BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK

UNCLAS STATE 092582 SIPDIS PORT OF SPAIN FOR EBONY CUSTIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ETTC KOMC TD SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE 050037110 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 post-shipment check on license 050037110 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled traveling wave tubes (TWT) to Trinidad and Tobago. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern inquiry within 45 days. Lack of response to a Blue Lantern inquiry will affect pending and future licenses involving parties to this license. ¶3. Reason for request: to confirm receipt of TWTs by Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force Headquarters Coast Guard. Sensitive commodity with risk of diversion. ¶4. ACTION: The Department requests that Post make appropriate inquiries to determine if the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard received the TWTs listed below and that the articles are being used for the purpose stated on the license. END ACTION. ¶5. Details of license application: DTC CASE: 050037110 QUANTITY/COMMODITY: 3 - Traveling Wave Tube VZX3505T 1 - Unclassified Technical Data Related to Customer Source Inspection License Value: 397,625.00 USD SELLER: Communications and Power Industries (CPI) 811 Hansen Way Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel: 350-46-3021 POC: Creighton Chin FOREIGN CONSIGNEE: Terma A/S Hovmarken 4 DK-8520 Lystup Denmark Tel: 45-8743-6000 POC: Frede Alstrup, Project Manager FOREIGN INTERMEDIATE CONSIGNEE: Communications & Power Industries Europe Ltd. 4 Walton Lodge, Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames KT12 1BT Surrey United Kingdom Tel: 01932-256930 FOREIGN END-USER: Trinidad and Tobago Defence Headquarters Coast Guard Airways Road Chguaramas Trinidad PURPOSE: The units are to be integrated into the Terma surveillance radar type SCANTER 4000/4100. ¶6. Submitted in support of the license application were the following documents (PM/DTCC will fax documentation to Post upon request): --End-Use/User Declaration signed by Frede Alstrup of Terma A/S on 7 February 2007. --Purchase Order No. 13347/JHV submitted by Terma A/S to CPI Ltd. (UK) on 5 August 2005. --Purchase Order No. 102627 submitted by CPI Ltd. (UK) to CPI (US),Beverly Microwave Division on 16 August 2005. --Supplementary Explanation of Transaction signed by Creighton Chin of CPI (US) on 12 March 2007. --Customer Source Inspection Description --Department of State License for Permanent Export of Unclassified Defense Articles and Related Unclassified Technical Data, signed 12 March 2007, approved 25 April 2007. ¶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 Meredith Sundlof. Phone: 202-663-3455; Email: SundlofME@state.gov; SIPRNET: SundlofME@state.sgov.gov. The Blue Lantern Guidebook (ref) is available as a PDF file at http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Blue Lantern End-Use Monitoring Program. ¶8. Department is grateful for Post's assistance in this matter. CLINTON