I agree. I was on the team at Texas A&M that cloned the domestic cat -- (circa 2001) and secrecy was very important (notwithstanding the very real physical threats we had from anti-cloning nutcases.) Even the lab location was secret. The lab itself wasn't hidden, but nobody but us knew what was going on there. It was simply called "Reproductive Sciences." There was some very high incentives to be "first" -- which we were. Unfortunately for me, as an undergraduate research fellow, my name didn't make it into the Nature paper.. but wow what an experience!