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08MOSCOW1653
2008-06-11 05:09:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:  

BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE

Tags:  DA ETTC RS KOMC UK 
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UNCLAS MOSCOW 001653

DEPARTMENT FOR PM/DDTC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: DA ETTC RS KOMC UK
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE
05-050101397 WILL NOT BE COMPLETED

REF: STATE 50705

(U) Post has been unable to confirm the bona fides of reftel
entities. Andrey Firsov, Deputy Director of foreign consignee JSC
Instrument Plant TENZOR, told us June 6 he would rather lose the
contract than answer our "strange questions" related to reftel
pre-license check. Yelena Kulakova, Senior Specialist of the
end-user Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (RosAtom),also declined
to provide us with information regarding this case. ESTOff
contacted his interlocutors at RosAtom as well, but no answer was
forthcoming.

RUSSELL