Papers is a term - coined in the press - for leaking of data. The data is commonly of a financial or governmental nature. "Papers" may refer to the: * 1948:

Pumpkin Papers The Pumpkin Papers are a set of typewritten and handwritten documents, stolen from the US federal government (thus information leaks) by members of the Ware Group and other Soviet spy networks in Washington, DC, during 1937–1938, withheld by c ...

- microfilm hidden by

Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet u ...

during hearings by US

House Un-American Activities Committee The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative United States Congressional committee, committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 19 ...

* 1965: Penkovsky Papers - partial title of book ''The Penkovsky Papers : The Russian Who Spied for the West'', commissioned by the CIA on secrets revealed by

Oleg Penkovsky Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky (; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed Hero (by the CIA) and Yoga (by MI6) was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky informed the United States and the U ...

* 1971:

Pentagon Papers The ''Pentagon Papers'', officially titled ''Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force'', is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States in the Vietnam War, United States' political and militar ...

- leak of the US Department of Defense's history of the US involvement in Vietnam (1945-1967) * 2010: Pentagon Papers II - name coined for the 2010

Afghan War documents leak The Afghan War documents leak, also called the Afghan War Diary, is a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan, which was published by WikiLeaks on 2010. The logs consist of over 91,000 Afghan War documents, covering ...

* 2011:

Palestine Papers The Palestine Papers is a collection of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them between 23 and 26 January 2011. Nearly 1,700 documents from the office of the main PLO neg ...

- set of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them * 2016:

Panama Papers The Panama Papers () are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) published beginning April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. These document ...

- 11.5 million leaked documents published from 2016 * 2017:

Paradise Papers The Paradise Papers are a set of over 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments that were leaked to the German reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, from the newspaper'' Süddeutsche Z ...

- 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments, leaked to the ''

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest and most influential daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of ''SZ'' is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and ...

'', widely shared with the ICIJ et al., and made public from 2017 * 2019:

Xinjiang Papers The Xinjiang papers are a collection of over 400 pages of what are claimed to be internal Chinese government documents describing the government policy regarding Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region. In November 2019, journalists Austin Ramzy ...

- collection of +400 pages of internal Chinese government documents on policy toward Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang * 2021:

Pandora Papers The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 ...

, 11.9 million leaked documents published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) beginning on 3 October 2021

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