Identifier
Created
Classification
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07BERLIN361
2007-02-22 16:38:00
SECRET
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:  

(S) GERMANY ALERTED TO IRAN'S EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE

Tags:  PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM TW IR 
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DE RUEHRL #0361 0531638
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
P 221638Z FEB 07
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7174
INFO RUCNWSN/THE WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT PRIORITY
RUEHIN/AIT TAIPEI PRIORITY 0092
S E C R E T BERLIN 000361 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR ISN/MTR AND EUR/AGS 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/22/2017 
TAGS: PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM TW IR
SUBJECT: (S) GERMANY ALERTED TO IRAN'S EFFORTS TO ACQUIRE 
GERMAN-ORIGIN MACHINES VIA TAIWAN 
 
REF: SECSTATE 19792 
 
Classified By: Global Affairs Counselor Donald R. Shemanski, for reason 
s 1.4 (b) and (d). 
 
(S) Global Affairs officer passed reftel demarche to German 
MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Andreas Kauke 
February 21. Kauke thanked us for the information concerning 
efforts by Iran's SAIPA to acquire machine tool control 
equipment from Germany's Heidenhain Corporation via a Taiwan 
company. Kauke said Heidenhain is a large, well-known 
company and has cooperated with the German Federal Economic 
and Export Control Agency (BAFA) before on sensitive 
licensing cases. Kauke will pass the information to the 
German federal inter-agency export control group for 
investigation. Post will report substantive German response 
septel. 
TIMKEN JR