"But the more I think about what happened, the more angry and frustrated I get about the fact that nobody acted on intelligence. 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. 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.". 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. 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. 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. A thorough investigation began as soon as the staff started arriving at GCHQ on the Monday morning. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. To look at someone who I thought was quite accessible and ordinaryand she doesn't mind me saying this because Katharine is someone who keeps her head below and is quiet, and did something extraordinary. 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. She will not talk about it anything else. You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. Eventually, it was widely held that at least one of the reports of the attacks, and perhaps even both, were false. Thank you! But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. Iraq All Over Again? He said she didnt even know what the job was. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. You have no idea. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. 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. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. 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. Provocation? 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. They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. And I went back in 93 and did another two years with the new Department of Health. And it's a tough profession in many ways. Who authorised the NSA email, for example? It turned out a copyeditor at The Observer had run the memo through spellcheck before printing it.]. 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. Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. Does anyone have any questions? Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. Look at what happened to Reality Winner in this country. Was the British government aware of it? Times have often been tough, not least because of the itinerant life she has chosen for herself. It was what I was thinking, what I was feeling. 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. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. Instead, the American coalition was Your Privacy Choices: Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads. It is probably still too early to tell. 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. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. That seems like the central undercurrent that is playing throughout the entire film. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. But the Bush administration went to war anyway, using the pretext of weapons of mass destruction. Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the crime of telling the truth. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. 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. I was suddenly free and bewildered. 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. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. WebWhistleblower Katherine Gun, right, is played by Keira Knightly in the movie Official Secrets View gallery Gun was outraged after she learned - as part of her job with GCHQ - that As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life and that proved hard. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. The story went around the world and the leak electrified the international debate during the weeks of diplomatic deadlock. Our institutions matter. To donate by check, phone, or other method, see our More Ways to Give page. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? 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. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. We all, in some ways, make these decisions. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. To me, it was a way of showing that Iraq cannot be dismissed as a horror show of suffering, but is an ancient and sophisticated culture that goes back thousands of years. I was called on to look this way and that and smile until my face was stiff. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. You might say I am biased. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. 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. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode 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. Do you vote, do you analyze who you should vote for or do you just take it for granted? She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. And I thought this is going to end in the worst civil war. She wasnt planning to get caught and then the dilemma was, My friends are all going to have their lives ruined.. 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. So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. Spoilers to follow as well. 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. 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. Im gratified, too, that the film shows the love and support my husband gave me throughout this ordeal. [In real life] I saw the email, I immediately thought, 'Oh, my God, this is shocking.' As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. According to the Guardian, It almost started with, well, would I have the courage to do what she did in another setting maybe? 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. The spin in this country and in the UK was the threat of deadly weapons ready to be deployed by Saddam. Then the story went Questioner: The only thing that I've wondered while watching the film, since it's a true story, is how could Ms. Gunn, who was a spy, who was a member of an intelligence agency, be surprised when her husband got deportedor when the government came after her husband, how could she be surprised when all of the different reactions she got came forward? David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. It's a fascinating film that really evokes the dangers of speaking out in the post-9/11 age, as well as the press's inability to challenge the official story on Iraq, particularly the U.S. press, which really just blacked out the Gun leak entirely. 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 the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. Gun, a translator with the British intelligence service known as Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), received a document just before the war from an NSA manager, seeking British intelligence support in spying on members of the UN Security Council, to effectively blackmail them into voting for a second resolution that would make legal the invasion of Iraq. 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 know what it is like to watch the system become completely authoritarian. 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? 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. But the invasion was forced to proceed with the backing of Bushs coalition of the willinginstead of with the support of the United Nations. Then the most almighty cacophony erupted, a roar so loud we could barely hear to speak. 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. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new 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. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? Iran, meanwhile, says it doesn't want war, but will defend itself. It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. 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 she said she would still be prepared to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. Surely, after 16 years, we are entitled to have answers. 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. It left me in an impossible predicament. A decade on, sitting in a cafe in Cheltenham, not far from GCHQ, I asked her if she still stood by what she had done. Now there is the possibility that Gun's singular life will be made into a movie. 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. Give today. Maybe that was naive, but she didn't think that. 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". 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. When I got to the interview thats when they told me that its for GCHQ, I didnt know what GCHQ did. So, I think she entered the world out of a sort of strange curiosity. 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 get to the end, and there's this court case. 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 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. When do the clocks change in 2023? In a year that the U.S. president is accused of pressuring foreign governments for political gain, the story behind the film Official Secrets seems particularly timely. The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. 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 Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? The invasion was a huge blow, says Gun. 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. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. She also opposed the pending war. Official Secrets Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers, Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. And I thought: this is good. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. The editorial position should never be that. Sometimes movies can be an effective way to make forgotten stories part of our national narrative, and in that sense, Official Secrets comes not a moment too soon. 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. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. This meant that a lot of the things that we see Gun go through in the film actually took far longer in real life. 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. Or at least, she could have been. ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. The poor woman is based on a real person. "But that's partly my own fault because I haven't aggressively pursued a career. Naturally, I was discreet. David Dayen: No problem. 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. Its had far reaching and very negative impacts in all aspects of our institutions and our public life," Gun says. We even got as far as the Old Bailey. What do you think resonates? They're more polite to their suspects. She thought wow, they need a Mandarin translator at GCHQ. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. So that's who's running this show. Progressive values. Maybe thats rewarding. Direct to your inbox. She said, I was naive. Now someone else may beI don't know if I could hack people's phones and computers, personally. 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. ", 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. 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." We need another Katharine Gun. So thank you for being here, it means a lot. I even thought, naively, Id be able to keep my anonymity. 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. I never thought Id be choosing a dress for a red carpet appearance at a major film festival. ", 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. Now, Trump says, he wants to see Iran back at the negotiating table. This was her first or second week at the paper. 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.. Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. However, Gun added that this was nothing on the anxiety she felt when the memo she had leaked ended up on the front page of The Observer, which she called "the most stressful memo of my life. The increasing presence of US Navy ships and a B-52 bomber task force in their neighborhood might provoke the Iranians to load up their missiles. 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. She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. So we're in this development meeting, and the executive looks at me and goes, Gavin, I mean we need her running down alleys more, someone needs to throw a brick through her damn window, and when does she don her cape? It was literally the line. 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. 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. 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. Then, the following November, after eight months of worry, I was finally charged. Sorry to digress. Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. I admitted the leak and my life was turned upside down. 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. Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. 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. The point of all of this is painfully obvious. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. The issue is provocation. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. As opposed to trying to be Katharine Gun. Then, we all started watching the invasion and we werent how we got into the war. 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. I didnt know until I looked really deeply into this that theres really two schools of thought. Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. 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. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. Id never seen anything like it. Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. Which really, really, really happened. She could easily have been me or you at your place of work, where something comes across your desk and you go, This doesn't smell right. Over the weekend, I got to work. 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. This is my second brief moment of fame. And she thought she wouldnt get caught. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. 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Public attention is the last thing you expect if, like me, youd settled for a job in the shadowy world of British intelligence. [Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act in Britain, but ultimately the case never went to trial.]. David Dayen: Just the notion that the paper would say, we're for the war, that was their editorial position. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. 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. Yet to this day there has been barely a mention of the Bush regimes disgraceful demand in official histories of the period, as if its been deliberately written out. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' 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. Anyway, the Office of Special Plans and Abram Shulsky make an interesting Wikipedia read, it won't take you very long. Feel free to republish and share widely. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. 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? Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. EXCLUSIVE: Lanzarote sticks to its guns and insists it WILL limit tourists and move away from relying on Jeremy Clarkson is axed as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 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 waning support for public institutions today. And in her case, she risked both her job and her freedom and whatever you think of her politically, I think that takes some guts. The other was Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and counsel at the Minneapolis bureau, who blew the whistle on FBI and other shortcomings Some called her a traitor; others At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. 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. 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.". They had published not some coded version of events, but the email itself in full. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. "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.". Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. And if, 16 years ago, you had told me that one day my life story would be portrayed by Keira Knightley, Id have laughed and changed the subject. Ive already lost a dear friend, and I cant do thisget called up two months of the year, every year, for the next 12 years. 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