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"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. For several years, just recalling the events would set my heart racing and my hands trembling. And for her, this was too much. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. Instead, the American coalition was 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". At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. 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. 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. What did you think was going to happen? 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. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. The same countries demanded immediate answers from the British government about its involvement in the spying. That's really the simplest question: When do you speak up? (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images). I was suddenly free and bewildered. 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." Official Secrets Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers, Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. 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. That kind of propaganda has to stop. Who authorised the NSA email, for example? It was the first time I had worked with characters who were still alive, and they very much wanted it to be accurate or they wouldn't sign over their life rights. 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. She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few After the leak was published, hundreds of staff inside the building were questioned in order to discover the identity of the whistleblower. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. Us, in any situation, wherever you work, I thought that's what this timeless about it. 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. 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. In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. 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 just coming from my perspective, the press, because a lot of this is a story about the press, and how they handle it. The days and weeks dragged agonisingly by. Progressive values. Gavin Hood: Yes, it really sticks in my throat too. That's the memo. And it was this book which eventually became the script for Official Secrets. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. They had published not some coded version of events, but the email itself in full. 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. Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. If it was, who cleared it to be passed to GCHQ? And he kept thinking, 'How am I going to portray this? And maybe they were right, I don't know. She will not talk about it anything else. Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". WebKeira Knightley stars in this true story about Katharine Gun, a British intelligence officer who exposed the US government's efforts to force the UN Security Council to sanction the 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. Not the truth, but the war. Sound familiar? After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she Truth and accountability were drilled into me as a child. 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. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? 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. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. ", Speaking to Gun, and seeing her in archival footage at the end of the film, it is clear that Knightley didn't try to emulate the look or sound of the real-life Gun. Unfortunately. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service Then the most almighty cacophony erupted, a roar so loud we could barely hear to speak. ", 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. 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. "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.". WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. 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. 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. Naturally, I was discreet. 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. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. Public attention is the last thing you expect if, like me, youd settled for a job in the shadowy world of British intelligence. 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. What do you think resonates? We need another Katharine Gun. And it's a tough profession in many ways. Thankfully, time passes and the intensity of feelings fades. Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. 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). 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. Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". 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. As it was, a second UN resolution directly to authorise war against Iraq never materialised and air strikes began on 19 March 2003. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" But any such illusions were shattered on the freezing cold morning of Friday, January 31, 2003, as I read and re-read the most extraordinary email from Americas intelligence service, the National Security Agency. Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. David Dayen: No problem. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. [Ahmed is depicted in the film as strongly pro-war, resistant to running stories that conflict with his opinion.]. But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. 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. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. But my point is simply this: The underpinnings of this country matter. So, that's where we had to go for WMD. Gavin Hood: After the spellcheck. 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 Or at least, she could have been. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. And I thought: this is good. Some called her a traitor; others insisted she was a hero. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. 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 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. The spin in this country and in the UK was the threat of deadly weapons ready to be deployed by Saddam. The poor woman is based on a real person. "I think part of the reason Gavin included it was just to kind of share that thought process.". 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. The work shed signed up to do was covered by British law, and would be something to do with whatever that was necessary to keep British lives safe. The memo, however represented the actual twisting of diplomatic arms in order to secure a war which [was] based on lies., But it also represented an opportunity to show the world the tactics American and British officials were willing to employ in their push for an invasion. We all, in some ways, make these decisions. Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! 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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. He was actually gone for three days. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. The story went around the world and the leak electrified the international debate during the weeks of diplomatic deadlock. Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. So that's who's running this show. 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. '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. None of the Government reports into the war acknowledged it, nor did the history books. This is my second brief moment of fame. By the time Gun and around 100 of her colleagues received the emailed memo that would change her life, she had already come to the conclusion that the arguments for war with Iraq were not really valid arguments, she tells me. I was called on to look this way and that and smile until my face was stiff. We go to the canteen and we talk.. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. Not good enough, the trio decided. "On the one hand, she's free. 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. 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. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? Gun made the choice to leak the document, which Martin Bright of The Observer in Britain published in a story on March 2, 2003. So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. The British are quite British, you know. David Dayen: How did you think Keira Knightley was an asset in showing that emotional journey throughout the movie? I didn't plan to have this movie out today and know what was going to be going on. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. She failed. And the reason? This content is imported from youTube. The point of all of this is painfully obvious. 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 After a police interview, at which I repeated my admission, I was released on bail to await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service. 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. Perhaps they don't trust him to keep his word. 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. You might say I am biased. We need a truth-sayer. Maybe that was naive, but she didn't think that. He is just way out there in a whole other realm. WebKatharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. He really wouldnt; that scene in the movie really happened. 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." When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. ", Keira Knightley and Katharine Gun at the London premiere of "Official Secrets. 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. 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". 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. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. 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. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? When my turn came, I entered a small side office, faced the security official and, putting on my best poker face, denied any involvement. This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? 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. 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. 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. Yet here was a story that had the capacity to derail the war altogether. And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. Twenty-eight, pretty naive. Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. 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 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 I went back in 93 and did another two years with the new Department of Health. 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. WebKatharine Gun was a young specialist working for Britains Government Communications Headquarters when she exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? Gun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. I did feel like, Well, I failed.. WebAnd they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. And she thought she wouldnt get caught. Had the film appeared any earlier, however, I dont think Id have been able to watch it, let alone help the makers. The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. Did that change your approach to presenting the film knowing that this was actually going to be somewhat of a surprise to people? 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. [In real life] I saw the email, I immediately thought, 'Oh, my God, this is shocking.' Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. [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.]. Enter Katharine Gun. If we give over, if we start believing the fake news, as you say, we're all doomed, man. 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. They failed. I didnt know the story and I googled her. Only later did I appreciate the extent to which the journalists involved Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy had to go in order to prove that the email was legitimate. Ms Gun worked as a translator at the GCHQ building in Cheltenham, pictured. ", As for her own story, she recognises that 10 years on it scarcely registers with the public. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. She didnt know where he was for three days and she took the train down from Charlton to London to see the MP, Nigel Jones, who said exactly what he says in the movie. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. 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. 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 Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for 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 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. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. 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. As a result, there never was any second UN resolution. Anyway, the Office of Special Plans and Abram Shulsky make an interesting Wikipedia read, it won't take you very long. Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. It gives me an interesting pause. 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. It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. 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. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. 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. 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. Its had far reaching and very negative impacts in all aspects of our institutions and our public life," Gun says. 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. A transcript, lightly edited with explainers where necessary, follows. 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. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? Me, you, not some big picture. The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. But she said she would still be prepared to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. 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. WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. Truth about Covid care home testing row: Timeline lays bare what was said, by who and when. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". 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. I became a mother, we moved countries and I have come to terms with that year of my life, though it will always define me in some ways. According to the Guardian, 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? It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. I've seen that happen. 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. "Obviously, we are compressing a story that took place in real life over a period of a year into two hours. So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. So, to find that it would be dramatised on the big screen was as wonderfully welcome as it was astonishing. 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. Quality journalism. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. 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. 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. Or at least, she could have been. Gavin Hood: Its a great question. 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. And it was there that, to our amazement and totally without warning, the CPS dropped the charges before the trial had even started. What do I do? And that was my way in. Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. 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. Would you risk your job? In the film, when Gun is sent an email from someone high up in the U.S. government that reveals the U.S. covert plan, she decides to leak it to Bright, who works for the British newspaper The Observer, which then publishes it on their front page. When do the clocks change in 2023? David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. 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