- Ex-State Official Charged in Taiwan Trip
A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged yesterday with concealing a trip to Taiwan, court papers say.
Donald W. Keyser made the trip last year when he was deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Keyser, 61, who was a top adviser to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on China issues, met with one of the agents in Taipei last September during an official trip to China and Japan, the affidavit says.
Tailed by the FBI a year later, Keyser and two Taiwanese agents conducted a series of covert meetings around Washington. At a meeting July 31 at the Potowmack Landing restaurant, the affidavit says, Keyser handed the Taiwanese two envelopes "that appeared to bear U.S. government printing.'' . . .
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