Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. WebAnd they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. 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. 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. 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? He really wouldnt; that scene in the movie really happened. She talks about having read all these books [about the war]. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. But she still was not uncomfortable with the other things we've talked about. Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. 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. First, I contacted someone to this day Ive never named them who had the details of a journalist and anti-war activist. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. The risks Gun took in revealing the UN email's existence were huge. [Ahmed is depicted in the film as strongly pro-war, resistant to running stories that conflict with his opinion.]. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. "But the more I think about what happened, the more angry and frustrated I get about the fact that nobody acted on intelligence. 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. Did that change your approach to presenting the film knowing that this was actually going to be somewhat of a surprise to people? ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. 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. A manufactured provocation. To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. I was suddenly free and bewildered. 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. By the way, I know some amazing people in the intelligence services. 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. If I was writing this as fiction, I need a much longer court case, right? He runs a media charity. Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life and that proved hard. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. "One of the things that we discovered quite early on when he was interviewing me was that a lot of stuff was just happening in my head. the waning support for public institutions today. And it was this book which eventually became the script for Official Secrets. Give today. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for 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. Now, Trump says, he wants to see Iran back at the negotiating table. "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. Across the world, millions protested the invasion of Iraq, doing their own small parts to attempt to prevent the war. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. 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. And those two are great actresses. 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. I answered an advert in The Guardian newspaper for a translator. And it was there that, to our amazement and totally without warning, the CPS dropped the charges before the trial had even started. 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. 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. A translator for UK intelligence agency GCHQ, Gun read a brief from the US National Security Agency urging its British sister organisation to spy on members of the UN Security Council, to gain influence i n a vote His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.. Gun discusses her attempt to stop the Iraq War, which is the subject of the new movie Official Secrets. Not good enough, the trio decided. She leaked a memo, she thought she'd get away with it, and she faced another one of these little moral dilemmas which was a few days later all her friends were being interrogated. 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. And then there is the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led America deeply into war against North Vietnam. When Katharine Gun came across a memo while working for the British government in 2003, her whole world changed. 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. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. Instead, the American coalition was Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service You see it most vividly in that scene where everybody stops calling Martin Bright, or they start canceling all the interviews. 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. 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. Such a law is not compatible with openness, transparency, accountability and justice. To this day, however, there has been barely a mention of the year I spent living under a cloud. 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. We must not be flummoxed by exaggerated claims of threats against America and our interests. 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. 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. You have no idea. 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. David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. I've seen that happen. Do you vote, do you analyze who you should vote for or do you just take it for granted? Cheering crowds have never been my sort of thing. And maybe they were right, I don't know. 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. I even thought, naively, Id be able to keep my anonymity. They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. She failed. 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. Some called her a traitor; others insisted she was a hero. 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. 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. 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. So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. 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. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? A thorough investigation began as soon as the staff started arriving at GCHQ on the Monday morning. And he kept thinking, 'How am I going to portray this? 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. 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. What do you think resonates? "You get to the end, and there's this court case. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. 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. [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.]. Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child. 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. 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. 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. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she We need another Katharine Gun. 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. 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. As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. Neither my friends nor my family knew what I did all day. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. I didnt know the story and I googled her. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." So, that's where we had to go for WMD. 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.". Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. 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. 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. Marcia Mitchell is a writer, researcher, and the author of "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion." She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. So important was this email, I knew it might even derail the case that Tony Blair was making for joining the Americans in an invasion. 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. She said, I thought that might be quite interesting and exciting. I did feel like, Well, I failed.. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. ", Keira Knightley and Katharine Gun at the London premiere of "Official Secrets. She went to this interview, the next minute were down this rabbit hole, the next minute my wifes telling the world. Hundreds of thousands were killed. 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. The editorial position should never be that. The poor woman is based on a real person. And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? She will not talk about it anything else. 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. 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. Not the truth, but the war. Twenty-eight, pretty naive. 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. Do you go vote? Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. It should take the facts as they lead. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. Keira said no one knows Katharine, and that's not an insult to Katharine. But, did it change the way I approached it? An insider with courage. He said: "Very close. 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. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. 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. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. Gun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' WebThe Katharine Gun Case. 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. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. Just occasionally Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. 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. 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. She hoped that if people know about the lengths to which theyve gone to legitimize an invasion of Iraq, then it would blow apart, and people will suddenly think, No, this isnt right, and the whole house of cards would come tumbling down.. 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. Perhaps they don't trust him to keep his word. And just coming from my perspective, the press, because a lot of this is a story about the press, and how they handle it. 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. So, I guess we all have a threshold. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? Provocation? There it was spotted by Debs Paterson, director of the critically acclaimed Africa United, who met Katharine Gun last week with a view to making the film of her life. 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. Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the crime of telling the truth. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. Sorry to digress. 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? Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. You might say I am biased. This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" For all the relief, there was a weird sense of anti-climax that we would now be unable to give our side of the story to the public. Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. Ive been impressed by the film-makers determination to stick to the facts Gavin Hood, the director, interviewed me at length over five days and I was consulted throughout the process. Maybe that was naive, but she didn't think that. 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". Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? 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. David Dayen: Just the notion that the paper would say, we're for the war, that was their editorial position. We even got as far as the Old Bailey. 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. I never thought Id be choosing a dress for a red carpet appearance at a major film festival. But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". Maybe thats rewarding. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. But the falsehoods and unnecessary wars of yesteryear likely have influenced the waning support for public institutions today. 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. 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 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. The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. 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. Would you risk your job? 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 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. Quality journalism. Spoilers to follow as well. Gavin Hood: I asked her the same questions, and on about my second day interviewing her, I said to her, because I wasnt sure if I should make the movie; I mean, I needed to know whose story I was telling and if she was batshit crazy. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. 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