‘Official Secrets’ Reveals How Little We Still Know About the Push for War in Iraq
By Martin Bright Yesterday 8:00 am
In 2003, Katharine Gun risked everything to try to stop the war. The reporter who broke her story—coming to the big screen later this month—reminds us how many questions remain unanswered.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Official Secrets will be released in the United States on August 30.
It was a cold Friday morning at the end of January 2003 when Katharine Gun first saw the e-mail that would change her life. The 27-year-old Mandarin specialist was working as a translator at Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The memo came from a man called Frank Koza based 3,500 miles away at the National Security Agency in Maryland. In these feverish weeks in early 2003, the British and American governments were desperate to persuade the United Nations Security Council to authorize war against Saddam Hussein‘s murderous regime. The instructions from Koza were plain. The British spies at GCHQ were being told to mount an intelligence “surge†on the United Nations itself. In particular, they were to target those members of the Security Council that were still undecided: Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, and Guinea, “as well as extra focus on Pakistan.â€
One purpose of the operation was to provide ammunition for Secretary of State Colin Powell’s now notorious address to the United Nations on February 5 making false claims about the threat supposedly posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Katharine and her colleagues were instructed to gather “the whole gamut of information that could give US policy makers an edge in obtaining results favorable to US goals or to head off surprises.â€
Read more at: https://www.thenation.com/article/official-secrets-iraq-film/
Yes, the article is from the Nation (left-wing source), apparently, the movie has been released and seen at places like the Sundance film festival,I've practically heard nothing on this, trailer below.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 Katharine Gun - wikipedia People Magazine article Variety review Apparently, a British movie, filmed in Yorkshire among other places.
