Friday, September 17, 2004
BBC interview with Katharine Gun
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There is something about Katharine Gun that makes her seem an unlikely candidate for whistleblowing.
And yet this rather shy 30-year-old leaked details of an alleged plot to bug UN delegates before the Iraq war and was sacked from her job as a translator at GCHQ.
Despite spending months feeling scared and facing prosecution and, perhaps worst of all, finding herself thrust into the media spotlight she says she has no regrets.
That's not to say she doesn't have words of caution for would-be whistleblowers
"Hopefully it's a decision that no-one would take lightly," she said when we met at a fringe meeting organized by civil rights organization Liberty at the TUC in Brighton.
She describes being held overnight by the police and spending months feeling utterly isolated.
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