Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09MOSCOW676
2009-03-20 08:22:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Moscow
Cable title:
EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SPECIAL
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UNCLAS MOSCOW 000676
SIPDIS
USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/LRITTER
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SPECIAL
ELECTRONICS, MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
REFTELS: USDOC 0283
UNCLAS MOSCOW 000676
SIPDIS
USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/LRITTER
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SPECIAL
ELECTRONICS, MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
REFTELS: USDOC 0283
1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is
prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act.
2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the
legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Special Electronics,
Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license applications:
NLR as the ultimate consignee of 96 electronic integrated circuits
and micro assemblies, parts and digital field programmable gate
arrays. These items are controlled for national security,
anti-terrorism, missile technology and nuclear non-proliferation
reasons under ECCN 3A001. The licensee is Actel Corporation, 2061
Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043.
3. On March 17, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment
verification at the offices of Special Electronics, 127 Vernadskogo
Prospekt, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Nadezhda
Nesterova, Sales Manager.
4. Special Electronics was founded in 1994 as an electronics
components re-seller and distributor. Special Electronics is a
closed joint company partially owned by the German Electronics firm
Weidmuller. The company has 10 employees in its Moscow office and 10
employees in its St Petersburg location.
5. Nesterova stated that all of the components in reftel have
already been sold to a Russian oil and gas company. She also said
that the company is being hit rather hard by the global financial
crisis but expects to make it through it as they did during the
crisis of 1998.
6. Special Electronics appeared to be fully operational, and had
electronic components on mounted displays featured throughout the
office. Specialty Electronics has been in the electronics components
market in Russia for more than 15 years and has a legitimate need
and a legitimate end use for the reftel commodity. Nesterova was not
evasive when answering the export control teamQs questions. The
export control did not notice any impropriety during the end use
check.
7. Recommendations: Post recommends Special Electronics, Moscow,
Russia, as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin
commodities.
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON)
BEYRLE
SIPDIS
USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/LRITTER
USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA
USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN
USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SPECIAL
ELECTRONICS, MOSCOW, RUSSIA.
REFTELS: USDOC 0283
1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is
prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act.
2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the
legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Special Electronics,
Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license applications:
NLR as the ultimate consignee of 96 electronic integrated circuits
and micro assemblies, parts and digital field programmable gate
arrays. These items are controlled for national security,
anti-terrorism, missile technology and nuclear non-proliferation
reasons under ECCN 3A001. The licensee is Actel Corporation, 2061
Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043.
3. On March 17, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment
verification at the offices of Special Electronics, 127 Vernadskogo
Prospekt, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Nadezhda
Nesterova, Sales Manager.
4. Special Electronics was founded in 1994 as an electronics
components re-seller and distributor. Special Electronics is a
closed joint company partially owned by the German Electronics firm
Weidmuller. The company has 10 employees in its Moscow office and 10
employees in its St Petersburg location.
5. Nesterova stated that all of the components in reftel have
already been sold to a Russian oil and gas company. She also said
that the company is being hit rather hard by the global financial
crisis but expects to make it through it as they did during the
crisis of 1998.
6. Special Electronics appeared to be fully operational, and had
electronic components on mounted displays featured throughout the
office. Specialty Electronics has been in the electronics components
market in Russia for more than 15 years and has a legitimate need
and a legitimate end use for the reftel commodity. Nesterova was not
evasive when answering the export control teamQs questions. The
export control did not notice any impropriety during the end use
check.
7. Recommendations: Post recommends Special Electronics, Moscow,
Russia, as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin
commodities.
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON)
BEYRLE