UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files

A documentary-maker has accused the Cabinet Office of defying the 30-year rule in withholding details of the MI5 expose

The Cabinet Office has been accused of delay and deception" over its blocking of the release of files dating back more than three decades that reveal the inside story of the intelligence agent Peter Wright and the Spycatcher affair.

Wright revealed an inside account of how MI5 bugged and burgled" its way across London in his 1987 autobiography Spycatcher. He died aged 78 in 1995.