seal of secrecy

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Lord Widgery, Lord Chief Justice of England, ruled that the government cannot put a seal of secrecy on its internal business without convincing the court that silence is "clearly necessary in the public interest."

From Time Magazine Archive

But how could I imagine that M. Lepaute would ever undertake to appropriate to himself this escapement which it will be seen I confided to him under the seal of secrecy?

From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.

I have known it these two years, under the seal of secrecy.

From Deerbrook by Martineau, Harriet

To him all should be revealed under the seal of secrecy, and he should advise them what was to be done.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

The king, at first, cautiously sounded him, in order to discover whether this confidant of the queen's knew aught of what had happened, and then, under the seal of secrecy, informed him of all.

From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold