She failed. He really wouldnt; that scene in the movie really happened. 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. What is this paper? Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? The editorial position should never be that. 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. He runs a media charity. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. Never mind that invading another country for the purpose of regime change is illegal according to international laws to which the United States is a signatory. Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". WebKatharine Guns husbands photo revelations are not made by her yet. However, when her friends start being interrogated about the leak, Gun confesses to being the whistleblower, leading to her being arrested and taken to court for breaching the Official Secrets Act. Or at least, she could have been. It is written by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, a California-based husband-and-wife writing partnership who have worked with British director Jonathan Lynn. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". 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. Right: Entertainment One, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. ", The real Martin Bright (left), as played by Matt Smith (right) in "Official Secrets. Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. And she said, I dont work for the government. That was my first thoughtwhat do you mean you dont work for the government? Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she Much to the distress of our former partners in the Iran nuclear deal, Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the agreement and announced tougher sanctions. Perhaps they don't trust him to keep his word. 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? The British are quite British, you know. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. Gavin Hood: Its a great question. Surely, after 16 years, we are entitled to have answers. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. Donald Trump also is saying he doesn't want war, which is probably true. 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. A manufactured provocation. She said, You mean I dont have to wear a corset? To your point, in some way, she said to me, As a woman, its kind of ironic as an actress that I so often, even though Im in the modern world, that I have to find heroic women in period dramas wearing corsets. Theres something weird about that. And I know whose throat it really sticks in, is [British journalist] Ed Vulliamy, who I adore. 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. To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child. David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. 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. Who spoke to the homeland secretary? 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. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. 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. Thank you! Keira said no one knows Katharine, and that's not an insult to Katharine. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. This, remember, was a conflict that caused the deaths of 179 British servicemen, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and caused countless more to suffer serious wounds, both physical and psychological. ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. But when Gun's lawyers threaten to question the U.K. Attorney General Lord Goldsmith about Britain's involvement in the Iraq war, the government drops their case against Gun. And those two are great actresses. I answered an advert in The Guardian newspaper for a translator. His exact words to describe the intelligence method is, The goal of the intelligence is not the truth, but victory. That is a quote from Shulsky. Now someone else may beI don't know if I could hack people's phones and computers, personally. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. 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. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. If I was writing this as fiction, I need a much longer court case, right? She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. "On the one hand, she's free. The email, which was sent by an American NSA official, suggested that the US was just as well aware that it couldnt earn UN support through valid arguments alone: The memo outlined a plan to bug diplomats from non-permanent UN Security Council Nations Chile, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Guinea, Angola, and Cameroon in search of intelligence that could be used to cajole and possibly even blackmail them into supporting the invasion. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. 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. 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. Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. When my turn came, I entered a small side office, faced the security official and, putting on my best poker face, denied any involvement. 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? Sorry to digress. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. The risks Gun took in revealing the UN email's existence were huge. Which really, really, really happened. Enter Katharine Gun. We have a blondish-looking Katharine. Though celebrated Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg would later call Guns actions the most important and courageous leak in history due to her efforts to save lives through preventing a war, she obviously didnt succeed in stopping the invasion. And it was there that, to our amazement and totally without warning, the CPS dropped the charges before the trial had even started. So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. We even got as far as the Old Bailey. She made the point that if you have Helen Mirren playing the Queen or Meryl Streep playing Maggie Thatcher, everybody knows those people and your judged on how well you impersonate, if you will, those people. 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. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. They failed. I did feel like, Well, I failed.. "Because I think people see thatthe leaders of both the US and the UK conceivably could be considered war criminals, and yet they are walking free.". I didnt know the story and I googled her. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. Was it because we had demanded the Attorney Generals legal advice as part of my defence? 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. 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. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. 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. I don't know that consciously it did, it's just that I didn't know the story and so, for me, it was I asked Katharine, I flew to London, I met her for five days. So thank you for being here, it means a lot. She was charged She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. 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". You have no idea. Again. It should take the facts as they lead. Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. So, to find that it would be dramatised on the big screen was as wonderfully welcome as it was astonishing. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. By design. 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.". One is kind of what I thought it was, which is the CIA is the Central Intelligence Agency, walled off from politicians and the executive in a perfect world, where all the intelligence comes in, they analyze it and they then present their best intelligence estimates; this is pre-war, youre not at war, to the executive branch. 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. A transcript, lightly edited with explainers where necessary, follows. And for her, this was too much. She also opposed the pending war. Truth about Covid care home testing row: Timeline lays bare what was said, by who and when. The truth is when she speaks to me, and she says, Gavin, we also go to lunch like everybody else in any other office. And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? 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's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. What It Feels Liketo Survive a Chemical Attack. '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. 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. It was what I was thinking, what I was feeling. The days and weeks dragged agonisingly by. After a police interview, at which I repeated my admission, I was released on bail to await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service. 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. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service Feel free to republish and share widely. Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. Our institutions matter. As a result, there never was any second UN resolution. 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. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. 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. When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. The truth was that in April of 2002, the two world leaders secretly had agreed on a plan to take out Saddam, all the while giving speeches insisting that the only motivation for even considering war was that horrific stockpile of deadly weapons. Photograph: Andy Hall for the Observer, en years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. I am an American citizen; I have a strange accent but Ive been here 25 years; my kids were born here. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. 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. Actually, there were two incidents at sea, blamed originally on the North Vietnamese. British Secret Service Officer Katharine, then a young bride, risked everything to leak details of the Bush-Blair plan to coerce (possibly blackmail) members of the UN Security Council in order to win their votes to legalize invading Iraq. As a film of her story is planned, she tells of her anger and frustration but not her regrets, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Katharine Gun back in Cheltenham last week: 'This is the ugly truth of what goes on.' But depicting that climate, people who were not aware or active at that timedidn't realize how difficult this was to talk against the war both from the journalist's perspective and obviously someone who's in the intelligence community. Gun had hoped the leak would prick the conscience of the British public, large sections of which were already taking to the streets in opposition to the war. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. You might say I am biased. After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. Some called her a traitor; others Gavin Hood: And that really happened. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? "We started wondering whether we should do the blonde hair and the glasses and wondering about prosthetics, but one point Keira said to me, 'You know, the last thing I want is the audience to say, 'Oh, I don't know if I like her blonde,'" said Hood. 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. What resonates to me is the somewhat more, I hope, timeless thing. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. An insider with courage. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. She said, I was naive. 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. And they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. I was arrested for a breach of section one of the Official Secrets Act 1989 and held overnight in a cell in the basement of the Cheltenham Police headquarters. Id never seen anything like it. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? David Dayen: How did you think Keira Knightley was an asset in showing that emotional journey throughout the movie? So somehow in my rolodex, sometimes they sought me out. ", Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Keira Knightley's Birthday: Her 15 Best Movies Ranked, 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, Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun in "Official Secrets. The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. Moment fitness influencer asks man to move off park bench 'because he's 'ruining her livestream' - but Mortgage demand plummets to a 28-year low as average interest rates hit 6.71% - just as spring home buying Britain braces for brutal -9C Arctic snap: Met Office warns more snow and ice could lash the country next Is YOUR wood burner at risk? Such a law is not compatible with openness, transparency, accountability and justice. [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.]. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. And the reason? During the American-lead 2003 campaign for United Nations support for an invasion of Iraq, Gun, who's played in the film by Keira Knightley, was a 28 year-old Mandarin translator working for the UKs Government Communications Headquarters, the nations equivalent of the American NSA. David Dayen: One thing I think you depict really brilliantly in this story is what the climate was like at the time. I've seen that happen. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. But I do want to give her credit that I think I didn't do her justice enough in the moment that she leaked that memo; it changed so quickly to war that we don't really get a moment to absorb the fact that as a result of her leaking that memo, there was no vote at the UN Security Council. WebAnd they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. I admitted the leak and my life was turned upside down. It was almost as if that request was asking for someone within their own nation to do this work; it wasn't asking another completely independent state for co-operation.". That's the memo. 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. 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. Gun discusses her attempt to stop the Iraq War, which is the subject of the new movie Official Secrets. 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. We typically, in the movie business, ever since Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero of A Thousand Facesand Im not meaning to be sarcastic because thats a great piece of work, but it spoiled the idea that every development executive is reading these books because the hero we meet and then something upsets their world and the antagonist that must equal the hero, and eventually we go through these loops and the hero triumphs in the end. And that I think was the motivation. 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 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. We were in development with a particular studio, and I don't mean to be funny after such a heavy film but sometimes we need a little bit of humor. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? 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. Eventually, it was widely held that at least one of the reports of the attacks, and perhaps even both, were false. And then there is the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led America deeply into war against North Vietnam. I spent the following hours doubled over the toilet bowl in absolute terror. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. Where do you draw the line? 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). This was her first or second week at the paper. If it was, who cleared it to be passed to GCHQ? Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? Sound familiar? 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." Whistleblower Katherine Gun, right, is played by Keira Knightly in the movie Official Secrets, Gun was outraged after she learned - as part of her job with GCHQ - that the United States wanted Britain to assist in spying on fellow United Nations Security Council members to win a vote in favour of a planned war in Iraq. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? 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. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" I grew up in South Africa in the seventies and eighties, when apartheid was really tightening and tightening and tightening. It gives me an interesting pause. As opposed to trying to be Katharine Gun. 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 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. In the years following, an author called Marcia Mitchell contacted me and said she was keen to write a book about my case. WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. Keira calmly said: Oh, that was probably me. I still blush to the tips of my toes when I think about it. But she still was not uncomfortable with the other things we've talked about. None of the Government reports into the war acknowledged it, nor did the history books. 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. And we keep that system alive. 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. This is my second brief moment of fame. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. He loves a battle, when it's done with words, boasts, and threats. 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