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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 TAIPEI 003725 
 
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E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/30/2018 
TAGS: ASEC ETTC ECON ETRD PREL SNAR TW
SUBJECT: TAIWAN PLEDGES TO INVESTIGATE EXPORT CONTROL CASES 
 
REF: A. TAIPEI 3552 
     ¶B. TAIPEI 3454 
     ¶C. TAIPEI 3288 
 
Classified By: AIT DIRECTOR STEPHEN YOUNG FOR REASONS 1.5 (b), (d) 
 
¶1. (C) Summary: On October 30, Taiwan Director General of the 
Ministry of Justice, Investigation Bureau Yeh Cherng-maw 
assured AIT Director Young of full cooperation in 
investigating export control cases and other illicit trade. 
End Summary. 
 
¶2. (C) On October 30, AIT Director Young met Ministry of 
Justice, Investigation Bureau (MJIB) Director General Yeh 
Cherng-maw (Pinyin: Ye Sheng-Mao) to brief him on his recent 
consultations in Washington regarding export control issues. 
The Director thanked Yeh for MJIB cooperation to investigate 
illicit trade in other areas such as narcotics trafficking. 
The Director was accompanied by Econ Chief and RSO.  Yeh was 
accompanied by an interpreter as well as half a dozen 
staffers, including Zhuang Ming (James), Director - MJIB 
Foreign Affairs Office, Curt Lee, Section Chief - MJIB 
Foreign Affairs Office, Deputy Section Chief Lin Yun-he and 
MJIB Special Agent Jack Duan, Foreign Affairs Office. 
 
Export Controls 
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¶3. (C) The Director said North Korea's declared nuclear test 
emphasized the need to improve controls over exports of 
sensitive technologies by the U.S. and all of its partners. 
He noted that Vice President Cheney's staff advised the 
Director the Vice President is personally following the 
status of export control efforts in Taiwan and elsewhere.  He 
also noted that Taiwan has taken a number of important steps 
in enhancing export controls, but urged greater enforcement 
efforts.  In particular, he urged even closer cooperation 
among the various Taiwan agencies responsible for detecting 
and investigating suspect transactions to keep sensitive 
technologies from falling into the hands of terrorists or 
supporting weapons programs in North Korea, Iran, Syria or 
China.  The Director advised Yeh that he had conveyed these 
same points to President Chen Shui-bian, Vice Premier Tsai 
Ing-wen (REFTEL A), Minister of Economic Affairs Chen 
Ruey-long and Secretary General of the National Security 
Council (NSC) Chiou I-jen. 
 
¶4. (C) Yeh assured the Director that MJIB continues to pay 
close attention to export control issues.  He recounted how 
Taiwan's NSC has coordinated export control issues in Taiwan 
and asked MJIB to conduct electronic surveillance of North 
Koreans traveling in Taiwan.  At Yeh's request, Deputy 
Section Chief Lin reported MJIB has monitored some North 
Korean visitors.  Lin said the biggest problem in the export 
control cases is that goods often go through third countries 
and the final end user is not clear.  He asked for more 
detailed intelligence from the U.S. in trying to track down 
individual cases and pledged to share information with his 
U.S intelligence counterparts.  The Director noted the U.S. 
is already providing intelligence information and asked for 
Taiwan to provide us information on its investigations.  Lin 
suggested more reliable data from the U.S. would make the 
process easier.  The Director acknowledged MJIB's efforts and 
asked for enhanced actions, including devoting designated 
resources to exclusively conduct timely and thorough 
investigations of suspected export violations.  He also noted 
that while some investigations may not result in 
prosecutions, the process may well turn up useful information 
to track down proliferation networks and interdict shipments. 
 
¶5. (C) The Director said Taiwan needs to deal severely with 
violations of its export control regulations, as a warning to 
proliferation networks that Taiwan and its partners will not 
tolerate such actions.  The Director said we want Taiwan's 
help to ensure North Korea is not in a position to threaten 
its neighbors.  Yeh assured the Director Taiwan remains 
committed to strong enforcement of export control regulations 
and will continue to work closely with AIT to improve 
enforcement. 
 
Counter-narcotics 
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¶6. (C) Yeh and the Director concluded the meeting with a 
short discussion of U.S.-Taiwan cooperation on counter 
narcotics and drug interdiction efforts.  Yeh praised MJIB's 
strong relationship with the AIT Regional Security Office as 
well as other Federal law enforcement agencies based in Hong 
Kong, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and 
the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).  He specifically cited a 
recent joint investigation in which DEA Hong Kong shared 
detailed information about the location and cargo of a vessel 
suspected of transporting drugs from India to Taiwan.  Based 
on this information, Yeh said Taiwan's Coast Guard was able 
to track the ship and intercept it when it entered Taiwan 
waters, seizing a large shipment of ketamine.  He pledged to 
continue this type of cooperation in export control cases and 
trade in other illicit goods in the future. 
 
Working with China 
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¶7. (C) Yeh said MJIB has been able to work with authorities 
in China on some cases involving smuggling over the "mini 
three links" (xiao san tong) established between Taiwan's 
offshore island of Jinmen and coastal Fujian Province in 
China.  At this local level, Yeh said his team has been able 
to work with Chinese officials of the Public Security Bureau 
(PSB, Gong An Ju).  However, Yeh indicated that MJIB remains 
unable to work cooperatively with Chinese officials at the 
central level. 
YOUNG