Spycatcher
[1] In 2021 and 2023, the Cabinet Office was still blocking or redacting freedom of information requests for files on the Spycatcher affair despite the rule that documents should be released after 30 years.In September 1987, the UK government applied for similar orders to prevent publication in Australia, but future Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, representing the publisher, successfully resisted the application, as he did on appeal in June 1988.[6] English newspapers attempting proper reporting about Spycatcher's principal allegations were served gag orders; on persisting, they were tried for contempt of court.[10][11] The accuracy of various allegations made in the book by Wright was questioned in a 1993 review of Spycatcher published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence, an in-house think tank for the CIA.While admitting (on page 42) that the book included "factual data", the document stated that it was also "filled with [unspecified] errors, exaggerations, bogus ideas, and self-inflation".