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

UNCLAS STATE 102660 SIPDIS MOSCOW FOR NICKOLAS KATSAKIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ETTC KOMC RS SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON APPLICATION 050122921 REF: 2006 BLUE LANTERN GUIDEBOOK ¶1. This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. ¶2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on application 050122921 for the export of infrared searchlights to Russia. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern check within 30 days. Lack of response to a Blue Lantern check will affect pending and future licenses involving parties to this license. ¶3. Reason for request: Unfamiliar foreign consignee JSC Kumertau Aircraft Production Enterprise and unfamiliar end-user CJSC Techpromoservice. Neither company has appeared on any previous license applications, nor have the bona fides of the companies been verified by a Blue Lantern check. ¶4. ACTION: Department requests that Embassy make appropriate inquiries to verify the bona fides of unfamiliar foreign consignee JSC Kumertau Aircraft Production Enterprise and unfamiliar end-user CJSC Techpromoservice and to confirm the legitimacy of this proposed transaction. PM/DTCC also requests that post conducts site visits to the companies in order to provide Department with an assessment of their business operations and on-site security. Finally, post is asked to assess whether the companies appear to be a reliable recipients of USML items. If site visits are not possible, please inform the PM/DTCC officer. The following questions are provided as suggested guidance: --Does the company have supporting documentation for this proposed transaction? --Are all parties to the transaction cited on the authorization request? --Does the company have secure facilities and proper accounting and security procedures for handling sensitive USML items? --What is the exact end-use for this USML item? --When was the company established and who are its principals? --What is the nature of its business -- what type of items does it handle, does it serve as a broker? --What type of organizations are among its typical customers and where are the customers located? --Does the company understand the restrictions on United States Munitions List (USML) items, especially the prohibition against unauthorized re-transfers and re-exports? END ACTION ¶5. Details of license application: DTC Case: 050122921 QUANTITY/COMMODITY: 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight Assembly 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight Control Box Assembly 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight Gimbal Assembly 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight External Cable Assembly 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight Cable Assembly 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight cable Assembly 1 SX-16 In-Flight Changeover Infrared Searchlight Operations & Maintenance Manual License Value: USD 29,020.00 SELLER: The Boeing Company 100 North Riverside Chicago, IL 60606 POC is Stephen P. Wallace, Tel. (818)898-2831 FOREIGN CONSIGNEE: JSC Kumertau Aircraft Production Enterprise 15A Novozarinskaya Str Kumertau Russia POC is General Director Malyarenko M.K. FOREIGN INTERMEDITE CONSIGNEE Avitronics International AB P.O. Box 607 Jarfalla Sweden FOREIGN END-USER: CJSC Techpromoservice Rossiysskaya Street 33/4 8th Floor Ufa Russia POC is General Director Yunusov O.V. PURPOSE: The commodities will be used for search and rescue operations on the KA-32A11BC helicopter. ¶6. Submitted in support of the license application were the following documents (PM/DTCC can fax documentation to post upon request): --DSP-83 Nontransfer and Use Certificate submitted by General Director Malyarenko M.K., JSC Kumertau Aircraft Production Enterprise, General Director Yunusov O.V., CJSC Techpromoservice, and Director Robert Eklund, Avitronics International AB on 23 May 2008. --Purchase Order No. KUM-STG 08-01/88 submitted by AviTronics International AB on 25 April 2008 on 11 September 2008. ¶7. Please slug reply for PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR and include the words "Blue Lantern" and the case number in the subject line. POC is Tim Mazzarelli, Phone: 202-663-3867; Email: MazzarelliTP@state.gov; SIPRNET: MazzarelliTP@state.sgov.gov. The Blue Lantern Guidebook (ref) is available as a PDF file in the Bunche Library's E-Book Collection on the DOS Intranet: http://buncheelectroniclibrary.state.gov/eboo ks/ BlueLanternGuidebook2006%20 final .pdf ¶8. Department is grateful for post's assistance in this matter. RICE