VZCZCXYZ0000
PP RUEHWEB
DE RUEHRL #1020 2101414
ZNY SSSSS ZZH
P 281414Z JUL 08
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1775
INFO RUCNFRG/FRG COLLECTIVE
RUEHTC/AMEMBASSY THE HAGUE 1168
RUEHVI/AMEMBASSY VIENNA 0934
S E C R E T BERLIN 001020
SIPDIS STATE FOR ISN/MTR AND EUR
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/28/2033 TAGS: KNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR NL GM SUBJECT: (S) TRITIUM GAS EXPORT TO IRAN: GERMANY SENDS BACK KUDOS FOR VALUABLE NONPAPERS
REF: A. STATE 26650
B. BERLIN 313
C. THE HAGUE 313
D. THE HAGUE 588
Classified By: Global Affairs Unit Chief Don L. Brown for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(S) During a recent meeting, German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer, Wiebke Wacker, specifically thanked the USG for the nonpapers passed to the GOG in 2006 and 2008 regarding the shipment of tritium gas to Iran's Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). Wacker volunteered that the information in the 2006 nonpaper was "very useful" and further stated "before we received the (2006) nonpaper, we knew nothing." Wacker named Ahmad Rajabi as the German/Iranian from the German firm Campro Scientific in connection with this case. Wacker said that she was not at liberty to comment on whether the information in the 2006 nonpaper contributed in any way to the December 2007 tritium gas seizure in Amsterdam's Schipol Airport. KOENIG