Behind Margaret Thatcher’s losing battle to stop Spycatcher publication
by Archie Mitchell
Dec 29, 2023
4 minutes
The increasingly desperate, and futile, attempts by Margaret Thatcher’s government to suppress Spycatcher, the memoir of a renegade ex-MI5 officer, are laid bare in official files made public for the first time.
Peter Wright caused a sensation in the 1980s, with his lurid allegations that a former head of the security service had been a Soviet mole and that M15 officers had plotted against Labour prime minister Harold Wilson because they believed he was in the pay of Moscow.
After ministers , his publishers turned to Australia, triggering the start of a lengthy international legal battle
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