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EMBASSY OF ICELAND 

 WASHINGTON. D.C. 



August 10, 1992 

 Ref. 21.B.3 



The Honorable 

 David L. Boren 

 Chairman 



The Honorable 

 Frank H. Murkowski 

 Vice Chairman 



United States Senate 



Seclect Committee on Intelligence 



Dear Sirs, 



Thanking you for your letters of June 30, 1992, to the 

 Minister for the Environment of Iceland, the Honorable Eidur 

 Gudnason, and to myself concerning the forthcoming hearing of the 

 Select Committee on Intelligence at the University of Alaska- 

 Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska, I have the honor to forward to you 

 a Statement by the Government of Iceland concerning Radioactive and 

 other Environmental Threats to the United States and the Arctic 

 resulting from past Soviet activities. 



Upon your suggestion I have been in contact with Mr. David 

 Garman of the Staff of the Select Committee on Intelligence and I 

 understand from him that my Government's Statement will be entered 

 into the records of the Committee's hearing next Saturday, August 

 15, in Fairbanks, Alaska. 



I appreciate greatly your providing me with this opportunity 

 to advance the attached Statement of the Government of Iceland 

 giving expression to its serious concerns about environmental 

 threats to all circumpolar nations stemming from ex-Soviet nuclear 

 activites in the Arctic. 



LncBMly, 



dffnce^] 



Tomas A. Tomasson 



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