US administration was involved in Estonia disaster

US reporter Christopher Bollyn claims that US administration played an instrumental part in the disaster or M/S Estonia in September 1994.

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Today’s Eesti Päevaleht reports that Bollyn is convinced that the high-tech military equipment that was reportedly carried on M/S Estonia shortly before the ferry sank was meant to reach USA and that the ferry was sunk to get rid of key witnesses.

The claims made by Bollyn who is married to Helje Kaskel whose ex-husband Urmas Alender died in the disaster were supported by the findings of the Swedish investigation which showed that on 28 September 1994 two small planes arrived in Arlanda airport and took on board nine passengers whose identity was not known and disappeared without a trace.

Bollyn claims that the trip was paid for by the US administration. By one scenario, nine key witnesses included the ferry’s captain Piht.

“I believe that Piht is alive and is living under a witness protection programme. He may have a new identity because he probably knew why the ferry sank. Also people who knew he was alive disappeared,” says Bollyn.

Bollyn says that Piht was questioned by high Swedish authorities right after the accident. “It is not possible that 12 names of Estonians ended up in the list of survivors and were later not found,” he says.

M/S Estonia sank on the night of September 28, 1994 in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.

Source : BBN

Comments

[Christopher Bollyn]

This article errs in saying that "Bollyn is convinced that the high-tech military equipment that was reportedly carried on M/S Estonia shortly before the ferry sank was meant to reach USA and that the ferry was sunk to get rid of key witnesses."

I don't think, nor have I ever said, that the ferry was sunk to get rid of key witnesses. This is a serious distortion that needs to be corrected.

At least 9 key witnesses, all Estonians and all crew members, did disappear after being taken to Huddinge Hospital in Sweden. There is ample evidence of that. They were picked up from two life-rafts between 3:20 and 3:50 by Kenneth Svensson and Swedish Navy helicopter Y-64.

This was reported in the Swedish press the day of the catastrophe, in Aftonbladet. Furthermore there were numerous reports that Captain Avo Piht had survived and been interviewed by the authorities.

It appears that Avo Piht was among the 9 survivors picked up by Svensson and Y-64. Evidently, Piht was later taken to Finland.

These people, and probably several others, disappeared and their names were deleted from survivor lists after having been listed as survivors for days. How did this happen? How could a person's name be on the survivor list, complete with date of birth, name and nationality, and then disappear? It should be noted that a survivor had to identify him or herself. In the case of one of the young dancing girls, she even had provided her nickname.

These people were made to disappear in what is a clear case of "enforced disappearance" because of what they knew about the cause of the sinking of Estonia. Estonia was not sunk to get rid of them - on the contrary - they were kidnapped to remove key witnesses who could testify about what happened to the ferry, and why.

I recommend that anyone who is interested in this matter should visit this website: http://www.elaestonia.org/eng/index.php?kat=148 and read my article, "Were key survivors from Estonia catastrophe kidnapped?"