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The Estonia Catastrophe: The Mysterious Sinking of the Baltic Ferry Estonia
The Estonia Catastrophe: The Mysterious Sinking of the Baltic Ferry Estonia
Veide Twin sisters Hannely and Hanka-Hannika Veide were first time passengers with other dance troupe participants. Later they are seen together with Piht and Lembit Leigeriga on the same raft, so …

The Estonia Catastrophe: The Mysterious Sinking of the Baltic Ferry Estonia

Veide Twin sisters

Hannely and Hanka-Hannika Veide were first time passengers with other dance troupe participants. Later they are seen together with Piht and Lembit Leigeriga on the same raft, so they were probably lost. During the first lists were written the name Annika Hannely instead, but she went by Hannely at home. Elsewhere, this name was not used. It was for their parents and Aino and Ülole hundred percent proof that their daughters had escaped. Nurse Eva Lorenz phoned the parents at Huddinge hospital and reported that their daughters are staying there, but they do not talk. Huddinge Hospital denied this information. Nurse Eva Lorenz explained later Henning Wittel to the hospital there was a big mess, though only a dozen or so were rescued. Sisters mother claims that her daughter will call her a year after the accident. The phone said, “I, Hannely”, but said nothing more has disappeared. They rang every day in a row, 14.30 o’clock , no one was talking , complete silence, mom told what they have been up to at home. 

Kalev Vahtras   

Kalev Vahtras Pregnant wife Ruth Vahtras phoned to Swedish police the contact phone number of which was published in Finland on TV. She then confirmed that her husband was rescued and was on the list, but could not yet speak to him at the hospital. It was recommended to call again.

Ruth Vahtrasele confirmed that each survivor has to tell his own name; who is the salvation at moment unconscious, says later. Ruth’s son was contacted by the Estonian Ministry of the Interior and Social, Red Cross, etc., all of which confirmed that her father had been rescued according to the list. 

The Ministry of Interior reported to be the son: “Yes, your father lives, but for God’s sake, do not talk to anybody.” When Ruth later phoned the Ministry of the Interior, was her husband name disappeared from the list. Finnish police said the Kalev was on rescued lists but was bit difficult identify him because lists were hand-written.

Polgunov Peter, who worked on the ship and knew Kalev, said that while he was rescue on same boat where Kalev was. Kalev was wearing a life jacket. Polgunov is not believing that Kalev was drowned, he was to be a good swimmer. After he left boat and was saved Kalev seemed to be in pretty good shape without any injuries.

Ruth Vahtras was called by Internal Security Service, where she got her husband questionnaire to fill on a  consisting of 20 pages. At the same moment the photos of the victims were brought in, which was also Kalev image. It remains unclear how his name was already known to the police, while Ruth still filled questionnaires. Also, the picture has disappeared of man drowned or man in appearance, rather than a man asleep. Police said the autopsy was held in Finland. You could see from the photo, on the right side to Kalevhair has traces of blood on the left side and a pointed object trace. The neck was swollen like he have been hit with something.

Kalev brothers and Ruth thought that Kalev cannot be the sunken. Ruth believes that Kalev was rescued after a while with captain Piht on the helicopter, and decided his fate. Also, the habit of Kalev notice things that others had overlooked. Ruth still be heard from one of the police: “The more Ruth Vahtras is involved with case, it can be dangerous situation for herself.”  

Few days later after disaster on 30 September 1994 evening between 22 and 23 o’clock, Ruth’s phone rang. Nobody talked about, though, was to hear breaths. This lasted up to 15 minutes. At the same time the night between 1 and 2 o’clock after midnight was someone called three times to Ruth’s father, but even then there was complete silence, nobody ever talked. 

The most curious was still to come. When Ruth opened the coffin of her husband, her husband was not there. There was a strange gray-haired old man, who, moreover, there was no case drowning died: one Englishman rescue helicopter driver said the man had wounds, such as those who during the rescue operation failed to hold the rope and fell back into the sea. Ruth has not received any documents of the autopsy report.

Viktor Bogdanov  

On 16 October 1994 the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet wrote that the only survivors of the vessel is a 42-year-old officer in the ship’s doctor. At the time of the wreck was in the past several weeks, and there was confusion over the lists, but were still well Bogdanov “Missing”. A crew member and friend Andres Vihmar (who also survived) phoned to Bogdanov spouse and told that Victor has escaped and hes fine. So far, Victor has not appeared. Vihmar said later he was just confused and lost.  

Kaimar Kikas 

Kaimar Kikas was a ship’s officer, whose name has also occurred in the early lists. A former colleague to Kikas spotted him in 1998 at Cape Town, South Africa, after he recognizes him Kikas turned around and run away to avoid meeting.

Aleksander Voronin

Mysterious Ida-Viru County businessman whose suitcase after the accident, divers searched on the wreck of M/s Estonia cabins. The divers and diving controller on main-boat above at surface, sound as the conversation turns to Briefcase of Voronin had to find at any price no matter what. It also found the master at Piht´s cabin … Voronin, though survived at ship alive, escaped the accident, but died of a stroke in June 2002. He left permanently for two weeks after the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung weighed one article of his secret weapons and a possible connection to the accident.

Tiina Müür (1962) was the ship’s duty-free shop manager.

Agur Targama (1966) was the fourth mechanic.  

Ago Tomingas (1956) worked on the ship as a seller.

As Maurice Greenberg’s A.I.G. received another $37 billion bail-out from the Federal Reserve, it should be remembered that one of his private planes, a Gulfstream 4, was apparently involved in the kidnapping of about a half dozen members of the Estonia crew who survived the sinking and maybe others.

One of the survivors was the ship’s captain – Avo Piht, in whose cabin was found the pilot’s case belonging to the Russian Jew and weapons smuggler Aleksandr Voronin, who was escorting high-value military contraband and plutonium — bound for Israel!

Simm led the security department until November 2006. The department organized security of the state’s secrets. As an authorized representative of state security, Simm represented Estonia at the European Union and NATO and participated in designing information defense systems for both organizations. Formerly, Simm had been the sheriff of Harjumaa, the administrative district that includes the capital city of Tallinn.

Estonian authorities have not identified the country the couple were providing information to, but Estonian media and local experts were quick to point fingers at Russia, although the evidence suggests Simm may have been working for the United States and/or Israel.

Five days after the Simm spy scandal story broke, Jutta Rabe, a German journalist, publicly revealed the connections between Simm and the cover-up of the evidence about the weapons smuggling that is thought to be behind the sinking of Estonia.

The ferry was known to be involved in carrying high-value military technology from Russia to Sweden at the time it sank. During the previous weeks, contraband military shipments had been transported on the ferry and taken to Arlanda airport where they had been flown to a third country with the knowledge and support of the Swedish state. The third country is thought to have been Israel. (See: “Mysterious Middle Eastern Connection with Weapons Smuggling on Estonia”)

Rabe, a former television journalist with Der Spiegel, has spent much of the past 14 years investigating the Estonia catastrophe of September 28, 1994, in which at least 852 people died. (Some 175 smuggled Kurds are thought to have died in one of the trucks on the car deck).

Rabe, one of the first journalists to cover the story, organized an investigative dive to the wreck, and later wrote a best-selling book and movie about the sinking.

Rabe, speaking at an event at the Estonian National Library in Tallinn on September 27, the eve of the 14th anniversary of the sinking, told the audience of relatives and news reporters that Simm had been on the “dive platform” during the first official dive to the wreck after being “exchanged” at the last minute for another person.

Oddly, this explosive information about Simm’s involvement in the official “investigation” of the Estonia wreck was not reported by the Estonian media that covered the event. (It was, however, reported in a Finnish newspaper article from Turku, where many Estonia survivors were taken for treatment.)

Rabe’s revelations about Simm and the official dive to the wreck of Estonia was reported in the Finnish newspaper, Turun Sanomat, from the port city of Turku, although they were completely ignored in the Estonian media.

Anders Bjorkman, a naval architect, has proven that the official version of what happened during the sinking of Estonia is false. The Estonian state media, however, generally ignores raising any questions about the catastrophe. The government-owned television channel, ETV, for example, completely avoided even mentioning the Estonia on the 14th anniversary of the sinking which affected a very large segment of the populations of both Estonia and Sweden.

Why would the Estonian media completely ignore such a huge story connecting its worst maritime disaster with its biggest spy scandal? Perhaps because the evidence indicates that Simm was working for a foreign state that the media would prefer not to discuss.

The evidence and common sense suggest that Simm was not working for Russia in 1994, but for another foreign intelligence when he participated in the dive operation for evidence to the wreck in December of that year. Considering the information that we know about the weapons smuggling that was being carried out on the Estonia, the most likely candidates would be the United States and Israel, or both.

At the time of the dive, Simm was the highest officer of the Estonian secret police, Rabe said, and had requested that divers go to the cabin of Captain Avo Piht and search for the pilot’s case belonging to a certain Aleksandr Voronin. Voronin is suspected of being involved in shipping hi-tech military contraband from Russia to Israel.

As I wrote in an earlier article about the weapons smuggling on Estonia:

[I] reported that divers hired by the Swedish government to survey the vessel spent hours searching cabins on Deck 6 of Estonia for a black [pilot’s] case carried by a Russian weapons dealer named Aleksandr Voronin.

The divers worked for Rockwater, a subsidiary of Brown & Root Energy Services (BRES). Each diver had signed a lifetime agreement obliging them to remain silent about what they did on the wreck some 200 feet below the surface. BRES is a subsidiary of Halliburton.

Estonia researcher Jutta Rabe said that Rockwater was not the lowest bidder, but got the job from Johan Franson, head of the Swedish Maritime Administration. “Secrecy,” Rabe said, “was of paramount importance.”

I have copies of the diving logs, which show that the sought-after case was finally found in Cabin 6230, the cabin usually reserved for VIP guests or the relief captain [Avo Piht], who was also on board.

Upon finding the case on Dec. 4, 1994, the diver asks his supervisor J. Barwick, “It says Aleksandr Voronin. Is this what we’re looking for?”

Voronin is an Ashkenazic Jewish surname coming from the village of Voronino in the Bobruysk area of Byelorussia, according to A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire by Alexander Beider. The root “voron” means crow or raven.

Aleksandr, a member of the Voronin “business dynasty” from Kohtla-Jaerve on the Estonia-Russia border, owned a company in Tallinn called Kosmos Association while his relative, Valeri, had a branch company in Moscow which did business with the Kurchatov Institute, Russia’s famous space technology and nuclear research center. Both Voronin companies were established to sell specimens of Russia’s modern space and weapons technology.

Aleksandr Voronin was traveling on Estonia with Vassili, his 15-year-old son, and his father-in-law, Vassili Kruchkov. After being rescued, they told the press they were on a business trip to Denmark. Asked why they had not taken a plane, Aleksandr said he was worried that “high winds” could have delayed the plane.

When Aleksandr’s wife, Larissa, heard about the sinking, she lit 33 Jewish ceremonial candles she had bought in Jerusalem on a trip to Israel. “I knew that these should only be lit in a dire or special occasion and that you should only burn them a little each time,” she said. “I burned them to the end.”

Fortunately, the three members of the Voronin family survived the sinking, but Aleksandr is said to have died of a heart attack at age 45, in 2002, two weeks after the Sued-Deutsche Zeitung, a leading German newspaper, published details of his weapons and space technology business in connection to the Estonia catastrophe.

The sought-after pilot’s case belonging to Voronin was clearly recovered during the dive, which was carried out with Swedish and Finnish authorities, but it disappeared and was never seen again, according to Rabe. It is highly unlikely that Swedish and Finnish intelligence officers would have co-operated in a cover-up of evidence to protect Russian state interests. So who were they protecting?

Oddly, the Estonian media has completely avoided discussing Rabe’s revelations about Simm’s connection to the first official dive to the wreck of Estonia.

But who was Simm spying for, if he was indeed an agent in the employ of a foreign state? Although the Baltic media points fingers as Russia, it should be remembered that the Russian state of 1994 was completely different that the Russia of 2008. In 1994, Russia was dominated by the Zionist “oligarchs”. These oligarchs are Israeli citizens and worked with other Zionist criminals to plunder and loot Russia and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Zionist oligarchs exerted a great deal of influence and control over then Russian president Boris Yeltsin.

In the same way, the U.S. administration of President Bill Clinton was very much dominated and controlled by Zionist advisors like the Israeli Rahm Emanuel, who dominated the Clinton White House. Emanuel, the son of an Irgun terrorist, was the person who is reported to have “single-handedly” pushed NAFTA through. He now controls the agenda of the Democratic Party and has a great deal of influence over the party’s presidential candidate, Barack Obama.

The Zionists also had a great deal of influence over the first independent Estonian government headed by Mart Laar (1991-94). Laar, for example, was one of the three people involved in Estonia’s first purchase of weapons – a very bad $50 million deal with Israel. It later became evident that Israel had sold Estonia very poor quality weapons they had captured in Lebanon, most of which did not even function in cold temperatures. Estonia was compelled to sue Israel as a result of the fiasco. Laar was also involved in financial scandals concerning transfers of Russian rubles to Chechnya.

Simm, it appears, was a key agent of Laar, who, in turn, was a big friend of Israel. This is a key point, because the evidence indicates that the Russian military contraband being carried on Estonia was bound for Israel.

Andrus Öövel, a former Estonian defense minister, said: “As far as I can recall, Herman Simm was advanced rapidly to his high position during Mart Laar’s first government.”

It is highly unlikely that highest-level Swedish and Finnish intelligence authorities would allow an Estonian to take command of the dive bridge and confiscate evidence on behalf of Russia. The question is whether the truth about Simm’s spying will ever be told.

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