Another document seen by the Times is said to be a memo from Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, naming him as the chairman of the Field for the Expansion of Deployment of Advance Technology (Fedat) - which the newspaper says is acover for asecret nuclear weapons programme.
The April issue of Wired magazine contains an unusual cover story about a big data center that the super-secret National Security Agency is building in rural Utah.
In its most extreme interpretation, the rule would require a company that hires a labor-law firm to evaluate a potential acquisition with unionized operations, say, to report the relationship even if that blows its cover on secret due diligence activities.