Back in 2007, I discussed in two posts (here and here) a criminal complaint filed against Netherlands-based Aviation Services International, B.V., and its owner Rob Kraaipoel, a citizen and resident of the Netherlands. The criminal complaint accused Kraaipoel and his…
Yesterday the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls issued a notice in the Federal Register seeking public comment on Form DS-4076. This form is the one proposed by DDTC for mandatory filing of Commodity Jurisdiction (“CJ”) requests with the agency via…
Last week an obviously confused reporter at internetnews.com reported what he thought were the details of a letter from the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) received by Mozilla, the open-source project responsible for Firefox, Thunderbird and other Internet applications,…
ABOVE: Andrew Shapiro Let’s take the good news first. It comes from Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary, Political-Military Affairs at State, in his Keynote Address to ComDef 2009, earlier this month: I am also happy to report that we are…
The Institute for Science and International Security recently released an interesting report on Germany’s criminal prosecution of Vanaki Mohsen, who was accused of exporting various dual use items to Iran in violation of Germany’s War Weapons Control Act. The prosecution…