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Peter Wright (born on August 9, 1916 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom - died April 27, 1995 in Tasmania, Australia) was a former MI5 counterintelligence officer noted for writing the controversial book Spycatcher (ISBN 0670820555), which was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed to be serious institutional failings in MI5. He was a friend and a poker buddy of the uber-spy James Jesus Angleton. August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ... Chesterfield is a market town and local government district in Derbyshire, a county in England. ... Derbyshire (pronounced Dar-bee-shur) is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Ubertas et Fidelitas (Fertility and Faithfulness) Nickname: The Apple Isle Other Australian states and territories Capital Hobart Government Governor Premier Const. ... Current MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London MI5, officially called the Security Service, is a British counter-intelligence and security agency. ... Counterintelligence or counter-espionage is the act of seeking and indentifying espionage activities. ... Spycatcher is a book by the former MI5 secret service operative Peter Wright. ... James Jesus Angleton James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917–May 12, 1987), known to friends and colleagues as Jim and nicknamed the Kingfisher, was the long-serving director of the CIAs counterintelligence staff. ...

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Peter Wright was the son of Maurice Wright, who was the Marconi Company's director of research, and one of the founders of signals intelligence during World War I. Despite showing an early aptitude for wireless work, during the Great Depression he was obliged to get work as a farm labourer to help make ends meet. During World War II, however, he joined the Admiralty's Research Laboratory, and afterward became a Marconi researcher. There, according to Spycatcher, he assisted the CIA determine the purpose of a covert listening device that had been found in a copy of the Great Seal of the United States presented to the US Ambassador in Moscow in 1952. The device contained no active electronic components, and there was some puzzlement as to what exactly it was until Wright realised that it was a cavity resonator which could be slightly detuned by impinging sound waves; it was intended to be operated by being irradiated with an external beam of microwaves, and the acoustic signal decoded from the way it reflected the beam. In 1954 Wright was recruited as principal scientific officer for MI5. According to his memoirs, he then was either responsible for, or intimately involved with, the development of some of the basic techniques of ELINT, for example: The Marconi Company Ltd. ... SIGINT stands for SIGnals INTelligence, which is intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether by radio interception or other means. ... Clockwise from top: Trenches in frontline, a British Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane. ... The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest... Old Admiralty House, Whitehall, London, Thomas Ripley, architect, 1723-26, was not admired by his contemporaries and earned him some scathing couplets from Alexander Pope The Admiralty was historically the authority in the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. ... The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... A bug is the common name for a covert listening device, usually a combination of a miniature radio transmitter with a microphone. ... Obverse The Great Seal of the United States is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the United States government. ... An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: ▶(?)) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Two digital voltmeters The field of electronics is the study and use of systems that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles in devices such as thermionic valves and semiconductors. ... A cavity resonator uses resonance to amplify a wave. ... This page is about the radiation; for the appliance, see microwave oven. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ELINT stands for ELectronic INTelligence, and refers to intelligence-gathering by use of electronic sensors. ...

• Operation ENGULF, acoustic cryptanalysis of Egyptian Hagelin cipher machines in 1956;
• Operation RAFTER remote detection of passive radio receivers used by Soviet agents through detecting emanations from the local oscillator, in 1958 (a technique now more commonly used to enforce payment of television licences); and
• Operation STOCKADE, analysis of compromising emanation from French cipher machines in 1960.

In addition Wright claimed that he was regularly involved in black bag jobs to illegally install bugs for the government, and that MI5 was so well organised for this they even had expert tradesmen on hand to rapidly and undetectably effect repairs in the event that someone bungled and made a mess whilst installing a bug. Acoustic cryptanalysis is a side channel attack which exploits sounds, audible or not, produced during a computation or input-output operation. ... Categories: Cryptography stubs | 1892 births | 1983 deaths | Cryptographers ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... RAFTER was a codename given for the MI5 radio receiver detection technique, mostly used against clandestine Soviet agents and monitoring of domestic radio transmissions by foreign embassy personnel from the 1950s on. ... Soviet redirects here. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A television licence is an official licence required in some countries for all owners of a television receiver. ... A tempest is a violent storm. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Black Bag Job or Black Bag Operation is a covert entry action undertaken by a police force or intelligence agency. ...

However Wright's most controversial claims concerned a later rôle in pursuing what he believed to be a Soviet mole in MI5, and came to conclude was his own boss, Sir Roger Hollis. According to Wright, his suspicions were first raised by Hollis' seeming obstruction of any attempt to investigate information from several defectors that there was a mole in MI5, but he then discovered that Hollis had concealed relationships with a number of suspicious persons, including: A mole is a spy who works for an enemy nation and works within his nations government. ... Sir Roger Hollis (1905 - 1973) journalist, and head of MI5. ...

• a longstanding friendship with Claud Cockburn, a communist journalist who was at the time suspected of ties to Soviet intelligence;
• an acquaintance with Agnes Smedley whilst Hollis was in Shanghai, at a time Smedley was in a relationship with Richard Sorge, a proven Soviet spymaster.

Later he discovered that when Hollis went to Canada to interview defector Igor Gouzenko, Gouzenko had provided Hollis with clear information about Alan Nunn May's meetings with his handlers; all these meetings were immediately cancelled. Gouzenko hadn't known about Klaus Fuchs, but he had named a low level GRU agent, Israel Halperin. When the RCMP searched Halperin's lodgings, they found Fuchs' name in his addressbook. Fuchs immediately broke off contact with his handler, Harry Gold, and shortly afterward took a long vacation to Mexico. In face of this circumstantial evidence, Wright became convinced that Hollis was a traitor. Patrick Claud Cockburn (pronounced coburn) (1904-1981) was a renowned radical British journalist, who was controversial for his Stalinist sympathies. ... Agnes Smedley, (February 23, 1892--6 May 1950) was an American journalist and writer known for her chronicling of the Chinese revolution. ... Richard Sorge Dr Sorge aka Ramsay Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Зорге) (October 4, 1895 - November 7, 1944) was a revolutionary, a journalist, working in Germany and Japan, and a spy for the Soviet Union in Japan before and during World War II. NKVD codename Ramsay Sorge was born in Adjikent, Baku, Azerbaijan... Gouzenko wearing his white hood for anonymity Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (January 13, 1919, Rogachev, Soviet Union – June 1982, Mississauga) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. ... Alan Nunn May (May 2, 1911 — January 12, 2003) was a British atomic scientist and a spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviets during the Manhattan project. ... Klaus Fuchs ID badge photo from Los Alamos. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with State Political Directorate. ... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or Mounties; French, Gendarmerie royale du Canada, GRC) is both the federal police force and the national police of Canada. ... Harry Gold born 12 December 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsyvania. ...