He then negotiated a separate secret treaty with Russia, while maintaining the 1879 accord with Austria-Hungary.
Those four teams then called a separate, secret meeting to consider the Exor and News Corporation situation in more detail.
"Unfortunately, the intelligence community has not yet made a convincing argument that a separate, secret program is indeed necessary," he said.
The executives speculated that the only possible development that could scuttle a deal would be the existence of separate, secret talks between MCI and another buyer.
Once the ballots are counted, the real black ops begin: As a precautionary measure, two complete sets of envelopes bearing recipients' names are prepared and brought by PricewaterhouseCoopers partners to the ceremony via separate, secret routes.
The sort of ticket-splitting common in the Oscars – A over B for best film, but the director of B for best director – is impossible to bring off at Bafta because most categories have a separate, secret jury.
American and Yemeni officials said that a pivotal point in the relationship was reached in late summer after separate secret visits to Yemen by Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American regional commander, and John O. Brennan, President Obama's counterterrorism adviser.
By agreement with the parties in congress, Mr. Mackey put the list of potentially illegal loans on one compact disc and provided separate secret codes to each of the main parties, so that they could see the list if they all agreed.
But Mr. Kerry was clearly energized by the release of the Americans, an issue he took up on the edges of almost every nuclear negotiation, and pursued in separate, secret talks that many involved in the nuclear issue were only vaguely aware were happening.
But Pasternak sent separate, secret letters to Feltrinelli urging him to go ahead despite what his officially encouraged cables might have said, according to extensive correspondence between the two that is quoted in a memoir of Feltrinelli by his son, Carlo.
But this can't be used in existing traditional Facebook message threads, and instead users have to launch a separate "Secret" conversation.
