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. They failed. I admitted the leak and my life was turned upside down. 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. Following the trauma inflicted on Gun, the U.K. Attorney General dropped the case against her with no warning. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. "That really happened," Hood confirmed, though it did not go quite as it is shown in the film. Or, in this case, when the Office of Special Plans was set up, youve got Feith and someone like Abram Shulsky, whose philosophy of intelligence is very different. Was it because we had demanded the Attorney Generals legal advice as part of my defence? And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." She also opposed the pending war. Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. Direct to your inbox. 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. 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. As a film of her story is planned, she tells of her anger and frustration but not her regrets, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Katharine Gun back in Cheltenham last week: 'This is the ugly truth of what goes on.' Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). The risks Gun took in revealing the UN email's existence were huge. 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. Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? It gives me an interesting pause. [In the movie, Gun says I dont work for the government, I work for the people.]. 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. 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've seen that happen. "Still no regrets," she said. So she went along to this interview, and she was 28. 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. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode 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. In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? [Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act in Britain, but ultimately the case never went to trial.]. 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. I never thought Id be choosing a dress for a red carpet appearance at a major film festival. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. It almost started with, well, would I have the courage to do what she did in another setting maybe? 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. He said she didnt even know what the job was. Yet I do think Keira perfectly captures the strain I was under, the isolation and fear. There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. He runs a media charity. David Dayen: One thing I think you depict really brilliantly in this story is what the climate was like at the time. Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. And it was this book which eventually became the script for Official Secrets. But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. You took this job and didnt even know what it was. 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. Official Secrets is, for the most part, a historical account of these events in 2003, but as with nearly all films based on a true story, some things have been changed to aid the drama of the narrative. Then the story went I was suddenly free and bewildered. 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. 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. And just coming from my perspective, the press, because a lot of this is a story about the press, and how they handle it. I am an American citizen; I have a strange accent but Ive been here 25 years; my kids were born here. Or at least, she could have been. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. But there's no way I would have expressed that to any of my colleagues," Gun explained. 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. WebGun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. 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. 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. It was written in technical language, but the meaning was clear enough: the Americans were asking around 100 people in GCHQ to gather information from the communications made by diplomats from six nations Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea and Pakistan all which were then sitting on the United Nations Security Council. 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. 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. The legal case against Gun was eventually dropped by the British government in 2004, after her lawyer, Ben Emmerson QC (played in the film with fabulous charisma by Ralph Fiennes), threatened to use disclosure to put the legal basis of the war itself on trial. Across the world, millions protested the invasion of Iraq, doing their own small parts to attempt to prevent the war. But my point is simply this: The underpinnings of this country matter. 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. I was glad to get back to what I hoped would be normality, but the effect on me had been traumatising. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. Gun discusses her attempt to stop the Iraq War, which is the subject of the new movie Official Secrets. Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. Ten years ago, a young Mandarin specialist at GCHQ, the government's surveillance centre in Cheltenham, did something extraordinary. Supported by Liberty, the prominent British civil-rights campaigning organiza-tion, Gun and her lawyer, Ben Emmerson (Ralph Fiennes), decided to cite grounds of necessity in order to contest the charges laid against her. She said, I was naive. 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.". 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. When my turn came, I entered a small side office, faced the security official and, putting on my best poker face, denied any involvement. 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. Anyway, the Office of Special Plans and Abram Shulsky make an interesting Wikipedia read, it won't take you very long. And it was there that, to our amazement and totally without warning, the CPS dropped the charges before the trial had even started. The invasion was a huge blow, says 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. Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. But get out of that trailer as fast as possible, get onto the set, and work from inside? I was 27 when it all began. Again. Gavin Hood: There is a kind of cognitive dissonance. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? They had published not some coded version of events, but the email itself in full. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. 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. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. "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?'". The decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. Keira calmly said: Oh, that was probably me. I still blush to the tips of my toes when I think about it. 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. Maybe thats rewarding. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The British are quite British, you know. When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. [In real life] I saw the email, I immediately thought, 'Oh, my God, this is shocking.' 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". 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 go to the canteen and we talk.. 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. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. His philosophy comes from a military intelligence model, which actually, by the time you go to war, now it's about winning. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. 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. Would you risk your job? Then the most almighty cacophony erupted, a roar so loud we could barely hear to speak. David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. 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. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. And Assange is the same. When do the clocks change in 2023? 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. As of 2020 Gun lives in Turkey and Britain. We need a truth-sayer. 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. Ms Gun worked as a translator at the GCHQ building in Cheltenham, pictured. What appealed to me in the end is that Katharine is in fact, far more like us. Does your loyalty lie to your own conscious, does your loyalty lie to your marriage, does your loyalty lie to your government, does your loyalty lie to your country? (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images). Maybe that was naive, but she didn't think that. I didnt know the story and I googled her. 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. 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. [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.]. 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. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. Jack Straw, then the foreign secretary, has not been challenged on whether he authorised the operation to go ahead, although it is almost certain that he did. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. And those two are great actresses. The spin in this country and in the UK was the threat of deadly weapons ready to be deployed by Saddam. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". What is this paper? I didn't plan to have this movie out today and know what was going to be going on. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evi-dence for prosecution when I had confessed to the leak from the start? 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. So, I guess we all have a threshold. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". Although the story made headlines around the world at the time of the leak and later at the time of her trial, which collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence, it remains largely missing from the official narratives of the build-up to the Iraq war. Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. What we have in this country is very precious, and in a sense, when I make these kind of films I don't know if I consciously do it, it's actually reminding about us that authoritarianism and governments gone awry are not okay, and what makes us strongoh, that sounds terribly pretentious, but I think you see where I'm coming from. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. 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. 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. What It Feels Liketo Survive a Chemical Attack. Where do you draw the line? I didnt know until I looked really deeply into this that theres really two schools of thought. Every day we worked together for about five to six hours and then I referred back to her many times, subsequently, but I had literally just said, let's start at the beginning and let me hear first-hand from you your story and then I'll tell that story. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. Who spoke to the homeland secretary? David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. 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. Surely, she thought, when people realised that the UK was being asked to collaborate in an operation to find out personal information that could be used to blackmail UN delegates, they would be outraged and the UK government would halt its slide into war. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. 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 '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. 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. America, Britain, and Spain withdrew their proposed resolution on invading Iraq when it became clear that it would not garner the necessary Security Council votes, in part because of the information Gun brought to light. Gavin Hood: Yes, it really sticks in my throat too. 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. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. 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." 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. The other kind of fight could be frightening and politically risky. 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 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. And maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. The case and the resulting anxiety never seemed far away. Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Twenty-eight, pretty naive. Spoilers to follow as well. A transcript, lightly edited with explainers where necessary, follows. David Dayen: No problem. 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. Unfortunately. 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. She talks about having read all these books [about the war]. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. What did you think was going to happen? Katharine Gun and Martin Bright could be forgiven for fielding Hollywoods overtures with a degree of skepticism. Gun disclosed details of the spying operation as it was happening to stop something she viewed as terrible happening in the future. The email, which was sent by an American NSA official, suggested that the US was just as well aware that it couldnt earn UN support through valid arguments alone: The memo outlined a plan to bug diplomats from non-permanent UN Security Council Nations Chile, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Guinea, Angola, and Cameroon in search of intelligence that could be used to cajole and possibly even blackmail them into supporting the invasion. 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. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. 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