INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS

FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION

In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the British press.

Katharine’s decision would change her life forever, as she was arrested under the Official Secrets Act whilst becoming a cause célèbre for political activists. The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War is the definitive account of a whistleblower case that reads like a thriller, and will ask you the same question that was asked of Katharine that cold January day – where do your true loyalties lie?

Award-winning, critically acclaimed (and sometimes controversial) writer Marcia Mitchell is the author of numerous non-fiction and fiction books, published through Simon & Schuster, Holt Rinehart & Winston, and other publishers. Her articles have appeared in national women's magazines, on the Huffington Post and Truthout to name a few. She is an award-winning author who has received recognition by the National Federation of Press Women, the Associated Press, the Guardian and other international publications, intelligence officers associations, and more. She has also been interviewed on national television and radio, and was invited to appear before a Capitol Hill panel to testify about the Katharine Gun case, based on her book on that story, The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War -- filmed under the title Official Secrets. She is a former Associate Director of the American Film Institute, and former senior executive of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She divides her time between her homes in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Southern California.