As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. 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. Spoilers to follow as well. 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? Gavin Hood: Its a question of how conditioned are we to the conventional Hollywood structure. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. 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. 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. 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. 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. [Ahmed is depicted in the film as strongly pro-war, resistant to running stories that conflict with his opinion.]. 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. Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. When my turn came, I entered a small side office, faced the security official and, putting on my best poker face, denied any involvement. And maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. When my moment came, I found myself standing alone in the dock facing the judge and surrounded by lawyers, journalists and supporters. She now has a four-year-old daughter who she is bringing up in Turkey. Right: Entertainment One, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. Everyone involved assumed the project had run into the dust, but then it appeared on the Black List, a Hollywood website for unmade film scripts, which has featured Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech in the past. Times have often been tough, not least because of the itinerant life she has chosen for herself. One is reminded of the January 31, 2003 Oval Office meeting with George Bush, Tony Blair, and Condoleeza Rice, in which the topic of provoking Iraq to start a war was particularly revealing. 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. What might, IKeira Knightley, feel if I'm sitting at my desk and this happened to me?" What It Feels Liketo Survive a Chemical Attack. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? Most whistleblowers leak after the event to expose perceived wrongdoing. Maybe thats rewarding. After a police interview, at which I repeated my admission, I was released on bail to await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service. I got that from Yasar. 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. [Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act in Britain, but ultimately the case never went to trial.]. Look at what happened to Reality Winner in this country. But that shouldn't be the philosophy pre-war when you're trying to decide whether to go to war. 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. For several years, just recalling the events would set my heart racing and my hands trembling. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service It left me in an impossible predicament. David Dayen: Just the notion that the paper would say, we're for the war, that was their editorial position. WebKatharine Gun wasn't looking for attention or any type of notoriety when in 2003, while working as a British intelligence specialist, she leaked a top secret memo. The memo from Frank Koza, chief of staff at the "regional targets" section of the National Security Agency, GCHQ's sister organisation in the US, remains shocking in its implications for British sovereignty. I never thought Id be choosing a dress for a red carpet appearance at a major film festival. Well, you don't have one and get that almost anti-climactic moment that is a punch in the gut," said Hood. And those two are great actresses. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. And that's quite a depressing place to find yourself in when you feel so strongly and passionately about something. At first, I heard nothing. Hood said that this was a purposeful choice by Knightley. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. 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.. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? 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. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. WebAnd they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. We go to the canteen and we talk.. 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 for her, this was too much. As I walked down the red carpet, I had never in my life experienced the flash of so many cameras. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images). Progressive values. 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. Unfortunately. 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. My shock turned to anger as the significance sank in. 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 Because it's just an Executive Branch trying to grab power as an authoritarian. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. "But that's partly my own fault because I haven't aggressively pursued a career. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new And isnt it also time to re-examine the Official Secrets Act? "We started wondering whether we should do the blonde hair and the glasses and wondering about prosthetics, but one point Keira said to me, 'You know, the last thing I want is the audience to say, 'Oh, I don't know if I like her blonde,'" said Hood. Not good enough, the trio decided. 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. It gives me an interesting pause. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. 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. Rishi Sunak is urgently reviewing his private exchanges with Matt Hancock after bombshell leak of ex-Health 'Drinks cold in fridge at DH!' 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 The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? So, I guess we all have a threshold. The other kind of fight could be frightening and politically risky. Over the weekend, I got to work. So that's who's running this show. "There seems to be this blas attitude the spying goes on, everyone does it and so it's nothing to get all hot under the collar about. By the way, I know some amazing people in the intelligence services. 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? 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. Public attention is the last thing you expect if, like me, youd settled for a job in the shadowy world of British intelligence. Who authorised the NSA email, for example? The issue is provocation. 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. We need a truth-sayer. Keira calmly said: Oh, that was probably me. I still blush to the tips of my toes when I think about it. But she said she would still be prepared to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. We may earn a commission from these links. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. The story of Katharine Gun, a whistle-blower who exposed NSA spying in the lead-up to the Iraq War, gets the Hollywood treatment. 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." Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. "But the more I think about what happened, the more angry and frustrated I get about the fact that nobody acted on intelligence. 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 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. However, her husband and the father of her daughters name is Yasar Gun. She got into a plea bargain, they still gave her five years. But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". This content is imported from youTube. Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. The British are quite British, you know. I am an American citizen; I have a strange accent but Ive been here 25 years; my kids were born here. "On the one hand, she's free. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. They failed. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. 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. 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. 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. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. ", Keira Knightley and Katharine Gun at the London premiere of "Official Secrets. Again. ", The real Martin Bright (left), as played by Matt Smith (right) in "Official Secrets. But George W. Bush did something that, thankfully, Trump hasnt pulled off yet: He took us to war. 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. Instead, the American coalition was forced to stake its claim to a legal invasion on grounds of self defense, including now-infamously untrue claims about weapons of mass destruction. And I know whose throat it really sticks in, is [British journalist] Ed Vulliamy, who I adore. 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. [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. Perhaps they don't trust him to keep his word. WebKatharine Guns husbands photo revelations are not made by her yet. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. If I was writing this as fiction, I need a much longer court case, right? Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her days listening in to obscure Chinese intercepts, decided to tell the world about a secret plan by the US government to spy on the United Nations. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. 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. And we keep that system alive. Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. Abandoned blue sleeping bag, tents and several wooden shelters are found in woodland close to where police Don't just stick to the Malbec! 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. 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. That's the memo. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. Ms Gun worked as a translator at the GCHQ building in Cheltenham, pictured. 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? It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. Iran, meanwhile, says it doesn't want war, but will defend itself. 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. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. 265 ratings46 reviews British secret service officer Katharine Gun's only crime was telling the truth, but she paid a steep price when she exposed a U.S.-U.K. spy operation to secure UN authorization for the Iraq invasion. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. David Dayen is the Prospects executive editor. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. 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. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. ", 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. Our institutions matter. By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. And the reason? Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? Hundreds of thousands were killed. David Dayen: And you were dealing with a story that was about a leak that didn't stop a war and leading to a trial that didn't happen. 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. 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. 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. This was her first or second week at the paper. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. At some point, as you probably know, Bush and Rumsfeld decided to bypass the CIA and take out that Office of Special Plans. WebHer husband, Yaar Gn, is a Turkish Kurd. 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. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. I was suddenly free and bewildered. There were some audience questions as well. You have no idea. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. Or at least, she could have been. The point of all of this is painfully obvious. WebKatharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. He runs a media charity. 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. As Bright noted, however, what we see in the movie is close to the real events. 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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. 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. 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. 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. "Financially it's the toughest," she said. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her days listening in to obscure Chinese intercepts, decided to tell the world about a secret plan by the US government to spy on the, Don't mention the Iraq war, William Hague tells cabinet, Tenyears on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid, Occupying Iraq: a US army veteran's ambivalence, Howthe Bush administration sold the war and we bought it, the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act, collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence. And Where Is Katharine Gun, JUST 36 HOURS TO GO IN OUR WINTER CAMPAIGN. As a result, there never was any second UN resolution. Is this a matter of threatening to launch a war, or is it a matter of responding to the US positioning itself for war? 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. 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. An insider with courage. 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 decision to leak it was almost instant I felt I had no choice. 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. 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. Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. 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