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> he wasn't making some blanket defense of secret diplomacy in any and all cases
I never said he did. What Lenin is saying is that it can't be renounced completely, i.e. it depends on the situation. A socialist country could find itself needing secret diplomacy at certain times.
For example, in the early days of Soviet Russia, none other than Leon Trotsky himself was involved in some secret diplomacy with Iran and Afghanistan. I talked about this in a response here. You can read more about this and other examples in Alexandre Andreyev's book about Soviet Russia and Tibet.
The point is, while secret diplomacy can't be defended in all cases, neither can it be renounced in all cases. Lenin and the Bolshevik Party understood this.