One recent morning around the hair salon, rumors swirled among employees that federal officials had already conducted a secret inspection of the club.
Brazil's "secret inspection operations," as one ILO brochure dubs them, are some of the world's most rigorous.
Without the knowledge of the Ecuador court, Chevron's experts conducted unofficial and secret pre-inspections of the sites so they could avoid the badly contaminated areas during the official judicial inspections.
In its secret, pre-inspections Chevron discovered otherwise.
In 2003, cowed by the might deployed in removing Saddam Hussein, it opened up Natanz, and a nuclear reactor site at Arak that had also previously been secret, to IAEA inspection.
The criminal network that ran the scam installed a secret infrastructure to bypass inspections, of underground pipelines, secret weighing machines and hidden conveyor belts.
The I.R.A. has been observing a cease-fire for nearly four years, and it has agreed twice to inspections of secret arms dumps by international monitors.
AMMAN, Jordan — Iran signaled a willingness on Tuesday to allow potentially intrusive international inspections of secret military facilities, raising expectations that it was searching for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over its nuclear program.
