The reason for the cover-up was classified documents that were allegedly found in the cabin of Captain Avo Piht during the 1994 dives, Rabe claimed in the influential daily Süddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday. Namely, video footage from 1994 shows that the name of the owner, Aleksandr Voronin, is on the side of the diplomatic briefcase that was retrieved from there, but what became of the briefcase is unknown. According to Rabe, Piht was accommodated elsewhere on the night of the shipwreck. A more important person, Voronin, was allegedly traveling in Piht's cabin.
According to Rabe, the latter was the head of a Russian-US aerospace company, whose services were also used by the Pentagon. September 24, 2002, 07:14
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