I am an American citizen; I have a strange accent but Ive been here 25 years; my kids were born here. Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. It almost started with, well, would I have the courage to do what she did in another setting maybe? 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. 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.". And that's quite a depressing place to find yourself in when you feel so strongly and passionately about something. Or at least, she could have been. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. This was her first or second week at the paper. This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. Gavin Hood: Its a great question. She will not talk about it anything else. 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. So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. Enter Katharine Gun. 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 I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. Iran, meanwhile, says it doesn't want war, but will defend itself. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. 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. 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. But there's no way I would have expressed that to any of my colleagues," Gun explained. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. 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. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. 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. You took this job and didnt even know what it was. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? Over the weekend, I got to work. If the email did reach the newspapers, I reasoned, there would be no more than a discreet summary. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new For several years, just recalling the events would set my heart racing and my hands trembling. WebKatharine Guns husbands photo revelations are not made by her yet. 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 manufactured provocation. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." As opposed to trying to be Katharine Gun. [U.S. media dropped the story because the Drudge Report noted that the NSA memo in The Observer had British spellings for words like favourable, which nobody in the U.S. would write. At first, I heard nothing. We go to the canteen and we talk.. '", The reality was not nearly as dramatic as in the film, where Bright and his editor are together in a newsroom when the mistake is revealed, leading to them being dropped from interviews with a number of international news outlets. Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. 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). The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. 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. 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. This is my second brief moment of fame. 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. 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. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? 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. She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. 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? 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. Perhaps they don't trust him to keep his word. You have no idea. 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. "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.". Or at least, she could have been. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. So there is sometimes a thought in my head that says: What if Katharine hadn't leaked that memo? Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. President Bush visits the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland, January 25, 2006. Who authorised the NSA email, for example? But she still was not uncomfortable with the other things we've talked about. WebKatharine Gun was a young specialist working for Britains Government Communications Headquarters when she exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United But my point is simply this: The underpinnings of this country matter. Unfortunately. Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. WebGun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. 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. Gavin Hood: And that really happened. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. Do you go vote? Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? 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. 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. 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 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. 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? 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. 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. For the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. 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. ", 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. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. Direct to your inbox. Actually, there were two incidents at sea, blamed originally on the North Vietnamese. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she The contents were explosive, implicating America in a blackmail plot to swing UN votes in favor of an invasion. She thought wow, they need a Mandarin translator at GCHQ. 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. 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. 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. 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. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Official Secrets Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers, Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. But the falsehoods and unnecessary wars of yesteryear likely have influenced the waning support for public institutions today. 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. Spoilers to follow as well. 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. 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. The concern among many Americans is that claims of an unprovoked, deadly attack by Iran are exaggerated. First, I contacted someone to this day Ive never named them who had the details of a journalist and anti-war activist. Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. There were some audience questions as well. If I was writing this as fiction, I need a much longer court case, right? At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. She said, I was naive. '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. What It Feels Liketo Survive a Chemical Attack. 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. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. ", As for her own story, she recognises that 10 years on it scarcely registers with the public. Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). On the other hand, she and Ben, to this day, feel they never got their day in court. They published the scoop in March 2003putting Gun directly in the crosshairs of law enforcement, and sparking a legal fight for her freedom. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. We started working on this three years ago and even then it felt relevant in the sense that the challenges we talked about earlier: Where does my loyalty lie? As a result of the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, she was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. [In the movie, Gun says I dont work for the government, I work for the people.]. It should take the facts as they lead. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. 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. 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. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. That's really the simplest question: When do you speak up? 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. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. Keira said no one knows Katharine, and that's not an insult to Katharine. Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. An insider with courage. Americans find it hard to believe that it could happen, but it happens, it happens fast. 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. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. This content is imported from youTube. To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. So here we are in rehearsal, and we're talking one day about the look. So when I sent the script to Keira, and I was very hopeful that she would do it because she does a lot of period dramas, and you dont often see her in a modern drama and I thought shed be great. 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. Times have often been tough, not least because of the itinerant life she has chosen for herself. 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.. Quality journalism. And it's a tough profession in many ways. 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. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. Provocation? In technical speak, the Americans wanted the whole gamut of information which would give US policy makers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals in relation to Iraq. She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. The days and weeks dragged agonisingly by. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. However, when her friends start being interrogated about the leak, Gun confesses to being the whistleblower, leading to her being arrested and taken to court for breaching the Official Secrets Act. Then, the world is safer until the sequel when it all happens again. So that's who's running this show. Now the goal is not truth, it is victory. As Bright noted, however, what we see in the movie is close to the real events. Not the truth, but the war. ", Bright noted that apart from some small flourishes to heighten the drama, he didn't think Official Secrets had "any genuine liberties taken with the truth. So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. Where do you draw the line? And she said, I dont work for the government. That was my first thoughtwhat do you mean you dont work for the government? I even thought, naively, Id be able to keep my anonymity. But get out of that trailer as fast as possible, get onto the set, and work from inside? Last week in Los Angeles, I got to interview the director, South African-born Gavin Hood, after a screening. She wasnt planning to get caught and then the dilemma was, My friends are all going to have their lives ruined.. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. 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. 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. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. 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. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" 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. Give today. 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. But again, I cant help but make some small jokes about these things. But the invasion was forced to proceed with the backing of Bushs coalition of the willinginstead of with the support of the United Nations. He said she didnt even know what the job was. 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. As it was, a second UN resolution directly to authorise war against Iraq never materialised and air strikes began on 19 March 2003. I never thought Id be choosing a dress for a red carpet appearance at a major film festival. 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. Twenty-eight, pretty naive. When you support The American Prospect, youre supporting fellow readers who arent able to give, and countering the class system for information. 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. ", Left: Dave Benett/Getty. Feel free to republish and share widely. What is this paper? 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Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. 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. I believe that all of this should have been formally acknowledged as part of the history of the second Gulf War. Its had far reaching and very negative impacts in all aspects of our institutions and our public life," Gun says. We have a blondish-looking Katharine. Which really, really, really happened. But that shouldn't be the philosophy pre-war when you're trying to decide whether to go to war. 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. Had the film appeared any earlier, however, I dont think Id have been able to watch it, let alone help the makers. 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. 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. Daniel Ellsberg, the celebrated American whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the build-up to the war in Vietnam, described it as "the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen".He added: "No one else including myself has ever done what Katharine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.". Though celebrated Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg would later call Guns actions the most important and courageous leak in history due to her efforts to save lives through preventing a war, she obviously didnt succeed in stopping the invasion. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. 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. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. And I thought: this is good. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? Sorry to digress. He is just way out there in a whole other realm. 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