Their unmasking of him five years ago kickstarted a chain of events that has exposed one of the state's most deeply concealed secrets.
Both Lily King's "The English Teacher" and Elizabeth Strout's debut, "Amy and Isabelle," feature women whose aloofness conceals secrets in their pasts, secrets that drive the novels' tension.
One of the key plot points here is that Phil had a distinctive way of hiding things — and that the way a person conceals secrets can be as interesting as the secrets themselves.
By destroying at least two tapes of harsh interrogations in 2005, the C.I.A.'s clandestine service may have concealed secrets sought by Congressional overseers, the courts and the Sept. 11 commission.
But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.
Another document details a plan to conceal secret files to prevent them from falling into the hands of demonstrators.
Other security functions, such as digital notarization or certification of origination or receipt, depend on more complex sharing of information related to a concealed secret.
Just as I wasn't what I pretended to be, so everyone and everything else, I thought, concealed secret meanings, communicated in hidden codes.
This system, known informally as the "black budget," concealed secret spending on intelligence activities and classified military programs throughout the cold war.
Then Rudy stumbles across a deadly, though poorly, concealed secret bunker and the movie modulates into a post-Vietnam conspiracy thriller in the manner of Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder.
