Officials described the Swift program as the biggest and most far-reaching of several secret efforts to trace terrorist financing.

But secret efforts to achieve political change, from subsidies for political parties to the overthrow of governments, pose far more problems than they are worth.

You are only banished for three years, thanks to my secret efforts," and he smiled craftily.

Testified he had briefed the President "dozens" of times on secret efforts to funnel private aid to the contras.

This narrow escape did not deter his secret efforts on behalf of Charles II.

After Kazakhstan acknowledged having the material, the Clinton Administration launched a secret effort to try to remove it.

However, for five months Greenpeace members kept the ship otherwise seaworthy while a secret effort was made to find a new thrust block.

This questioning yielded important clues about several countries' secret nuclear efforts.

U.S. officials later claimed that secret diplomatic efforts were made from this point on.

And Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation.