Based on Ann Holland's inquiries an "investigation" of the list was begun, in the fall of 1993. Four months later, in March of 1994, a meeting was held in Washington D.C. The meeting, with General Dimitri Volkogonov, was arranged by a group of Korean War POW/MIA families included two representatives of Vietnam POW/MIA families. One of these representatives was Ann Holland.

The following are Mrs. Hollands words:

-- "In March of 1994 I attended a meeting with the Russians in Wash. DC to find out why my husband's name was on the Russian list that Boris Yeltsin tried to give to George Bush in June of 1992. I would be allowed two questions which had to be submitted two weeks before the meeting. As I expected, before the meeting started a member of the Russian task force handed me a piece of paper that stated Arnold Mikhailevich Holland was an Estonian who was born in 1929 and sentenced in 1945. Most of the names on the "Russian List" were explained away the same way."

"...We were allowed two hours but the meeting ran much longer... Just as the Russians were calling an end to the meeting I was allowed to ask one question. General Volkogonov read from his notes the comment made about Arnold Mikhailevich Holland then added that because of the age he couldn't possibly be my husband and that I would have to go to the Vietnamese for answers. I asked him if because of the Russian close ties with the Vietnamese during the Vietnam war if he could use his influence to help me get answers from the Vietnamese. He told me "no" because the last time they tried to help us they got into a lot of trouble for it. He was referring to the 1205 document and the trouble came from the American side."

"I have always believed there was a reason my husband's name was on the Russian list no matter what excuse our government came up with. George Bush was the head of the C.I.A. the year I started my lawsuit against the government and I've been told by a very reliable source that all information about Site 85 was ordered destroyed. He sure wouldn't want to be given a list with TSgt Melvin A. Holland's name on it, sentenced for "counter revolutionary activities in the Soviet Union". The list was conveniently "misplaced" for 15 months until it was "accidentally" discovered with some documents in a Korean War families' records. A good friend to the families was fired from the Task Force office shortly afterward."

"When is the government going to learn that we are NOT going to go away. Maybe now is the time to work on President Clinton to help us. It would be pretty hard to convict a man of wrongdoing if he should suddenly discover Americans who had been sent to Russia. He would be a hero!!!!" -- Ann Holland