Resumo de Spycatcher - Peter Wright

This book is so revealing, that it is no wonder the British Government has banned it from ever being published in the UK.Peter
Wright is a key figure in Britain?s history of intelligence. As World
War II and family circumstances undermined his education plans, he,
nevertheless, prevailed against the odds, and, already a radio
engineer, joined Britain?s Secret Service, MI5, as a scientist to
develop ingenious gadgets for the service. Slowly and successfully, he
proved himself a productive, thinking contributor to the espionage
effort, which included the detecting of Soviets? surreptitious devices
in the gifts presented to US and British diplomats. He also got to
improve the MI5?s central filing system.Peter Wright also
got to meet the most famous of the British intelligence, which includes
Kim Philby. Very soon Wright sensed that there was a source inside the
Service that seemed to leak crucial information to the other side.Putting
in extra time, Wright engineered various projects wherein embassies and
residences of the Soviet Bloc?s ambassadors got ingeniously bugged. One
of the most monumental projects turned out to be RAFTER, which detected
radio eavesdropping. The British government has since burrowed the
method to detect untaxed TV sets.Wright?s successes eventually
sent him overseas to manage mutual projects and policies with the US
intelligence community. Thus, Wright got lunch with the FBI chief J.
Edgar Hoover, and many key figures from the CIA. Proven as a
professional counter-intelligence, he advanced to become the key
manager of Britain?s tenacious and often disappointing efforts to
expose Soviet moles. Very soon Wright has under his background
investigation microscope his own colleagues, as well as the famous
figures, such as Philby, Maclean, Burgess, Blunt and other exposed
spies and false defectors. The rest of the book is a
sophisticated and well-detailed account of how Wright has to work and
manage the internal, selfish bureaucratic inertia of the system to
identify the so-called fifth Soviet spy. The convincing evidence
gathered by Wright points to his own boss, the chief of MI5, Roger
Hollis. Tired of tilting at the windmills, Wrights eventually retired to his favorite pastime, that of raising cattle.Most
importantly, the book allows a reader to go on a thirty-year tour
inside everyday activities of an intelligence service, guided by a high
level authority.

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