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	Katharine Gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Katharine Teresa Gun (born 1974) is a former employee of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency.
		Gun planned to plead "not guilty", saying in her defense that she acted to prevent imminent loss of life in a war she considered illegal.
		Gun was supported in her case by the UK human rights pressure group Liberty and the international pressure group MoveOn.org.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katharine_Gun (670 words)

	UK Iraq War Whistleblower Cleared of Spy Charge: 'I Would Do It Again'
		Katharine Gun, 29, from Cheltenham, claimed the e-mail was from US spies asking British officers to tap phones of nations voting on war against Iraq.
		Mrs Gun, who was sacked from GCHQ in June and charged on 13 November, thanked her family and friends for helping her through the case.
		Mrs Gun revealed she was strongly anti-war but said she had not been looking for a piece of information to leak and embarrass the government.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0225-02.htm (899 words)

	Observer \| US stars hail Iraq war whistleblower
		But now Katharine Gun, an unassuming 29-year-old translator, is set to become a transatlantic cause célèbre as the focus of a star-studded solidarity drive that brings together Hollywood actor-director Sean Penn and senior figures from the US media and civil rights movement, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
		Gun appears in court tomorrow accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act by allegedly leaking details of a secret US 'dirty tricks' operation to spy on UN Security Council members in the run-up to war in Iraq last year.
		The statement is a glowing tribute to the publicity-shy GCHQ mole who has avoided all media attention since her arrest: 'We honour Katharine Gun as a whistleblower who bravely risked her career and her very liberty to inform the public about illegal spying in support of a war based on deception.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4838889-110863,00.html (1088 words)

	British whistleblower Katharine Gun faces two years in jail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gun is a British patriot who exposed the extent to which Blair has been willing to subordinate his country's interests to the wishes of his American masters.
		Gun's defense could be a replay of the case of Clive Ponting, a British official at the Ministry of Defense who gave a Member of Parliament documents proving that Maggie Thatcher and her ministers lied to Parliament about details of when and where the Argentinian ship General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War.
		Gun's cause, along with a number of prominent American liberals, including the actor Sean Penn. Now is the time for British conservatives and libertarians to join in the campaign to Free Katharine Gun — and free England from the grip of an increasingly authoritarian form of socialism.
	www.apfn.net /messageboard/02-16-04/discussion.cgi.7.html (2438 words)

	On Trial for Exposing US Wiretaps on UN : February 2004 : Peacework
		Katharine Gun faces two years in prison for telling the truth, exposing government crimes, and attempting to prevent a war.
		Gun, a former employee of the UK intelligence agency known as Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), faces charges that she violated Britain’s Official Secrets Act.
		Katharine Gun explained that she sought "to prevent wide-scale death and casualties among ordinary Iraqi people and UK forces in the course of an illegal war."
	www.afsc.org /pwork/0402/040219.htm (483 words)

	Britain: Revelations on US spying compared to Pentagon Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gun has justified leaking the secret memo by citing the unusual plea of “defence of necessity.” She told reporters, “I worked for GCHQ [the government’s spy headquarters] as a translator until June 2003.
		A potential witness at Gun’s trial is Elizabeth Wilmshurst, deputy legal adviser at the Foreign Office, who is believed to have resigned in March 2003 after disagreeing with the advice given to the Labour government of Prime Minister Tony Blair by the attorney general Lord Goldsmith.
		The silence over the Gun case demonstrates that a broad consensus exists within the US ruling elite behind the Bush administration’s policy of global conquest and colonial-style subjugation of peoples and regions considered to be of strategic importance.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jan2004/gun-j24.shtml (975 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| GCHQ translator cleared over leak
		The same spokesperson suggested the case might have been dropped as Ms Gun planned to argue she leaked the e-mail to save lives from being lost in a war, something that could persuade a jury and would lead to the reputation of the Official Secrets Act being damaged.
		Ms Gun, who was sacked from GCHQ in June and charged on 13 November, thanked her family and friends for helping her through the case.
		Ms Gun revealed she was strongly anti-war but said she had not been looking for a piece of information to leak and embarrass the government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/3485072.stm (896 words)

	Katharine Gun Case May be Abandoned : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In a statement when she was charged, Ms Gun said: "Any disclosures that may have been made were justified because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the US government which attempted to subvert our own security services.
		Katharine Gun, 29, is due to appear at the Old Bailey next week where she has said she will plead not guilty to breaking the Official Secrets Act.
		Ms Gun's lawyers were likely to argue she could not get a fair trial without seeing the attorney's advice on the war and the disclosure of GCHQ's activities.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1679851 (393 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Interview: Katharine Gun
		Within a week, Gun had confessed to her role as the leaker, left GCHQ, been arrested, and spent a night in police custody.
		Gun was to prove a particularly credible - and therefore, from the government's point of view, dangerous - kind of whistleblower.
		Gun had her defence ready: she had broken the terms of the Official Secrets Act out of necessity, to prevent imminent loss of life in a war she considered illegal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1156450,00.html (1436 words)

	Molly Ivins
		Meanwhile, Gun may be sentenced to prison for doing precisely what we all hope every government employee will try to do: prevent the government from committing an illegal and immoral act.
		Gun was raised partly in the Far East and speaks fluent Chinese.
		Gun probably is guilty under the misbegotten Official Secrets Act (the email she leaked was marked "Top Secret"), but one wonderful thing about the system of justice we inherited largely from the Brits is that a jury doesn't have to follow the law -- a jury can do what it thinks is right.
	www.funnytimes.com /notfunny/20040212MI.html (742 words)

	(DV) IPA: UN Spy Scandal on Iraq
		Gun faces two years in prison in England for alerting the public about U.S. spying on United Nations diplomats aimed at securing U.N. approval for war against Iraq.
		Today, a 29-year-old British woman, Katharine Gun, is facing two years in prison for acting on her conscience and helping to bring the spy memo to light.
		Gun, a translator at the British intelligence agency GCHQ, was arrested shortly after the story was published.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Jan04/IPA0131.htm (802 words)

	Interview: Whistleblower Katharine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And yet this rather shy 30-year-old leaked details of an alleged plot to bug UN delegates before the Iraq war and was sacked from her job as a translator at GCHQ.
		Gun on the other hand had Liberty and her union backing her up.
		Gun is very impressed by Ellsburg who she describes as the "person who produced the Pentagon papers which effectively turned the public mood against the Vietnam war".
	foi.missouri.edu /whistleblowing/invkatherinegunn.html (713 words)

	washingtonpost.com: British Press Hails Wiretap Whistleblower
		Gun is the former Chinese language translator for a British intelligence agency who last year leaked a top-secret e-mail sent by a U.S. official asking Britain to electronically bug members of the United Nations Security Council in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
		After the British government launched an official investigation, Gun admitted she had leaked the memo in an effort to stop the war, which she thought was immoral.
		Gun is fast becoming a cause celebre in Britain," according to a report filed by the Guardian's Washington bureau, "the case has not yet resonated in the US, where the trial has attracted scant attention."
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8204-2004Feb26?language=printer (922 words)

	FarShores Secrets & Conspiracies: UK Govt. Accused Of Invasive Brain Wave Monitoring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I believe that there is much more to Katharine Gun's experience which represents only the tip of the iceberg for such espionage being carried out by the US and UK Governments.
		I suspect that Katharine Gun and her legal team might now very well be subjected to such surveillance in the interest of national security.
		The potential for abuse of such technology is clearly obvious in the document leaked by Katharine Gun bless her.
	farshores.org /sc0403.htm (2537 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Norman Solomon \| For Telling The Truth
		Few Americans have heard of Katharine Gun, a former British intelligence employee facing charges that she violated the Official Secrets Act.
		Katharine Gun's truth-telling did not stop the war on Iraq, but it did make a difference.
		Gun, who is free on bail and is to appear in court Jan. 19, has responded with measured eloquence.
	www.truthout.org /docs_03/121603I.shtml (843 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| GCHQ whistleblower cleared
		Photograph: Richard Lewis/AP GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun demanded an explanation today after the case against her of disclosing information and breaking the Official Secrets Act collapsed after the prosecution offered no evidence.
		Ms Gun, a former translator for GCHQ, the security service's main monitoring centre, had been accused of leaking a memo to a newspaper on an alleged American "dirty tricks" campaign to spy on UN delegates ahead of the Iraq war.
		Ms Gun, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, had been accused of disclosing a request allegedly from a US national security agency official for help from British intelligence to tap the telephones of UN security council delegates during the period of fraught diplomacy before the war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1155681,00.html (799 words)

	The Katherine Gun Case -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
		Katharine Gun, a British former government employee, faced two years imprisonment in England for the "crime" of telling the truth.
		She was charged with leaking an embarrassing U.S. intelligence memo indicating that the U.S. had mounted a spying "surge" against U.N. delegations in early 2003 in an effort to win approval of the Iraq war resolution.
		Gun in April 2004 at a hearing on the Iraq war in the Danish Parliament building.
	www.accuracy.org /gun (428 words)

	The Observer \| Focus \| Focus: The UN spy scandal
		As her legal team would later argue, Gun believed the email was so shocking that, if made public, it could potentially force the six nations targeted in the operation - Chile, Pakistan, Guinea, Angola, Cameroon and Bulgaria - to pull the plug on a second resolution to authorise war.
		Gun was sent the email in the course of her work and her name is on the list of original recipients.
		So great was their concern that they sent a memo to all staff reassuring them that 'the United Kingdom would not commit troops to military action in Iraq without a second UN resolution if to do so would be contrary to international law'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,1158679,00.html (3526 words)

	Katharine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Full details of Katharine Gun's case at: http://www.katharinegun.com or write to 'Support Katharine Gun', c/o Liberty, 21 Tabard St., London SE1 4LA.
		She disclosed that the United States Security Agency wanted the British Government to help in the illegal surveillance of the six delegations holding the balance of power in the UN Security Council in its crucial vote for a resolution in support of war.
		Katharine Gun did what she thought was right.
	www.freedomtocare.org /page320.htm (182 words)

	Indymedia UK - Victory for Katharine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Liberty is delighted that the Government has decided to drop the case against Katharine Gun, GCHQ whistleblower.
		We took her case on because we were appalled that a whistleblower who acted in good conscience should be threatened with imprisonment for exposing that our government had been asked by the US to act unlawfully and to undermine the deliberations of the UN Security Council.
		Katharine was facing trial at the Old Bailey, charged under the Official Secrets Act with disclosing secret Government information.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/02/285956.html (317 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Releases : "New Support for British Whistleblower Katharine Gun; Interviews Available" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Gun's actions would present a national security threat to the United States...The British and American public deserved to know all the elements involved in the buildup to the war.
		Rep. Woolsey commented: "Katharine Gun shouldn't be facing two years in jail when she deserves a hero's welcome.
		IPA Executive Director Norman Solomon and IPA's Gun Project coordinator Jeff Cohen are available to discuss solidarity for Katharine Gun that is gaining ground on both sides of the Atlantic.
	releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=26236 (409 words)

	Prominent Americans Support British Whistleblower -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
		Katharine Gun recently explained her actions in written statements: "Any disclosures that may have been made were justified on the following grounds: because they exposed serious illegality and wrongdoing on the part of the U.S. government which attempted to subvert our own security services....
		We honor Katharine Gun as a whistleblower who bravely risked her career and her very liberty to inform the public about illegal spying in support of a war based on deception.
		We urge Americans to express their solidarity with Katharine Gun directly to the government of Britain through the British Embassy, 3100 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D.C. Phone: 202-588-7800.
	www.accuracy.org /press_releases/PR012904.htm (768 words)

	Katharine Gun
		In the run-up to the Iraq war, Katharine, a GCHQ translator, leaked documents to the Observer showing that US intelligence were asking their British counterparts to help spy on diplomats on the United Nations Security Council.
		Katharine's story has been covered by such newspapers as the Observer, Guardian, New York Times, Time and the Boston Globe.
		According to the Observer, the operation caused "significant disquiet" in the intelligence community on both sides of the Atlantic.
	www.owos.info /petition/mail_gun.php?cd=67679 (567 words)

	Katherine Gunn
		I am writing to ask you to help Katharine Gun, a courageous GCHQ translator, who faces prison for exposing an illegal spying campaign.
		I urge you to contact Tony Blair and your local MP asking that the case against Katharine be dropped.
		I can only admire the more timely, courageous action of Katherine Gun, who risked her career and freedom to expose clandestine actions to win support for an illegal war, before that war had started.
	www.druidry.org /obod/wtc/gunn.html (477 words)

	The Neil Rogers Show - News - US Stars Hail Iraq War Whistleblower - GCHQ worker Katharine Gun faces jail for exposing ...
		She was arrested last March, days after The Observer first published evidence of an intelligence 'surge' on UN delegations, ordered by the GCHQ's partner organization, the National Security Agency.
		At a hearing last November, Gun's legal team indicated that she would use a defense of 'necessity' to argue that she acted to save the lives of British soldiers and Iraqi civilians.
		The statement is a glowing tribute to the publicity-shy GCHQ mole who has avoided all media attention since her arrest: 'We honor Katharine Gun as a whistleblower who bravely risked her career and her very liberty to inform the public about illegal spying in support of a war based on deception.
	news.neilrogers.com /news/articles/2004011905.html (1153 words)

	Katharine Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Katharine Gun used to work as a translator at GCHQ, the Government’s eavesdropping centre.
		Katharine made the disclosure because she believed that it was necessary to prevent an illegal war in which thousands of Iraqi citizens and British and American soldiers would die or be maimed.
		The charges against Katharine are dropped, February 25th.
	www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk /issues/katharine-gun.shtml (195 words)

	Iraq - United Nations - Katharine Gun - Intelligence - Worldpress.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Katharine Gun, a former British intelligence officer, walked free from the Old Bailey yesterday [Feb. 25] and rekindled the debate over the war in Iraq.
		James Welch, a solicitor for Liberty, the civil rights group, and Gun’s lawyer, said yesterday: “Clearly what was being sought was an edge at a time when they were trying to secure a second U.N. resolution....What the United States was asking Britain to do was clearly unlawful in international law.
		While Gun is becoming a cause célèbre in Britain, the case has not yet resonated in the United States, where it has attracted scant attention.
	www.worldpress.org /Americas/1831.cfm (794 words)

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