SPAIN: TERRORIST FINANCE: NASCO AMENDMENT

S E C R E T MADRID 002617 SIPDIS STATE FOR EB/ESC/TFS - DBROWN S/CT - TKUSHNER IO/PSC - BFITZGERALD EUR/WE - MHALL AND TCUNNINGHAM NSC FOR JZARATE TREASURY FOR DGLASER AND OFAC - RWERNER E.O. 12958: DNG: CO 06/02/2015 TAGS: KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL SP SUBJECT: SPAIN: TERRORIST FINANCE: NASCO AMENDMENT REF: STATE 127800 Classified By: ECONOMIC COUNSELOR WHITNEY BAIRD FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D). On July 11, EconOff delivered reftel talking points and information to Technical Advisor for UN Affairs Carmen Bujan Freire at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to Secretary of State for the Economy David Vegara. The recipients had no substantive reaction regarding the reftel content. Bujan promised to forward the information in a confidential manner to the appropriate authorities and reiterated the GOS desire to maintain continued cooperation with the USG on terrorist finance issues in the wake of the London bombings. AGUIRRE