Cablegate: Blue Lantern Level 3: Pre-License End-Use Check On License

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DEPARTMENT FOR PM/DDTC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR

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E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: DA ETTC RS KOMC UK
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE
05-050101397 WILL NOT BE COMPLETED

REF: STATE 50705

(U) Post has been unable to confirm the bona fides of reftel
entities. Andrey Firsov, Deputy Director of foreign consignee JSC
Instrument Plant TENZOR, told us June 6 he would rather lose the
contract than answer our "strange questions" related to reftel
pre-license check. Yelena Kulakova, Senior Specialist of the
end-user Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (RosAtom), also declined
to provide us with information regarding this case. ESTOff
contacted his interlocutors at RosAtom as well, but no answer was
forthcoming.

RUSSELL

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