", 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? 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. Gavin Hood: And that really happened. It was written in technical language, but the meaning was clear enough: the Americans were asking around 100 people in GCHQ to gather information from the communications made by diplomats from six nations Angola, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea and Pakistan all which were then sitting on the United Nations Security Council. Katharine Gun, a shy and studious 28-year-old who spent her days listening in to obscure Chinese intercepts, decided to tell the world about a secret plan by the US government to spy on the, Don't mention the Iraq war, William Hague tells cabinet, Tenyears on, the case for invading Iraq is still valid, Occupying Iraq: a US army veteran's ambivalence, Howthe Bush administration sold the war and we bought it, the story the paper published 10 years ago this weekend, was arrested, lost her job and faced trial under the Official Secrets Act, collapsed after the prosecution withdrew its evidence. Director Gavin Hood Writers Sara Bernstein Gregory Bernstein Gavin Hood Stars Keira Knightley Matt Smith Matthew Goode David Dayen: No problem. 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. We typically, in the movie business, ever since Joseph Campbell wrote The Hero of A Thousand Facesand Im not meaning to be sarcastic because thats a great piece of work, but it spoiled the idea that every development executive is reading these books because the hero we meet and then something upsets their world and the antagonist that must equal the hero, and eventually we go through these loops and the hero triumphs in the end. WebFor example, a scene where Gun tries to get her husband out of an immigration detention center actually played out over three days during which she did not know where he was. KatharineGun did not stop the war,but was it all entirely in vain? Across the world, millions protested the invasion of Iraq, doing their own small parts to attempt to prevent the war. So I said goodbye to my mom and moved to America. So right there, you are pulling out the highlights," said Hood of the key issue with making Official Secrets. There were some audience questions as well. I don't think she thought they would deport her husband, I really don't think she thought that. "Obviously, we are compressing a story that took place in real life over a period of a year into two hours. I dont know if theyd have discovered me eventually, but the fact is I couldnt live a lie for ever. I grew up in South Africa in the seventies and eighties, when apartheid was really tightening and tightening and tightening. But get out of that trailer as fast as possible, get onto the set, and work from inside? After a police interview, at which I repeated my admission, I was released on bail to await the decision of the Crown Prosecution Service. 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. 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. She said, I was naive. Gavin Hood: Keira is wonderful and is absolutely professional, arrives perfectly prepared, very calm, no fuss. Perhaps it was no wonder that Tony Blairs government decided to abandon the case without offering any evidence. And in her case, she risked both her job and her freedom and whatever you think of her politically, I think that takes some guts. ", 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. 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. Amazing lady, shes still a journalist. Some called her a traitor; others And we keep that system alive. 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. Thankfully, time passes and the intensity of feelings fades. 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.". 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. Why did the British authorities wait eight months before charging me and then drop the charges, claiming there was insufficient evi-dence for prosecution when I had confessed to the leak from the start? Direct to your inbox. By the way, I know some amazing people in the intelligence services. His philosophy comes from a military intelligence model, which actually, by the time you go to war, now it's about winning. 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. She didnt know where he was for three days and she took the train down from Charlton to London to see the MP, Nigel Jones, who said exactly what he says in the movie. If if wasnt, what does that mean for the rule of law? But I know some folks because of films I made like Eye in the Sky, and before that I made a film called Rendition. 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". [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.]. Gavin Hood: After the spellcheck. The contents were explosive, implicating America in a blackmail plot to swing UN votes in favor of an invasion. 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. This and her other writings about intelligence issues have been critically acclaimed. 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. Sorry to digress. Iraq All Over Again? And it was this book which eventually became the script for Official Secrets. ", Bright noted that apart from some small flourishes to heighten the drama, he didn't think Official Secrets had "any genuine liberties taken with the truth. 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. 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. Gun sacrificed so much when she decided to leak and has worked only intermittently since. Do you vote, do you analyze who you should vote for or do you just take it for granted? 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But the Bush administration went to war anyway, using the pretext of weapons of mass destruction. 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. And she thought she wouldnt get caught. 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. Look at what happened to Reality Winner in this country. Exaggerating threats to provoke a war? By Katharine Gun, Gchq Whistleblower For The Mail On Sunday, Published: 22:33 GMT, 26 October 2019 | Updated: 16:47 GMT, 8 November 2019. 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. And that I think was the motivation. But I talk to people and there does seem to be a sense of failure that, despite all the campaigning and all the marching and all the protesting and everything they did, it made not a ha'porth of difference. Happy and carefree, Id recently married my handsome husband and was working at GCHQ as a linguist. 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. 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 She said, I thought that might be quite interesting and exciting. We may earn a commission from these links. "Still no regrets," she said. Give today. Problem number two: Do you shut up or do you speak up? Anyway, the Office of Special Plans and Abram Shulsky make an interesting Wikipedia read, it won't take you very long. "But that's partly my own fault because I haven't aggressively pursued a career. Most whistleblowers leak after the event to expose perceived wrongdoing. Since 2003, my life and Gun's have continued to cross from time to time. It almost started with, well, would I have the courage to do what she did in another setting maybe? The poor woman is based on a real person. The only thing that we altered in that is that I didnt have time to tell it for as long as it went on. Do you go vote? The same countries demanded immediate answers from the British government about its involvement in the spying. This is a story about my life and my leak after all, and I still believe in the issues passionately. Liberty, the civil rights organisation, and Ben Emmerson QC had already agreed to defend me and we prepared for trial. So it was a pretty awful thing to happen to her. You work for the government. She will not talk about it anything else. His most recent book is Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power.. Or at least, she could have been. 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. One is kind of what I thought it was, which is the CIA is the Central Intelligence Agency, walled off from politicians and the executive in a perfect world, where all the intelligence comes in, they analyze it and they then present their best intelligence estimates; this is pre-war, youre not at war, to the executive branch. 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. But there's no way I would have expressed that to any of my colleagues," Gun explained. ", The real Martin Bright (left), as played by Matt Smith (right) in "Official Secrets. The real-life Gun said: "The attempt at deportation kind of spiked my stress level again for another period of my life." So she said, Can I just do nothing with my hair, put on the jeans like Katharine wore? So the wardrobe is accurate to Katharine's style. And for her, this was too much. And Assange is the same. A thorough investigation began as soon as the staff started arriving at GCHQ on the Monday morning. It was only later in the green room that I asked what all the fuss had been about, wondering aloud if it had been the environmental protest group Extinction Rebellion. 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? 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. Keira calmly said: Oh, that was probably me. I still blush to the tips of my toes when I think about it. WebThe Katharine Gun Case. Can dementia be spotted in CHILDHOOD? Some of those same birds are still flapping wings in the skies above Washington. In leaking it to the Observer, she was also doing something unprecedented in the history of espionage. To look at someone who I thought was quite accessible and ordinaryand she doesn't mind me saying this because Katharine is someone who keeps her head below and is quiet, and did something extraordinary. Iran, meanwhile, says it doesn't want war, but will defend itself. Again. Truth about Covid care home testing row: Timeline lays bare what was said, by who and when. "One of the things that we discovered quite early on when he was interviewing me was that a lot of stuff was just happening in my head. Gun had, of course, been forced to abandon her career in the civil service Not good enough, the trio decided. This is a special case because this story is very little-known in the United States. It sounds big with Katharine but that's what inspired me. 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 Its Straussian, over the top and pretentious but basically amounts to this. 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. Ed, I know some people have said that Rhys Ifans [who plays Vulliamy] is slightly over the top. But any such illusions were shattered on the freezing cold morning of Friday, January 31, 2003, as I read and re-read the most extraordinary email from Americas intelligence service, the National Security Agency. I didn't plan to have this movie out today and know what was going to be going on. 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. 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. 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. Provocation? By printing off the memo, putting it in her handbag and taking it home, she was already committing a serious breach of the Official Secrets Act. Which really, really, really happened. 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. It was what I was thinking, what I was feeling. After the charges against her were dropped in 2004, she found it difficult to find a new This, despite credible evidence that Iran was in full compliance with terms of the agreement. Over the weekend, I got to work. And they failed, in part, I believe, because Katharine Gun leaked that memo, Official Secrets director Gavin Hood told Democracy Now!. Gun was followed, denied legal advice and her Turkish husband faced deportation. That means that, in theory, the war could still be classified as an illegal war, Gun says. His exact words to describe the intelligence method is, The goal of the intelligence is not the truth, but victory. That is a quote from Shulsky. This whole intelligence didn't match what the politicians were saying. 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. 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. Throughout her own court case, what only a few knew was that she was also fighting for 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. We must not be flummoxed by exaggerated claims of threats against America and our interests. 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.". So, Im not really answering your question well, but her feeling was just: Now I dont belong in this company. 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. Chile and Mexico and the other smaller countries were so outraged that they refused to even bring it to a vote. Most directly, it bolstered opposition to the US position from Chilean and Mexican diplomats weary of American "dirty tricks". And when we got to that point in the movie, I had to start montaging it because it was just taking too long to get to the end. The other was Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and counsel at the Minneapolis bureau, who blew the whistle on FBI and other shortcomings WebWhistleblower Katherine Gun, right, is played by Keira Knightly in the movie Official Secrets View gallery Gun was outraged after she learned - as part of her job with GCHQ - that It gives me an interesting pause. Moment fitness influencer asks man to move off park bench 'because he's 'ruining her livestream' - but Mortgage demand plummets to a 28-year low as average interest rates hit 6.71% - just as spring home buying Britain braces for brutal -9C Arctic snap: Met Office warns more snow and ice could lash the country next Is YOUR wood burner at risk? Yet here was a story that had the capacity to derail the war altogether. Such a law is not compatible with openness, transparency, accountability and justice. "I think part of the reason Gavin included it was just to kind of share that thought process.". ", "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. When I was a young law student, we studied the American Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In one pivotal scene in the film, all of Gun and Bright's work is nearly undone by one mistake, as a member of The Observer team accidentally changed the American spelling of the memo into British spelling, something The Drudge Report then used to discredit the memo. And it's not an easy question, it sounds easy, but I don't think it is. Sometimes movies can be an effective way to make forgotten stories part of our national narrative, and in that sense, Official Secrets comes not a moment too soon. So Im very proud of Keiras performance and I dont mind that she doesnt have blonde hair. Then, we all started watching the invasion and we werent how we got into the war. It is probably still too early to tell. So WMD may not have been as important, had they gotten that resolution. British Secret Service Officer Katharine, then a young bride, risked everything to leak details of the Bush-Blair plan to coerce (possibly blackmail) members of the UN Security Council in order to win their votes to legalize invading Iraq. She was a spythe communications she translated had been obtained covertly, but she did the work in the interest of protecting Britain. For the future, I hope the film will help locate the missing pieces from the story. Right now my priorities are to ensure I am there for my daughter.". In the runup to the critical vote on war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a US plot to spy on the UN. 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.. You can look up Nicole Mowbray, she wrote an article in The Guardian a couple weeks ago, about this worst day of her life. 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