Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) The Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Tuesday denied categorically that Taiwan-born US scientist Wen Ho Lee, who is alleged to have spied for mainland China, had been hired by a Taiwan military research institute as an adviser.
MND spokesman Kung Fan-ting said that contrary to some media reports, Lee was never hired by the military Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (CIST) as an adviser.
However, Kung added that Lee had been invited by CIST to deliver a series of lectures in 1998.
Lee visited CIST headquarters in northern Taiwan on two occasions to deliver a number of lectures -- on dynamism and related theories between March 27 and April 20 of 1998, and on material dynamism between Dec. 7 and 18 of the same year -- Kung noted.
Kung added that none of Lee's topics involved sciences related to nuclear weaponry or any classified information.
The 60-year-old Lee, a former nuclear physicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory of the United States, is now being held without bail for allegedly passing nuclear weapons secrets to mainland China. (By Deborah Kuo)
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