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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A former US State Department official pleaded guilty to removing top secret government documents while conducting a "personal relationship" with a Taiwanese spy, the Justice Department said. Donald Keyser, a former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, also pleaded guilty to making false statements over his "undisclosed personal relationship" with a Taiwanese intelligence agent named as Isabelle Cheng, the department said. The career US diplomat, 62, will be sentenced on February 24 over the single count of removing thousands of documents over a 12-year period, and two of making false statements...

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. Advertisement 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...