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| + | #REDIRECT[[Katharine Gun]] |
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| − | |image_caption=Katherine Gun in 2003
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| − | |description=Exposed illegal efforts by the [[GCHQ]] to illegally bug the UN offices of 6 nations in an effort to start an illegal war. Considered a hero by many.
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| − | ===Revealing bugging of UN by US and UK in lead-up to Iraq war.===
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| − | Gun is a former employee of Government Communications Headquarters ([[GCHQ]]), a UK [[SIS]] Agency. In 2003 she leaked top-secret information to the press concerning alleged illegal activities by the United States and the United Kingdom in their push for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On January 31, 2003, she received an e-mail from a [[National Security Agency]] official named [[Frank Koza]]. This e-mail requested aid in a secret and illegal operation to bug the [[United Nations]] offices of six nations: [[Angola]], [[Cameroon]], [[Guinea]], [[Pakistan]], [[Mexico]] and [[Chile]]. These were the six "swing nations" on the [[UN Security Council]] that could determine whether the UN approved of the invasion of Iraq. The plan clearly violated the [[Vienna Conventions]], which regulate global diplomacy. Gun leaked the email to ''[[The Observer]]'', hoping to prevent the war. After her revelation, she was fired from [[GCHQ]] and prosecuted under the [[Official Secrets Act]]. "''I have no regrets and I would do it again''" she said.
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| − | The prosecution mysteriously dropped the case against her a day before the trial was to commence.
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