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What employees of Microturbo did not know was that they hadbecome entangled in UKUSA's electronic web. Thus when T. Dècle, acompany official, faxed a message to Mr. R. Heidari, an Iranian defenseofficial, it was intercepted by GCHQ's Morwenstow antenna, severalhundred miles away. Transferred to the agency's headquarters atCheltenham, it arrived on the desk of an analyst who specialized inweapons systems and had been following the C-802 closely. The analystconcluded that Microturbo was attempting to "mask involvement inIranian anti-ship [C-802] cruise missile component deal."In his report, the GCHQ analyst wrote that Dècle had informed theIranian military officials "that he would advise them in the next few daysof Microturbo's position. To avoid any faxes being missent toMicroturbo's U.S. subsidiary, Dècle requested that in the future theheaders of faxes should not show the name of the U.S. subsidiary, andhe also asked them to use a specific French fax number."The secret intercepts offered clear, hard evidence that the Jiang-Clinton summit was having a positive effect. Inside a low, pale-coloredgovernment building near a busy intersection in Tehran, Hossem Jafari,the official responsible for buying the C-802 missiles from Beijing, wasbecoming more and more angry at the Chinese, who were reneging ontheir contract. His anger was specifically directed at China NationalPrecision Machinery Import & Export Corporation.In early December, Jafari marched over to China Precision's office inTehran and demanded some answers from Wen Bo, the localrepresentative. Like a man who had been conned, Jafari laid into Wen.He demanded to know why China Precision had not returned his calls,why the contracts had not been fulfilled, and why he had been given noexplanations. Jafari said he had instructed his financial department tocease all payments and then demanded that Wen Bo immediately callChina Precision's president, Jin Xuekuan, or its vice president, Ji Yanshu,for an explanation.Wen Bo did as Jafari asked and made the call to Beijing. While Jafarilistened to Wen Bo's side of the conversation, NSA was eavesdropping onboth sides. Over the telephone, Wen Bo told an official at China Precisionthat he was in an embarrassing position because he had received noinstructions on the missile deal. He then listed Jafari's complaints andasked to speak to the top executives. In response, an official suggested tohim that although both Jin Xuekuan and Ji Yanshu were both in thebuilding, he should tell Jafari that the executives were temporarily outand could not be reached. Wen Bo did as he was told, and Jafari left asangry as he arrived. However, he said, he did not blame Wen Bo butrather the "policymakers" in Beijing.The Jiang-Clinton summit, according to the NSA intercepts, also356