Cablegate: Blue Lantern Level 3: Post-Shipment End-Use Check On

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DEPARTMENT FOR PM/DDTC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: CA ETTC KOMC RS
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
LICENSE 050097822 COMPLETED

REF: A. STATE 110204
B. KATSAKIS-BALLARD EMAIL 11/10/08

(U) Officials from Tulskiy Oruzheiniy Zavod refused to meet with us.
The company's Director General Nikolay Pushkin instead sent us a
fax (passed to PM/DTCC via ref B email) stating Tulskiy Oruzheiniy
Zavod has an agreement to produce Winchester firearms. According to
the fax, all other inquiries should be made to BWA Incorporated.
Mr. Pushkin did not provide us with details of his company's
contract with BWA, nor the relationship between Tulskiy Oruzheiniy
Zavod and Miroku Firearms. He also did not tell us if his company
understood its obligations as a manufacturer of USML items.

BEYRLE

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