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### Viewing cable 09ASHGABAT218, TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: WEAPONS FOUND HIDDEN IN IRANIAN

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09ASHGABAT218 | 2009-02-13 12:12 | SECRET//NOFORN | Embassy Ashgabat

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    P 131259Z FEB 09
    FM AMEMBASSY ASHGABAT
    TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2320
    INFO ALL SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA COLLECTIVE
    CIS COLLECTIVE
    EU MEMBER STATES COLLECTIVE
    IRAN COLLECTIVE
    AMEMBASSY ANKARA
    AMCONSUL DUBAI
    AMCONSUL ISTANBUL
    CDR USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL
    CIA WASHDC
    DIA WASHDC
    JOINT STAFF WASHDC
    NSC WASHDC
    SECDEF WASHDC

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    S E C R E T ASHGABAT 000218

    NOFORN

    STATE FOR NEA/IR AND SCA/CEN

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/13/2019
    TAGS: IR PGOV PREL PTER TX
    SUBJECT: TURKMENISTAN/IRAN: WEAPONS FOUND HIDDEN IN IRANIAN
    EMBASSY SHIPMENT

    Classified By: Charge Richard Miles, reasons 1.4(b) and (d).

    ¶1. (S/NF)  A Turkmen customs official told an Embassy LES on
    February 13 that an Iranian Embassy diplomatic container with
    AK-47's, sniper rifles and ammunition hidden in it had been
    discovered one week earlier at the Serdar Uli (Gaudan)
    customs point in Ashgabat, where vehicles and containers
    arriving from or bound for Iran are inspected.  The weapons
    were reportedly hidden underneath two Turkmen carpets that
    the Iranian Embassy was shipping to Iran.

    ¶2. (S/NF) The LES went to the Ashgabat Customs Point (a
    different location) to inquire about an Embassy pouch
    shipment arriving by truck, and an issue arose about opening
    the Embassy's container for inspection.  The customs
    official, who is a close friend of LES, then brought up the
    Iranian container incident.  He said that a local shipping
    employee of the Iranian Embassy had been present when another
    official, acting on a "hunch that something was not right,"
    opened the Iranian Embassy container.  The customs official
    told LES that the official who discovered the cache was
    honored for his actions and received a promotion.

    ¶3. (S/NF) COMMENT:  Turkmenistan imposes stringent controls
    on the importation of any type of firearm, and Chiefs of
    Missions' security detail are all unarmed.  Even assuming
    that the weapons in question were intended for the Iranian
    Embassy's internal security, this would not explain the
    presence of offensive weapons such as sniper rifles, in the
    cache.  The Embassy has no official confirmation about the
    incident, which was, we note, relayed second-hand to our LES.
     END COMMENT.

    MILES

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