1.   As is now notoriously well known, an application for preferment of almost any sort means the opening of a secret file.

2.   Secret files reveal an Oxford spy ring.

3.   The new information comes from Moscow, where previously secret KGB files are being made public by the authorities.

4.   The thrill of discovering that he could break into secret files spurred Paul on to more daring data raids.

5.   And the request for opening the secret files comes directly from Toledo, a Stanford University-educated economist and a populist reformer.

6.   Bjelica, whose group is helping Milosevic conduct his defense, smiled and bobbed his bushy eyebrows when asked whether it had access to secret state files.

7.   A leading rights advocate published a preliminary report from his own limited access to the secret files.

8.   After his ouster, investigators found that he had loaded many secret files onto an unsecured computer, raising the risk that they could fall into the wrong hands.

9.   Equally galling to the CIA is that Nicholson is charged with selling secret files on American citizens who live or work in Russia.