Kersten Committee

The Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R.,[1] also known as the Kersten Committee after its chairman, U.S. Representative Charles J. Kersten was established in 1953 to investigate the annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the Soviet Union. The committee terminated March 4, 1954, when it was replaced by the Select Committee on Communist Aggression.[2]

  1. ^ United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression (1972). Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States in to the U.S.S.R.: Third interim report of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, second session, under authority of H. Res. 346 and H. Res. 438. W.S. Hein & Co.
  2. ^ Walter Stubbs (1985), Congressional Committees, 1789-1982: A Checklist, Greenwood Press, pp. 11, 27

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