Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07BERLIN2162
2007-12-04 15:20:00
SECRET
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:  

(S) GERMAN RESPONSE - IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM'S

Tags:  ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE KSCA GM IR AE 
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VZCZCXRO3236
PP RUEHDE
DE RUEHRL #2162 3381520
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
P 041520Z DEC 07
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9954
INFO RUEHAD/AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI 0144
RUEHDE/AMCONSUL DUBAI 0100
RUEHFT/AMCONSUL FRANKFURT 7413
S E C R E T BERLIN 002162 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MTR, NEA, EUR/AGS, AND EUR/PRA
FRANKFURT FOR DHS/ICE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/03/2017
TAGS: ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE KSCA GM IR AE
SUBJECT: (S) GERMAN RESPONSE - IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM'S
EFFORTS TO PROCURE GERMAN TEST AND MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT

REF: A. BERLIN 1932


B. STATE 146193

C. BERLIN 1733

D. BERLIN 1138

E. STATE 74940

Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).

S E C R E T BERLIN 002162

SIPDIS

SIPDIS
STATE FOR ISN/MTR, NEA, EUR/AGS, AND EUR/PRA
FRANKFURT FOR DHS/ICE

E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/03/2017
TAGS: ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE KSCA GM IR AE
SUBJECT: (S) GERMAN RESPONSE - IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM'S
EFFORTS TO PROCURE GERMAN TEST AND MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT

REF: A. BERLIN 1932


B. STATE 146193

C. BERLIN 1733

D. BERLIN 1138

E. STATE 74940

Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski
for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).


1. (U) This message contains an action request. Please see
para 3.


2. (S) In a December 3 meeting with Global Affairs officer,
MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Wiebke Wacker
provided an interim response to ref B demarche, which
reported that an agent for Iran's Shahid Hemmat Industrial
Group (SHIG) had ordered a signal generator manufactured by
the German firm Rohde and Schwarz from a UAE-based
intermediary. Ref B points also raised concerns that the
signal generator could be used in a missile program. Wacker
said officials from the German Federal Office of Economics
and Export Controls (BAFA) had contacted representatives of
Rohde and Schwarz to sensitize them to the matter, but were
unable to verify that the firm had been contacted by a
UAE-based entity. Wacker inquired about the possibility of
sharing the names of possible intermediary firms acting on
behalf of SHIG. BAFA officials plan to use the list to ask
Rohde and Schwarz representatives to verify that the firm has
not been contacted by the UAE intermediaries. Otherwise,
Wacker said, it would be difficult under German law for BAFA
to investigate the matter further.


3. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Post seeks Department's guidance to
respond to the German request.
TIMKEN JR