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Katharine Gun - British Intelligence Whistleblower

Stephen Sackur interviews Katharine Gun. In 2003 she worked at GCHQ. She leaked potentially explosive information about America's covert effort to sway UN diplomats to support the Iraq War.

What makes a whistleblower? What prompts someone to break ranks, maybe break the law in order to expose a secret, often at great cost? Stephen Sackur interviews Katharine Gun. In 2003 she worked at the UK's signals intelligence agency GCHQ. She leaked potentially explosive information about America's covert effort to sway UN diplomats to support the Iraq War. She risked everything, including prison, in an act that changed her life. Now her story has been made into a movie but, 16 years on, has her perspective changed?

30 minutes

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Interviewer Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Katharine Gun

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