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The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the United States' National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ officers about the wiretapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. [58]
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Katharine Teresa Gun (née Harwood; [1] born 1974) is a British linguist who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). [2] In 2003, she leaked top-secret information to a friend who passed it to The Observer.
The GCHQ director has become more publicly visible in the wake of the 2013 global surveillance disclosures.Sir Arthur Bonsall, director from 1973 to 1978, was the first director to speak publicly about his career at GCHQ when he was interviewed by the BBC in September 2013, [4] and Sir Iain Lobban testified before parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee in the wake of the disclosures ...
He joined GCHQ in 1972, and worked in intelligence operations. [2] In 1995 he became Director of Administration. [2] In 1998, he transferred to the Home Office, returning to GCHQ in Cheltenham in 2000 as Director of Finance, and taking over the role of Director of GCHQ in April 2003 as successor to Sir Francis Richards.
[5] [6] The Doughnut accommodates 5,500 employees; GCHQ is the largest single employer in Gloucestershire. [5] [6] [7] Built to modernise and consolidate GCHQ's multiple buildings in Cheltenham, the Doughnut was completed in 2003, with GCHQ staff moving in the same year, [1] and fully moved into the building in 2004. [8]
GCHQ Scarborough is a satellite ground station located on Irton Moor, on the outskirts of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England, operated by the British signals intelligence service . It is believed to be the longest continuous serving site for signals intelligence in the world.
Michael Herman (1929 – 12 February 2021) was a British intelligence officer for GCHQ and academic. He was a former Fellow at Nuffield College and St Antony's College at the University of Oxford, and the founder of the Oxford Intelligence Group.