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

VZCZCXRO6021
PP RUEHAG RUEHDF RUEHLZ
DE RUEHRL #1432 3161317
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 121317Z NOV 09
FM AMEMBASSY BERLIN
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5749
INFO RUCNFRG/FRG COLLECTIVE

UNCLAS BERLIN 001432

SENSITIVE

SIPDIS
STATE FOR PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC KOMC GM
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
LICENSE 050117142

REF: STATE 109785

1. (SBU) In response to Blue Lantern post-shipment check on
license 050117142, International Spares Services (ISS) GmbH
Business Director, Albrecht Schwecht, confirmed to EconOff
that the International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled
tachometers purchased from MPS Logistics, Inc. are for the
German Navy and not/not for the German Air Force.
Specifically, Schwecht said the tachometers will be used in
the Westland Sea Lynx MK88/MK88A, operated by the German Navy.

COMMENT
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2. (SBU) Schwecht was very helpful and promptly responded to
all inquiries regarding this case. It appears to us that the
end-use statement designating the German Air Force as the
operator was in error and should have read "operated by the
German Navy."
MURPHY

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