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. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. To separate fact from fiction, Newsweek spoke to the real Gun and Bright, as well as Official Secrets director Gavin Hood. Healthy mother-of-two, 32, collapsed and died from brain bleed while she led fitness bounce class. We must not be flummoxed by exaggerated claims of threats against America and our interests. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. The truth is when she speaks to me, and she says, Gavin, we also go to lunch like everybody else in any other office. It is written by Sara and Gregory Bernstein, a California-based husband-and-wife writing partnership who have worked with British director Jonathan Lynn. Eventually, it was widely held that at least one of the reports of the attacks, and perhaps even both, were false. 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. His work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Republic, HuffPost, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. It was both exhilarating and just a little uncomfortable. [In the movie, Gun says I dont work for the government, I work for the people.]. 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 I did the same for the journalists and the lawyers and everybody. Quality journalism. EXCLUSIVE: Lanzarote sticks to its guns and insists it WILL limit tourists and move away from relying on Jeremy Clarkson is axed as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? The same countries demanded immediate answers from the British government about its involvement in the spying. 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. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. Six months later they released Nelson Mandela. This included a particular focus on the "swing nations" on the security council, Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria and Guinea, "as well as extra focus on Pakistan UN matters". So, she began to feel uncomfortable in the work she was doing at that point. In the matter of a few years. Its had far reaching and very negative impacts in all aspects of our institutions and our public life," Gun says. For the Observer too, it was a story full of risks. And then, she said when she got in therenow bear in mind that she still is bound by the Official Secrets Act. [In real life] I saw the email, I immediately thought, 'Oh, my God, this is shocking.' But the invasion was forced to proceed with the backing of Bushs coalition of the willinginstead of with the support of the United Nations. And those two are great actresses. 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. Unfortunately, perhaps, I have a conscience and my dishonesty gnawed at me persistently until the next day, when I confessed. Gun, her husband, and their four-year-old daughter shed their coveted privacy long enough to allow Katharine to be one of two former Sam Adams Award winners to present this year's award. the waning support for public institutions today. And then there is the Gulf of Tonkin incident that led America deeply into war against North Vietnam. So, that's where we had to go for WMD. I was suddenly free and bewildered. It gives me an interesting pause. 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. 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. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode 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. Unfortunately. WebKatharine Guns husbands photo revelations are not made by her yet. You see it most vividly in that scene where everybody stops calling Martin Bright, or they start canceling all the interviews. It is to say that a government, for its own reasons may, either by design or through miscalculation, lead a country into an unnecessary and brutal war. Feel free to republish and share widely. 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. Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 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", Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Keira Knightley's Birthday: Her 15 Best Movies Ranked, In the film, when Gun is sent an email from someone high up in the U.S. government that reveals the U.S. covert plan, she decides to leak it to Bright, who works for the British newspaper, Keira Knightley as Katharine Gun in "Official Secrets. Ive already lost a dear friend, and I cant do thisget called up two months of the year, every year, for the next 12 years. 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.. So, Im not really answering your question well, but her feeling was just: Now I dont belong in this company. Naturally, I was discreet. Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". Interestingly I think we faced a challenge, which some of you may or may not agree with. And maybe if we went to work for Enron and we liked our job well enough, and its a job. A thorough investigation began as soon as the staff started arriving at GCHQ on the Monday morning. In fact, I had no idea what was going on. 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. The British are quite British, you know. Perhaps they knew it would come out in the courtroom that the entire conflict was based on lies about Saddams weapons of mass destruction and that key UN officials could have been blackmailed. She wasnt charged for eight months a gruelling period which is depicted as just a few So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. Gavin Hood: After the spellcheck. You took this job and didnt even know what it was. Who, one must ask, is provoking whom? Gavin Hood: Hes not in journalism. David Dayen: As someone who works on a magazine, it's the ultimate copyediting failure. 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. The contents were explosive, implicating America in a blackmail plot to swing UN votes in favor of an invasion. The truth is that I didnt know who Katharine Gun was until my producer Ged Doherty called me up one day, we made Eye In The Sky together, and said, Have you ever heard of Katharine Gun? Thats one of those moments where you think: Sounds like I ought to have, but I hadnt. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. So, I guess we all have a threshold. The comments below have been moderated in advance. In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. An insider with courage. But she said she would still be prepared to give evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war. Daniel Ellsberg, the celebrated American whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the build-up to the war in Vietnam, described it as "the most important and courageous leak I have ever seen".He added: "No one else including myself has ever done what Katharine Gun did: tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.". And we keep that system alive. We started working on this three years ago and even then it felt relevant in the sense that the challenges we talked about earlier: Where does my loyalty lie? She went to this interview, the next minute were down this rabbit hole, the next minute my wifes telling the world. As the title of the film script suggests, she was "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War". You have the UN resolution, we're all doing this together to stop the genocide or something, or it's self-defense, we're going to be attacked, it's so clear we're going to be attacked that we have to take pre-emptive action. I know what it is like to watch the system become completely authoritarian. What did you think was going to happen? "That really happened," Hood confirmed, though it did not go quite as it is shown in the film. 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. The story went around the world and the leak electrified the international debate during the weeks of diplomatic deadlock. Right: Entertainment One, Everyone Practices Cancel Culture | Opinion, Deplatforming Free Speech is Dangerous | Opinion. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." Id immediately be transported back to GCHQ and that email the anger I felt and the decisions I made. You work for the government. Weve said it before: The greatest threat to democracy from the media isnt disinformation, its the paywall. ", As for her own story, she recognises that 10 years on it scarcely registers with the public. 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." Provocation? 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. 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. 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. I sensed a slight flash of anger as she said: "It's not even a footnote in the history of Iraq." Ed, the real Ed, is absolutely delightful. Its Straussian, over the top and pretentious but basically amounts to this. I don't think she thought they would deport her husband, I really don't think she thought that. WebYou may not know the name Katharine Gun unless you live in the United Kingdom, but she was a pivotal figure in the run-up to the Iraq War. Iran, of course, isn't interested in dealing with him. This, remember, was a conflict that caused the deaths of 179 British servicemen, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and caused countless more to suffer serious wounds, both physical and psychological. 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And that's quite a depressing place to find yourself in when you feel so strongly and passionately about something. Anyway, the Office of Special Plans and Abram Shulsky make an interesting Wikipedia read, it won't take you very long. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. It left me in an impossible predicament. ", Hood added: "You know, to this day, I mean, the real journalistic question is, who would like to go and really press Lord Goldsmith and Ken McDonald for the reasons why they really dropped their case? 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? I am an American citizen; I have a strange accent but Ive been here 25 years; my kids were born here. Martin Bright, who is in the movie very briefly I guess, is no longer in journalism as I understand it. Because it was toughthe guy wouldnt print his stuff. The point of all of this is painfully obvious. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. 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. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images). Gun made the choice to leak the document, which Martin Bright of The Observer in Britain published in a story on March 2, 2003. The issue is provocation. WebKatharine Gun was a young specialist working for Britains Government Communications Headquarters when she exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United Or at least, she could have been. Not only was the cable the most sensitive ever to be disclosed on either side of the Atlantic, it was also unique in its timing. They're more polite to their suspects. 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. 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. Does anyone have any questions? 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. Had the film appeared any earlier, however, I dont think Id have been able to watch it, let alone help the makers. "On the one hand, she's free. Gun discusses her attempt to stop the Iraq War, which is the subject of the new movie Official Secrets. 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. Again. Theyre talking about diplomatic negotiations, and having all the cards on the table, but behind that what theyre doing is trying to bribe UN diplomatic members to vote for a war which has no legal justifications, Gun says. So that's who's running this show. But again, I cant help but make some small jokes about these things. David Dayen: One thing I think you depict really brilliantly in this story is what the climate was like at the time. [Gun's husband Yasar, a Kurd, was nearly deported back to the Middle East at one point, even though he had nothing to do with the leak.]. Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job. Which is to say that GCHQ was being asked to dig dirt on foreign officials so that they could be blackmailed, bribed or both in order to secure a UN resolution authorising an invasion. They live on a smallholding, renting a house, in rural Turkey. This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. You may not know the name Katharine Gun unless you live in the United Kingdom, but she was a pivotal figure in the run-up to the Iraq War. However, she is not without disappointment about how little obvious difference she made. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. For the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. 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. Now someone else may beI don't know if I could hack people's phones and computers, personally. And he kept thinking, 'How am I going to portray this? There it was spotted by Debs Paterson, director of the critically acclaimed Africa United, who met Katharine Gun last week with a view to making the film of her life. It was the first time I had worked with characters who were still alive, and they very much wanted it to be accurate or they wouldn't sign over their life rights. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. 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. By design. This was her first or second week at the paper. She's based (and born and raised) in Brooklyn, New York. It was almost as if that request was asking for someone within their own nation to do this work; it wasn't asking another completely independent state for co-operation.". 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. "I never aligned myself specifically with the anti-war movement. I was arrested for a breach of section one of the Official Secrets Act 1989 and held overnight in a cell in the basement of the Cheltenham Police headquarters. I spent the following hours doubled over the toilet bowl in absolute terror. Warning: The following contains spoilers for Official Secrets. 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. A script has been doing the rounds in Hollywood for five years. Then the story went There's an obvious scene of the immigration deportation. "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. 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. Maybe thats rewarding. My shock turned to anger as the significance sank in. 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. That seems like the central undercurrent that is playing throughout the entire film. Gun said that the UK government still had some explaining to do: "I thinkthere need to be more questions asked about whether they responded to that request, why they felt it was within their scope of work to respond to that sort of request, and what is the manner of the relationship between UK politics and US politics. Enter Katharine Gun. Actually, there were two incidents at sea, blamed originally on the North Vietnamese. Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? We were in development with a particular studio, and I don't mean to be funny after such a heavy film but sometimes we need a little bit of humor. What we have in this country is very precious, and in a sense, when I make these kind of films I don't know if I consciously do it, it's actually reminding about us that authoritarianism and governments gone awry are not okay, and what makes us strongoh, that sounds terribly pretentious, but I think you see where I'm coming from. The difficulties of translating Gun's story also made writing the climax of the film tricky. Would you risk your job? Whether you work for Boeing or Enron or Wallstreet? ", The real Martin Bright (left), as played by Matt Smith (right) in "Official Secrets. 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. If it was, who cleared it to be passed to GCHQ? Where do you draw the line? She said, You mean I dont have to wear a corset? To your point, in some way, she said to me, As a woman, its kind of ironic as an actress that I so often, even though Im in the modern world, that I have to find heroic women in period dramas wearing corsets. Theres something weird about that. A manufactured provocation. 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