In the weeks leading up to the war in Iraq, Katharine Gun exposed a Us plot to spy on the Un in leaks published in the Observer. She joins former Observer journalist Martin Bright to tell their story ahead of a forthcoming Hollywood adaptation. Plus the BBC’s Carrie Gracie on how she fought for equal pay
In the weeks before the invasion, Tony Blair and George W Bush continued to make the case for war in Iraq despite the lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. In Cheltenham, a young Mandarin-language specialist at the UK spy agency Gchq, Katharine Gun, was at her desk when she received an email detailing a secret plan by the Us government to spy on the United Nations to try to secure a resolution from the security council to authorise an attack.
In an attempt to prevent a...
In the weeks before the invasion, Tony Blair and George W Bush continued to make the case for war in Iraq despite the lack of evidence that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. In Cheltenham, a young Mandarin-language specialist at the UK spy agency Gchq, Katharine Gun, was at her desk when she received an email detailing a secret plan by the Us government to spy on the United Nations to try to secure a resolution from the security council to authorise an attack.
In an attempt to prevent a...
- 9/23/2019
- by Presented by Anushka Asthana with Martin Bright, Katharine Gun and Carrie Gracie; produced by Elizabeth Cassin, Gary Marshall and Axel Kacoutié; executive producers Nicole Jackson and Phil Maynard
- The Guardian - Film News
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