Editing Spycatcher (section)

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In ''Spycatcher'', Wright says that one of his assignments was to unmask a Soviet [[mole (espionage)|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 the history of MI5 by chronicling its principal officers, from the 1930s to his time in service. He makes serious allegations against MI6 intelligence officer [[Dick Ellis]], who died in 1975.

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 of Nations|Commonwealth]] conferences.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Observer and The Guardian ''v. United Kingdom'' (1991) 14 EHRR 153 |url=http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?action=html&documentId=695582&portal=hbkm&source=externalbydocnumber&table=F69A27FD8FB86142BF01C1166DEA398649 |work=European Court of Human Rights|access-date=23 May 2014}}</ref>

Wright examines the techniques of intelligence services, exposes their ethics, notably their "eleventh [[Ten Commandments|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 [[Operation RAFTER|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.