US embassy cable - 05PRAGUE1498

C O N F I D E N T I A L PRAGUE 001498 
 
SIPDIS 
 
PM/DTCC - FOR BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR, EUR/NCE FOR FICHTE 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/18/2015 
TAGS: KOMC, ETTC, EZ 
SUBJECT: VERA-E - BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE 
CHECK ON LICENSE 05-967713 
 
REF: A. STATE 175680 
     B. PRAGUE 1363 
     C. 04 PRAGUE 1235 
     D. 04 STATE 212634 
     E. 04 PRAGUE 1870 
     F. PRAGUE 106 
     G. PRAGUE 313 
     H. PRAGUE 892 
     I. PRAGUE 1104 
     J. PRAGUE 1146 
     K. PRAGUE 1252 
     L. 04 PRAGUE 523 
     M. 04 PRAGUE 1355 
     N. 04 PRAGUE 1357 
     O. 04 PRAGUE 1358 
 
Classified By: Political-Military Officer Brian Greaney 
 for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) 
 
1. (C) Foreign consignee, ERA A.S. (ERA) is familiar to the 
United States Government. A sample of some of the USG 
reporting on the company's systems can be found in Refs B-L. 
 
2. (C) Embassy Prague closely follows ERA,s license 
applications to the GOCR for export of the VERA-E system. 
During his Sep 2004 visit to Prague, then Deputy Secretary 
Armitage discussed exports of the VERA-E system with then 
Prime Minister Stanislav Gross Gross (Ref M), Defense 
Minister Karel Kuehnl (Ref N), and Foreign Minister Cyril 
Svoboda (Ref O). Defense Minister Kuehnl specifically asked 
the Deputy Secretary for assistance in marketing the system 
to the Baltics (Ref N). Deputy Secretary Armitage thanked 
Svoboda for the GOCR,s positive response to Secretary 
Powell,s letter requesting forbearance on VERA-E sales to 
China and said that the U.S. will be looking for ways to be 
helpful on other, non-problematic sales (Ref O). 
CABANISS