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. We have a blondish-looking Katharine. WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? 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. 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.". So, I guess we all have a threshold. This was her first or second week at the paper. 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. Some called her a traitor; others insisted she was a hero. ", 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? Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. We started working on this three years ago and even then it felt relevant in the sense that the challenges we talked about earlier: Where does my loyalty lie? Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she So there is sometimes a thought in my head that says: What if Katharine hadn't leaked that memo? 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. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. She went to this interview, the next minute were down this rabbit hole, the next minute my wifes telling the world. 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. That's the memo. Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child. A manufactured provocation. As I walked down the red carpet, I had never in my life experienced the flash of so many cameras. So, that's where we had to go for WMD. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. But get out of that trailer as fast as possible, get onto the set, and work from inside? Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? You have no idea. 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. Iran has been filmed loading missiles aboard some of its vessels. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. 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. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. Or at least, she could have been. The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. A transcript, lightly edited with explainers where necessary, follows. And that I think was the motivation. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. But that shouldn't be the philosophy pre-war when you're trying to decide whether to go to war. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? We were to target such things as phone calls and emails from their homes as well as their places of work. Iraq All Over Again? And it was this book which eventually became the script for Official Secrets. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. And it's a tough profession in many ways. We may earn a commission from these links. 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His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. It was what I was thinking, what I was feeling. 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. She wasnt planning to get caught and then the dilemma was, My friends are all going to have their lives ruined.. Twenty-eight, pretty naive. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? She failed. 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 said, I was naive. And they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. They're more polite to their suspects. I was 27 when it all began. WebKatharine Guns husbands photo revelations are not made by her yet. When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. 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.". We need another Katharine Gun. WebYou 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. Now, Trump says, he wants to see Iran back at the negotiating table. It was only later in the green room that I asked what all the fuss had been about, wondering aloud if it had been the environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion. Again. 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. ", 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. KatharineGun did not stop the war,but was it all entirely in vain? 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. Was it because we had demanded the Attorney Generals legal advice as part of my defence? She was charged Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. But the falsehoods and unnecessary wars of yesteryear likely have influenced the waning support for public institutions today. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. If the email did reach the newspapers, I reasoned, there would be no more than a discreet summary. And for her, this was too much. 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. I actually think the little memo lands on our lap more often than we think, even if it's just who I should vote for. 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. For the Observer too, it was a story full of risks. Not only was the cable the most sensitive ever to be disclosed on either side of the Atlantic, it was also unique in its timing. I never thought Id be choosing a dress for a red carpet appearance at a major film festival. Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. It gives me an interesting pause. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. 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. "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. Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. 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. 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. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. Yet here was a story that had the capacity to derail the war altogether. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. Donald Trump also is saying he doesn't want war, which is probably true. She said, I worry what's going to happen, they'll go, Ooh, I don't know if I like Keira Knightly in blonde hair, what's she done to her nose, does she have glasses on? Because they don't have a comparison to make, until you see her at the end of the movie. From nightmares to candy cravings, the seemingly innocuous habits in Man is banned from touching every parking meter in Liverpool for two years after being convicted of theft, Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Do not sell or share my personal information. 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 maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. 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. So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. Gun said that the UK government still had some explaining to do: "I thinkthere need to be more questions asked about whether they responded to that request, why they felt it was within their scope of work to respond to that sort of request, and what is the manner of the relationship between UK politics and US politics. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. 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 And then there is the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led America deeply into war against North Vietnam. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. 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. Now there is the possibility that Gun's singular life will be made into a movie. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" When do the clocks change in 2023? And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. He said: "Very close. Enter Katharine Gun. You might say I am biased. Chile and Mexico and the other smaller countries were so outraged that they refused to even bring it to a vote. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. 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. 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. The invasion was a huge blow, says Gun. 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. Hundreds of thousands were killed. 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. Does anyone have any questions? 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. By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. You see it most vividly in that scene where everybody stops calling Martin Bright, or they start canceling all the interviews. And she thought she wouldnt get caught. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. The editorial position should never be that. The spin in this country and in the UK was the threat of deadly weapons ready to be deployed by Saddam. David Dayen: How did you think Keira Knightley was an asset in showing that emotional journey throughout the movie? You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. And I thought this is going to end in the worst civil war. "Obviously, we are compressing a story that took place in real life over a period of a year into two hours. They live on a smallholding, renting a house, in rural Turkey. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? David Dayen: One thing I think you depict really brilliantly in this story is what the climate was like at the time. Some called her a traitor; others Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. Taking Vitamin D each day could cut your chances of getting dementia, study claims. The risks Gun took in revealing the UN email's existence were huge. 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. You took this job and didnt even know what it was. My shock turned to anger as the significance sank in. "And she then said: 'My way into this is what would I as the unadorned, no-makeup, no-fancy-edges Keira Knightley what would I feel like if this memo landed on my desk?'". But there's no way I would have expressed that to any of my colleagues," Gun explained. Gun made the choice to leak the document, which Martin Bright of The Observer in Britain published in a story on March 2, 2003. At first, I heard nothing. The difficulties of translating Gun's story also made writing the climax of the film tricky. 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. 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. Where do you draw the line? Id never seen anything like it. Or at least, she could have been. I grew up in South Africa in the seventies and eighties, when apartheid was really tightening and tightening and tightening. 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. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the crime of telling the truth. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. Did that change your approach to presenting the film knowing that this was actually going to be somewhat of a surprise to people? Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. 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). Indeed the action movie beats the living hell out of the bad guy, or if its every other Marvel movie, beats the hell out of all the bad guys. 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. [In the movie, Gun says I dont work for the government, I work for the people.]. 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. When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Now the goal is not truth, it is victory. She had received an email in her inbox asking her and her colleagues to help in a vast intelligence "surge" designed to secure a UN resolution to send troops into Iraq. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. I didnt know until I looked really deeply into this that theres really two schools of thought. [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.]. Would you risk your job? She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. As a result, there never was any second UN resolution. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. The other kind of fight could be frightening and politically risky. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. Look at what happened to Reality Winner in this country. What is this paper? 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. We need a truth-sayer. As opposed to trying to be Katharine Gun. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. It almost started with, well, would I have the courage to do what she did in another setting maybe? "On the one hand, she's free. Instead, the American coalition was 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. 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.". Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. 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. WebAnd they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. It is written by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, a California-based husband-and-wife writing partnership who have worked with British director Jonathan Lynn. Had the film appeared any earlier, however, I dont think Id have been able to watch it, let alone help the makers. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." But I talk to people and there does seem to be a sense of failure that, despite all the campaigning and all the marching and all the protesting and everything they did, it made not a ha'porth of difference. So I said to her at one point, and its in the movie because her interrogator said it too and you would ask her the same question, which is Katharine I hear all this, but it was a little muddy, you worked as a spy, you hacked peoples phones and computers, you do dirty tricks. Times have often been tough, not least because of the itinerant life she has chosen for herself. 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. Progressive values. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. I was suddenly free and bewildered. Following the trauma inflicted on Gun, the U.K. Attorney General dropped the case against her with no warning. 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. They failed. 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. Gavin Hood: Its a great question. Just occasionally In the years following, an author called Marcia Mitchell contacted me and said she was keen to write a book about my case. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. 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