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, handwritten, and microfilmed 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, wi ...

- microfilm hidden by

Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer-editor, who, after early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), defected from the Soviet underground (1938), ...

during hearings by US

House Un-American Activities Committee The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloy ...

* 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 (russian: link=no, Олег Владимирович Пеньковский; 23 April 1919 – 16 May 1963), codenamed HERO, was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Pen ...

* 1971: Pentagon Papers - 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 the disclosure of a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan, which were published by WikiLeaks on 2010. The logs consist of over 91,000 Afghan War do ...

* 2011: Palestine Papers - set of confidential documents about the Israeli–Palestinian peace process leaked to Al Jazeera, which published them * 2016:

Panama Papers The Panama Papers ( es, Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 ...

- 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'' Süddeutsch ...

- 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 daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...

'', widely shared with the ICIJ et al., and made public from 2017 * 2019: Xinjiang Papers - 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 3 ...

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

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