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• The Ways of Opus Dei Dan Brown's best-selling The Da Vinci Code granted fans access to a thrillingly fictionalized Opus Dei, a religious society both secretive and sinister.
• A secretive and apocalyptic sect shuns a former leader For 40 years Raymond Franz devoted his whole being to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
• In his new book, 'The Masonic Myth,' Jay Kinney dispels conspiracy theories about the Freemasons and writes about his experience in the secretive group.

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News & Articles

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• Saudi prince sued in UK over sale of opulent jet to Gaddafi
  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - The secretive sale of a private jet to Libya's Muammar Gaddafi by a billionaire Saudi prince came under scrutiny on Wednesday in a London courtroom, where a businesswoman who says she brokered the deal is suing the prince for $10 million. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah and one of the world's richest men, is expected to ...
  June 26, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Meet PRISM’s little brother: Socmint
  A secretive unit is developing tools for blanket surveillance of social media.
  June 26, 2013 - Ars Technica
• On the Block: Secretive River House Might Be Facing a Foreclosure Auction
  If there's anything Manhattan's secretive River House co-op hates more than people talking about it, it's people talking about it in the context of a foreclosure auction. Too bad, because we're about...
  June 25, 2013 - Curbed New York

Quotes

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• Scott McClellan in Sun-Sentinel.com
  This is a very secretive White House,McClellan said. "There's some things that they would prefer not to be talked about."
• Barack Obama in Charlotte Observer
  After the most secretive administration in memory, an administration that consistently misled the American people, we need a president who is going to be open and forthright,Obama said. "I think last night's debate really exposed this...
• Barbara Boxer in San Francisco Chronicle
  Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who heads the Senate environment committee, said Monday the administrator had turned the EPA "into a secretive, dangerous ally of polluters, instead of a leader in the effort to protect the health and...