Identifier
Created
Classification
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09BERLIN654
2009-06-02 14:12:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Berlin
Cable title:
NO MI-17 HELOS IN GERMANY'S INVENTORY
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UNCLAS BERLIN 000654
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STATE FOR SCA/P - RICHARD LYONS
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL SMIG PARM PK GM
SUBJECT: NO MI-17 HELOS IN GERMANY'S INVENTORY
REF: STATE 55654
(SBU) Germany has no Mi-17 helicopters in its inventory and
is therefore not able to make any available for lease, sale
or donation to Pakistan, as requested reftel. German MOD
NATO Office Director Col. Thomas Hambach confirmed to us on
June 2 that the Bundeswehr had long decommissioned, sold or
otherwise disposed of the Soviet-era helicopters it had
inherited from the GDR National People's Army as the result
of German unification.
Koenig