There are "trade secrets", as in how we do Process A better than some other group, and then there are "secret services": organized groups whose activity and pur

There are "trade secrets", as in how we do Process A better than some other group, and then there are "secret services": organized groups whose activity and purpose are "secret". Perhaps I am naive despite my graduate economics degree and 35+ years working in technology, but I do not see any long term benefit from any organization using "secret services". In fact, the short term expense to the organization is so high, coupled with the added risk of exposure and often organization threatening nature of exposure, I believe the use of "secret services" to be irrational power abuse and ultimately incompatible with an enlightened technological society, and a signal of mental illness by those in charge of the "secret services" employing entity. This is true for companies as well as nations, as well as parent teacher associations and local police. The creation and maintenance of "secret operations" generates too deep conflicts of interest for the majority of mature adults to endure without corruption. Plain and simple, and the biggest revolution our race has pending.