NSB DENIES INTELLIGENCE LINKS WITH THINK TANK
ROC Central News Agency
2006-09-06 13:03:33
Taipei, Sept. 6 (CNA) The National Security Bureau (NSB) has denied a Chinese court's accusation that it had asked a local think tank to gather intelligence about China.
The NSB made the denial Tuesday after a Chinese court sentenced an ethnic Chinese journalist to five years in prison on grounds he had worked for the Taipei-based Foundation on International and Cross-Strait Studies (FICSS), which the court claimed has been charged with collecting China-related intelligence under the NSB's leadership.
The Chinese court ruled last week that Ching Cheong, a correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times, had leaked China's state secrets to the think tank, which it claimed was affiliated with Taiwan's spy agency.
The NSB said in a press statement that the Chinese court ruling was "sheer speculation" and "absolutely not factual." "Although we have commissioned the FICSS to conduct academic research on some subjects in recent years, we have never asked it to spy for us," the NSB statement contended, adding that none of the FICSS research projects commissioned by the NSB have anything to do with intelligence work.
(By Sofia Wu)
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