"MI5 just before World War II began, and eventually became director-general of MI5 from 1956 to 1965. As detailed by former MI5 staffer Peter Wright in his 1988 book ""Spycatcher"", Hollis was accused of being a Soviet agent, but despite several lengthy and seemingly thorough investigations, no conclusive proof was ever obtained. One of Aleksandar Hemon's first stories in English is ""The Sorge Spy Ring"" (""TriQuarterly"", 1997). The 2003 Japanese film ""Spy Sorge"", directed by Masahiro Shinoda, details his exploits in Shanghai and Japan. In the film he is portrayed by Scottish actor Iain Glen. Comments about Sorge by famous"
"allowing clever spying into rooms, and identifying the frequency that a superhet receiver is tuned to. In the afterword, he states that writing ""Spycatcher"" was motivated principally to recuperate pension income lost when the British government ruled his pension un-transferable for earlier work in GCHQ, a ruling that severely reduced his pension. Wright wrote ""Spycatcher"" in Tasmania, after his retirement from MI5. He first attempted publication in 1985. The British government immediately acted to ban ""Spycatcher"" in the UK. Since the ruling was obtained in an English court, however, the book continued to be available legally in Scotland, as well"
"on English newspaper reportage on the book, but in late July, the Law Lords again barred reportage of Wright's allegations. ""The Daily Mirror"" published upside-down photographs of the three Law Lords, with the caption 'YOU FOOLS'. British editions of ""The Economist"" ran a blank page with a boxed explanation thatIn all but one country, our readers have on this page a review of 'Spycatcher,' a book by an ex-M.I.5-man, Peter Wright. The exception is Britain, where the book, and comment on it, have been banned. For our 420,000 readers there, this page is blank – and the law is an"
"when he joined MI5. The matter led to prolonged legal wrangling, with the British government mounting a heavy defence, which was ultimately unsuccessful through three levels of the Australian court system. Wright was represented by a young barrister called Malcolm Turnbull who, in 2015, would become the 29th Australian Prime Minister. During his cross-examination, Turnbull exposed the British Cabinet Secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong in a clear lie. In the meantime, ""Spycatcher"" was published in the United States in mid-1987, where it became a best seller. Pincher was investigated and cleared of any wrongdoing, through a police investigation. Pincher was convinced"
"of the technical side of things. 'The Wilson Plot', as it became known, was corroborated to varying degrees both before and after the film's transmission in various other books by journalists and in volumes of memoirs by others involved in the conspiracy. Wright's book was the most explosive of them all. Wright, embittered by a still unresolved pension dispute, fled to Australia where the book was written and finally published – to the fury of Mrs Thatcher – with the assistance of the original programme's chief researcher, Paul Greengrass. Publication in Britain was initially banned outright by the government of"
"ass. Eventually, in 1988, the book was cleared for legitimate sale when the Law Lords acknowledged that overseas publication meant it contained no secrets. However, Wright was barred from receiving royalties from the sale of the book in the United Kingdom. In November 1991, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British government had breached the European Convention of Human Rights in gagging its own newspapers. The book has sold more than two million copies. In 1995, Wright died a millionaire from proceeds of his book. The concepts and use of public key cryptography (PKC) were discovered by"
"narrates a history of MI5 by chronicling its principal officers, from the 1930s to his time in service. Moreover, ""Spycatcher"" tells of the MI6 plot to assassinate President Nasser during the Suez Crisis; of joint MI5-CIA plotting against British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (secretly accused of being a KGB agent by the Soviet defector Anatoliy Golitsyn); and of MI5's eavesdropping on high-level Commonwealth conferences. Wright examines the techniques of intelligence services, exposes their ethics (speculative until that time), notably their ""eleventh commandment"", ""Thou shalt not get caught"", and explains many MI5 electronic technologies (some of which he developed), for instance"
"denied a pension for his 30 years of service, on highly legalistic and technical grounds. He emigrated to Tasmania, Australia, where he wrote an account of his work at MI5. Despite attempts by Margaret Thatcher's government to suppress the publication and distribution of ""Spycatcher"", it was finally published in 1987, and eventually sold over two million copies around the world. In the book Wright claimed that Hollis had been a Soviet agent. Among the evidence for this claim is the Igor Gouzenko defection, at Ottawa in 1945. Hollis was sent to Canada to interview Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the"
"public setting in the near future. Wright, a retired MI5 Soviet counterespionage officer, was Pincher's main source for ""Their Trade is Treachery"", along with British MP Jonathan Aitken and Wright's former colleague Arthur S. Martin. Aitken, using information from retired CIA counterespionage chief James Jesus Angleton, wrote a highly confidential letter in early 1980 to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, outlining Angleton's suspicions of Hollis acting as a double agent. Pincher became ensnared in 1986 in the ""Spycatcher"" affair, when Wright tried to publish his own book in Australia, in apparent violation of his oath-taking of the Official Secrets Act"
"A-G v Observer Ltd Attorney General v Observer Ltd [1990] is an important English tort law case on breach of confidentiality. It also raised questions of the interests of public policy and freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights because it involved a spy's publication of secret information. Peter Wright worked for MI5. After retiring he wrote a book called ""Spycatcher"", describing his work. This was in breach of the Official Secrets Act 1911. It was published in Australia and the US. ""The Observer"" and ""The Guardian"" published articles on proceedings in the Australian courts by the"
"any other two books by the same author during the 1980s. Of wider significance, he suggested ""Spycatcher"" by Peter Wright, with Paul Greengrass, be written. The book, which the British government attempted to ban internationally, detailed allegations of a criminal activity by the security services in which the principal author had directly participated. As an agent, he was successful in securing larger fees for his clients, including a £650,000 advance for Peter Ackroyd's biographies of Blake and Dickens and a £250,000 advance for Vikram Seth's first novel and later £1.3 million for ""Two Lives"", a memoir of Seth's great uncle"
"Wright, former assistant director of MI5, in his book ""Spycatcher"". ""Spycatcher"" was banned in the UK by Margaret Thatcher's administration. Until 1966, the award of peerages was the prerogative of the Chief Whip, and not the Prime Minister. Wilson took that power to award peerages for himself, and later told his policy adviser Bernard Donoughue that he did it because ""that gal Marcia insisted on it"". Donoughue's diary recorded Wilson telling one of his staff that he had just quarrelled with Falkender, who was demanding ""peerages for friends"". Donoughue's diary actually credits the ""that gal Marcia insisted on it"" comment"
"highest counter-intelligence officers, with severe effects on morale. Peter Wright, while later extremely controversial about revelations his 1987 book, ""Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer"", also developed techniques that allowed the UK to track numerous Soviet clandestine agents, and agents under diplomatic cover . James Jesus Angleton, the legendary CIA director of counterespionage and a poet himself, used T. S. Eliot's term ""an infinity of mirrors"" to describe the intricacies of agent to double agent to triple agent so common in counterespionage, with works describing him as paranoid, while others described him as brilliant. Perhaps the truth"
"information. At the time Wright was a retired high-ranking member of MI5 and was about to publish his book in Australia. The evidence given by Armstrong was widely ridiculed by the British press for its absurd ambiguity and seemingly deceptive nature. Wright's lawyer, Malcolm Turnbull, who later became the Prime Minister of Australia, was ultimately successful in lifting the publication ban. Turnbull described Armstrong as being like ""Sir Humphrey Appleby"" from ""Yes, Minister"" and said ""If he is an honest man, then he appears rather like a well-educated mushroom"". Armstrong was aware of Sir Peter Hayman's paedophilia, and since leaving"
"McCarthyism by left-wing historians, causing considerable reassessment of the period of the second Red Scare (1947-1957). The publication of ""Spycatcher"" temporarily unlocked the doors of official secrecy as far as former intelligence officers were concerned. With the enactment of the Official Secrets Act 1989, an absolute prohibition on revelations by serving or former intelligence officers was imposed. ""Spycatcher"" became a best-seller. Wright went on to publish ""The Encyclopaedia of Espionage"" in 1991, which had little impact. By this stage of his life he had become increasingly reclusive, suffering from diabetes and heart trouble. A year before his death in Tasmania"
"the course of the decision, Lord Goff stated the common law principle that ""[In England] everybody is free to do anything, subject only to the provisions of the law"". A-G v Observer Ltd Attorney General v Observer Ltd [1990] is an important English tort law case on breach of confidentiality. It also raised questions of the interests of public policy and freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights because it involved a spy's publication of secret information. Peter Wright worked for MI5. After retiring he wrote a book called ""Spycatcher"", describing his work. This was in breach"
"violate reasonable freedom of the press, but the balance is set differently in different countries and at different times. Great Britain is generally considered to have a very free press, but the UK does have the DA-Notice, formerly D-notice system. Many British journalists find that this system is used fairly, although there will always be arguments. In the specific context of counterintelligence, note that Peter Wright, a former senior member of the Security Service who left their service without his pension, moved to Australia before publishing his book Spycatcher. While much of the book was reasonable commentary, it did reveal"
"had retired there, and the British government made strenuous legal efforts there to suppress the book's publication, but failed; their grounds centred around Wright's betrayal of British secrets having agreed to confidentiality arrangements while he was a serving MI5 officer. Wright's suspicions had originally centred on Mitchell, but eventually the evidence against Hollis appeared much stronger. The 2014 MI5 website addresses the matter specifically, stating that the original investigation lasted from 1964 to 1971 but ""came to no firm conclusions"" and that Trend's report concluded ""there was no evidence to show that either Hollis or Mitchell had been Soviet agents""."
"to write the sensational book ""Their Trade is Treachery"" in 1981. This matter raged full of controversy throughout the 1980s, and led to Wright eventually publishing his own book ""Spycatcher"" in 1987, despite the government's prolonged Australian court attempts to stop him from doing so. Aitken became Minister of State for Defence Procurement under prime minister John Major in 1992. He was later accused of violating ministerial rules by allowing an Arab businessman to pay for his stay in the Paris Ritz, perjured himself and was jailed (see below). Aitken had previously been a director of BMARC, an arms exporter,"
"associated buildings on the campus, as well as further afield in local cafes, pubs and shops. There is a long history of student publications at Dundee - before 2006, ""The Magdalen"" was known as ""The Student Times"" and criticised for being bland and inoffensive. This bucked the tradition of very political publications such as Annasach (Gaelic: Unusual, Unconventional) which was edited for a time by controversial ex-MI5 agent David Shayler, who was responsible for printing extracts from Peter Wright's ""Spycatcher"" - a book banned in the UK at the time. Lord George Robertson was also a columnist for the newspaper"
"MI5 management shortly after his appointment as prime minister in 1964 by James Jesus Angleton, Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence at the CIA. The investigation into Wilson's background by MI5, however, failed to produce any conclusive evidence. When Wright retired in 1976, Harold Wilson was again prime minister. Dame Stella Rimington, MI5 Director General from 1992 to 1996, who was in MI5 while Peter Wright was still working there, wrote in 2001 that she believed that in a Panorama programme in 1988, Peter Wright had retracted his allegation made in his book about the MI5 group of thirty officers"
"he established his own law firm, Turnbull McWilliam. During 1986, Turnbull defended Peter Wright, a former MI5 official who wrote the book ""Spycatcher"", successfully stopping the British government's attempts to suppress the book's publication in Australia. The case was widely reported, making Turnbull a public figure in Australia and the United Kingdom; Turnbull later wrote a book on the trial. In 1987, Turnbull established an investment banking firm, Whitlam Turnbull & Co Ltd, in partnership with Neville Wran, the former Labor Premier of New South Wales, and Nicholas Whitlam, the former Chief Executive of the State Bank of New South"
"in 1966. Pincher is best known as the author of the book ""Their Trade is Treachery"" (1981), in which he publicized for the first time the suspicions that MI5's former Director General Roger Hollis had been a spy for the Soviet Union, and describes MI5's and MI6's internal inquiries into the matter. Pincher was at one point close to Peter Wright, who he knew suspected Harold Wilson of having been a Soviet agent, and according to the biography of Wilson written by Ben Pimlott, Pincher was trying to get information from Wright so that he could accuse Wilson in a"
"Wright, in his 1987 best-selling book ""Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer"", wrote about Alexander's assistance to MI5 in the ongoing Venona project, as well as other important mutual cooperation between the two organizations, which broke down previous barriers to progress. ""Any help is gratefully received in this department"", Alexander told Wright, and that proved the case from then on. Wright also lauded Alexander's professionalism, and opined that the exceptional mental demands of his cryptanalytical career and chess hobby likely contributed to Alexander's early death at age 64, despite his healthy lifestyle. He represented Cambridge University in"
"Tricycle Theatre. He left ""The Guardian"" in July 2016. Norton-Taylor is a Member of Council of the Royal United Services Institute and a trustee of the Civil Liberties Trust and the London Action Trust. Norton-Taylor won the 1986 Freedom of Information Campaign award, and the same year was prevented by a court injunction from reporting the contents of ""Spycatcher"" (1987), the memoirs of the former MI5 agent, Peter Wright. The government's injunction was dismissed in the High Court by Lord Justice Scott. He was one of the few journalists to cover the Scott inquiry from start to finish. His play,"
"in MI5 assistant director Peter Wright's 1987 memoir, ""Spycatcher"". Many inside the NSA had argued internally that the time had come to publicly release the details of the Venona project, but it was not until 1995 that the bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, with Senator Moynihan as chairman, released Venona project materials. Moynihan wrote: ""[The] secrecy system has systematically denied American historians access to the records of American history. Of late we find ourselves relying on archives of the former Soviet Union in Moscow to resolve questions of what was going on in Washington at mid-century. ... the Venona intercepts"
"allowing Wright to publish his manuscript. Wright is focused on fighting the system of prepublication review and censorship of government employee writings. Other FBI agents who supported Wright's allegations were John Vincent and Barry Carmody. Robert Wright Jr. Robert G. Wright Jr. is an FBI agent who has criticized the FBI's counterterrorist activities in the 1990s, when he worked in the Chicago division on terrorists with links to the Middle East, especially on the issue of money laundering. Specifically, he worked on project Vulgar Betrayal, which allegedly implicated Yasin al-Qadi. He wrote a detailed book which the FBI prevented him"
"UK government to stop the publication. The Attorney General then sought and received an interlocutory injunction restraining publication of information obtained by Wright in June 1986. In July 1987 the ""Sunday Times"" published extracts from the book two days before its publication in the US. The Attorney General sought and was given injunctions to restrain further publication. But Scott J discharged them, holding the paper was liable to account for profits resulting from the publication. The Court of Appeal dismissed the Attorney General's appeal, and he appealed again to the House of Lords. Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Brightman, Lord"
"closed in 1948. Alexander Scotland wrote a postwar memoir entitled ""London Cage"", which was submitted to the War Office in 1950 for purposes of censorship. Scotland was asked to abandon the book, and threatened with a prosecution under the Official Secrets Act, and officers from Special Branch raided his home. The Foreign Office insisted that the book be suppressed altogether as it would help persons ""agitating on behalf of war criminals"". An assessment of the manuscript by MI5 listed how Scotland had detailed repeated breaches of the Geneva Convention (1929), including prisoners being forced to kneel while being beaten about"
"the American Embassy in London, at a time when Great Britain was at war with Germany and America claimed to be strictly neutral. In May 1940, Kent was arrested, tried ""in camera"" and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Clough's book ""State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair"" (2005) took advantage of privileged access to Government files and also the release of others under the Freedom of Information Act. Sixty-five years after the event, Clough finally revealed the 'real reason' for Kent's arrest and imprisonment – which was very different from the earlier versions in officially inspired publications. Clough appeared in the"
"The programme broadcast revelations by whistleblowers from both GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping and surveillance headquarters, and from the Joint Intelligence Committee. Its most audacious investigation of the intelligence community was perhaps an extended edition in July 1984 titled ""The Spy Who Never Was"", the confessions of a former MI5 officer, Peter Wright. ""Spycatcher"", Wright's subsequent account of the period when he and colleagues had, as he put it, ""bugged and burgled our way across London"", revealed what had in effect been a planned coup against the then Labour government of Harold Wilson. Wright appeared to have been in charge"
"book, which appeared in ""Outpost"". It was banned in Malaysia in 2007. Onward Muslim Soldiers Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West, published in October 2003, is a nonfiction book by Robert Spencer. Spencer described the book as an ""in-depth study of the doctrine of jihad and how it is exploited today by terrorists to justify what they’re doing and to recruit and motivate new terrorists"". In the book, Spencer discusses issues relating to radical Islam, Jihad, and Islamic terrorism, and claims that these are more serious threats to the non-Muslim world than the media and"
"2008, Koa Books published ""Dissent: Voices of Conscience,"" co-authored by Ann Wright and Susan Dixon. Subtitled ""Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq"", the work includes a foreword by longtime anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the top-secret Pentagon Papers in 1971. Ann Wright Mary Ann Wright (born 1947) is a retired United States Army colonel and retired U.S. State Department official, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She received the State Department Award for Heroism in 1997, after helping to evacuate several thousand people during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She is most"