ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS
		       1726 M STREET, N.W., SUITE 600
			    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036


February 7, 1995

Admiral William O. Studeman
Acting Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505



Dear Admiral Studeman:

	You will recall your letter of June 9, 1994 informing the
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments that the CIA "will 
spare no effort to respond in a timely fashion to Advisory Committee
requests for documents relevant to its work."  This letter was in 
response to my June 3, 1994, letter requesting a three week turn 
around for declassification requests.

	The Advisory Committee staff has worked closely with the CIA to 
identify a concise stack of relevant records requiring declassification.
On December 13 and 21, 1994, committee staff reviewed and prioritized
these documents.  Six weeks have now passed, and the CIA has yet to
release any of these documents.  (Even the staff notes from those
reviews have not been released to us.)  On February 1, 1995, the
CIA identified several additional relevant documents, a number of which
are extremely important to the Committee and in need of immediate
declassification -- including documents indicating that the CIA may
have conducted human radiation experiments.  Virtually all of these
documents are more than 30 years old, and do not appear to require
continued classification.

	As you know, the Advisory Committee must complete is final
report by late Spring, 1995.  Time is clearly of the essence.  The
failure of the CIA to provide the requested material is in sharp
contrast to the ability of the DOD and DOE to provide relatively
substantial quantities of declassified materials in time periods
far briefer than the CIA has had to declassify these records.

	Accordingly, I ask that you ensure that the identified
documents be released to us within the next week and that newly
identified documents be declassified to the extent allowable 
within a two-week time period until the Committee completes its
work.

	Thank you for your attention to our concerns.


Sincerely



Ruth Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Chair