Using code names like BMW, Pinot and Wave, they exchanged secret agreements to carve up the market, driving up the price of graphite electrodes by more than 60percentt by 1997.
At one point, he beat himself with a stool and cut himself with a razor, deliberately disfiguring himself, so that he could not be put on videotape as an example of a "well-treated prisoner". He exchanged secret intelligence information with his wife through their letters, knowing that discovery would mean more torture and perhaps death.
And in decidedly less serious news, rival N.F.L. front offices are exchanging secrets and innuendo ahead of next week's draft.
In a second TV commercial, a customer and a True Value associate, facing back to back, speak in low tones, as if they are spies exchanging secrets.
But even as we continue to steal each other's secrets, it should not be beyond the wit of spooks, when national interests coincide, to exchange secrets about a common enemy.
It was during this latter period that Hanssen appeared to have been most active, exchanging secrets for cash and gifts numerous times in accordance with instructions that were delivered through letters, phone calls and newspaper advertisements in Washington.
M. Blum, "How to exchange (secret) keys," ACM Trans.
Public cryptography made it possible for two parties who had never met to exchange secret information.
Prosecutors received approval from a judge to place a wiretap on Mr. Rajaratnam's phone after a government informant taped calls with Mr. Rajaratnam exchanging secret business information.
(Indeed, episode two sees Issa upset that her colleagues have been exchanging "secret white emails" behind her back, but feels she can't make her ire known).
