“Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation which is widely propagated in the mainstream media creating an accepted version of events."
Andreas von Bülow

"These criminal elements have used their ill-gotten wealth and power over their lackeys in the political and media elites to resist and prevent any further meaningful investigation of this unsolved crime."
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=232

Overview of the Estonia sinking:

This passenger ferry was used for all sorts of smuggling operations including secret military contraband, approved and aided by the highest levels of the elements of the Swedish government. Why has Sweden enabled, facilitated, and covered-up another nation's crime?

The covert smuggling of Soviet weaponry turned Estonia into a military target, using more than 1,000 passengers as human shields, some sort of a window dressing. The mysterious sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia on 28 September 1994 took at least 852 innocent lives. There were 146 survivors on the original rescue lists from which nine names were later deleted. These missing survivors, all Estonian members of the crew, were apparently abducted through an act of "enforced disappearance."

To this day most of the victims' bodies are trapped in the wreck that lies just 60-80 m deep. Hail Sweden!
elaestonia.org/index.php?module=lingid&link=254

Does the Truth matter?
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M/S ESTONIA † "852"
28 September 1994
Forever in our hearts

Coming soon:

Interview and photos with the secret diver Håkan Bergmark 
Why is the list of surviors taken to Huddinge hospital, classified?
How many survivors did Kenneth Svensson rescue?
Why is the Estonia wreck res derelicta?
Photos of the interior of M/S Estonia

Older articles in Archives:
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=262

 

“There is no way that waves of 4 meters could have knocked off Estonia’s visor in September 1994! This is the central lie of the whole cover-up!”

Anders Björkman, M.Sc.

 

NEW! 2007.09.11 SSPA Sweden AB produces another manipulated 'Estonia' model test report. Read the comments by Anders Björkman.
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/news.htm

2007.03.15 Naval architect Anders Björkman, M.Sc., writes to John Graffman of VINNOVA wondering how the work of the research study is going:
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=306



2007.03.12 The list of Rockwater divers
who worked on the wreck of Estonia in December 1994.
They have given the oath of silence. Will their gag order be lifted?
http://estonia.kajen.com/Enclosure24.pdf



NEW! 2007.01.25 ESTONIA re-visited.
Naval architect Anders Björkman, M.Sc., reconsiders some technical aspects of the disaster. The following article was published in the January 2007 issue of  the RINA publication The Naval Architect.
http://estonia.kajen.com/Naval_Architect_Jan_07.pdf

Always updated Estonia news:
http://estonia.kajen.com/idx06.html 

2006.12.19 Riigikogu Committee of Investigation to Ascertain the Circumstances Related to the Export of Military Equipment from the Territory of the Republic of Estonia on the Ferry Estonia in 1994 Final Report.

Evelyn Sepp's Dissenting Opinion to the final report of the Committee of Investigation to Ascertain the Circumstances related to the Export of Military Equipment from the Territory of the Republic of Estonia on the Ferry Estonia in 1994.

2006.12.14 Velliste confesses the knowledge of smuggling 
The Vice Chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the Estonian Parliament, Evelyn Sepp, considers Pro Patria Union (Isamaaliit) and the former Prime Minister Mart Laar responsible for carrying out sneaky business of transporting military technology and links it to the real reasons behind the sinking of Estonia.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=295



2006.11.26 Open Letter to the President of Estonia
President Toomas H. Ilves met recently with both the President George Bush and the Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. The leaders of five victims' groups wrote an open letter to the president to address their concerns.

"Throughout history, states have organized dangerous and sometimes hopeless attempts to recover victims regardless of cost, time, technical limitations or individual objections. From sunken ships, crashed airlines and space shuttles, from beneath fallen rock and collapsed skyscrapers, authorities in all countries reflexively launch efforts to retrieve human remains after a civil catastrophe. Governments do not squabble and debate the practice, which seems to transcend all political, economic and religious differences around the globe. Recovery work and forensic identification are more of a moral imperative than legal procedure. They simply get done because it is right."

http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=291
For a pdf file: click here


Support the campaign to lift up M/S Estonia
http://www.ms-estonia.org/main.php?lang=eng


2006.11.22 Estonia film missing
A film that may hold vital clues to the mystery surrounding the worst disaster in the Baltic Sea in modern times, the shipwreck of the passenger ferry Estonia, has vanished. "We don't have a clue about its whereabouts. This is deeply regrettable," Johan Franson, chief of Sweden's Shipping Inspectorate, told Swedish magazine Ny Teknik.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/world/article1542206.ece



2006.11.11 Update from the VINNOVA study 
that is moving on with new spin doctor's "assistants" at work. They are reluctant  to move away from  the   visor scenario and are working hard with the vent ducts that do not exist. The assistants are very young and ambitious and willing to start their career with a cover-up? After meeting Jan Grossman of VINNOVA in Stockholm, independent Estonia researcher Anders  Björkman is giving the researchers some sound advice:
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=285



2006.11.09 Questions of Margus Kurm to JAIC members:
http://estonia.kajen.com/Questions_JAIC.pdf
Answer from Uno Laur, the chairman of JAIC:
Memo original scan click here
Comments to Laur's Memorandum:
Bemis: http://estonia.kajen.com/Bemis_061030.pdf
Rabe: http://estonia.kajen.com/Rabe_061031.pdf
 

The Case ESTONIA 
A documentary by Jutta Rabe filmed in August 2000. 


2006.10.20 In Memory of Peter Barasinski
the widower whose wife Carita died on Estonia.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=280

Widower in £40,000 dive to find body
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=279

"Estonia was the first seaworthy ship in history to sink faster than the three-torpedoed German liner Wilhelm Gustloff, a truly miraculous feat."
-- Drew Wilson, the author of "The Hole"


2006.10.06 Carl Bildt is back
in the new Swedish government as a foreign minister.
Let's ask him questions! Read the Open Letter
that he never bothered to answer to:
http://www.elaestonia.org/swe/index.php?module=lingid&link=134


The lie is the Mother of all sins.  Through the lie all other sins and crimes are allowed to happen.  A liar is the worst.


2006.09.26 Lars Ångström writes to Chancellor of Justice
The circumstances surrounding the Estonia sinking are ofsuch grave nature that it is necessary to have an investigation into what information the Armed Forces are concealing about participation in and knowledge of operations connected with the sinking of Estonia.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=275



2006.07.27 Diving is permitted at the Wreck
It must be clear to anybody that diving is permitted at the wreck as long as it is done under the     authority of, e.g. the Estonian government or Parliament and that the purpose of the diving is either to 'protect the wreck' or to 'protect the marine environment'. The wreck has spent a long time on the bottom of the sea and it would be very prudent to carry out a detailed examination of the wreck now to establish if any further action is required to protect it or the marine environment. At the same time any suspect areas of the wreck can be examined of damages not reported by the JAIC or caused by unreported human activity.
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/epunkt119.htm
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/news.htm#D

Get the basics:
"Disaster Investigation" by Anders Björkman M.Sc., Naval Architect
An e-book about the Estonia Investigation 1994-2001,
the Biggest Fraud in Maritime History
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/disasterinvestigation.htm



2006.07.27 The Curse of KURSK - A Historical Cover-up
by John de Nugent, July/August issue of The Barnes Review
http://www.erichufschmid.net/Kursk.pdf


The Judeo-Russian Mafia
by Raphael Johnson, Ph.D.
Pdf file click here


2006.07.11 Dr. Claes Källström calls for a new study to explain the sinking sequence of the MV Estonia:

Dear Colleague,
      This is an invitation to provide any substantive information in written form for consideration in explaining the circumstances of the sinking sequence of the MV Estonia. Any information provided will be carefully considered by a research consortium, lead by SSPA Sweden, which is currently carrying out a study for VINNOVA, in its capacity as Swedish Governmental Agency responsible for the national Sea Safety Programme. The aim of the project is to present the most likely foundering scenario of the MV Estonia.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=266
Anders Björkman's submission:
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=267
Gregg Bemis' letter to Mr.  Källström :
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=269
How or why did the MV 'Estonia' sink 1994?
It will be explained in 2008 - maybe!
http://heiwaco.tripod.com/impossiblesinking.htm

Cheshire Cat, how deep in the rabbit hole should I look?

2006.06.26 M/S Estonia Criminals
by Juris Doctor Ando Leps

The Grave Treaty signed by seven countries must not prevent the investigation of the crime of the century and the punishment of the guilty. The most amazing thing is that, where it concerns the mysterious sinking of the Estonia ferry, the different ruling parties of the governments of Sweden, Finland and Estonia have shown nothing but utter indifference, arrogance, and criminal negligence.
http://www.eesti.ca/main.php?op=article&articleid=13621


What about the disappeared Estonians?
 

2006.05.13. Organizations of Estonian and Swedish relatives
demand:

Suspend the diving ban!

We entreat all who read this letter to use their influence to:

• amend / modify / repeal / revoke or suspend all practical or administrative
  measures prohibiting inspection of the wreck and/or securing new evidence
  

• have an independent group of experts, working in a transparent manner,
  to make a new investigation of the sinking of M/S Estonia

Read the joint letter of 8 May 2006 to the governments of Estonia, Finland,
Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Great Britain, and
Northern Irland:

http://estonia.kajen.com/Joint_letter.pdf

A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies will not escape.
-- Proverbs 19:5

2006.04.15 Non official videos from the wreck of Estonia can give new answers.
In this report the Independent Fact Group shows that there were an substantial amount of non official filming made from the wreck of Estonia during 1996, this in spite of the Agreement and law that states that Estonia and the (defined) surrounding area shall be regarded as a final place of rest for victims of the disaster, and shall be afforded appropriate respect. Several videos were (and are) still not official and more than 20 hours of film is still in Finnish custody. If analyzed, those recordings may give new information and answers regarding the circumstances and events of the sinkingof the ship.
http://www.factgroup.nu/est/non_official_videos.html



2006.04.09 What the divers saw at the car deck of Estonia.
In this report the Independent Fact Group shows pictures taken on the Estonia car deck, pictures that without doubt show that somebody after the disaster when the ship was resting on the seabed, detonated explosives inside the actuator room where the hydraulics for the ramp and visor were situated. The pictures also show that the divers under the lead of the Swedish National Maritime Administration, Johan Franson, have seen, filmed, and investigated the damage from explosions that penetrated several bulkheads at the car deck.
http://www.factgroup.nu/est/cardeck.html

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"-- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
-- John Keats


2006.03.31 The Kurm Report
 
This is the Report of the Committee of Experts formed for the investigation of circumstances related to the transport of equipment for military use on the passenger ferry Estonia in September 1994.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=239



2005.09.27 RESOLUTION

The International Symposium on the Sinking of Estonia held in Tallinn on 27 September 2005 reviewed many aspects of the official investigation of the 28 September 1994 sinking of the roll on-roll off passenger ferry Estonia by the Joint Accident Investigation Commission (JAIC).

During the course of the symposium it was proven that the JAIC, in official statements given during the investigation and in its final report, has intentionally falsified relevant and essential facts using manipulated expert reports, edited underwater films and testimonies of crewmembers, etc. to produce a document, the only purpose of which was to mislead the public.

The basic information and crucial events published and described in the JAIC report are neither logical nor proven.  As some of the report's statements defy the laws of physics, we have concluded that it was the intent of JAIC to produce a misleading report.

Safety at sea, the need for justice and moral obligations to the victims and their families demand that Estonia investigation be re-heard under the supervision of an independent judge in accordance with international and maritime law.

Furthermore, the evidence that at least nine civil servants or appointees of three countries conspired with the intent to produce a false report of an accident investigation should be considered as prima facie evidence of  a crime. Therefore the appropriate authorities, in accordance with their national laws, should conduct a criminal investigation of the actions of persons in connection of the fraudulent report.

27 September 2005

Tallinn, Estonia

2005.09.27 Helje Kaskel's Greeting at  the Symposium on the Sinking of Estonia

"The sinking of Estonia is an open wound, which can't be healed until the Truth comes out."

"What has become increasingly clear is that the thousands of human lives carried on Estonia were considered as human shields for criminal gangs who were involved in transporting secret shipments of Soviet military technology and weaponry to the west.

These criminal elements have used their ill-gotten wealth and power over their lackeys in the political and media elites to resist and prevent any further meaningful investigation of this unsolved crime."
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=232

2005.09.30 Estonia Symposium Force Re-examination of Sinking

TALLINN, Estonia - As a result of the symposium on the sinking of Estonia, Rein Lang, justice minister of the Baltic nation of Estonia, asked the state prosecutor Margus Kurm to investigate whether there are outstanding questions surrounding the sinking that need to be examined in greater depth.

A week before the symposium, Justice Minister Lang had said to the media that the government should find out who were the people spreading conspiracy rumors about the sinking.
http://www.remoteviewer.nu/print.php?sid=1760

2005.09.28 AFP newswire

Relatives of some of the 852 people who died when the ferry Estonia sank 11 years ago called for a new inquiry into the causes of the tragedy, alleging cover-ups and false evidence marred the original probe. "The sinking of the Estonia is an open wound which can't be healed until the truth comes out," Helje Kaskel, who lost her first husband on the night of September 27 to 28, 1994, told. But Andres Bjorkman, a Swedish shipbuilding and safety expert, told the official report was riddled with falsehoods and overlooked key evidence. In an eerie coincidence, another Estonian passenger ferry briefly ran aground overnight off the coast of Sweden, 11 years to the day of the Estonia disaster. The Regina Baltica, which was en route from Stockholm to Tallinn, sustained some damage but none of the 540 people on board was injured. (Afp, 28.09)
http://www.vm.ee/est/euro/kat_39/7021.html



2005.08.28 The International Symposium on the Sinking of Estonia.
Press realease

The public and media are invited to take part in an historic event at: The National Library of Estonia, Tõnismägi 2, Tallinn, 27 September 2005, at 10:00 to 17:00
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=215

"If you are made aware of a lie, and you do nothing to expose the lie, then you become part of the lie. There can be a million lies, but there is only one truth."

-- Dave vonKleist, the radio host of "The Power Hour"


2005.05.31 The letter to the judge

The Chairman of ELA writes directly to the Court of Nanterre because of urgent concerns of the 1200 plaintiffs about the handling of the case. She upsets Judge Godard and the lawyers but her bold action seems to have brought some results. The next dates in court were announced for June 6 and 21.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=202

2005.05.29 ELA Press Release re: Paris process and the legal foot-dragging

The case, which began in September 1996, has languished in a legal quagmire for almost 9 years and has failed to make any progress. To this day, the essence of the case "What caused the tragic sinking of Estonia and who was responsible for it?" has not been heard in the Court of Nanterre. When, if ever, will this case start?
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=181

2005.05.23 Transport of military equipment
by Anders Björkman, a new chapter from Disaster Investigation

The Hirschfeldt information has been challenged by Swedish journalist Sven Anér. /…/ the Swedish defence authorities tell the government via its chief appeal judge/president Hirschfeldt one thing - that military goods were imported a customs agreement existed, and on the other hand to Anér that no such evidence exists at Defense Headquarters. Confusing, to say the least. But according to the Swedish secrecy laws, the Defence Headquarters can tell Anér whatever it wants. Secret documents simply do not exist.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=176

2005.05.20 Death in the Baltic: the MI6 connection
by Stephen Davis, New Statesman, UK

The Swedish government at first promised to raise the wreck and to spare no cost in finding the cause of the disaster. But then it changed its mind, refusing all pleas from the bereaved relatives to bring Estonia to the surface, even though it lay in shallow waters. The subsequent Estonia Agreement 1995 sought to prevent any exploration of the wreck, which lies in international waters.

In this exclusive investigation, Stephen Davis reveals that the ship was carrying a secret cargo of military equipment smuggled from the Russians by the British. First Swedes take the blame, now Britons. The more the merrier. Who else was involved?
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=170

ILL - Fated Estonia Ferry Used for Weapons Transfers
Exclusive for ZeitenSchrift by Christopher Bollyn

The day after the Baltic ferry Estonia sank on September 28, 1994, Swedish newspapers reported that a "monster wave" was the likely cause of the ferry's sinking. Since then, the official explanations for Europe's worst maritime disaster since World War II have only gotten "curiouser and curiouser."

Part I
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=162
Part II
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=163

29.03.2005 Jutta Rabe writes an Open Letter

to the government of Estonia to express her deepest disappointment and concern about the people chosen for the current weapons commission.

The nature of the secret police is to carry out secret operations secretly. Why would they suddenly be willing to bring out facts to the public? And if they have had a deeper knowledge of the Estonia case, why did they not bring forward this knowledge already years ago?
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=149

12.02.2005 Mysterious Middle Eastern Connection with Weapons Smuggling on Estonia by Christopher Bollyn

This covert weapons smuggling agreement was authorized at the highest level of the Swedish government, according to Henriksson. This was confirmed in an official investigation of the arrangement conducted by a specially appointed judge, Johan Hirschfeldt. Hirschfeldt's report stated that this arrangement was known at the highest levels of Sweden's government and defense department.

The secret transport of Soviet weapons and technology on Estonia, however, turned the civilian passenger ferry, with its passengers, into a military target. This must have crossed the minds of the Swedish authorities involved in the smuggling scheme.

Lars Borgnäs, who produced the SVT 1 program, censored the most important information, Anér said. This was the fact that the secret military cargo on September 20 was not for the Swedish military but was en route via Egypt to an unknown destination. This raises the question of why Sweden would enable, facilitate, and cover-up another nation's crime.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=136

2005.02.07 Open Letter to Carl Bildt, Former Prime Minister of Sweden

502 Swedes died on Estonia along with the citizens of many other nations, and to this day the truth about why the ferry sank remains hidden. The Swedish government has been the greatest obstacle to investigators searching for the truth about what happened when Estonia sank. Why has Sweden enabled, facilitated, and covered-up another nation's crime?
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=134

"The truth tastes funny to those accustomed to a steady diet of lies."
-- Dave vonKleist


2005.01.22 Who Kidnapped Captain Avo Piht?
Were key survivors from Estonia catastrophe kidnapped?

By Christopher Bollyn
Exclusive to American Free Press

Enforced disappearance, according to the Rome Statute of 1998, "means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time."

Enforced disappearance, a form of kidnapping, is considered a "crime against humanity," according to the Rome Statute, which Sweden ratified in June 2001.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=133

Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

"Enforced or involuntary disappearance is a particularly heinous violation of human rights" according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva, Switzerland, Fact Sheet No. 6 (Rev.2)
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu6/2/fs6.htm

Ship Disaster Linked to the Intelligence Intrigue
Published in Spotlight Jan 1 & 8 issue of 2001.

The following is an edited transcript of a radio program discussing Estonia disaster aired on Radio Free America, with host Tom Valentine.

"Back in the mid-1970s, when I was close to becoming involved in the intelligence community, I recall there was a big flap over the Soviets' development of a charged particle x-ray laser weapon that was fueled by super-grade plutonium and would have been spacebased for anti-ballistic missile service. The last generation of the proton missile was designed to deploy it.

The thought occurs to me that this technology... would have fit on one of those trucks that were driven onto Estonia and that it would involve a substantial quantity of super-grade plutonium.

If you put the U.S. system together with the Russian system, you've got something that can not only knock down inter-continental ballistic missiles, but is light enough in multi-use (which means it can be deployed on satellites) and can be used to hit any target on earth."
Read the whole transcript- 1,2 MB

2004.12.09. Estonia Ferried Soviet Weapons
by Christopher Bollyn

"[Swedish Prime Minister Göran] Persson appointed chief justice Johan Hirschfeldt, to investigate the arrangement between the military and customs authorities. Hirschfeldt's report is due January 21, 2005, not enough time for an investigation," Gregg Bemis, an American who conducted a dive to the wreck with Jutta Rabe, told American Free Press.

"I certainly hope that Judge Hirschfeldt will realize that he has been given an opportunity to make a substantive contribution to the families of the victims. It is an opportunity to determine whether or not these activities contributed to the tragic sinking of Estonia. Since it is well established that the JAIC (official) report was full of errors, Mr. Hirschfeldt should take this chance to obtain a proper forensic examination of the whole crime scene."
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=60997

2004.12.01. War Materials Smuggled on Estonia
by Lars Borgnäs of Swedish TV1

The following is the summary of the program Uppdrag Granskning broadcast on Swedish TV1 on Nov 30, 2004.

Ten years after the Estonia ferry disaster, a former head of customs in Stockholm has confirmed what has been the subject of much speculation - the ferry was being used for smuggling across the Baltic Sea. This secret cargo comprised Russian war materials that had been let through customs on orders from the highest instance.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=117

2004.09.28 Estonia Catastrophe - Ten Years of Lies
by Christopher Bollyn

"Like 9/11, the official version of the sinking defies the laws of physics and common sense."

"There is an ongoing "process" in a Paris court and an organization of relatives and survivors who are demanding a new investigation, just like 9/11. The organization, Estonia Litigation Association, hopes that through litigation the truth will emerge. It is the last hope for the poor citizens of the utterly corrupt "democracies" we find ourselves living under."
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=114

2004.09.28 "Zu viele Türen im Rumpf"
Lasse Dudde from expresso-guide.de interviews Anders Björkman, M.Sc. (in German)

"Herr Björkman, Sie glauben, dass das Bugvisier der Estonia erst vom Wrack am Meeresgrund weggesprengt worden ist. Wie kommen Sie darauf?"
http://www.expresso-guide.de/index.php?module=thema&key=2

2004.07.19 Helje Kaskel writes to MUST

the Swedish Military Intelligence, to clear her name from slanderous allegations made by Henning Witte, ELA's former legal representative, as if she is working for their agency.
http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?module=lingid&link=169

2004.07.10 - Ten Years After the Sinking of Estonia
by Anders Björkman, M.Sc.

“There is no way that waves of 4 meters could have knocked off Estonia’s visor in September 1994! This is the central lie of the whole cover-up!”
http://www.elaestonia.org/index.php?module=lingid&link=98