In the spring of 2005 the Estonian Parliament decided to establish a Committee of Investigation on the initiative of the Centre Party.  The decision was made as a consequence of the statement by the former Director of Customs in the Frihamn of Stockholm. His statement dealt with the secret transports of military equipment from Tallinn to Stockholm onboard of the ferry “Estonia”. The aim of the Committee was among other things to clarify the responsibilities for and knowledge of these transports at the Estonian side, in particular the role of the former Estonian Government.
Among the six members of the Committee were the former Foreign Minister Trivimi Velliste and the member of the Centre Party, Evelyn Sepp, also acting as Chairlady of the Committee.

Already before the publication of the Report on 18th December 2006 it became known in public that Trivimi Velliste had admitted at one of the 56 hearings that the former Government of Estonia had knowledge of the transports of military equipment which had been carried out with their approval.  Subsequently Velliste withdrew this statement publicly and the Report of the Committee was changed respectively. This was strongly objected to by Evelyn Sepp, who consequently refused to sign the modified report and published a dissenting opinion which is attached as Enclosure 37.
The Committee Report outlines the interests of foreign intelligence services in the then just independent Republic of Estonia in the early 1990s and describes that the Republic of Estonia had been used as a “transport corridor” for military equipment and that on 14.09.1994 and on 20.09.1994 military cargo had been transported from Tallinn to Stockholm onboard the ferry “Estonia”.

It is further stated that Erik Rossander, the former head of the Swedish Military Intelligence Service MUST, was interviewed by the Committee. He testified that in those days an unnamed Representative of the Republic of Estonia did request the Swedish Military to analyze military systems left by the Russian Troops on Estonian territory and to determine their strategic value since Estonia did not have the respective competence. Subsequently the equipment was shipped onboard the “Estonia” on 14.09.94 and 20.09.94 from Tallinn to Stockholm.

Note:      These were the days when Lennart Henriksson checked accidentally and against the express orders by his superiors two cars and detected electronic military equipment.

Ater having examined the equipment MUST drew up a detailed report for the “Estonian side”, however the Committee was unable to find out the receivers of this report.  Thus it concludes that the export of military equipment “as carried out by the Swedish Military Intelligence” and that “the Kingdom of Sweden carried out its intelligence operations on the territory of the Republic of Estonia was unknown to the latter.”

The Parliamentary Committee proposes to the Estonian government to ensure complete co-operation with the Swedish government and agencies which should provide the Estonian side with full access to all relevant investigation results and information.

The report is discussed in an article of the German Magazine “FerryCompass” attached as Enclosure 38 and the full report is attached as Enclosure 39