Katharine Gun (ne Harwood), 47, is married to Yasar Gn, a Turkish Kurd, with whom she has a 13-year old daughter. It took a maddeningly long periodeight months of existential limbobefore Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act. Yasur is a Turkish Kurd who is married to 47-year-old Katharine. Katharine Gun. 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. I gather intelligence so that the government can protect the British people. And . BEN EMMERSON: You chose loyalty to your country over loyalty to your government, your marriage and yourself. AMY GOODMAN: So, but talk about this, your argument to the editors. The diplomats were from member states of the 2003 Security Council, and they were due to vote on a second United Nations resolution on the future 2003 invasion of Iraq. KATHARINE GUN: Actually, time-wise, I was bailed for eight months. I couldn't control myself I was a total state, crying and trembling.". Jack Goldsmith, former head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush, discusses the limits of executive power with Christiane Amanpour. On the 25th of February, 2004, Katharine arrived at the Old Bailey for her trial. "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.". And he had told me over two meetings, A, we know that Saddam Hussein has no weapons of mass destruction. Katharine Gun was a translator at GCHQ, when she received an email in her inbox from Frank Koza, a leading figure in the American National Security Agency. Some call that treason. "It worries me, it should worry us all. He was the Observer journalist who was working in Washington on this story, as well, with Martin. 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. After university and a couple of years teaching in Japan, she was back in Britain and looking for a job. 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. Im Amy Goodman. Katharine Gun in the Liberty office, 2019. Nerves tingling, she went home. For eight months she was bailed and bailed again, repeatedly. Its like hes more me than I am. AMY GOODMAN: And who were these six countries? AMANPOUR: by somebody within your organization. Martin faced potential charges too. GAVIN HOOD: Who were the nonpermanent members on the U.N. Security Council at the time. "I'd have a criminal record for doing what was right." January of 2003. AMY GOODMAN: Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill. In his memoir of office, Decision Points, George W. Bush writes about going to see Tony Blair in the Azores in the last days before the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Katharine Teresa Gun (ne Harwood) (born 1974) is a British linguist who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). That night, Katharine posted the letter to a contact whose identity she continues to withhold. This is Katharines story were talking about, but there is a back story in the film, which plays its part, which is mine, and Ill be quick on this. I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way. Sound familiar? August 31 2019, 5:30 a.m. Keira Knightley, as whistleblower Katharine Gun, in the 2019 movie "Official Secrets." Photo: Nick Wall/IFC. 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. In the movie "Official Secrets," the character called Katharine Gun, who is played by Keira Knightley, actually discusses this memo with colleagues at GCHQ. Whistleblower Katharine Gun and journalist Martin Bright are interviewed for their new movie Official Secrets for the film's LFF screening. When Gun exposed that the U.S. and U.K. wanted information on United Nations diplomats to persuade the vote on the invasion of Iraq, George W. Bush was President of the United States and Tony Blair was the British Prime Minister of the U.K. Guns information affected Blairs politics and government at the time, but he has seemingly recovered from the incident. 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. In the film, Knightley as Gun declares: I work for the British people. You know, look at me. I was like, Mmm. 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. Yasar Gun is the husband of a British whistleblower, Katharine Gun, who revealed top-secret information. 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. September 12, 2019 | 12:17 pm. It was a Friday when I saw the email. So, when I met Yvonne Ridley, who is the former journalist who handed me the document, it was immensely infuriating. I went with Blair on his last visit to Iraq as prime minister, in 2007. I mean, my first reaction was shock and anger. She went home and stewed about the email for the whole weekend. I certainly thought, Oh, my gosh, this is it and theyre going to find out it was me, Gun recalled. 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. Yes, in 2003, Gun was working for British intelligencethat's GCHQ, the intelligence agency similar to the . So, what did it say and what was your decision-making process? Let us learn more about the duo and where they are currently. They were going use information gathered from the intelligence to either bribe or blackmail them into voting for this war. But when her name was released to the press, she did a few interviews before trying to reclaim her anonymity. Katharine Gun. TINTIN: [played by Peter Guinness] Katharine Gun? 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. We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. Her life had been turned upside down, and for what? The memo proposed blackmailing smaller, undecided member states into voting for war. And I felt it was explosive information. Finally, she called someone (she has never named) who had connections to the media, telling them: I have something explosive, I think it has the potential to avert a war with Iraq. She went back into work on Monday, printed the email, folded it neatly and put it in her bag. She had never planned a career in intelligence and was slightly surprised to find herself working at GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), Britains electronic spying agency in Cheltenham. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a. 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. And then, in November, came the call from her lawyer. We welcome you all to Democracy Now! Former British intelligence officer Katharine Gun didnt set out to become a whistle-blower. Everyone was a suspect, as one by one colleagues were called into interviews with GCHQ's internal security team. The invasion proceeded more or less on time with a coalition of the willing led by the United States and Britain. When she arrived, escorted by security, all her colleagues knew too. A few weeks passed and no story appeared. I couldnt see beyond this war and all I wanted to do is just to put a spoke in the wheel of this wagon. Mr. Koza? Yeah, whos that? Again, this is before the Iraq War. AMY GOODMAN: And talk about whatI mean, you risked everything. It's just, back then, she didn't realise quite what her employer could be capable of. AMY GOODMAN: So, Katharine, you read this memo. Thats Keira Knightley playing Katharine Gun, whos in our studio now, the whistleblower, former British spy, worked for British intelligence, explaining why she leaked this memo, which would get to the press, which would get to The Observer, which brings us to our next two guests, Martin Bright and as well as Ed Vulliamy. I had found a source called Mel Goodman, namesake of yours, who was the ex-head of the Soviet desk at the CIA, had kept his clearance. She is played (with simmering intensity) by Keira Knightley. You didnt know who Katharine Gun was, who had leaked it, but you had the story of the memo that was going to get the goods on these U.N. Security Council members, which would force them to vote for the invasion of Iraq. "Public opinion was just so obviously against the invasion that I thought it wouldn't happen," she recalls. 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. KATHARINE GUN: The Foreign Office, the Ministry of Defense. But, Katharine, how old were you in 2003? You actually, at that point, had never met Katharine Gun. This is Democracy Now! Official Secrets. Katherine is the eldest of three sisters. Gun was cleared of a charge under the Official Secrets Act after being fired for revealing a secret e-mail. Now her story has been adapted into the film Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley. MARTIN BRIGHT: The top had been ripped off of the memo. And whereas usually with a whistleblower, you would work very closely with them directly, Katharine didnt come to me. KATHARINE GUN: Well, its just serendipitous, fortuitous, whatever it is, but his asylum case was coming to an end at the same time that my case began. We were getting calls from all over the world. AMY GOODMAN: So, that was Katharine Gun back in 2004. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Iraq War was in March. 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 . She has then attributed to being a huge source of information to the medias watch. AMY GOODMAN: So, youve got it proved. AMY GOODMAN: Tony Blair was the prime minister of Britain at the time. Katharine Gun works for British Intelligence, but struggles with the lies governments are telling the public in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was a crisis meeting because they had failed to get a second UN resolution, to give legal cover for the war. You worked for GCHQ in Britain. What do you do? I did, rather naively, try calling the press office and getting an interview. AMY GOODMAN: Which takes us to Mr. Martin Bright. Thats the critical point. Katharine feared she'd be fobbed off and then put under surveillance should she report it, so instead she kept silent and headed home for the weekend. The western leading man, Sam Elliott, first met his famous actress wife, Katharine Ross, on the set of a movie. Katharine Gun. Guided by her conscience, Katharine Gun defied her government and leaked the memo to the press, setting off a chain of events that jeopardized her freedom, her safety, but also opened the door to putting the entire Iraq invasion on trial. 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 . It didnt just end when George Bush said, Mission accomplished. Its heartbreaking that its affecting so many lives, and for what? 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. How frustrating it was for Gun to sit in her modest home next to her husband, and see fiction portrayed on the evening news. AMY GOODMAN: Weve got to make this fast; we have three minutes. AMY GOODMAN: So, bugging these six countries. In February 2003, Britain and the US began pushing for a new resolution that would give Saddam a month to disarm or face war. He remains on death row as of July 2021, but there have been zero executions in the state of California since a 2006 court . The diplomats were due to vote on a second United . 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. Were joined also by Martin Bright, who is the journalist who reported Guns revelations in The Observer, as well as Ed Vulliamy. AMY GOODMAN: So, you call Ed, and you say, Can you track down this guy? Among many other things. Former British intelligence officer Katharine Gun didn't set out to become a whistle-blower. He had no regrets whatsoever about removing Saddam. AMY GOODMAN: And then everyoneFOX, CNNand then they all cancel. Back in 30 seconds. When she was acquitted in 2004, it was difficult for her to find a new job that she liked. Ever since their story was documented in Marcia and Thomas Mitchell's 2008 book "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War," Gun, the British whistleblower who attempted to prevent the Iraq War, and . She had leaked a secret email revealing what was called at the time an illegal dirty tricks campaign to fix the UN vote. And its so relevant to be talking about this today, as the British government is talking about cracking down on the leaker of the memos of the British ambassador to the U.S. that forced him out. Starring: Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode. No. Bush remembers his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, saying to him: I hope thats not the last time we ever see them.. 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. You tried to call. That does it for our show. LONDON - FEBRUARY 25: Former employee of Britain's global surveillance center GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) Katharine Gun smiles as she speaks to the media during a press conference February 25, 2004 in London, England. Neither have many others, especially . Gun received bail each month, so she was able to make it seem like she still worked for GCHQ and had a normal life. Just for a moment, some imagined that this might be enough to stop the Iraq war before it had begun. . 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.. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. Katherine Louisa Ryan was born on June 30, 1983, to Finbar and Julie McCarthy in the city of Sarnia in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Theyre lying about what their motives arethat immediately made me think, I have got to get this out. TINTIN: You gather information from peoples phones and computers, and you feed that to your clients. At the time, I was really focused on the Iraq invasion issue, Gun told Vanity Fair this month, ahead of the August 30 premiere of Official Secrets, an intelligence thriller recounting this terrifying chapter of her life and starring Keira Knightley. Official Secrets is a 2019 British drama film based on the case of whistleblower Katharine Gun, who leaked a memo exposing an illegal spying operation by American and British intelligence services to gauge sentiment of and potentially blackmail United Nations diplomats tasked to vote on a resolution regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the time, the paper, their paper, The Observer, was openly supporting the Iraq invasion, leading up to it. KATHARINE GUN: I work for the British people. The advice was that, by accepting what she'd done was illegal, the jail time might end up reduced. Famed U.K. whistleblower Katharine Gun joins Justin on Extension 720 to talk about, "Official Secrets," the new movie based on her real life story.Gun leaked a secret memo exposing an illegal spying operation by the United States of America, looking for information with which to blackmail United Nations diplomats tasked to vote on a resolution regarding the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The daughter of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani was overwhelmed as a child by a wave of tragedy and looked for a gasp of air to breathe, even as sharks circled all around. Now, she tells, Monica Lewinskys Verdict on the Johnny DeppAmber Heard Trial: We Are All Guilty. But its just because the copy editor ran it through spell check. You've never seen war, you've never smelled it! AMY GOODMAN: And the idea was they would figure out which way they were going to vote, so that they could sway them. 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. "This was crossing a red line for me," she says. 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). AMY GOODMAN: And talk about what happened then. Hilary Duff and husband Matthew Koma enjoy adorable family day out with their . So, I decided that the risk to my career was minute compared to the upcoming war in Iraq, and the best thing to do for me was to leak this information to the press, so that everybody else could have the information, and hopefully it could avert this disastrous course of events that have occurred. But we werewithin The Observer, AMY GOODMAN: Of course, thats the time you should run the fastest to the editor, but. Her late husband, Tom, a former special agent of the FBI and one-time head of . Much like the invasion, the plan is considered to have violated international law. It was too dangerous to make the 20-minute drive from the airport to the British base in Basra. The terror of that period took a toll on Gun, who suffered from PTSD for years. I work for the British people. She was sitting at her computer in GCHQ when an email arrived from one Frank Koza, chief of staff at the regional targets division of the US National Security Agency. And, Ed, youre played by Rhys Ifans brilliantly in this movie, Official Secrets. And this was before Isis, which exists, in part, because of events set in train by the war. 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 . PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The Case Against Mary Katherine Higdon 43:11. People are traumatizedmilitary personnel are coming back extremely traumatized. KATHARINE GUN: [played by Keira Knightley] I translated signals intelligence, and I reported anything of interest to my clients. Gun, youre a spy. 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. 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. People hid under the tables. http://bit.ly/HeyUGuysYTSubFacebook http://facebook.com/HeyUGuysInstagram http://instagram.com/HeyUGuysOfficial--------------------- BEN EMMERSON: [played by Ralph Fiennes] You might need our help. As noted in online sources, the former spy's birth year is recorded to be 1974. I filed that story seven times to The Observer. JUDGE HYAM: [played by Kenneth Cranham] Katharine Teresa Gun, youre charged with an offense of the Official Secrets Act. Theyd already escorted him down to the custody suite and begun the process. We still dont know, to this day, why they did that. Gun couldnt maintain the pretense that shed had nothing to do with it and confessed almost immediately. We need another Katharine Gun. Husband: Not Available: Sibling: Not Available: Children: Not Available: Katharine Gun Net Worth. Well, now Katharine Guns story is being told in the new film Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley. As of 2020, Gun and her husband Yasar live in both Turkey and Britain. Is that right, Katharine? is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. 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. 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. And likewise the other performances, extraordinary in this film. A union rep got in touch to offer support, and once news broke that an unnamed woman had been arrested for the leak the story caught the attention of the organisation whose offices we're sitting in. But when she arrived for her trial at the Old Bailey, the prosecution dropped the case with no explanation. She is his first try at marriage, and evidently, he's enjoying his beginner's luck. When she leaks an NSA memo to the press exposing the American covert manipulation of allies, she will be forced into the spotlight. Here is a clip of you being interrogated by the police detective. GUN: Thats right. Latest Martin Milner Net Worth Income Salary, Andrew Witty Biography , Wife Age, Family Salary & Net Worth: UnitedHealth Group CEO, Blaize Pearman Wikipedia, Net Worth, Age, Bio, Mother Lydia Gaulden. AMY GOODMAN: The guy at the NSA. Katharine continues to reside in Turkey and occasionally visits Britain as of 2020. "But there are things you have to do not for the result but for the principle, because they are right.". Her act of whistle-blowing is portrayed in the recent film Official Secrets . Guns story being told in Official Secrets. And also, the memo itself contained language that was consistent with intelligence service language, so we had experts look at that, as well. KATHARINE GUN, WHISTLEBLOWER: Its you know, its very hard to explain the point of view I had or the mental state I was in at the time. What Really Happened During the Making of. We had at least a name. You know, its not every day you get a top-secret memo, and not just a top-secret memo from GCHQ, but a top-secret memo from the NSA sent to GCHQ. The drums of war are rolling at that period. Democracy Now! 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