Wife of espionage suspect works for the CIA

Edited on Wed Jul-19-06 03:56 PM by Dover
Wife of espionage suspect works for the CIA

By Charles Snyder and Chang Yun-ping
STAFF REPORTERS IN WASHINGTON AND TAIPEI
Wednesday, Jul 19, 2006,Page 1

The wife of former US State Department official Donald Keyser, Margaret Lyons, is a CIA official on loan to the office of the US' top spy, John Negroponte, Negroponte's office has confirmed.

Lyons "is a CIA employee currently on a detail assignment to the office of the Director of National Intelligence," a spokeswoman told the Taipei Times on Monday.

The spokeswoman said that her office would "decline to respond" to any other questions about Lyons.

A CIA spokesman also confirmed that Lyons works for the agency. She is a "senior officer" who has worked with the agency for "decades," he said. Despite the case against her husband, the agency has not revoked Lyons' security clearance, he said.

The open-source unit that Lyons is now detailed to is the successor to the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, which monitored and translated broadcasts in countries around the world, and made them available to government officials, scholars, journalists and others....cont'd

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