ntelligence work in the United States and that Isabella Cheng, a former bureau staff member, has resigned for family reasons. The NSB issued a statement in response to a report in the local daily China Times that Donald Keyser, a former senior U.S. State Department official, became acquainted with Cheng in Washington and Keyser was sentenced to imprisonment of one year and one day earlier this year.
The bureau said that a U.S. court had not convicted Keyser of espionage charges in a case involving Cheng from Taiwan.
Court records showed that the former American official was sentenced for illegally removing classified documents without reportinga to authorities in accordance with due process.
The NSB said the verdict showed the bureau did not get involved in intelligence operations in the U.S.
The bureau said it had made a thorough review of relevant issues derived from the case to avoid possible misunderstandings.
As for Cheng, they said she had voluntarily tendered resignation for family reasons and the bureau respects her decision.
But the bureau stressed that it still provides necessarily assistance to Cheng whenever is needed, based on the spirit that the NSB remains a big family for all incumbent and former colleagues.
The China Times gave a prominent space for a report when Cheng appeared in public to take a government-sponsored examination over the weekend.
Cheng majored in political science and graduated at the top of her class from the graduate institute of National Taiwan University.
Before joining the NSB, she worked as an assistant to former Legislator Chen Chien-jen, who later became a foreign affairs minister and representative to Washington and the European Union.
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