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UNCLAS RABAT 000446 
 
SIPDIS 
SENSITIVE 
 
STATE FOR PM/DTCC BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR AND NEA/MAG 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ETTC KOMC MO
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON 
APPLICATION 05-050096158 
 
REF: STATE 050430 
 
¶1.  (SBU) Post validates the bona fides of application 
05-050096158 and asses the information conveyed reftel as 
accurate.  On May 16, Econoff visited Technical Communication 
Solutions Maroc (TCSM) and met with its Director, Ahmed 
Eljorfi.  TCSM is a small consulting business, with an office 
in the industrial zone of Temara.  Eljorfi was able to speak 
about the sale, intended use, and export license application 
for 12 x Advanced Radar Surveillance Systems (ARSS-1), and 
produced operating and maintenance manuals for the equipment. 
 He produced his file of the transaction that included a 
signed purchase order between the Chief of the Procurement 
Division, National Defense Administration (MOD) and 
Telephonics Corp, signed January 9, 2008.  Eljorfi explained 
his (TCSM) role in the transaction as a consultant and 
facilitator, who was first approached by Colonel Major 
Boujemaa Bouraada, Inspector of Transmission (Signal Corps) 
in 2007. 
 
¶2.  (SBU) Eljori is a retired Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) 
avionics and radar officer/technician.  He attended technical 
training with the U.S. Air Force at Chanute AFB, IL in 1977, 
and at McClellan AFB, CA in 1983.  He retired from the RMAF 
in 1992 and worked for Harris Corp. until starting his own 
consulting firm in 1999.  His firm specializes in security 
and surveillance equipment.  He explained that the 12 ARSS-1 
radars are ground surveillance systems that will be used by 
Moroccan border security forces to detect illegal immigrants 
and unauthorized transit along Morocco's borders.  He said 
TCSM would never take possession of the equipment, but that 
it would instead go directly to the Direction of Reception 
and Transit in Casablanca (a military storage and reception 
facility) before being deployed to the field.  Eljori 
explained that his role was to act as Telephonics (Griffon 
Corporation's electronic and communication systems 
subsidiary) intermediary in Morocco, and to provide 
instruction to the Moroccan military on its operation and 
maintenance.  When asked how he became involved with 
Telephonics, Eljori said he was first approached by the 
Signal Corps in February 2007, who was interested in 
purchasing border surveillance radars.  Eljori explained he 
did a simple search on the Internet for distributors of 
suitable systems, which led to his association with 
Telephonics. 
 
¶3.  (SBU) In a March 2008 meeting with U.S. Ambassador Riley, 
Lt Gen Abdelaziz Bennani, Inspector General of the Royal 
Moroccan Armed Forces (CHOD), mentioned these radars and 
asked for USG assistance in facilitating their delivery. 
Post has no doubt the Moroccan military ordered them from 
Telephonics or that TCSM is the bona fide local agent for 
Telephonics in Morocco. 
 
 
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