Posted on 09/18/2004 7:21:48 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
A MYSTERIOUS Taiwan woman intelligence officer who accompanied a former senior US diplomat on an unauthorised trip to Taiwan has been identified by the island's media.
Ms Chen Nien-tzu, 34, a Taiwan National Security Bureau agent based in Washington, has been known only as Foreign Person One by US intelligence officials.
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The former US official was Donald Keyser, a top adviser to US Secretary of State Colin Powell on China issues. He has been charged with concealing the trip in September last year.
According to an affidavit presented to the court by the FBI, Keyser had frequent contacts with Foreign Person One, despite the sharp differences in ranking and age between the two.
He is almost 30 years her senior.
While Keyser was an assistant secretary of state before he retired in July, Ms Chen was a low-level agent, whose name was not even listed by the Taiwanese mission in the United States.
The affidavit said on Sept 3, 2003, that Keyser flew to Taiwan from Japan for a three-day sightseeing trip. Washington-based Foreign Person One flew all the way back to Taiwan to accompany him.
On May 29 this year, Keyser took a long weekend trip to New York by train with Foreign Person One, the affidavit said, but made no suggestion about the status of their relationship.
The 1.65-m-tall Ms Chen, who just celebrated her 34th birthday, had graduated from the political science institute of National Taiwan University.
She later worked at the National Security Bureau, and was posted to Britain, before being sent to the US, cable channel TVBS said.
Taipei-based China Times described her as a very popular cheerleader in high school.
The paper said Ms Chen had served as an assistant of then legislator Chen Chien-jen of the opposition Kuomintang for three month after she graduated. The legislator later became Taiwan's representative to the US.
Ms Chen married her university sweetheart shortly after she graduated, but they divorced after she was posted to Britain.
News of Ms Chen's return to Taiwan yesterday sent the local media on a hunt for her. The National Security Bureau yesterday refused to disclose her whereabouts.
Foreign Ministry officials refuted reports which suggested any love relationship between Keyser and Ms Chen or that he was set up by Taiwan, who used her to seduce him.
Keyser had passed documents to Ms Chen and her boss, identified by as Lieutenant General Huang Kuang-hsun - the island's highest-ranking intelligence officer posted to the US.
gee...another honeytrap...lol.
What do you suppose they were after?
Sounds like a twofer. But basically, sounds like our guy was passing docs on an unauthorized trip to a Taiwanese official. Was she wearing a blue dress?
After 30 years in the state department too... You'd think he'd know the rules by now.
Well, it appears he got his knuckles rapped before under Madeline Albright for a lost briefcase. Perhaps he has been a problem at the State Department for a long time; but no one could figure out how to Peter Principle him?... and nature took its course?
beware the nookie trap....he should have known better...
Yeah, looks like one. Does anybody have her picture?
THAT is why we have Counter-Intelligence forces - for stupid ignorant horny idiots.
I could spend hours with tales of women trying to get information out of Marines just in southern cal during the Vietnam war.
How many soviet, chinese and vietnames agents were caught in those short years, who knows? maybe somewhere there is a count but it doesn't matter. What matters is this in NOT new so this idiot has probably been doing it for years.
The BUSH White House is cleaning up the mass of human excretement that the the past decade of govt decadence has left us with.
Has he been arrested yet ?
Don't know. Maybe we'll find out soon.
This is all he is being to be charged with apparently. Hmm ...
FYI
The Times reports that during the Clinton administration, Keyser was one of six State Department employees disciplined for a security breach involving a missing laptop computer. He was reassigned.
In another case involving official documents, federal investigators are trying to determine whether a mid-level Pentagon official passed material about Bush administration policy on Iran to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the major Israeli lobbying group in Washington, and whether AIPAC in turn passed it to Israel.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/16/national/main643899.shtml
I imagine that a list of doc's will turn up soon. I'll do a search on Taiwan news and see what they are saying. Hell...she'll probably just be re-posted to Latin America. Taiwan is interested in developing resources there now. And its proven she does have the...necessary skills...lol.
Photo please. I'll bet she hot.
Yeah.
I meant to post this a couple days ago as english language exclusive, but was too busy and no one cares anyhow.


The top one is her graduation picture from college. Her birthday is 9/17/70 -- it was her 34th birthday the other day.
She's divorced. Said to have steady boyfriend but not married.
Thanks! A photo always helps.

Yes, that is her.
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