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NEW FILM FOCUSES ON HIDDEN FACTS
OF ESTONIA CATASTROPHE
By Christopher Bollyn
A recently released film about the sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia brings out important facts and circumstances that have long been suppressed by international political and media elites.
TALLINN, Estonia – “Baltic Storm,” a film about the sinking of the passenger and car ferry Estonia, premiered here in the Estonian capital on Nov. 13. The movie is a fictional film based on the research done by a German journalist and film producer, Jutta Rabe, and Henning Witte, a German lawyer.
The film, which first premiered in Berlin on October 13, is filmed in English for worldwide distribution. It is expected to run in 135 Los Angeles theatres during the first week of December.
Rabe’s research, which involved two dives to the wreck, indicates that the massive ferry was sabotaged using explosives during the middle of the night on September 27-28, 1994.
Survivors reported hearing two large explosions just after midnight. Shortly afterwards the ship listed and sank within 45 minutes. 852 lives were lost.
From the second dive Rabe brought up pieces of metal taken from near the bow visor. These pieces were tested in 4 laboratories for evidence of explosions. Three of the four metallurgical labs concluded that the metal fragments had been affected by explosions.
A German state-owned institute, BAM, was the only lab that came to a different conclusion.
Rabe, who has produced 14 documentaries about the Estonia catastrophe, worked for Germany’s Spiegel TV when she began her investigation. When she wanted to present the explosive results of the metal tests, she was fired. She then took the evidence to the German news magazine Focus.
The story of the film develops around the dilemma of an investigative journalist who discovers a high-level international cover-up of the facts behind the sinking. The journalist’s dilemma is whether to stop her research or continue and become part of the story as she discovers evidence of a cover-up.
American Free Press has been the only newspaper in the United States to have reported extensively on the Estonia catastrophe and the evidence of criminal sabotage. An earlier AFP article (August 5, 2002) presented the most important facts from Rabe’s book, Die Estonia, and described the details of the theory that the ferry had been used to transport advanced Soviet space technology and weapons to the West.
Nationalist elements from the Russian security services, which were strongly opposed to the wholesale looting of the Soviet arsenal, are thought to have been involved in the sinking of the ferry, according to Rabe.
When this reporter took information about the Estonia catastrophe to the forensic panel of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in Arlington, Va., a member of the panel asked the chairman to turn off the tape recorder and strike the information about Estonia from the minutes of the meeting.
Another member of the forensic panel, who had spent the previous year working for the Israeli government to recover parts of a sunken Israeli submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, requested that a resolution be passed to prevent the panel from ever discussing the Estonia catastrophe again.
In the film the highest authority involved in the cover-up is an individual at the Pentagon. This person, played by Donald Sutherland, manages the cover-up by directing Swedish and Estonian officials in their respective defense departments.
The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland and Germany’s Jürgen Prochnow play leading roles in the film along with Greta Scacchi, who plays the journalist who uncovers the conspiracy behind the catastrophe.
The film, which was financed by European film boards, cost about $10 million dollars. Although the film is a European project, the executive producer, Mimi Leder, and her brother Reuben, who wrote the screenplay and directed the film, are both from Hollywood.
One of the authors of the original story, German lawyer Henning Witte, said that the film is 75 percent true and 25 percent fiction. More information about the catastrophe and the film is available on-line at: www.balticstorm.com.
While Rabe’s book pointed to space weapons being the crucial element being transported on the ferry on the night it sank, the film emphasizes “bio-chem” weapons.
The film also contains references to Iraq and North Korea, which seem odd. For example, in one scene at a shooting range on a secret American base in Germany, the image of Saddam Hussein is seen on one of the targets.
AFP asked Rabe at the press conference after the Tallinn premiere why such out of context references had been included in the film. Rabe said this had been done as “a little joke.”
The official version of events claims that the ship sank due to the force of high waves pounding on a weakened and faulty bow visor.
The final report from the Joint Accident Investigation Commission (JAIC) says nothing about explosions felt and heard by survivors.
The JAIC report concludes that the ferry sank because it’s bow visor fell off due to the force of the high waves and that the car ramp opened as a result. The car deck then became flooded, which led to the sinking of the ship, according to the JAIC report.
Uno Laur, an Estonian member of the commission, is seen in the film, in a piece of documentary footage taken by Rabe, saying: “Our report will blame nobody.” To this day no one has been found to be responsible for the worst ferry disaster on the Baltic Sea since World War II.
AFP asked Laur about the connection between the cargo and the sinking. Laur said, “The cargo had nothing to do with the sinking.”
The theory that the loss of the bow visor and flooding of the car deck is rejected by several naval architects. If that were the case, they argue, the ferry would have capsized and floated upside-down buoyed by air trapped in the decks below the car deck.
Survivors from the deck below the car deck reported seeing water coming from below. These observations validate the research of Anders Björkman, a designer of such roll-on roll-off ferries, who told AFP that there “must be a hole beneath the waterline.” Björkman has written extensively about the technical aspects of the sinking.
The film sides with the relatives of the victims who have not been listened to by the commission or the governments involved. To this day the bodies of the victims remain on the bottom of the Baltic Sea at a depth of about 180 feet.
Many of the Estonian relatives have not received any compensation whatsoever for the loss of their loved ones.
One of the relatives’ organizations, the Estonia Litigation Association (ELA), is working to find and sue the parties responsible for the sinking. There is a case pending in a court in Paris, which has been held up for various reasons.
Helje Kaskel, chairman of ELA, is hoping to find a competent law firm that will be more successful than the two single lawyers, one in France the other in Sweden, have been in representing the 944 relatives who are part of the Paris process - and bring closure for the victims of the Estonia catastrophe.
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NEW FILM FOCUSES ON HIDDEN FACTS
OF ESTONIA CATASTROPHE
By Christopher Bollyn
A recently released film about the sinking of the Baltic ferry Estonia brings out important facts and circumstances that have long been suppressed by international political and media elites.
TALLINN, Estonia – “Baltic Storm,” a film about the sinking of the passenger and car ferry Estonia, premiered here in the Estonian capital on Nov. 13. The movie is a fictional film based on the research done by a German journalist and film producer, Jutta Rabe, and Henning Witte, a German lawyer.
The film, which first premiered in Berlin on October 13, is filmed in English for worldwide distribution. It is expected to run in 135 Los Angeles theatres during the first week of December.
Rabe’s research, which involved two dives to the wreck, indicates that the massive ferry was sabotaged using explosives during the middle of the night on September 27-28, 1994.
Survivors reported hearing two large explosions just after midnight. Shortly afterwards the ship listed and sank within 45 minutes. 852 lives were lost.
From the second dive Rabe brought up pieces of metal taken from near the bow visor. These pieces were tested in 4 laboratories for evidence of explosions. Three of the four metallurgical labs concluded that the metal fragments had been affected by explosions.
A German state-owned institute, BAM, was the only lab that came to a different conclusion.
Rabe, who has produced 14 documentaries about the Estonia catastrophe, worked for Germany’s Spiegel TV when she began her investigation. When she wanted to present the explosive results of the metal tests, she was fired. She then took the evidence to the German news magazine Focus.
The story of the film develops around the dilemma of an investigative journalist who discovers a high-level international cover-up of the facts behind the sinking. The journalist’s dilemma is whether to stop her research or continue and become part of the story as she discovers evidence of a cover-up.
American Free Press has been the only newspaper in the United States to have reported extensively on the Estonia catastrophe and the evidence of criminal sabotage. An earlier AFP article (August 5, 2002) presented the most important facts from Rabe’s book, Die Estonia, and described the details of the theory that the ferry had been used to transport advanced Soviet space technology and weapons to the West.
Nationalist elements from the Russian security services, which were strongly opposed to the wholesale looting of the Soviet arsenal, are thought to have been involved in the sinking of the ferry, according to Rabe.
When this reporter took information about the Estonia catastrophe to the forensic panel of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in Arlington, Va., a member of the panel asked the chairman to turn off the tape recorder and strike the information about Estonia from the minutes of the meeting.
Another member of the forensic panel, who had spent the previous year working for the Israeli government to recover parts of a sunken Israeli submarine in the Mediterranean Sea, requested that a resolution be passed to prevent the panel from ever discussing the Estonia catastrophe again.
In the film the highest authority involved in the cover-up is an individual at the Pentagon. This person, played by Donald Sutherland, manages the cover-up by directing Swedish and Estonian officials in their respective defense departments.
The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland and Germany’s Jürgen Prochnow play leading roles in the film along with Greta Scacchi, who plays the journalist who uncovers the conspiracy behind the catastrophe.
The film, which was financed by European film boards, cost about $10 million dollars. Although the film is a European project, the executive producer, Mimi Leder, and her brother Reuben, who wrote the screenplay and directed the film, are both from Hollywood.
One of the authors of the original story, German lawyer Henning Witte, said that the film is 75 percent true and 25 percent fiction. More information about the catastrophe and the film is available on-line at: www.balticstorm.com.
While Rabe’s book pointed to space weapons being the crucial element being transported on the ferry on the night it sank, the film emphasizes “bio-chem” weapons.
The film also contains references to Iraq and North Korea, which seem odd. For example, in one scene at a shooting range on a secret American base in Germany, the image of Saddam Hussein is seen on one of the targets.
AFP asked Rabe at the press conference after the Tallinn premiere why such out of context references had been included in the film. Rabe said this had been done as “a little joke.”
The official version of events claims that the ship sank due to the force of high waves pounding on a weakened and faulty bow visor.
The final report from the Joint Accident Investigation Commission (JAIC) says nothing about explosions felt and heard by survivors.
The JAIC report concludes that the ferry sank because it’s bow visor fell off due to the force of the high waves and that the car ramp opened as a result. The car deck then became flooded, which led to the sinking of the ship, according to the JAIC report.
Uno Laur, an Estonian member of the commission, is seen in the film, in a piece of documentary footage taken by Rabe, saying: “Our report will blame nobody.” To this day no one has been found to be responsible for the worst ferry disaster on the Baltic Sea since World War II.
AFP asked Laur about the connection between the cargo and the sinking. Laur said, “The cargo had nothing to do with the sinking.”
The theory that the loss of the bow visor and flooding of the car deck is rejected by several naval architects. If that were the case, they argue, the ferry would have capsized and floated upside-down buoyed by air trapped in the decks below the car deck.
Survivors from the deck below the car deck reported seeing water coming from below. These observations validate the research of Anders Björkman, a designer of such roll-on roll-off ferries, who told AFP that there “must be a hole beneath the waterline.” Björkman has written extensively about the technical aspects of the sinking.
The film sides with the relatives of the victims who have not been listened to by the commission or the governments involved. To this day the bodies of the victims remain on the bottom of the Baltic Sea at a depth of about 180 feet.
Many of the Estonian relatives have not received any compensation whatsoever for the loss of their loved ones.
One of the relatives’ organizations, the Estonia Litigation Association (ELA), is working to find and sue the parties responsible for the sinking. There is a case pending in a court in Paris, which has been held up for various reasons.
Helje Kaskel, chairman of ELA, is hoping to find a competent law firm that will be more successful than the two single lawyers, one in France the other in Sweden, have been in representing the 944 relatives who are part of the Paris process - and bring closure for the victims of the Estonia catastrophe.