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We are honoured to have Katharine Gun visit us this Saturday, for a Q&A with local peace campaigners. For those too young to remember, Katharine was a GCHQ translator who blew the whistle on US spying on UN security council members in the run up to the Iraq war.
Her revelations caused a diplomatic storm internationally and many at the time felt it would make an invasion of Iraq impossible – sadly we were wrong. She lost her job and was arrested under the official secrets act for the disclosure (which she freely admitted) and faced years in prison. After a year long wait she appeared at the Old Bailey, but in a dramatic climbdown the then Attorney General Lord Goldsmith had all charges dropped.
Her story is depicted in the book “The Spy who tried to stop a war” and will soon be the subject of a movie in which she’ll be played by Keira Knightley.