(S) GERMANY CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE GERMAN FIRM'S

S E C R E T BERLIN 002163 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN/MTR, EUR/PRA, AND EUR/AGS FRANKFURT FOR DHS/ICE E.O. 12958: DECL: 12/03/2017 TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR SUBJECT: (S) GERMANY CONTINUES TO INVESTIGATE GERMAN FIRM'S ALLEGED EFFORTS TO PROVIDE TEST CHAMBER TO IRAN'S MISSILE PROGRAM REF: A. BERLIN 1521 ¶B. STATE 108420 ¶C. BERLIN 1137 ¶D. STATE 75839 ¶E. 06 BERLIN 1550 AND PREVIOUS Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). ¶1. (S) German MFA Export Control Division Director Goetz Lingenthal provided Global Affairs Officer November 28 with an update into German Government efforts to to prevent the German firm ICS Schneider Messetechnik from exporting environmental test and temperature shock chambers to Iran's missile program (reftels). Lingenthal said German Customs and law enforcement continue to investigate and monitor the activities of ICS Schneider Messetechnik. ¶2. (S) With regard to specific information in ref B reporting that ICS Schneider Messetechnik was working on behalf of the Iranian intermediary Rakin Ltd. to procure a thermal shock chamber manufactured by the German firm Voetsch Industrietechnik GmbH of Balingen-Frommern, Lingenthal said officials from the German Federal Office of Economics and Export Controls (BAFA) had contacted Voetsch representatives directly to sensitize them to German Government concerns. Voetsch representatives reportedly confirmed that they had received a request for a thermal shock chamber and assured BAFA that the firm would not follow up on the request. ¶3. (S) Lingenthal said the German Government will continue to provide the Embassy with updates as its investigation of ICS Schneider Messetechnik develops. TIMKEN JR