The Cabinet yesterday denied prior knowledge of intelligence officers meeting then-US State Depart-ment employee Donald Keyser in Washington and said bilateral ties have not been damaged by Keyser's arrest.

"I only learned about Keyser's arrest yesterday. I didn't know anything regarding the arrest in advance," Yu said when questioned by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee Chuan-chiao (李全教).

Keyser was the second ranking official in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, serving under Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly. Since July, he has been assigned to the Foreign Service Institute, officials said. "

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"Allegations that a past president of Taiwan illegally set up a $100 million
secret slush fund to pay for overseas intelligence, propaganda, and influence
operations are causing ripples that have reached into the Bush Administration."

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