Word: ultrasecret
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...first step was to locate the submarine precisely. The Navy dispatched to the waters north of Hawaii its ultrasecret research ship Mizar, a floating electronics laboratory. Like a fishing boat seeking to snare an exotic fish, Mizar put overboard an array of devices: sonar, electronic scanners, cameras equipped with powerful strobe lights, and a magnetic sensor that reacts to the presence of metal on the seabed. For two months Mizar patiently towed its paraphernalia across every inch of the ten-mile-square area until it had detected, scanned and thoroughly photographed the Soviet submarine...
...Glomar Explorer, the Howard Hughes ship, about the quest and tried to confirm it through Hughes' Summa Corp., without success. Alerted by Summa, Colby some months later reached Shearer, confirmed the basic facts and persuaded him to keep mum, arguing that recovery of the sub might yield some "ultrasecret" Soviet coding equipment...
Late in 1958, detectives working for American Cyanamid's Lederle Laboratories Division began to shadow Dr. Sidney M. Fox, 41, a chemist who worked at the Pearl River, N.Y., plant where Lederle develops the ultrasecret cultures for its new drugs. The detectives observed that Fox regularly invented excuses to remain in the lab after working hours and that he made frequent visits to Biorganic Laboratories, an East Paterson, N.J., company run by Chemist Nathan Sharff. All this struck Cyanamid as highly suspicious, but the detectives found no concrete evidence that Fox was filching drug formulas...