The book by a spy that the government did evejudgesrything to stop
From state secrets to accusations of underhandedness, Spycatcher didn’t exactly give MI5 the best rep (Picture: PA/Getty)
A book by a retired British counter-intelligence agent on how he helped unmask a Soviet mole in MI5 sounds like an instant best-seller.
Well, it was in the US at least. Spycatcher, published in 1987, had been banned from being sold in the UK after legal action by the British government.
Courts even blocked newspapers from covering the memoirs, contending that its author...
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