official secrets
State-protected information
Official secrets are classified government information whose disclosure is prohibited by law.
The term appears most often in British and Commonwealth legal contexts, where the Official Secrets Act criminalizes unauthorized revelation of sensitive material related to national security, defense, or intelligence.
He was prosecuted for leaking official secrets to the press.
- classifiedRestricted from disclosure
- classified informationSensitive, access-restricted material
- confidentialMeant to stay secret
- eyes onlyRestricted to intended recipient
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
spy · treason · leak · whistleblower · redacted · clearance · intelligence · covert · clandestine · black ops · MI5 · surveillance · documents · state · national security · briefing · dossier · encryption
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- WhitehallDowning Street, Number 10, civil servants, ministers, Ministry of Defence
- intelligencesmart, IQ, memory, bright, clever
- civil servicecivil servants, bureaucrat, civil servant, administrator, clerk
- media regulationcensorship, content moderation, press censorship, film censorship, art censorship
official secretspublic record
Officially accessible government information
public information · open data · public knowledge · public disclosure · declassified documents
official secretsdeclassified documents
Previously restricted information made public
official secretsopen government
Right to state information
full disclosure · sunshine laws · public scrutiny · government transparency · transparency
official, officials, officially, officialdom, unofficially, unofficial, office, officer, officers