S37-05: UAE ENTITY DIVERTING GOODS TO IRAN, SUDAN,

C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 002803 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR NP/CBM AND EUR/WE; DEPARTMENT ALSO PASS TO THE AUSTRALIA GROUP COLLECTIVE E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/01/2015 TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC IR AE SU SP CBW NK SUBJECT: S37-05: UAE ENTITY DIVERTING GOODS TO IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA, AND NORTH KOREA (C) REF: SECSTATE 138824 Classified By: ESTHOFF KEN FORDER PER 1.4 (B/D) (C) ESTHOFF passed reftel points August 1 to MFA International Disarmament Affairs Ambassador Tomas Rodriguez Pantoja, urging Spain to take all appropriate measures to prevent Gulf Scientific Corporation and Varian Chrompack Middle East Ltd from diverting export controlled equipment to Iran, Sudan, Libya and North Korea. Rodriguez Pantoja told ESTHOFF that Spain would follow its established procedures for such cases. Our information would first be passed to the National Research Center (CNI - Spain's CIA equivalent) for data base searches and then both entities would be added to Spain's non-proliferation/export control "blacklists." AGUIRRE