Intelligence and Secrecy

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Intelligence noun - The ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems.

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Secrecy is an antonym for intelligence.

Secrecy noun - The practice or habit of keeping secrets or keeping one's affairs secret.

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Intelligence is an antonym for secrecy in concealment topic.

Nearby Words: secret, secretive, secretly, secretion

high	high intelligence	high secrecy
complete	complete intelligence	complete secrecy
alien	alien intelligence	alien secrecy
considerable	considerable intelligence	considerable secrecy
Other adjectives: actual, massive, extreme, necessary, general, greater, soviet.

ANY intelligence group that uses secrecy as its M.O.

Source: Properly Paranoid
There's an episode of The Avengers where it's mentioned that British Intelligence has at least two secrecy classifications: "Top Hush" for regular top secret material, and for anything exceptionally sensitive, "Button Lip".

Source: Over-The-Top Secret

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