They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. It left me in an impossible predicament. WebAttempts were made by the authorities to deport her husband, who grew disillusioned with Britain. the waning support for public institutions today. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? The British are quite British, you know. Most whistleblowers leak after the event to expose perceived wrongdoing. Instead, the American coalition was forced to stake its claim to a legal invasion on grounds of self defense, including now-infamously untrue claims about weapons of mass destruction. Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing. Yet here was a story that had the capacity to derail the war altogether. When you have the initial GCHQ induction course for new arrivals, she said, they tell you not to trust journalists, to be careful to keep everything confidential. Still, she printed off the memo, tucked it into her purse, and took it home. What resonates to me is the somewhat more, I hope, timeless thing. Which is to say that GCHQ was being asked to dig dirt on foreign officials so that they could be blackmailed, bribed or both in order to secure a UN resolution authorising an invasion. Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. Those are compelling and important qualities to see in characters that move through a story, and I feel like especially for women it's an under-valued active engine. To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. Now someone else may beI don't know if I could hack people's phones and computers, personally. But she still was not uncomfortable with the other things we've talked about. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. WebHer late husband, Tom, a former special agent of the FBI and one-time head of counter-intelligence in New York, co-authored the Gun story. Id never seen anything like it. And when we got to that point in the movie, I had to start montaging it because it was just taking too long to get to the end. Despite the risk of a harsher sentence, I decided to plead not guilty because I felt strongly that my actions had been intended to prevent the unnecessary loss of life in an illegal war. But there's no way I would have expressed that to any of my colleagues," Gun explained. At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. I don't think I've ever met a more determined character and she remained utterly convinced of the justice of her cause: "There's nothing subsequent to the invasion that makes me think it was the right decision made by Bush and Blair." It was the first time I had worked with characters who were still alive, and they very much wanted it to be accurate or they wouldn't sign over their life rights. We have a blondish-looking Katharine. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? For several years, just recalling the events would set my heart racing and my hands trembling. You might say I am biased. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. So we're in this development meeting, and the executive looks at me and goes, Gavin, I mean we need her running down alleys more, someone needs to throw a brick through her damn window, and when does she don her cape? It was literally the line. Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. ", Speaking to Gun, and seeing her in archival footage at the end of the film, it is clear that Knightley didn't try to emulate the look or sound of the real-life Gun. So thats how the scene happened, but she didnt know where he was for three days, he was at Harmonsworth, before she got him out. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. I sensed a slight flash of anger as she said: "It's not even a footnote in the history of Iraq." And just coming from my perspective, the press, because a lot of this is a story about the press, and how they handle it. He was actually gone for three days. When I got to the interview thats when they told me that its for GCHQ, I didnt know what GCHQ did. So, I think she entered the world out of a sort of strange curiosity. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. And maybe they were right, I don't know. Spoilers to follow as well. Give today. Or, in this case, when the Office of Special Plans was set up, youve got Feith and someone like Abram Shulsky, whose philosophy of intelligence is very different. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. Neither my friends nor my family knew what I did all day. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. Sound familiar? Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she She also opposed the pending war. After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life and that proved hard. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. And it was there that, to our amazement and totally without warning, the CPS dropped the charges before the trial had even started. It is written by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, a California-based husband-and-wife writing partnership who have worked with British director Jonathan Lynn. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. Or at least, she could have been. Ive already lost a dear friend, and I cant do thisget called up two months of the year, every year, for the next 12 years. And in her case, she risked both her job and her freedom and whatever you think of her politically, I think that takes some guts. Now the goal is not truth, it is victory. Our institutions matter. You have no idea. Although the story made headlines around the world at the time of the leak and later at the time of her trial, which collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence, it remains largely missing from the official narratives of the build-up to the Iraq war. US firms waiting in the wings read to pump 'billions Parents' fury as schools STILL won't tell them if they are closed tomorrow as teacher strikes continue. Gun, a translator with the British intelligence service known as Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), received a document just before the war from an NSA manager, seeking British intelligence support in spying on members of the UN Security Council, to effectively blackmail them into voting for a second resolution that would make legal the invasion of Iraq. WebWhen the film opens, Gun (Keira Knightley) is happily married to Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Turkish national living in the UK on a temporary visa, and passionately invested in One is reminded of the January 31, 2003 Oval Office meeting with George Bush, Tony Blair, and Condoleeza Rice, in which the topic of provoking Iraq to start a war was particularly revealing. Gavin Hood: There is a kind of cognitive dissonance. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. We go to the canteen and we talk.. By design. The truth is that I didnt know who Katharine Gun was until my producer Ged Doherty called me up one day, we made Eye In The Sky together, and said, Have you ever heard of Katharine Gun? Thats one of those moments where you think: Sounds like I ought to have, but I hadnt. The email was demonstrating the depths to which the American and British governments would descend in order to get spurious legal cover for a war in the Middle East which would have utterly catastrophic consequences, as we know to our cost today. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. Eventually, it was widely held that at least one of the reports of the attacks, and perhaps even both, were false. Whistleblower and former employee of Britain's global surveillance center GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) Katharine Gun smiles as she speaks to the media during a press conference February 25, 2004 in London, England. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. The other was Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and counsel at the Minneapolis bureau, who blew the whistle on FBI and other shortcomings So that's who's running this show. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. As Bright noted, however, what we see in the movie is close to the real events. However, Gun was well aware that any attempt to release the memo would find her running afoul of Britains Official Secrets Act, which criminalizes the leaking of intelligence-related information. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. Gun, her husband, and their four-year-old daughter shed their coveted privacy long enough to allow Katharine to be one of two former Sam Adams Award winners to present this year's award. And I went back in 93 and did another two years with the new Department of Health. The memo from Frank Koza, chief of staff at the "regional targets" section of the National Security Agency, GCHQ's sister organisation in the US, remains shocking in its implications for British sovereignty. And people do this in every country; they spy, they listen to what are the Chinese going to do when they get to this conference. And she said, Yep, I have no problem being asked to listen in, in instances where I might help prevent a terror attack. What this memo suggested was neither of those things it was a bridge too far for her. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? But get out of that trailer as fast as possible, get onto the set, and work from inside? By the way, I know some amazing people in the intelligence services. They failed. Even though she didn't stop the war and some people are like what's the point if she didn't stop the warwell, the point is how do you sleep at night? It wasone of the reasons I came to this country in 89 was because we were getting drafted, and I thought I cant do this. Questioner: The only thing that I've wondered while watching the film, since it's a true story, is how could Ms. Gunn, who was a spy, who was a member of an intelligence agency, be surprised when her husband got deportedor when the government came after her husband, how could she be surprised when all of the different reactions she got came forward? This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. You are sitting in the intelligence services, and Ive spoken to many now because Ive made other films in that world and I have some interesting folks that Ive been able to talk to, and the struggle was were being disloyal if you dont toe a party line, as it were, but we know this isnt right. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" She said, I thought that might be quite interesting and exciting. If there had been a UN resolution, there would have been no need to make a WMD argument because there are two legal ways to go to war. It's a fascinating film that really evokes the dangers of speaking out in the post-9/11 age, as well as the press's inability to challenge the official story on Iraq, particularly the U.S. press, which really just blacked out the Gun leak entirely. So, Im not really answering your question well, but her feeling was just: Now I dont belong in this company. That's the memo. Im gratified, too, that the film shows the love and support my husband gave me throughout this ordeal. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. Yet to this day there has been barely a mention of the Bush regimes disgraceful demand in official histories of the period, as if its been deliberately written out. The spin in this country and in the UK was the threat of deadly weapons ready to be deployed by Saddam. Taking Vitamin D each day could cut your chances of getting dementia, study claims. [Gun's husband Yasar, a Kurd, was nearly deported back to the Middle East at one point, even though he had nothing to do with the leak.]. She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. As the working day came to close, I tried to project a sense of calm I didnt feel, walked out of the gates and put the incriminating email in the post. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service You have the UN resolution, we're all doing this together to stop the genocide or something, or it's self-defense, we're going to be attacked, it's so clear we're going to be attacked that we have to take pre-emptive action. Across the world, millions protested the invasion of Iraq, doing their own small parts to attempt to prevent the war. You may not know the name Katharine Gun unless you live in the United Kingdom, but she was a pivotal figure in the run-up to the Iraq War. For me as a journalist who was really getting started around that time, this climate of fear that was in place in the United States and also in the UK. She said to me, Gavin, I had no problem doing the work that involved a lot of listening in, in order to give information about trade negotiations, to give our country the advantage of trade negotiations when they go. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. I became a mother, we moved countries and I have come to terms with that year of my life, though it will always define me in some ways. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. Progressive values. Despite the millions affected by the Iraq War, its now far removed from British and American news cycles, displaced from the headlines by todays political turmoil. But the falsehoods and unnecessary wars of yesteryear likely have influenced the waning support for public institutions today. We all, in some ways, make these decisions. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. So she said, Can I just do nothing with my hair, put on the jeans like Katharine wore? So the wardrobe is accurate to Katharine's style. Later, she gave the document to a friend, who passed it onto a contact in the anti-war movement, until it finally landed with journalists Martin Bright and Ed Vulliamy The Observer. But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. EXCLUSIVE: Lanzarote sticks to its guns and insists it WILL limit tourists and move away from relying on Jeremy Clarkson is axed as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? As a result, there never was any second UN resolution. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. And I thought: this is good. The increasing presence of US Navy ships and a B-52 bomber task force in their neighborhood might provoke the Iranians to load up their missiles. The concern among many Americans is that claims of an unprovoked, deadly attack by Iran are exaggerated. And that I think was the motivation. Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her days listening in to obscure Chinese intercepts, decided to tell the world about a secret plan by the US government to spy on the United Nations. Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her days listening in to obscure Chinese intercepts, decided to tell the world about a secret plan by the US government to spy on the, Don't mention the Iraq war, William Hague tells cabinet, Tenyears on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid, Occupying Iraq: a US army veteran's ambivalence, Howthe Bush administration sold the war and we bought it, the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act, collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence. The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. Gun disclosed details of the spying operation as it was happening to stop something she viewed as terrible happening in the future. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? He loves a battle, when it's done with words, boasts, and threats. Gavin Hood: Thats such an interesting statement, I mean, I just took it at face value that papers take an editorial position, but youre right. Would you risk your job? Provocation? Throughout her own court case, whatonly a few knew wasthat she was also fighting for the right of her husband, who is from Turkey, to remain in the UK. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. By the time Gun and around 100 of her colleagues received the emailed memo that would change her life, she had already come to the conclusion that the arguments for war with Iraq were not really valid arguments, she tells me. However, the Pentagon says the US deployment is "in response to indications of heightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations against US forces and our interests.". Had the film appeared any earlier, however, I dont think Id have been able to watch it, let alone help the makers. It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. The legal case against Gun was eventually dropped by the British government in 2004, after her lawyer, Ben Emmerson QC (played in the film with fabulous charisma by Ralph Fiennes), threatened to use disclosure to put the legal basis of the war itself on trial. I answered an advert in The Guardian newspaper for a translator. You see it most vividly in that scene where everybody stops calling Martin Bright, or they start canceling all the interviews. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, King Charles hosts von der Leyen at Windsor Castle, Police: Urgent search for Constance Marten's missing baby, Shocking video shows machete fight in broad daylight, Gabor Mat: No Jewish state without oppressing local population, Putin spy plane before being 'destroyed by pro-Ukraine Belarus group', Amplified jet stream could lead to 'disruptive snow in places', Pupils take to TikTok as they stage protest at Shenfield High School, Putin orders intelligence service to find 'scum' who oppose him, Moment supermarket cashier is attacked at work in New York, Police search allotment sheds for Constance Marten's missing baby, Huge urgent police search for missing baby of Constance Marten, Dashcam captures moment two cars collide on a roundabout. Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. And that's quite a depressing place to find yourself in when you feel so strongly and passionately about something. Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Before 1989, there had been a Public Interest Defence to protect whistleblowers, but that was altered amid the furore surrounding the sinking of the Argentinian Navy cruiser, the General Belgrano, in the course of the Falklands War. She was charged The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. When Official Secrets received its British premiere at Londons BFI Film Festival earlier this month, I was determined to wear something that held a special meaning and settled on a dress by an Iraqi designer. This meant that a lot of the things that we see Gun go through in the film actually took far longer in real life. Right now my priorities are to ensure I am there for my daughter.". Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. Before 1989, there had been a Public Interest Defence to protect whistleblowers, but that was altered amid the furore surrounding the sinking of the Argentinian Navy cruiser, the General Belgrano, in the course of the Falklands War. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. So when, on the first Sunday of March, 2003, my leak appeared on the front page of The Observer newspaper, I was overcome with shock. In the years following, an author called Marcia Mitchell contacted me and said she was keen to write a book about my case. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" Naturally, I was discreet. In real life, "the spellcheck largely happened through a series of phone calls," according to Bright, "because on a Sunday newspaper we don't work on a Sunday, and we don't work on a Monday. The central issues of whistle-blower protection, public interest disclosures, journalistic freedom and the accountability of our elected representatives continue to be just as relevant today. Theyre talking about diplomatic negotiations, and having all the cards on the table, but behind that what theyre doing is trying to bribe UN diplomatic members to vote for a war which has no legal justifications, Gun says. This included a particular focus on the "swing nations" on the security council, Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, "as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters". Surely, she thought, when people realised that the UK was being asked to collaborate in an operation to find out personal information that could be used to blackmail UN delegates, they would be outraged and the UK government would halt its slide into war. "There seems to be this blas attitude the spying goes on, everyone does it and so it's nothing to get all hot under the collar about. WebWhistleblower Katherine Gun, right, is played by Keira Knightly in the movie Official Secrets View gallery Gun was outraged after she learned - as part of her job with GCHQ - that Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. Maybe thats rewarding. It remains entirely to the credit of Roger Alton, at the time the paper's editor, that he stuck with the story, despite its potential implications. In one pivotal scene in the film, all of Gun and Bright's work is nearly undone by one mistake, as a member of The Observer team accidentally changed the American spelling of the memo into British spelling, something The Drudge Report then used to discredit the memo. What happened to Gun afterwards forms the basis of the film Official Secrets, which opened in New York and Los Angeles earlier this month and goes into wider release today. Did that change your approach to presenting the film knowing that this was actually going to be somewhat of a surprise to people? Koza was in effect issuing a direct order to the employees of a UK security agency to gather "the whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises". Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. Only now, more than a decade and a half later, is this disturbing sequence of events once again receiving the attention it deserves thanks to Official Secrets, a brilliant new movie starring Keira and former Doctor Who, Matt Smith. The contents were explosive, implicating America in a blackmail plot to swing UN votes in favor of an invasion. Not the truth, but the war. 265 ratings46 reviews British secret service officer Katharine Gun's only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. Instead, the American coalition was WebWe speak with a British whistleblower whose attempts to expose lies about the Iraq invasion was called "the most important and courageous leak" in history by acclaimed He is wonderfully articulate but super pissed off, and his PTSDbecause hes been in Iraq for yearsmanifests at just disdain for that certain person you mentioned. So here we are in rehearsal, and we're talking one day about the look. After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. WebIts the tale of whistleblower Katharine Gun, a former translator for the UKs Government Communications HQ, who leaked a top-secret memo in 2003 on the eve of a divisive US-led war. She could easily have been me or you at your place of work, where something comes across your desk and you go, This doesn't smell right. Surely, after 16 years, we are entitled to have answers. Iraq All Over Again? According to the Guardian, We had planned to demand that the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith disclose the advice he had given on the legality of the war and so put the war itself on trial. She talks about having read all these books [about the war]. For the Observer too, it was a story full of risks. '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. Then, we all started watching the invasion and we werent how we got into the war. We may earn a commission from these links. To look at someone who I thought was quite accessible and ordinaryand she doesn't mind me saying this because Katharine is someone who keeps her head below and is quiet, and did something extraordinary. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. On the other hand, she and Ben, to this day, feel they never got their day in court. In the film, when Gun is sent an email from someone high up in the U.S. government that reveals the U.S. covert plan, she decides to leak it to Bright, who works for the British newspaper The Observer, which then publishes it on their front page. If it was, who cleared it to be passed to GCHQ? You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. "That really happened," Hood confirmed, though it did not go quite as it is shown in the film. The more we find out that in fact the million-person march was a real cause of worry for Downing Street and for Blair personally, it makes you think we were so close and yet so far.". So, that's where we had to go for WMD. But Katharine Gun, whos now the subject of a new film, the Gavin Hood-directed Official Secrets, did a lot moreand became one of the most important political whistleblowers that most Americans have never heard of. Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. He said she didnt even know what the job was. And I went, Oh, that's how much that superhero myth is in our system. We didn't end up making it with that studio. Iran has been filmed loading missiles aboard some of its vessels. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. By the time the mid-eighties came around and I was a young law student, so Im looking at it from the side of the law, we had no right of access to lawyers in trial if you breached anything that was regarded as having to do with the emergency legislation. Again. Only later did I appreciate the extent to which the journalists involved Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy had to go in order to prove that the email was legitimate. Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job. When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. For example, a scene where Gun tries to get her husband out of an immigration detention center actually played out over three days during which she did not know where he was. He really wouldnt; that scene in the movie really happened. I could put a lens on, and now my job is, this actress is doing great work, lets not get tricky, lets just get the audience into her eyes so that you could see those cogs moving. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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