confidentiality, secretiveness, secret, transparency, opaqueness, omerta, unaccountability, stonewalling, subterfuge, cloak, obfuscation, openness, opacity, veil, neutrality, objectivity, gag order, distrust, arbitrariness, privacy, mystification, silence, concealment, mystique, censorship, mistrust, reticence, shroud, stealth, duplicity, safeguards, cronyism, deceit, ambiguity, scrutiny, disclosure, paranoia, modesty, inscrutability, whistleblowing, vagueness, candor, coverup, corruptness, deception, covertness, redactions, incertitude, cynicism, answerability, skullduggery, compartmentalization, chumminess, confidences, collusion, deviousness, litigiousness, furtiveness, impartiality, prevarication, tendentiousness, freemasonry, mystery, hypocrisy, impunity, evasiveness, subservience, integrity, dishonesty, arrogance, probity, murkiness, bureaucracy, infallibility, scrupulousness, extraterritoriality, ignorance, suspense, nonpartisanship, disinformation, forthrightness, nebulousness, coercion, vigilance, micromanagement, coverups, taboos, scepticism, skulduggery, unseemliness, transparence, insularity, shadiness, servility, uncertainty, nefariousness, bureacracy, thoroughness, pseudonymity, sensationalism, nepotism, snooping, seriousness, centralization, anonymity, discredit, discretion, caution, explicitness, fidelity, formality, intimacy, moderation, obscurity, sacredness, centralisation, confidence

bosom, confidentiality, mum

blue wall, blue wall of silence, close, closelipped, closemouthed, code, curtain, deep, furtive, hugger-mugger, in secret, iron curtain, leak, lurking, muffled, mum, on the qt, secretive, secretively, secretly, secret police, skulking, sneaka, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, tightlipped, wall of silence

isolation, uncommunicativeness

concealment, privacy, privateness, secretiveness, silence