This flim-flam is reminiscent of the Clinton Administration's assurance that a new technology transfer regime would replace the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, COCOM.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The dissolution of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) in 1994 left the United States without an effective, multilateral means to control exports of militarily useful goods and technology.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Clinton Lets Trade Trump Security, Again

Today, the Commerce Department is informing the member nations of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) that the United States will decontrol the sale of wire-bonding technology to "proscribed destinations, " i.e. the Warsaw Pact.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy