Sacked intelligence worker speaks out
Katharine Gun, aged 29, worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the security services’ main monitoring centre in Cheltenham. She was originally arrested in March after a top secret US memo was allegedly leaked to the press by an intelligence official opposed to the war.
The memo reportedly discussed phone tapping delegates from countries on the United Nations Security Council who were about to vote on a potential war in Iraq.
Gun is represented by James Welch from the human rights organisation Liberty, and last night she released a statement which state: “I have only ever followed my conscience.”
A spokesman for Liberty claimed that the case was likely to put the legality of the war on Iraq on trial.
At the time of Gun’s initial arrest on March 5, reports were circulating that a confidential memo had been leaked by a disgruntled intelligence employee angered about the potential war on Iraq.
