DEBRIEFING OF ERIK HEINE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06819972
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 27
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: May 20, 2021
• Case Number: F-2018-01639
• Publication Date: June 12, 1957

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1. Transmitted herewith as Attachment A i3 'n partial debriefing
6f Subject by AEROOT 5o Due to Subject. . sudden' end unexpected depa7-
taro for Canada, where he is now visitinc, AERCCC 5 vas mnable to per-
So= a more thorough dobriefin,
20 Attaahment B is a de.nriefin2,- plrfcred by FOB/UE-in
conjunction with AEROOT 7.
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I 'rent to scnooi in Tartu, grammar school and Gymnasiux "Troffner".
I was.a ve4. itnruly pupil with. bai manners ani 4 wau forced. to.onange school,
for disciplinary reaaons. I went to the college in Tartu .( Estonians k011eizh)
I was a stujent in the last grade when the great polititical happenings'
took. place in Estonia and. the Ruesizins occupied the country. Already as
autudent I was active in an Estonian ,yuuth-cr,anization for severalyear.
("Noored Ketka�1"). in the ,:.epartment:horseback
riding. Horses and instructors came from the first cavalry r4'4,iment
stationed in Tartu.
The last but one commandant:of the regiment,.colonel Jun Kurvits
( he was already dismissed by the Russians and major Felix Jitnes was in
command) started to organize an.undergreund-org n inizatio immediately,
in which he included'also the riding-department of the youth organization.
n7ithout an.order of the underground organization, I went with two
- 'friends of the same age tbm the town hall in Tartu during daylight hours
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and removed the red flag and hoisted the Estonian national flag: ThiM
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happened. in June 1940. I "'as able to escape .my Russian pursuers. But
� my parents were thrown in jail as hostages.On 28.of August I surrendered
to the Russians and ny parents were. dismissed.
Ahti Pae in Sweden will.renember this epitioie Mf'my life.He was
one of the organizers% of the undergrouni-movement in Valgq. .
I Was in the NKVD-priaon in Tartu for .9 months. My parentsrre-
Jut.
settled in Germany towards the end. of 1940. IR �the same cell With me Is'eee
Walfried Krastin, :town official of VaanalKuuste Pruuli, coloncl.Asm#s a,s.o.
My parents hate helped, from Germany so that I could leave the prison with
the "special -transport of prisoners" and resettle in Germany. This was �
April. 1941.
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.Iamediately after the outbreak of the war between Germany an
Russia, a- police-battalion. was'formei of those.Estoniant.who. Were
resettled. as ."Germans". 'he organizer was the Estonian�coldmal Soodli.�
It was said, that this battalion w , ould go immediately :JO. Estotia,n*
fight for Estonia. This was a deception.. he4.
the Ukraine- to Kiev. I joined this unit imnettia" 4T'r7-14-
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the Ukraine, where we fought against. partisanlr -
of the free world from this periode. For examO ens ILD
in Ltibeck, the pastor V.Viks� in Chicago, the.officer'V.. P4=t4I. in
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London a.s.o.; a.s.o.
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Vae only possibi .lity tvout of the.Uktaine.was,�If�t4,,I,
Used personal influence and. sugg0. at this or that one is neeitneeded.worp. . .
a uore iportnt po2ition for tiv
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