LETTER TO FRANK C. CARLUCCI FROM DAVID B. FUNDERBURK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85M00364R000200240021-4
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 22, 1982
• Content Type: LETTER

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EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Bucharest
American Embassy Bucharest
APO, New York 09757
October 22, 1982
The Honorable Frank C. Carlucci
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Department of Defense
Washington, D.C.
Dear Secretary Carlucci:
In your October 11 meetings with Minister of Defense
Lt. Gen. Constantin Olteanu and Foreign Minister Stefan
Andrei they -- especially Andrei -- status of the United States responseatoeRomania'surequest
for seismic equipment. As you are aware they were referring
to the Romanian request, most recently made to?USAID in early
September, for a variety of seismic and other equipment to
be funded by USAID's Disaster Relief Program.
We understand from other Washington visitors that the
Romanian Embassy in Washington has been told already the United States cannot supply some of the items requested
and that the remainder of the list is being scrutinized.
These Romanian requests bring into focus concerns that
I and several of my staff* have had with the matter of
technology transfer to Romania.
noted-that Romania is to be treateU dodifferently than other
t?:arsaw Pact members with regard to the reading NSDD-54 we
technology. We have serious reservations about sucheanitive
exception. We realize that the NSDD was a laboriously
negotiated document and that the various elements of it are
i n effect encapsulations that have s
who deal with the subject in Washin tone We W meaning
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that sensitivity is relative and that there are items and
technology governed by COCOM that are not particularly
sensitive. We also understand that we have interests to
promote by Permitting the transfer of less sensitive. items.
Romani effoobs to for commercial reasons, would resist
viet sensitive items; get less sensitive items more than highly
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