EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: PRIST, MOSCOW,

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000784

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: PRIST, MOSCOW,
RUSSIA.

REFTELS: USDOC 0268


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, Prist, Moscow, Russia.
The company is listed on BIS license applications: NLR as the
ultimate consignee of one c/w microwave counter with remote sensors
and general purpose electronic equipment. These items are controlled
for national security and anti-terrorism reasons under ECCN 3A002.
The licensee is Matrix, Inc., 109 Bonaventura Drive, San Jose, CA

95134.


3. On March 25, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES
Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested post-shipment
verification at the offices of Prist, 8/9, Ordjonikidze Street,
Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Alexander
Dedyukhin, General Director and Victoria Dedyukhina, Chief of the
Import Department.


4. Prist is a closed joint stock company founded in 1994,
specializing in test and measurement instruments. Prist employs 72
people at its Moscow facility. Prist is one of the top 5 companies
in its field in Russia and regularly attends trade shows to gain
exposure and broaden its customer base. Prist is in partnership
with several U.S. companies in its field, including Fluke, Le Croy,
Agilent Technology and Matrix. Prist has brochures from all of
these companies on display in its office.


5. Alexander Dedyukhin, General Director for Prist told the export
control team that Prist has purchased 4 to 5 microwave counters
(Dedyukhin calls them frequency counters) from Matrix over the
years, but he claims that the reftel commodity was not purchased by
Prist. A few days prior to this meeting, LES Shipitsina provided
Prist with the reftel Matrix sales order (S.O.) no. SO08090053, when
setting up the end use check. Prist contacted Matrix to inquire
about the S.O. and was told that that particular S.O., no.
SO08090053, was not a Prist order at all. Matrix informed Prist
that the S.O. in reftel was actually for Northrop Grumman in the
United States. Dedyukhin provided the export control team with the
email correspondence between Prist and Matrix regarding the reftel
sales order that went to Northrop Grumman for the ECO files.


6. Alexander Dedyukhin, General Director of Prist gave the export
control team a tour of the Prist facilities where the export control
team did see Matrix microwave counters and other U.S. origin
technology being used in their testing and research lab. The export
control team found no indications of impropriety at Prist, and
DedyukhinQs answers were not evasive.


7. Recommendations: Post recommends Prist, Moscow, Russia, as a
reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. origin commodities.
(FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON)
BEYRLE