The Ames case has prompted much talk about the compromising of intelligence "secrets."

He deliberately kept his high intelligence secret, by learning to spell badly and act stupidly, in order to avoid getting caught.

In addition, the government did not want to reveal foreign intelligence secrets that a trial would require.

Later that day, he dropped a garbage bag stuffed with intelligence secrets in a Virginia park not far from his home.

The superpowers already have stockpiled enough intelligence secrets about each other to scandalize the world a hundred times over.

But will Duerson be able to reveal intelligence secrets from the Bears' brain trust?

The defense has sought at every turn to raise the prospect that a trial would make public the most precious intelligence secrets.

The book gives away no exciting intelligence secrets.

Even so, public accountability can be outweighed by another high value, the right to guard intelligence secrets.

Washington's spies, as well as Moscow's, still try to steal their rivals' military and intelligence secrets.