(S) NIAG 4225: POSSIBLE IRANIAN PROCUREMENT OF

S E C R E T PRAGUE 000163

SIPDIS

STATE FOR EUR/NCE, IO, NP; UNVIE FOR HILLIARD

E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/04/2015
TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL MNUC EZ IR
SUBJECT: (S) NIAG 4225: POSSIBLE IRANIAN PROCUREMENT OF
URANIUM ORE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

REF: SECSTATE 11652

Classified By: Deputy Political Counselor Mark Canning for reasons 1.4
B and D


1. (S) In response to demarche in Reftel A, presented to the
MFA on January 20, the Czech government assembled
representatives from the MFA, the Office for Nuclear Security
(SUJB),the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the
intelligence branch (BIS). None of the representatives could
find any evidence to support the suspicions contained in the
demarche that Iran's nuclear program was trying to acquire
many metric tons of yellowcake from the Czech firm
Geoidustria. The SUJB representative, Vaclav Bartak, even
went further and excluded the possibility of such a
transaction. He stressed that the nation's entire store of
uranium is kept under extremely strict control. BIS also
expressed the opinion that it would be hard for such a
transaction to take place without them hearing anything about
it.
CABANISS