"I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. 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. Perhaps they knew it would come out in the courtroom that the entire conflict was based on lies about Saddams weapons of mass destruction and that key UN officials could have been blackmailed. Over the weekend, I got to work. Give today. Chile and Mexico and the other smaller countries were so outraged that they refused to even bring it to a vote. 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. 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. Later, it turned out that the Attorney General had indeed judged the war to be illegal in his initial advice, but that fact was not revealed until six years later in 2010. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. Gun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. WebIn 2003, Katharine Gun exposed a plot by U.S. security officials to spy on United Nations members as they ramped up pressure to secure a resolution to go to war with Iraq, and Her story, which reveals what a country will do when it wants war and claims it does not, is told in an updated book and a major motion picture soon to be released--Official Secrets (Keira Knightly is Katharine). Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. Again. Direct to your inbox. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. I was only a junior analyst, but I knew the email was outrageous: the American government was asking Britain to spy on United Nations diplomats so they could be blackmailed into supporting an invasion of Iraq. We were to target such things as phone calls and emails from their homes as well as their places of work. 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. Donald Trump also is saying he doesn't want war, which is probably true. Gun disclosed details of the spying operation as it was happening to stop something she viewed as terrible happening in the future. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. By the way, I know some amazing people in the intelligence services. These superheroes, and I don't just mean superheroes in the movie sense, but larger-than-life big political figures, or Edward Snowden is almost mythical in his brilliance whether you like what he did or not, he is sort of not me. Questioner: It was so heartening to hear you talk about that hero's journey because I feel like we so often take compassion, passion, integrity for granted as a call to action. WebKatharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. David Dayen: No problem. He loves a battle, when it's done with words, boasts, and threats. And maybe they were right, I don't know. "I think part of the reason Gavin included it was just to kind of share that thought process.". 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. 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". ", Keira Knightley and Katharine Gun at the London premiere of "Official Secrets. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. There were some audience questions as well. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. WebGun, then 28, received an email about a U.S.-led operation enlisting the help of Britain to spy on other countries, in an attempt to blackmail them into supporting the Iraq War. 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. 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. The same countries demanded immediate answers from the British government about its involvement in the spying. Anyway, the Office of Special Plans and Abram Shulsky make an interesting Wikipedia read, it won't take you very long. "Obviously, we are compressing a story that took place in real life over a period of a year into two hours. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. 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. Two hours later after this deep dive, I called Ged back and said, How come we dont know this story? I guess the answer to that is that her story was big news for the day, and then very quickly got crushed by a bigger story, which was the story of the invasion. There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. '", The reality was not nearly as dramatic as in the film, where Bright and his editor are together in a newsroom when the mistake is revealed, leading to them being dropped from interviews with a number of international news outlets. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. They live on a smallholding, renting a house, in rural Turkey. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. And she and many in her world knew, and many in the CIA knew, as Mel Goodman who's the man in the boathouse in Washington knew, that this was B.S. Jack Straw, then the foreign secretary, has not been challenged on whether he authorised the operation to go ahead, although it is almost certain that he did. WebI disappeared with my husband down to the coast in Brighton, on the coast of England, and spent some time away from the limelight, Gun said in the interview. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. As the Trump administration shreds norms of American governance like a Shih Tzu going to town on a roll of toilet paper, the last worst president is largely silent, busied with .css-umdwtv{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-thickness:.0625rem;text-decoration-color:#FF3A30;text-underline-offset:0.25rem;color:inherit;-webkit-transition:background 0.4s;transition:background 0.4s;background:linear-gradient(#ffffff, #ffffff 50%, #d5dbe3 50%, #d5dbe3);-webkit-background-size:100% 200%;background-size:100% 200%;}.css-umdwtv:hover{color:#000000;text-decoration-color:border-link-body-hover;-webkit-background-position:100% 100%;background-position:100% 100%;}canine portraiture and now the subject of nearly fond nostalgia. And I think thats why you get this very honest, pure, deeply felt performance. Webdeport Guns husband, Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Muslim Kurdish Turk who was awaiting permanent leave to remain in the U.K. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. "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. Do you go vote? 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. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for If the email did reach the newspapers, I reasoned, there would be no more than a discreet summary. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. Please help keep the independent journalism of Common Dreams strong. The point of all of this is painfully obvious. David Dayen: The first thing I thought about when looking at this movie is that in most recent historical epics, the audience knows what's happening next. The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. 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." By printing off the memo, putting it in her handbag and taking it home, she was already committing a serious breach of the Official Secrets Act. But my point is simply this: The underpinnings of this country matter. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? That's the memo. Feel free to republish and share widely. 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. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. WebFor 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. And maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. Right now my priorities are to ensure I am there for my daughter.". Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! WebAttempts were made by the authorities to deport her husband, who grew disillusioned with Britain. She also opposed the pending war. ", Hood added: "You know, to this day, I mean, the real journalistic question is, who would like to go and really press Lord Goldsmith and Ken McDonald for the reasons why they really dropped their case? 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. And the reason? Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. To legitimize an invasion and get rid of Saddam, a new UN Security Council resolution, going beyond SC1441 and specifically sanctioning the invasion, was the answer. The days and weeks dragged agonisingly by. 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. It was an interesting experience because you couldn't really go bending things the way you thought would be more dramatic, you just have to make the story itself and hope there was enough drama there. 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. 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. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. What do you think resonates? Actually, there were two incidents at sea, blamed originally on the North Vietnamese. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" Instead, the American coalition was ", Bright noted that apart from some small flourishes to heighten the drama, he didn't think Official Secrets had "any genuine liberties taken with the truth. Supported by Liberty, the prominent British civil-rights campaigning organiza-tion, Gun and her lawyer, Ben Emmerson (Ralph Fiennes), decided to cite grounds of necessity in order to contest the charges laid against her. This is not to say that Iran does not have a trick up its sleeve, or that wild-eyed Iranian hawks aren't circling its leaders. You might say I am biased. And if, 16 years ago, you had told me that one day my life story would be portrayed by Keira Knightley, Id have laughed and changed the subject. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). The movie tells the story of Katharine Gun (played by Keira Knightley), a translator with the U.K.'s GCHQ who, in 2003, leaked top secret documents to journalist Martin Bright (Matt Smith) that revealed that the American government's plans to apply pressure on members of the U.N. Security Counsel to pass its war resolution. The comments below have been moderated in advance. We even got as far as the Old Bailey. By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. [In the movie, Gun says I dont work for the government, I work for the people.]. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. I was 27 when it all began. Gun was visiting friends and family in Cheltenham when I talked to her, with the strain obvious on her face but still looking much younger than her 38 years. The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. 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. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. 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. We need a truth-sayer. This is my second brief moment of fame. And for her, this was too much. 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. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? WebKatharine Gun, as passionately embodied here by Knightley, skews too noble to be particularly interesting, and the film is weakest when its focused on her and her husband Times have often been tough, not least because of the itinerant life she has chosen for herself. Keira said no one knows Katharine, and that's not an insult to Katharine. What we have in this country is very precious, and in a sense, when I make these kind of films I don't know if I consciously do it, it's actually reminding about us that authoritarianism and governments gone awry are not okay, and what makes us strongoh, that sounds terribly pretentious, but I think you see where I'm coming from. 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? David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. We may earn a commission from these links. At first, I heard nothing. With the operation blown, the chances of George W Bush and Tony Blair getting the consensus for a direct UN mandate for war were now near zero. The other kind of fight could be frightening and politically risky. Daniel Ellsberg, the celebrated American whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the build-up to the war in Vietnam, described it as "the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen".He added: "No one else including myself has ever done what Katharine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.". But there's no way I would have expressed that to any of my colleagues," Gun explained. Today, I believe the Act serves as an illiberal, draconian piece of law, little more than a weapon of the state to deter any disclosure, no matter how much in the public interest it might be. As it was, a second UN resolution directly to authorise war against Iraq never materialised and air strikes began on 19 March 2003. After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. America, Britain, and Spain withdrew their proposed resolution on invading Iraq when it became clear that it would not garner the necessary Security Council votes, in part because of the information Gun brought to light. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. I was suddenly free and bewildered. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. 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. But, maybe if I didn't know and maybe if I went into that job and discovered oh my God, maybe I really can stop a terrorist attack today. 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 The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. Sometimes movies can be an effective way to make forgotten stories part of our national narrative, and in that sense, Official Secrets comes not a moment too soon. Provocation? What It Feels Liketo Survive a Chemical Attack. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" Some called her a traitor; others Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. You have no idea. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images). In technical speak, the Americans wanted the whole gamut of information which would give US policy makers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals in relation to Iraq. Where do you draw the line? Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. Us, in any situation, wherever you work, I thought that's what this timeless about it. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. In the matter of a few years. She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. Gavin Hood: Yes, it really sticks in my throat too. Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. Did that change your approach to presenting the film knowing that this was actually going to be somewhat of a surprise to people? The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. But Katharine only ever leaked this one memo. [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.]. 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. As a result of the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, she was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act. She was charged Powerful Commons committee could look at case for banning stoves in towns and Love Island hit by hundreds of Ofcom complaints from furious viewers over 'toxic femininity' row and Movie As easy as buying a loaf of bread: Undercover footage reveals how laughing gas is being sold from local Could Northern Ireland become the UK's Silicon Valley? David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. But the invasion was forced to proceed with the backing of Bushs coalition of the willinginstead of with the support of the United Nations. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. Id never seen anything like it. I admitted the leak and my life was turned upside down. Then the most almighty cacophony erupted, a roar so loud we could barely hear to speak. They failed. Spoilers to follow as well. 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. Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evi-dence for prosecution when I had confessed to the leak from the start? Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. To me, it was a way of showing that Iraq cannot be dismissed as a horror show of suffering, but is an ancient and sophisticated culture that goes back thousands of years. The British are quite British, you know. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? 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 Does your loyalty lie to your own conscious, does your loyalty lie to your marriage, does your loyalty lie to your government, does your loyalty lie to your country? 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. "But that's partly my own fault because I haven't aggressively pursued a career. 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. 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. And Assange is the same. My shock turned to anger as the significance sank in. [Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act in Britain, but ultimately the case never went to trial.]. I was called on to look this way and that and smile until my face was stiff. 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. I don't think she thought they would deport her husband, I really don't think she thought that. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. Its had far reaching and very negative impacts in all aspects of our institutions and our public life," Gun says. It is to say that a government, for its own reasons may, either by design or through miscalculation, lead a country into an unnecessary and brutal war. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. 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. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. 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 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. Public attention is the last thing you expect if, like me, youd settled for a job in the shadowy world of British intelligence. 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. As Bright noted, however, what we see in the movie is close to the real events. The film also captures my determination to do what I believed was right and reveals how divisive the Iraq War was, particularly highlighting the anger within certain sections of the intelligence services as the sabre-rattling statements of Mr Blair and his spokesman Alastair Campbell were accepted without proper challenge by some in the media. Enter Katharine Gun. First, I contacted someone to this day Ive never named them who had the details of a journalist and anti-war activist. And he kept thinking, 'How am I going to portray this? She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. But the Bush administration went to war anyway, using the pretext of weapons of mass destruction. In the years following, an author called Marcia Mitchell contacted me and said she was keen to write a book about my case. Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. Gavin Hood: And that really happened. Whatever, she blew the whistle ultimately revealing the truth behind the build-up to the Iraq War--regime change, disguised as terrifying threats of weapons of mass destruction. I spent the following hours doubled over the toilet bowl in absolute terror. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. Following the trauma inflicted on Gun, the U.K. Attorney General dropped the case against her with no warning. 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. Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. The truth is when she speaks to me, and she says, Gavin, we also go to lunch like everybody else in any other office. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. 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