The intelligence job involves collecting information, analyzing it, and jealously keeping it secret, like a cat covering its droppings.
THERE is an old joke about the British Tory party which says that, if loyalty was its secret weapon, it did a good job of keeping it secret.
Keeping it secret became second nature.
Western Sahara: keeping it secret, the United Nations operations in the Western Sahara (October 1995).
Realistically, insiders would probably be much more reluctant to disclose information if keeping it secret increased their trading profits.
"The biggest concern I have right now is they are keeping it secret.
I'd been keeping it secret that the story would one day end.
It's hard to know exactly what goes on, as they're good at keeping it secret.
If Virginia does possess this information, "it is keeping it secret.
It was all about protecting the reputation of the Church, and then, in parens, keeping it secret.
The assumption is that the information has already been made available, so there is little point in keeping it secret.
