[Gun was charged with violating the Official Secrets Act in Britain, but ultimately the case never went to trial.]. So we start with hair, and then we start with glasses, and Keira says, "Gavin, what if I just was me?" 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. Public attention is the last thing you expect if, like me, youd settled for a job in the shadowy world of British intelligence. There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. Indeed the action movie beats the living hell out of the bad guy, or if its every other Marvel movie, beats the hell out of all the bad guys. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. My job had been to listen to Chinese communications, translate them from Mandarin to English and produce reports for different government departments. And that I think was the motivation. Jeb Bush Just Botched the Iraq Question. 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. 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. 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? So here we are in rehearsal, and we're talking one day about the look. 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Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service 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. Now the goal is not truth, it is victory. Was the British government aware of it? 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. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. The team of hawks circling George Bush had long wanted to take out Saddam Hussein, as did Bush. We all, in some ways, make these decisions. Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. The paper had taken the controversial decision to back intervention in Iraq. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". Her husband said its a job, its just a goddamn job, I work at a caf. Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. According to the Guardian, Later, she gave the document to a friend, who passed it onto a contact in the anti-war movement, until it finally landed with journalists Martin Bright and Ed Vulliamy The Observer. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. Perhaps a plane painted in UN colors could be shot down over Iraq. David Dayen: So why do you think this is an important story to tell now in 2019? 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. But the Bush administration went to war anyway, using the pretext of weapons of mass destruction. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. The movie tells the story of Katharine Gun (played by Keira Knightley), a translator with the U.K.'s GCHQ who, in 2003, leaked top secret documents to journalist Martin Bright (Matt Smith) that revealed that the American government's plans to apply pressure on members of the U.N. Security Counsel to pass its war resolution. 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. For all the relief, there was a weird sense of anti-climax that we would now be unable to give our side of the story to the public. Naturally, I was discreet. 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. By the way, I know some amazing people in the intelligence services. So when, on the first Sunday of March, 2003, my leak appeared on the front page of The Observer newspaper, I was overcome with shock. 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. 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. And I didnt have work where I was. Theres not a lot of work for translators; shes a Mandarin translator in England. 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. 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. She was horrified and leaked the email to the Observer. It left me in an impossible predicament. He loves a battle, when it's done with words, boasts, and threats. And maybe they were right, I don't know. 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. It was like a neon sign that was flashing at me, Gun says. David Dayen: But he is not a headline journalist at a newspaper. What resonates to me is the somewhat more, I hope, timeless thing. And then there is the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led America deeply into war against North Vietnam. We need a truth-sayer. Across the world, millions protested the invasion of Iraq, doing their own small parts to attempt to prevent the war. Sixteen years ago, I became headline news after I leaked an internal email from GCHQ, the communications intelligence gathering centre near Cheltenham. '", 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. 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. I've seen that happen. So that's who's running this show. Katharine Gun, former intelligence specialist turned whistleblower, discusses the new film "Official Secrets" which details why she leaked a classified memo. 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. But that shouldn't be the philosophy pre-war when you're trying to decide whether to go to war. After the initial flurry of media interest, I was left to figure out how to move on with my life and that proved hard. Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2023 | The American Prospect, Inc. | All Rights Reserved, The Alt-Labor Chronicles: Americas Worker Centers, Official Secrets: A Conversation With Director Gavin Hood. 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. I was 27 when it all began. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. As opposed to trying to be Katharine Gun. the waning support for public institutions today. Then, the following Monday, I printed out a copy of the email, folded it up, and tucked it carefully in my bag. Some called her a traitor; others insisted she was a hero. 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. David Dayen: How did you think Keira Knightley was an asset in showing that emotional journey throughout the movie? Would you risk your job? We must not be flummoxed by exaggerated claims of threats against America and our interests. We need another Katharine Gun. '", "The scene where all of us receive this email and we're discussing the memo, that never happened. I admitted the leak and my life was turned upside down. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. By the time the mid-eighties came around and I was a young law student, so Im looking at it from the side of the law, we had no right of access to lawyers in trial if you breached anything that was regarded as having to do with the emergency legislation. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. It turned out a copyeditor at The Observer had run the memo through spellcheck before printing it.]. An insider with courage. So, to find that it would be dramatised on the big screen was as wonderfully welcome as it was astonishing. Never mind that invading another country for the purpose of regime change is illegal according to international laws to which the United States is a signatory. Following the incident, Gun struggled to find work that she The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few It's a fascinating film that really evokes the dangers of speaking out in the post-9/11 age, as well as the press's inability to challenge the official story on Iraq, particularly the U.S. press, which really just blacked out the Gun leak entirely. They're more polite to their suspects. Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? So important was this email, I knew it might even derail the case that Tony Blair was making for joining the Americans in an invasion. And they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. She said, I was naive. And those two are great actresses. Some called her a traitor; others But the invasion was forced to proceed with the backing of Bushs coalition of the willinginstead of with the support of the United Nations. The film also captures my determination to do what I believed was right and reveals how divisive the Iraq War was, particularly highlighting the anger within certain sections of the intelligence services as the sabre-rattling statements of Mr Blair and his spokesman Alastair Campbell were accepted without proper challenge by some in the media. She had been following that war, as many of us had, for a year. 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. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. Please help keep the independent journalism of Common Dreams strong. 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. For the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job. The editorial position should never be that. David Dayen: I want to go to the questions now. America, Britain, and Spain withdrew their proposed resolution on invading Iraq when it became clear that it would not garner the necessary Security Council votes, in part because of the information Gun brought to light. When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. "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.". He said she didnt even know what the job was. 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". This is my second brief moment of fame. Whistleblower and 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. She will not talk about it anything else. That would be awkward. 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. However, Gun was well aware that any attempt to release the memo would find her running afoul of Britains Official Secrets Act, which criminalizes the leaking of intelligence-related information. Does anyone have any questions? I had, of course, signed the Official Secrets Act, content in the knowledge I was working within the law for Britains protection. 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. Not mine or The Observer's finest hour, has to be said. WebKeira Knightley stars in this true story about Katharine Gun, a British intelligence officer who exposed the US government's efforts to force the UN Security Council to sanction the [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. WebWhen the film opens, Gun (Keira Knightley) is happily married to Yasar (Adam Bakri), a Turkish national living in the UK on a temporary visa, and passionately invested in You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. Official Secrets Trailer #1 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers, Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. As I walked down the red carpet, I had never in my life experienced the flash of so many cameras. 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. I don't think she thought they would deport her husband, I really don't think she thought that. Feel free to republish and share widely. 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. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. But this specificinstance is the ugly truth of what goes on.". To tell too much more of the story would spoil the film, but one part of its ending is clear. But ultimately, heres why I thinkthis might sound like a strange statement. Not the truth, but the war. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.. ", "I think Gavin had a really difficult time telling this story because it doesn't fit into a normal sort of storytelling mode," said Gun. 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." I even thought, naively, Id be able to keep my anonymity. So, Im not really answering your question well, but her feeling was just: Now I dont belong in this company. As one of the journalists who broke the story, I feel a certain responsibility for how things have turned out. However, the Pentagon says the US deployment is "in response to indications of heightened Iranian readiness to conduct offensive operations against US forces and our interests.". Maybe thats rewarding. The central issues of whistle-blower protection, public interest disclosures, journalistic freedom and the accountability of our elected representatives continue to be just as relevant today. 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 said: "Very close. Which really, really, really happened. As a film of her story is planned, she tells of her anger and frustration but not her regrets, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Katharine Gun back in Cheltenham last week: 'This is the ugly truth of what goes on.' Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for Right now my priorities are to ensure I am there for my daughter.". Then the most almighty cacophony erupted, a roar so loud we could barely hear to speak. Sorry to digress. Seven times I've submitted articles to you with an alternate point of view, and seven times you've turned me down. Gavin Hood: I asked her the same questions, and on about my second day interviewing her, I said to her, because I wasnt sure if I should make the movie; I mean, I needed to know whose story I was telling and if she was batshit crazy. 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. Surely, after 16 years, we are entitled to have answers. Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. My shock turned to anger as the significance sank in. And it's also true that we were then attacked by the Drudge Report for what would now be called 'fake news. It's tough, the laws here are even stricter than in the UK. Please, become a member, or make a one-time donation, today. 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. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. Gabrielle Bruney is a writer and editor for Esquire, where she focuses on politics and culture. And the reason? In real life, "the spellcheck largely happened through a series of phone calls," according to Bright, "because on a Sunday newspaper we don't work on a Sunday, and we don't work on a Monday. She was charged Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? 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. So I said to her at one point, and its in the movie because her interrogator said it too and you would ask her the same question, which is Katharine I hear all this, but it was a little muddy, you worked as a spy, you hacked peoples phones and computers, you do dirty tricks. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. 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. Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. That's really the simplest question: When do you speak up? Quality journalism. And she thought she wouldnt get caught. Gun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. Then, we all started watching the invasion and we werent how we got into the war. You dont have to agree with what she did, Im just telling you what she did. Thankfully, time passes and the intensity of feelings fades. After a police interview, at which I repeated my admission, I was released on bail to await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service. So we just worked on the performance from the very what if it's you? 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. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. Who knows whether they would've bent those other nations to vote for a resolution. 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. 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. WebGun, then 28, received an email about a U.S.-led operation enlisting the help of Britain to spy on other countries, in an attempt to blackmail them into supporting the Iraq War. KatharineGun did not stop the war,but was it all entirely in vain? Ms Gun worked as a translator at the GCHQ building in Cheltenham, pictured. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. This whole intelligence didn't match what the politicians were saying. ", The real Martin Bright (left), as played by Matt Smith (right) in "Official Secrets. 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. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new It is to say that we need to know the truth behind the decisions to act or not to act. Meanwhile, Kamal Ahmed, who is the guy at The Observer, is now the editorial director of the BBC. You work for the government. 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. This meant that a lot of the things that we see Gun go through in the film actually took far longer in real life. And maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. Most whistleblowers leak after the event to expose perceived wrongdoing. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. 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 One by one, all those who received the email approximately 100 people were taken in for a grilling. 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. 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