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‘I wanted to put the Iraq war on trial’

Katharine Gun worked as a translator for GCHQ, the UK government's communications headquarters.

She was sacked in 2003 after revealing a secret email to a UK newspaper and faced a charge of breaching the Official Secrets Act. She was cleared of the charge when the prosecution offered no evidence.

Ms Gun told ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur that she has few regrets about what she did.

Her story has now being made into a film, Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley.

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