Sacked intelligence worker speaks out

THE woman sacked by British intelligence and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act spoke out last night to justify any disclosures she may have made.

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.