Katharine Gun

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Katharine Gun is the British government translator who leaked an email detailing illegal activities by the United States and the United Kingdom in their push to attack Iraq. In the document, a U.S. National Security Agency official requests British help with spying on United Nations diplomats. Gun is arrested and charged with crimes before the case is finally dropped in 2004.[1]

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  1. Government Accountability Project: Timeline of Whistleblowers (Accessed: 4 January 2012)