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Alaaka Siberia Medical 

 Research Program 



UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA 

 Box 730 .Seward, Alaska . 99664 



Phou I907)23«-S26l fax (907)224-3392 



27 August 1992 



Senator Frank Murkowski 

 United States Senate 

 709 Hart Building 

 Washington, D.C. 20510 



Dear Senator Murkowski: 



You are to be commended for opening the Pandora's box of 

 radionuclide contamination in Russia and its effect on human 

 health there and here. Once having opened the box, we all hope 

 you can do something abput the health issue. 



The University of Alaska, through its Alaska Siberia Medical 

 Research Program, is the logical organization to research the 

 extent of contamination of the human population for the following 

 reasons: 



1) We have been working on the epidemiological aspects in 

 Siberia for four years. 



2) We are currently assessing genetic damage to people at 

 risk of contamination in the Altai region. 



3) The Russian Academy of Medical Science and the Ministry 

 of Health wants to work with the University on this topic 

 (see attached testimony) . 



4) We have the expertise to pursue the necessary work in 

 Russia and here. 



Please find attached a written version of our testimony with an 

 addendum of new information provided by the Academy and the 

 Ministry of Health. Some of this is still in Russian. We hope 

 that you can have it translated. Copies should be provided to 

 CIA etc. as some of the detailed information may be new to the 

 intelligence agencies. 



Funding obtained by you for this important work would go a long 

 way toward establishing the University of Alaska as a major 

 player in citcumpolar health. We thank you for thinking of the 



