spying into rooms, and identifying the frequency to which a superhet receiver is tuned. In the afterword, he said that he wrote the book chiefly to work to regain compensation for losses of significant pension income when the British government ruled his pension for earlier work in GCHQ was not transferable.