The United States was the last of the major powers to establish a civilian intelligence agency responsible for the collection of secret information for policy makers.
In Morello's office, Mora saw what he now refers to as "the package" — a collection of secret military documents that traced the origins of the coercive interrogation policy at Guantánamo.
The Paradise Papers, a collection of secret documents showing how the wealthy hide their money, showed that Mr. Milner had received hundreds of millions of dollars from the Russian government, which he invested in Facebook and Twitter.
The collection of secret reports comes from Macedonian counter-intelligence. On Wednesday, the country's Social Democrat leader, Zoran Zaev, was sworn in as prime minister, after six months of political crisis.
In 1986, for example, he agreed to publish a controversial collection of secret portraits by the artist Andrew Wyeth of a model named Helga and then arranged a companion show at the National Gallery in Washington.
The files — classified "secret" and marked "noforn," meaning they should not be shared with foreign governments — represent the fourth major collection of secret American documents that have become public over the past year; earlier releases included military incident reports from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and portions of an archive of some 250,000 diplomatic cables.
Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi claimed that the trial had nothing to do with press freedom and that the convictions were legitimate under the Official Secrets Act, a colonial-era law that bars the collection of secret documents to aid an enemy.
Against that backdrop, a collection of secret detainee assessment files obtained by The New York Times reveal that the threat of suicide has created a chronic tension at the prison — a tactic frequently discussed by the captives and a constant fear for their captors.
The government took more than three weeks to act on authoritative information about the whereabouts of a collection of secret intelligence data leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, despite now claiming the information risks "grave damage" to the security of British intelligence and armed forces, the Guardian said on Friday.
Today, WikiLeaks dropped another bombshell collection of secret government documents, "Espionnage Élysée," detailing the extent to which the NSA has spied on French officials over the past several administrations.
