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

VZCZCXRO2491
RR RUEHLN
DE RUEHMO #3315 3220634
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 170634Z NOV 08
FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0729
INFO RUEHLN/AMCONSUL ST PETERSBURG 5127
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHINGTON DC
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/FBI WASHINGTON DC
RHMFIUU/HQ BICE INTEL WASHINGTON DC

UNCLAS MOSCOW 003315

DEPARTMENT FOR PM/DDTC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC KOMC RS
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE
05-050127753 WILL NOT BE COMPLETED

REF: STATE 116174

(U) Post has been unable to confirm the bona fides of reftel
entities. Officials at the end-user Russian Ministry of Atomic
Energy (RosAtom) declined to provide us with information regarding
this case. They also claimed to not know the reftel point of
contact, Aleksandr Starostin. ESTOff contacted his interlocutors at
RosAtom as well, but was also unsuccessful in obtaining any
information. Officials at foreign consignees JSC Instrument Plant
Tenzor and the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant would not speak with
us without permission from RosAtom, which as previously indicated
was not forthcoming.

BEYRLE

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