VERA-E - BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE

C O N F I D E N T I A L PRAGUE 001498 SIPDIS PM/DTCC - FOR BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR, EUR/NCE FOR FICHTE E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/18/2015 TAGS: KOMC ETTC EZ SUBJECT: VERA-E - BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON LICENSE 05-967713 REF: A. STATE 175680 ¶B. PRAGUE 1363 ¶C. 04 PRAGUE 1235 ¶D. 04 STATE 212634 ¶E. 04 PRAGUE 1870 ¶F. PRAGUE 106 ¶G. PRAGUE 313 ¶H. PRAGUE 892 ¶I. PRAGUE 1104 ¶J. PRAGUE 1146 ¶K. PRAGUE 1252 ¶L. 04 PRAGUE 523 ¶M. 04 PRAGUE 1355 ¶N. 04 PRAGUE 1357 ¶O. 04 PRAGUE 1358 Classified By: Political-Military Officer Brian Greaney for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) ¶1. (C) Foreign consignee, ERA A.S. (ERA) is familiar to the United States Government. A sample of some of the USG reporting on the company's systems can be found in Refs B-L. ¶2. (C) Embassy Prague closely follows ERA,s license applications to the GOCR for export of the VERA-E system. During his Sep 2004 visit to Prague, then Deputy Secretary Armitage discussed exports of the VERA-E system with then Prime Minister Stanislav Gross Gross (Ref M),Defense Minister Karel Kuehnl (Ref N),and Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda (Ref O). Defense Minister Kuehnl specifically asked the Deputy Secretary for assistance in marketing the system to the Baltics (Ref N). Deputy Secretary Armitage thanked Svoboda for the GOCR,s positive response to Secretary Powell,s letter requesting forbearance on VERA-E sales to China and said that the U.S. will be looking for ways to be helpful on other, non-problematic sales (Ref O). CABANISS