Washington Post: Powell Aide Gave Papers To Taiwan, FBI Says

[Dionaea muscipula]

On September 16, 2004, Jerry Markon reported for Washington Post that
a former high-ranking State Department official, one of the leading
experts on China, was charged to have passed some documents to Taiwan
intelligence agents and concealing his trip to Taiwan.

Read more about FBI charges against Donald W. Keyser, who was elevated
to principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs this year but retired in July, in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24703-2004Sep15.html

Read Reuter's coverage in this incident in
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6256798

[Dioneae muscipula]

On December 12, 2005, Jerry Markon reported for Washington Post that
Donald W. Keyser, 62, pleaded guilty to illegally keeping numerous
classified documents in his home in Fairfax County, Virginia and
admitted he concealed his relationship with a Taiwanese intelligence
agent.

Keyser was formerly principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian
and Pacific Affairs in the U.S. State Department and he also advised
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on issues concerning China. He also
acknowledged having a "personal relationship" with Isabelle Cheng, a
Taiwanese agent.

Sources said the case did not involve espionage, but rather a
government employee being careless. Albert Liu, a spokesman for Taipei
Economic and Cultural Representative Office, said Ms. Cheng and other
involved in the case had been recalled to Taipei and he had no further
comment.

Read more details in
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121201516.html