A British intelligence officer accused of leaking a memo about an alleged US dirty tricks campaign has had charges against her dropped.
The memo was eventually published in the Observer newspaper.
The officer, Katharine Gun, worked as a translator at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters in Gloucestershire.
She had been charged under the Official Secrets Act with disclosing a request, allegedly from the US, asking for help from British Intelligence in tapping the telephones of UN Security Council delegates ahead of the war in Iraq.
She argued that the US was trying to behave illegally.
