Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09BERLIN830
2009-07-09 15:47:00
SECRET
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
(S) GERMANY INFORMED OF CHINESE INVOLVEMENT
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S E C R E T BERLIN 000830
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EUR/CE PETER SCHROEDER
STATE FOR ISN/MTR JOHN PAUL HERRMANN
E.O. 12958: DECL: 07/09/2033
TAGS: MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC MNUC TSPA IR CH GM
SUBJECT: (S) GERMANY INFORMED OF CHINESE INVOLVEMENT
SELLING GERMAN-ORIGIN TEST CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY TO IRAN'S DIO
REF: STATE 68250
Classified By: Global Affairs Unit Chief Don L. Brown for
reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
(S) On July 7, EconOff delivered ref non-paper to German MFA
Export Control Division Desk Officer Iris Wilczoch regarding
a known Chinese proliferator's effort to broker the sale of
and training for German-origin test chamber equipment to the
Iranian Defense Industries Organization (DIO) in support of
Iran's missile program. Wilczoch said she would deliver the
non-paper to the appropriate export control authorities at
the German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control
(BAFA) and report back any findings. Post will report any
substantive German response septel.
Koenig