Hoffman, an American consumer of advanced technology and vast amounts of food, is too impatient; in the end, he's dependent on help from the brilliant but secretive head of Jordanian intelligence (the English actor Mark Strong, in a witty performance).
James Jesus Angleton, played by Michael Keaton as a paranoid and prissily secretive head of counterintelligence, doesn't believe Torriti but consults his close friend and wartime mentor, Adrian Tom Hollanderr), who is more widely known as Harold A. R. Kim Philbyby.
The Sufis revere the wisdom of local sheikhs, living and dead, while the jihadi fighters operate in small, secretive cells headed by an emir.
Strange's desperation over his ruined hands takes him to Nepal and to the secretive enclave headed by a guru known only as the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton).
DESO, a secretive organisation headed by an arms industry businessman, has 600 staff with privileged ability to influence policy, and far-flung salespeople in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi.
Giants Thinking Cornerbacks An internal team memo circulated to Giants ownership, management, coaches and other administrators this month -- a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times -- gives the strongest indication yet of the direction the always secretive Giants are heading in next week's draft.
The secretive new office, headed by an Air Force general, Simon Worden, envisions using a mix of truthful news releases, phony stories and e-mails from disguised addresses to encourage the kind of news coverage abroad that the Pentagon considers advantageous, while using clandestine activities, including computer network attacks, to disrupt coverage it opposes.
But the North's secretive regime, now headed by the third of the Kim dynasty to rule here, Kim Jong-un, is opening up, for the first time.
Marshall, 82, is a Pentagon legend who heads a secretive think-tank dedicated to weighing risks to national security called the Office of Net Assessment.
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