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他參與了幾次行動，本以為可以大展身手，可是接連的失敗令他很是受挫折，特別是失敗的方式令他産生了情報局裏的高層有蘇聯人的“鼴鼠”的想法，為了情報局的“純潔”，也為了給自己一個交待吧，他開始執拗的試圖在情報局裏挖出他想像的那個“鼴鼠”，一直挖到局長大人的腳下，最後為自己的事業挖了個墳墓。
他曾經參與為某國的蘇聯大使館安裝竊聽裝置，可是當蘇聯人來接收建築時，幾乎是拿着配置圖紙，挨個把他們安裝的竊聽器一個個全起了出來。這令包括他在內的一些人開始懷疑情報局裏有人泄密。
還有一次為另一國的蘇聯大使館裝竊聽器，這次裝得更加隱密。這次蘇聯人沒能全部起出竊聽器，但蘇聯人似乎知道哪些地方有、哪些地方沒有竊聽器，在有竊聽器的地方從不談機密的事情，當有機密要談的時候就去已經打掃幹淨的密室。這再次令彼得·賴特等人心生疑惑。
彼得·賴特還參與了通過偵聽無綫電信號定位、發現並抓獲蘇聯間諜朗斯代爾的工作，並因此立功。但事後他對朗斯代爾的異常行為進行分析認為蘇聯人已經知道朗斯代爾暴露的事，但為了保護情報來源，沒有采取讓朗斯代爾逃跑的做法，而是讓他留在英國等待被抓。他的這種觀點令那些因朗斯代爾一案而功成名就的同僚大為氣惱。
這還不算完，彼得·賴特根據自己的“泄密”理論還得出“潘科夫斯基”一案也是蘇聯人使的陰謀，為的是藉機將一名在蘇聯進行間諜工作的英國特工人贓並獲，以便用其與朗斯代爾進行交換。潘科夫斯基也根本不是個投嚮西方的英雄，而是個誘餌。這下觀點不但得罪了因潘科夫斯基立功的英國情報局的官員，還得罪了不少美國同行。
彼得·賴特的這些想法源自一個叛逃的蘇聯間諜戈利岑灌輸給他的蘇聯正在執行“情報欺騙”宏大戰略的理論。
由於“鐵幕”的封鎖，西方在很長一段時間裏對蘇聯的情況非常陌生，衹有一批叛逃到西方的蘇聯間諜帶來一些零星的信息，這其中戈利岑最重要的叛逃者之一，他是前剋格勃重要官員，能掌握和參與許多重要機密。他先與英國的情報機構合作，後來去了美國。他嚮西方的情報部門介紹說剋格勃主席貝利亞被處决後，由老資格的契卡人員謝羅夫接任，後來謝羅夫轉任內務部長，剋格勃主席由謝列平接任。在兩謝任內决定了一項針對西方的“情報欺騙”戰略，通過對西方國傢進行情報欺騙，目的是使西方國傢錯判蘇聯的國傢戰略，許多嚮西方國傢傳遞情報的變節者和叛逃者都是這一戰略的執行者。戈利岑還說他看過許多機密情報，包括許多西方國傢政府的重要機密文件，說明在西方國傢政府機構的重要部門裏有許多蘇聯的“鼴鼠”。
戈利岑的教義在英國和美國都有信徒，在美國是同樣負責抓間諜的安格爾頓，在英國就是彼得·賴特。照我看戈利岑本人倒嚮是個騙子，他辨認間諜的辦法就是看這個人是否到過中國、是否是同性戀等等，後來連中蘇交惡也被說成是欺騙戰略的一部分，戈利岑就漸漸的沒人相信了。
Father's footsteps
Replica of the Great Seal which contained "The Thing" a Soviet bugging device, on display at the NSA's National Cryptologic Museum.
Peter Wright was born in 26 Cromwell Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, the son of (George) Maurice Wright, who was the Marconi Company's director of research, and one of the founders of signals intelligence during World War II. It was said that he arrived prematurely because of shock to his mother, Lous Dorothy, née Norburn, caused by a nearby Zeppelin raid. Peter was a sickly child; he stammered, suffered from rickets, and wore leg irons almost into his teens. Raised in Chelmsford, Essex, he attended Bishop's Stortford College until 1931, where he was an excellent student. He then worked for a while as a farm labourer in Scotland before joining the School of Rural Economy at Oxford University in 1938. On 16 September 1938, he married Lois Elizabeth Foster-Melliar (b. 1914/15), with whom he had two daughters and a son. Despite showing an early aptitude for wireless work, during the Great Depression Peter Wright was obliged to get work as a farm labourer to help make ends meet. He did study for one year at Oxford University, but was obliged to leave since his father had been laid off and could not find a new job.
During World War II, however, he joined the Admiralty's Research Laboratory. After the war, Wright joined Marconi's research department and, according to Spycatcher, he was instrumental in resolving a difficult technical problem. The CIA sought Marconi's assistance over a covert listening device (or "bug") that had been found in a replica of the Great Seal of the United States presented to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow in 1945 by the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union. Wright determined that the bugging device, dubbed The Thing, was actually a tiny capacitive membrane (a condenser microphone) that became active only when 330 MHz microwaves were beamed to it from a remote transmitter. A remote receiver could then have been used to decode the modulated microwave signal and permit sounds picked up by the microphone to be overheard. The device was eventually attributed to Soviet inventor, Léon Theremin.
[edit]Intelligence
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:
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. He also claimed that a cabal inside MI5 was involved in a conspiracy to remove Labour prime minister Harold Wilson.
[edit]Claims about Roger Hollis
Wright was convinced that the KGB was infiltrating British institutions; among the theories he looked into was the idea that the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell had been killed by the KGB, a notion put forward by CIA chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton. With like-minded MI5 officers, Wright became convinced that senior figures in the intelligence world, in politics, and in the trade unions were Soviet agents. After Kim Philby's defection in 1963 following a tip-off, Wright became convinced that the KGB had penetrated the higher reaches of the intelligence agencies. In 1964 he became chairman of a joint MI5/MI6 committee, codenamed Fluency, appointed to find the traitor and investigate the whole history of Soviet penetration of Britain. As claimed in Spycatcher, Wright believed that Roger Hollis was the highest traitor in MI5. However, operation Fluency involved others not necessarily given to this view, and began to systematically examine evidence.
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 longstanding friendship with Claud Cockburn, a communist journalist who was at the time suspected of ties to Soviet intelligence; and,
an acquaintance with Agnes Smedley whilst Hollis was in Shanghai, at a time when Smedley was in a relationship with Richard Sorge, a proven Soviet spymaster.
Later during his investigations, he looked into the debriefings of a Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, and found to his surprise that the revelations of that debriefing were not reported or recorded. After a lengthy check, he discovered that it had been Hollis who was sent to Canada to interview Gouzenko. Gouzenko had provided Hollis with clear information about Alan Nunn May's meetings with his handlers. Gouzenko also noted that the man who met him seemed to be in disguise, not interested in his revelations and discouraged him from further disclosures. Gouzenko had not known about Klaus Fuchs, but he had named a low level suspected GRU agent, Israel Halperin, a mathematician, who was later completely cleared. When the Royal Canadian Mounted Police searched Halperin's lodgings, they found Fuchs' name in his address book. Fuchs immediately broke off contact with his handler, Harry Gold, and shortly afterward took a long vacation to Mexico. Wright alleges in Spycatcher that Gouzenko himself deduced later that his interviewer might have been a Soviet double agent and was probably afraid that he might recognise him from case photos that Gouzenko might have seen in KGB or GRU files, which would explain why Hollis was disguised.
The 'FLUENCY' committee, which examined Hollis' record of service in great detail, unanimously concluded that Hollis was the best fit for the Soviet spy allegations; however, Hollis had retired in late 1965 as MI5 Director-General, by the time the committee finished its report.
A retired civil servant, Burke Trend, later Lord Trend, was brought in during the early 1970s to review the Hollis case. Trend studied the case for a year, and concluded that the evidence was inconclusive for either convicting or clearing Hollis; this was announced by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1983.
Wright's sights were also focused on Labour prime minister Harold Wilson, whom he suspected to be a Soviet agent. The ‘Wilson plot’ resulted in an investigation into Wilson's background by MI5. This, however, did not result in any conclusive evidence. When Wright retired in 1976, Harold Wilson was again prime minister.
The primary case around which Spycatcher is based, that the Director General of MI5 - Roger Hollis - was a Russian spy, is brought up-to-date by Chapman, Pincher (2009). Treachery: Betrayals, Blunders, and Cover-ups: Six Decades of Espionage Against America and Great Britain. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6807-4.
[edit]Retractions
Peter Wright reportedly made a retraction of at least one aspect of his memoirs, "Spycatcher." Dame Stella Rimington, a former MI5 director who was in MI5 while Peter Wright was still working there, says that he retracted his statement about the MI5 group of thirty officers who plotted to overthrow Wilson's government. She also criticised Wright as a disruptive and ineffective officer, taking case files that interested him off other officers, failing to return them to their proper place and failing to write up any interviews he conducted.
[edit]Later life
When Wright retired from MI5, bitter over disagreements over his pension rights, he moved from Britain to Australia, settling in Tasmania. He subsequently returned to Britain at the request of Victor Rothschild, who asked him to help dispel rumours that he was a Soviet agent. Wright agreed, and the result was Chapman Pincher's Their Trade is Treachery (1981), which carried the allegations that Hollis (by then dead) had been a traitor. When Wright's role in supplying information for the book became known, journalists besieged him. Because of the interest and because of the rancour following the pension, in 1985, he decided to publish his memoirs in Australia in order to make ends meet. The British government did all it could to suppress publication, under the pretext that such a publication would be in violation of the Official Secrets Act. They brought an injunction against Wright in Sydney. The Australian court, however, ruled against the British government, thus turning a book that might have had moderate success into an international best seller. Furthermore, the verdict not only vindicated Wright but also represented a victory for press freedom. 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.
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 on 27 April 1995 (aged 78), he was diagnosed as having Alzheimer's disease.