Intelligence Career Highlights
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 1964 he became chairman of a joint MI5/MI6 committee, codenamed FLUENCY Working Party, appointed to find the traitor and investigate the whole history of Soviet penetration of Britain. Also from 1964 for the next 6 years he had regular interviews with Anthony Blunt, a member of the Cambridge Five, trying to glean more informatiom from him about other Soviet spies.
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