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as regards information officially made public or in relation to which he had received the written sanction of the Security Service. He has remained under obligations of secrecy, confidence and trust in relation to information obtained in the course of his former employment ever since.
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After retirement Mr. Wright publicly announced that he had submitted a memorandum to the Chairman of a Select Committee of the House of Commons calling for an inquiry into the penetration by foreign agents into the British Security Service, No inquiry having been held he determined to write his memoirs and therein to disclose to the world at large the matters exercising his mind. that the law of England would not permit such a breach of
Knowing his enduring obligations he emigrated to Australia and arranged for the publication of confidential material by Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd. Whether or not he locally freed himself from legal constraint by moving into that jurisdiction has yet finally to be determined in proceedings initiated by the British Government in the Supreme Court of New South Wales during September 1985. However, perhaps in breach of undertakings given to that Court, Mr. Wright and his publishers have meanwhile granted the American rights in his memoirs to Viking Penguin Inc who published them in the United States of America on 14th July 1987 and subsequently in Canada in e, hardback, book called. "Spycatcher", Having regard to the First Amendment to the American Constitution, to section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and to the free passage of goods between the two countries there was no prospect of inhibiting publication within those jurisdictions There have been further publications in Kenya and Bermuda: but. the attitude. of the Attorney General in such regard has not finally been determined. An injunction has been granted at his instance in New Zealand. Copies of the book can be obtained in Hong
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