What is more, Leger participated directly as a French representative in meetings of COCOM (1).
The Center calls on the Bush Administration to reconsider its approach to the 28 February COCOM meeting.
The multilateral regime governing exports of high technology items with military applications, known as COCOM, is long gone.
Responsible officials from these organizations have expressed strong concerns about both the content and timing of the new COCOM initiative.
Western export controls effected under the voluntary arrangement known as COCOM have been highly effective in safeguarding this qualitative edge.
We would urge Congress to consider enacting legislation that would provide tax incentives for U.S. industry to replace existing equipment that conforms to current COCOM standards.
The Commerce Department wrongly contended that, in addition to COCOM nations, a Swiss company could supply wire bonders when, in fact, no such capability currently exists.
They suggest that, if anything, the COCOM regime should be strengthened and complemented by redoubled efforts on the part of member countries to prevent dangerous technology transfers.
In fact, during a tour of four allied capitals last week, a senior team of U.S. officials briefed other COCOM member governments about American concerns on this score.
Michel Leger, a key member of France's delegation to COCOM responsible for technology decontrol matters, was arrested by French authorities and charged with acting as a Soviet spy.
Part of this assessment must address the legislative, administrative and regulatory measures that are required at home and in other COCOM nations to reinforce existing procedures governing strategic trade.
For example, some Western nations do not have the legal ability to impose restrictions on the export of missile technologies -- unless such technologies are controlled multilaterally by COCOM.
President Bush, like Ronald Reagan before him, should call for a ministerial meeting involving all COCOM nations to review the current state and future direction of Western technology 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.
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For the computers in question with high-end performance parameters, all of the critical components are made either in the United States, by U.S. subsidiary firms, or in countries in compliance with the COCOM framework.
Some will argue that the United States must accommodate its allies, dispensing with bits and pieces of the COCOM list or proscribed destinations to stave off pressure to dismantle the entire multilateral export control regime.
Consequently, incredible though it may sound, the United States is being told that the process of economic resuscitation in the Eastern bloc requires a massive infusion of strategically sensitive technologies and, therefore, the easing of COCOM restrictions.
Within a matter of weeks, a delegation of senior U.S. officials will travel to Paris to meet with representatives from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other members of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM).
Kandaurov compared the intended actions of the KGB and Interior Ministry to tax inspectors in the West or to the investigations of Western governments into suspected breaches of COCOM regulations (which prohibit high-technology exports to the Soviet Union).
Next week, the leading industrial democracies will gather in Paris to hold what may be one of the most important meetings in the history of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls, a group known best by the acronym COCOM.
As Ambassador Alan Wendt, the State Department's senior official for technology transfer matters, prepares to depart for a series of consultations next week with key COCOM partners, the pressure is on to show an American willingness to be "flexible" on further decontrol proposals.
Incredible as it may seem, the Joint Chiefs of Staff evidently were ignorant of these potential contributions when a study they performed recommended that controls on such technologies (identified in the attachments by their COCOM "International List" or IL designator) be eased or eliminated.
Indeed, this week the Administration is putting forward a proposal advanced by the Department of Commerce to the members of the Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) which will cut the current list of controlled goods and technology by as much as 50 percent.
What is more, where such constraints have been created (usually pursuant to agreements reached in the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, or COCOM), the German government has resisted bringing charges against violators or failed to impose meaningful penalties on those that are found guilty of export crimes.
In 1988, after the Toshiba Machine Company transferred such tools to the USSR enabling the Soviet navy to fabricate vastly improved submarine propellers, Congress enacted legislation that would both prohibit imports into the United States of products manufactured by companies violating COCOM rules and bar such firms from awards of U.S. government contracts.
Despite being mandated to plan and carry out security cooperation in their respective AORs, the COCOM commanders both lack sufficient dedicated resources to implement their security cooperation strategies in a coherent manner and, when attempting to manage as they can, often find themselves confronted with a bewildering array of legislative, policy, and bureaucratic hurdles.
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