Center for Security Policy says, Boycott EADS CASA

An influential Washington think-tank with close ties to the White House and Pentagon is calling for the US to blacklist EADS CASA for its attempts, over US national security objections, to help Chavez modernize his military aircraft fleet.

The Center for Security Policy devoted its September 27 Decision Brief to Venezuelan issuues. It singled out EADS CASA:

"EADS CASA, the French-German-Spanish-Russian aerospace company, has gone out of its way to ignore repeated U.S. requests not to sell C-295 military aircraft to Caracas. The company has circumvented the U.S. nonproliferation law and willfully broken the U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela. It has also misled Congress about the nature of the Venezuela deal. EADS CASA planned to recoup any losses incurred in its Venezuela sale by getting Congress to buy the C-295 for the new Joint Cargo Aircraft (JCA) program. Therefore, Congress and the Administration must declare that the U.S. will not purchase any EADS CASA aircraft until the Chavez regime is gone. That means removing the EADS CASA C-295 from consideration in the JCA program and removing funding for purchase of the aircraft by the Coast Guard Deepwater program."