Today, she lives in Turkey, with her husband and their child. Acclaimed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg described Guns action as the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen. Guns incredible story is depicted in the new film Official Secrets, which premieres in the U.S. August 30. ONLINE:YouTube: http://youtube.com/democracynow Facebook: http://facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: https://twitter.com/democracynowInstagram: http://instagram.com/democracynowSoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/democracynow iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/democracy-now!-audio/id73802554 Daily Email Digest: https://democracynow.org/subscribe She is played (with simmering intensity) by Keira Knightley. We were going to bring all of this out and it was all going to be in the public. Instead, the case was droppeda temporary relief for her, but a troubling outcome on a greater scale, since it essentially meant they slammed the door shut on that discussion.. The ripple effect from that initial invasion is continually being felt in worldwide institutions, in the U.S. and the U.K. Nobody really has been held responsible for it, and the fact remains that the nation of Iraq is still very much traumatized by what happened. The film stars Ma. Bush remembers his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, saying to him: I hope thats not the last time we ever see them.. In January 2003, British intelligence analyst Katharine Gun read an email from U.S. officials who were trying to enlist their British counterparts in a public relations campaign to support . AMY GOODMAN: So, bugging these six countries. AMY GOODMAN: GCHQ leads an investigation. Her life had been turned upside down, and for what? August 31 2019, 5:30 a.m. Keira Knightley, as whistleblower Katharine Gun, in the 2019 movie "Official Secrets." Photo: Nick Wall/IFC. You cannot talk to anyone about your intelligence work. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Its 15 years later. I was in Baghdad at the time, watching live coverage of the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, arguing for a second resolution at the UN. Whistleblower Katharine Gun and journalist Martin Bright are interviewed for their new movie Official Secrets for the films LFF screening. And it was a very collaborativeit was a very collaborative place. The email wasnt even meant for her. We welcome you all to Democracy Now! The other was Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and counsel at the Minneapolis bureau, who blew the whistle on FBI and other shortcomings before 9/11 and . In that time, Katharine was interviewed again, and then escorted to the canteen. At the end of the day, we are accountable to our conscience. This is her story. I work for the British people. AMY GOODMAN: And then everyoneFOX, CNNand then they all cancel. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. The diplomats were due to vote on a second United . KATHARINE GUN: [played by Keira Knightley] I translated signals intelligence, and I reported anything of interest to my clients. Were looking at the real-life political thriller of a British intelligence specialist, Katharine Gun, who risked everything to blow the whistle on U.S. dirty tricks at the United Nations in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003. After the meeting, the Brits and the Americans shook hands on the tarmac and walked to their planes. KATHARINE GUN: I work for the British people. Ezra Millers Messiah Delusions: Inside. "It worries me, it should worry us all. Thought-provoking commentary and opinion on politics, books and the arts. What I object to is being asked to gather intelligence to help fix a vote at the U.N. and deceive the world into going to war. Robbie Robertson Reflects on His Legendary Rock Career, Iraq War Whistle Blower Katharine Gun Shares Her Story, Jack Goldsmith Discusses the Limits of Executive Power, + Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by the Anderson Family Charitable Fund, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim, III, Candace King Weir, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Mark J. Blechner, Seton J. Melvin, Bernard and Denise Schwartz, Koo and Patricia Yuen, the Leila and Mickey Straus Family Charitable Trust, Barbara Hope Zuckerberg, Jeffrey Katz and Beth Rogers, the Filomen M. DAgostino Foundation and. The following Monday, she walked out of work, a printed copy of the email folded up and hidden in her handbag. MARTIN BRIGHT: Yes. Katharine read the content carefully, and immediately felt sick to her stomach: it was a classified directive from the American authorities asking the British to spy on six UN Security Council members. Gun said that remarkably and very depressingly, Although technically a period piece, moviegoers will be able to make connections to more recent whistleblowing scandals when watching, Knightley said when she asked Gun if she would do it again, Gun simply replied, Yes, absolutely., The Bold True Story Of Official Secrets Katharine Gun, Over the decades, popular culture has created dominant narratives of the Dominican Republic that are most often synonymous with poverty, crime, or state vi, This story contains spoilers for Ant-Man: Quantumania. As of 2019, she lived in Turkey with her husband and daughter for several years. I was sort of I felt like I was blinkered as a horse. AMY GOODMAN: But what did you see in your email? January of 2003. Yeah. delivered to your inbox every day? AMY GOODMAN: And talk about what happened then. "Even thinking about it all would cause me anxiety," she says, "but now I am ready." GAVIN HOOD: Yes. It wasn't the news Katharine had been preparing for. TINTIN: You gather information from peoples phones and computers, and you feed that to your clients. When asked by Salon how it felt to see a famous actress act out her life for an audience . The 1967 film Guess Whos Coming to Dinner starred Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton as a ne, As the open-hearted matriarch Hattie Mae in Tyler Perrys 2022 film A Jazzmans Blues, Amirah Vann demonstrates a great tenderness and fierce love to b, This story includes spoilers for Saint Omer. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: But basically, you tried to blow the whistle on what you thought was a false intelligence directive to try to cook up a reason for the Iraq war. Required fields are marked *. Katharine continues to reside in Turkey and occasionally visits Britain as of 2020. Ross stands at the height of 5 feet 5 inches or 165 cm tall. As of 2020, Gun and her husband Yasar live in both Turkey and Britain. because my husband wouldn't . KATHARINE GUN: Detective, I dont object to being asked to collect information that could help prevent a terror attack. "And there in my inbox was was this email from [the US] National Security Agency, which in and of itself was quite out of the ordinary.". Sign up for our Daily News Digest today! And so we had at least that. More than that, Koza wasnt just asking for information on what these ambassadors and their governments were planning, he seemed to want dirt. AMY GOODMAN: And the idea was they would figure out which way they were going to vote, so that they could sway them. It wasn't that she was naive. But, in 2003, when she came across an email suggesting that the United States and the U.K . And truth was having a hard time at The Observer at that point. Real Life Heroes Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. In April 2020, Katharine was supposed to appear at the 14th edition of the International Journalism Festival as a speaker. It stunned Katharine Gun at the time she discovered this duplicity during her work at GCHQ, and it still stuns to see it displayed on the screen, especially actual news reports from the period. France and Russia were against a second resolution and they had a veto in the Security Council. Katharine Teresa Gun (ne Harwood; born 1974) is a British whistleblower who worked as a linguist at the Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ; a British intelligence facility) from 2001 to 2003. No, you just do not do stuff like that. Gun received bail each month, so she was able to make it seem like she still worked for GCHQ and had a normal life. AMY GOODMAN: Twenty-seven years old, working for thewell, for British intelligence. Katharine had assumed a journalist would use the letter as a springboard for their own wider investigation. But its just because the copy editor ran it through spell check. The film is directed by Gavin Hood, and Gun is portrayed . She couldnt shake the indelible images of the turkey shoot of retreating Iraqis on the Highway of Death during the first Gulf War in 1991, the road out of Kuwait strewn with burnt-out vehicles and charred bodies. And then, one by one, the American networks pulled out. And so, all the header information that you would usually have was not there. When an American is asked to define the term whistleblower," they will probably reference Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning. 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. He was forced to resign, because it showed that he called President Trump inept, and he said, you know, the singular reason that the Trump administration pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal was because it was signed by President Obama, and other issues. TINTIN: And now youre upset at being asked to do that to members of the Security Council. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Says He Will Sign Bill Criminalizing Drag as Old Photo of Him in Drag Circulates, Lori Lightfoot Loses Reelection for Chicago Mayor; Paul Vallas & Brandon Johnson Advance to Runoff, El Salvadors Pres. Marcia Mitchell is a writer, researcher, and the author of "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion." This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. Sam Eliott and Katharine Ross . Gun says the film-makers were not projecting backwards what we learned later. Katharine Gun is the Most Important Whistleblower You've Never Heard of Gun discusses her attempt to stop the Iraq War, which is the subject of the new movie Official Secrets . Iraq War was in March. She explained that when she was first arrested, her name wasnt released publicly for eight months. In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to The Observer, concerning a request by the United States for compromising intelligence on diplomats from member states of the 2003 Security Council.The diplomats were due to vote on a second United . And also, the memo itself contained language that was consistent with intelligence service language, so we had experts look at that, as well. There was speculation that this was done to keep the governments legal advice on the war a secret, though that has been denied. Katharine Gun. MARTIN BRIGHT: Was one of the six nations. We thought it was really interesting to talk to you at this time. Thanks so much for joining us. Back in 30 seconds. Due to the pandemic, the event was then canceled. But, many in the U.S. might not know the story of the 2003, In 2003, Gun worked for GCHQ, the British government agency that is equivalent to the National Security Agency across the pond. It was an extraordinary moment. KATHARINE GUN: And then I mailed it to a contact, who then passed it on to a journalist, who then passed it on to Martin Bright. This Shouldnt Happen: Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy, Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. I do not gather intelligence so that the government can lie to the British people. JUDGE HYAM: [played by Kenneth Cranham] Katharine Teresa Gun, youre charged with an offense of the Official Secrets Act. But they not only are saying they are going to crack down hard on the leaker, but theyre also saying they will crack down on the press, any press that reports this in Britain. I remember the first time I really understood what love was or at least what a nine-year-old could understand as romantic love. ED VULLIAMY: Well, I put on an American accent, and I said, Can I have Mr. Kozas office, please? They were going use information gathered from the intelligence to either bribe or blackmail them into voting for this war. "He said, 'It was a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Gunn, I'm just sorry it was under these circumstances. And I knew that Ed was an extremely experienced journalist. I felt guiltylike, I leaked this memo, and now theres going to be a witch hunt for the person who did it, and Im not going to be able to deny it. Her act of whistle-blowing is portrayed in the recent film Official Secrets . And what did you think? In the movie "Official Secrets," the character called Katharine Gun, who is played by Keira Knightley, actually discusses this memo with colleagues at GCHQ. In 2003, Katharine Gun, a young specialist working for Britains Government Communications Headquarters, exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United States collaboration with Britain in collecting sensitive information on United Nations Security Council members in order to pressure them into supporting the Iraq invasion. To this day, she has no idea how convincing she was during her interrogation but really, it doesn't matter: on the Wednesday, she marched right up to her manager. She has then attributed to being a huge source of information to the medias watch. She'd been reading up on the preparations being made for a US-led invasion and wasn't convinced by the arguments; images of the first Gulf War she'd seen in her teenage years had forever been seared onto her mind. She is known for having exposed a plan by the US government to spy on the United Nations shortly before a vote concerning America's illegal invasion of Iraq. AMY GOODMAN: So, you go to your top editors, and you say, Ive got this piece of paper. In fact, Katharine had ripped off the top. The Drudge Report, famous right-wing website, had followed the story up. It isn't a crime, it's a responsibility.". MARTIN BRIGHT: Well, but only with a story that you know is true. But within days, Bush declared he no longer needed UN backing and invaded anyway. Amid safety concerns, and anxiety over the fate of a $200 million movie, The Johnny DeppAmber Heard Defamation Trial: The Makings of a Remarkable Moment in American Celebrity. After the meeting, the Brits and the Americans shook hands on the tarmac and walked to their planes. Discover Katharine Gun's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. AMY GOODMAN: So you had nothing to do with what was going on, covering stuff in Iraq or working on that issue. [1]Katharine Gun arbetade som versttare fr Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). KATHARINE GUN: If we do not go public, we would be conceding that no one can ever tell the people when their government is lying. "I need to have a word with you," she gulped. BEN EMMERSON: [played by Ralph Fiennes] You might need our help. And this was before Isis, which exists, in part, because of events set in train by the war. e-mail; 239. shares. You actually, at that point, had never met Katharine Gun. Katharine Gun's age is listed as 47 years old as of 2021. We're sitting together in a quiet room at the headquarters of human rights organisation Liberty, just around the corner from the streets through which she'd been marching. You know, I thought it was something that people needed to know about, because it was basically exposing what was going on behind the scenes and the fact that, you know, all the flowery words that they used in front of the cameras about doing everything diplomatically was a sham. Also with us, the director of Official Secrets, Gavin Hood. We were getting calls from all over the world. AMY GOODMAN: And what did you do with it? Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she loved, and her husband had grown disillusioned with Britain. AMY GOODMAN: But, Katharine Gun, youre home. is a 501(c)3 non-profit news organization. With the emotional adventure of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever closing out the controversial fourth, Minor spoilers ahead. What do you do? It was directed by Gavin Hood and the cast comprises Matt Smith, Indira Varma, Rhys Ifans, MyAnna Buring, Jack Farthing, Jeremy Northam, Tamsin Grieg and Conleth Hill. Even before the invasion, she suspected that the US was cooking up intelligence about Iraqi WMD. At great personal and professional risk, journalist Martin Bright published the leaked document in The Observer newspaper in London, and the story made headlines around the world. It was as it happened. Keira Knightley says she doesn't think she'd have the courage to follow in the footsteps of the "true hero" whistleblower Katharine Gun, whom she plays in new thriller Official Secrets . This was thought crucial to help Blair and his government survive a no-confidence motion in the House of Commons. Courtroom porn and social media have turned innocent bystanders into a mass of mudslingers. Whos that? I said, Im ringing about the GCHQ memo that you sent. Click. And explain what the header said, who you had to verify this with. GAVIN HOOD: We have to protect the innocent and source, yeah. Real Housewives Of New Jersey star Melissa . . It seemed like it might be more interesting than some import-export company. After this, the authorities again started plotting to deport Yasar back to the Middle East. But its not hard to guess from the, In 2013, Gun spoke with journalist Martin Bright, who published Guns leaked memo and plays a major role in the film, in an interview published by. AMY GOODMAN: As the British government says its identified the person who leaked cables that forced out the British ambassador to the United States for calling President Trump inept, we look at the real-life political thriller of a British intelligence specialist who risked everything to blow the whistle on U.S. dirty tricks at the United Nations in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion. We're looking at the real-life political thriller of a British intelligence specialist, Katharine Gun, who risked everything to blow the whistle on U.S. dirty tricks at the United Nations in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion in 2003. Gun is in her forties now and living quietly in Turkey. All this was a measure of the bloody chaos that was Iraq after the invasion: eventually there were 179 British dead,4,500 Americans, and maybe half a million Iraqis, most of them killed in a sectarian civil war. He was the Observer journalist who was working in Washington on this story, as well, with Martin. That contact had connections with the antiwar movement. "Official Secrets," which opened Friday in New York and . GCHQ began a leak inquiry, interviewing everyone. We're sitting together in a quiet room at the headquarters of human rights organisation Liberty, just around the corner from the streets through which . The morning of Friday the 31st of January, 2003 started out just like any other. BRITISH INTELLIGENCE OFFICER: Someone has betrayed their government and their country. AMY GOODMAN: The guy at the NSA. KATHARINE GUN: Well, I didnt do anything immediately, but I went home. Now her story has been adapted into the film Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley. It's just, back then, she didn't realise quite what her employer could be capable of. Katharine leaked top-secret information to The Observer about a request by the United States for compromising intelligence on diplomats. The Man Who Deleted His Past Before He Was Found Dead. In 2019, she finally returned to the general public eye for the promotional press occasions for Official Secrets. "Yeah, I suppose so," she says. Her case became awidespread controversy among activists, and many people stepped forward to urge the government to drop the case. And I knew that I needed help. Woman who tried to stop a war. MARTIN BRIGHT: The paperthe editorial line was supporting the war, but obviously there were those of us within the paper who didnt. Two days later, she gave the email to a friend who had several contacts in the press. "And I immediately decided the public should know the lengths the Americans were going to in order to secure legitimacy for this war. The AFI Life Achievement recipient discusses her most memorable filmsand what moviegoers actually misremember. UNIDENTIFIED: This proposed war is historically unpopular. You see this headline splashed across the front page. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. So, today, at the age of 59, Cary Stayner is incarcerated at the San Quentin State Prison. Target. So, I called him and asked him if he could do anything to help track down Frank Koza, or the reality or otherwise of this individual. Theyre basically cooking it. People hid under the tables. I work for the British people. I didnt know why, but I was going nuts. I did, rather naively, try calling the press office and getting an interview. But the Iraqis were right and the Americans were wrong. I went with Blair on his last visit to Iraq as prime minister, in 2007. Official Secrets is released in cinemas on the 18th of October, 2019. I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way. AMY GOODMAN: But the spelling of it is British spelling. Ross weighs about 50 kg or 110 lbs. She revealed the dirty tricks on the UN Iraq war vote to the world. Democracy Now! I do not gather intelligence so that the government can lie to the British people. Gun, outraged by the USA's actions, printed a copy of the email and took it home. JASMINE: [played by MyAnna Buring] Youre asking me to collude in a breach of the Official Secrets Act. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service and finally, struggling for work, left Britain altogether. Someone within the antiwar movement, who was a former journalist, took the memo initially to another newspaper. Husband: Not Available: Sibling: Not Available: Children: Not Available: Katharine Gun Net Worth. "It felt like the protests were what would stop the war," she says. We had at least a name. I could tell this email was pretty explosive.". AMANPOUR: so you could get a U.N. resolution for the war, correct? It later emerged that the newspaper was collaborating very, very closely with Tony Blair and his sort of enforcers to keep this kind of thing out of the paper. As the build-up to war continued, Gun felt increasing dismay. Both screenings feature discussions with the real Katharine Gun, South African director Gavin Hood (of 2015's "Eye in the Sky" fame), and the British journalist who helped break the story, The Guardian's Martin Bright (he worked at the sister paper The Observer at the time). Tweet. The terror of that period took a toll on Gun, who suffered from PTSD for years. '", Meanwhile, the war in Iraq had already started. Gavin, who worked on the screenplay and is the director. Her father is a drafting technician who runs an engineering company, while her mother is the owner of a company that offers IT consulting services. Katherine Louisa Ryan was born on June 30, 1983, to Finbar and Julie McCarthy in the city of Sarnia in southwestern Ontario, Canada. I couldnt see beyond this war and all I wanted to do is just to put a spoke in the wheel of this wagon. Were going to do Part 2, and were going to post it online at democracynow.org, to talk about thesethe courage Katharine Gun had in revealing this information, and then what this means for whistleblowers today and for U.S.-British policy today. But of course that did not stop the war. It was a crisis meeting because they had failed to get a second UN resolution, to give legal cover for the war. List of Wanted Pages on Real Life Heroes Wiki. KATHARINE GUN: When I saw this email asking GCHQs help to bug the six swing nations to gather a vote for war with Iraq, I was very angry at first and very saddened that it had come to this, and that despite all the talk from both Tony Blair and George Bush about how important it was to get the U.N. on board and to legitimize any kind of aggression, that they were actually going around it in such low-handed manner. She tried to stop the impending . It seemed like it was, you know, the wagons were rolling fast and furious towards this awful situation and I was kind of in tunnel vision. Plus a change The warI mean, our obligation is not whether we support or are against the war. http://bit.ly/HeyUGuysYTSubFacebook http://facebook.com/HeyUGuysInstagram http://instagram.com/HeyUGuysOfficial--------------------- Katharine McPhee shared a sweet snap of her 6-month-old son, Rennie, playing with husband David Foster in the cabin of a private jet. KNIGHTLEY: Governments change. I work for the British people. It is my fault and I'm sorry. Economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram on World Bank, Climate Emergency, Global Debt Crisis & More, We Want a Better Future: Meet an Asylum Seeker Evicted from, Jeremy Scahill on Mistreatment of Whistleblowers & Uneven Enforcement of Laws over Classified Papers, Part 1: In 2003, This U.K. Whistleblower Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion. Right away, Katharine knew the significance of this message. I mean, what are you doing here? 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 . Otherwise we are living in dictatorships. In 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 she leaked the classified memo to The Observer newspaper. GAVIN HOOD: Who were the nonpermanent members on the U.N. Security Council at the time. Mr. Koza? Yeah, whos that? The original content of this program is licensed under a. It took a maddeningly long periodeight months of existential limbobefore Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act. She was the real-life translator who photocopied . I think that speaks rather highly of you. Katharine Gun (Katharine Teresa Harwood) was born on 1974 in United Kingdom, is a Linguist. So, when I met Yvonne Ridley, who is the former journalist who handed me the document, it was immensely infuriating. Gun couldnt maintain the pretense that shed had nothing to do with it and confessed almost immediately. It has been suggested that the government was desperate to ensure that documents containing advice about the legality of the war which the defence had requested would not be made public. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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