Alan Keveral Cumming Newton Wrigley AO (born 19 July 1931) is an Australian writer and commentator on topics related to intelligence, defence and security.
Prior to his writing career, he was an engineer at the Government Aircraft Factories, a senior public servant in the Department of Defence, and Director-General of Security (the head of the intelligence agency ASIO).
As Director-General, Wrigley implemented several rigorous reforms to the agency, continuing a trend begun under the directorship of Sir Edward Woodward by further reducing the level of specialisation and increasing generalisation.
[2] A number of experienced officers resigned from ASIO after Wrigley abolished benefits and allowances for senior officers moving to Canberra, which had been negotiated with the Hawke government under his predecessor Harvey Barnett.
[4] Indeed, Wrigley resigned from ASIO on 7 October 1988 to act as a special advisor to the Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce (Senator John Button) on the planned Multifunction Polis project until 31 December 1990.