SUNSTREAK,PROJECT 8712-B, SUBJECT: FREE-FLIGHT ACTIVITY FOR PERIOD 23 OCT - 31 OCT 1987

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R000200070002-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 26, 1987
• Content Type: SUMMARY

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f::it..1t:?ct:TEii:t::.:'1o Free-flight Activity for period of 23 Oct ..... 31 Oct 1:97
V" abler 0:!.:l .....
---US-flagged ves::ssiiii?::?l hit by (rraI::1I::1tor?en't. ????? see sketch) Silkworm
missile with US retaliatory action taken against Iranian missile
launching sites.
Viewer 079 ?????
---Viewer indicates no perception of hostile activities and
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i:ai::?siiii:::r??:i. L:; c:??siithe I::1i;:~r?:i. i::;c:a of .,: 2 ..:, Oct ' 87 to ::'.:1. Oct 'f::3 as a peaceful
time.,
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Viewer 018
---Viewer describes an attack against ;::t "sloping (Iranian)
.. { t 5 .. '
framework"
by a missile from :?.ll"Y aircraft bearing '":Iabearing a red star. As
a ... secondary perception, c_?:I.f:a 1::1t?:?r?r.::a~.i }:.vc?:?;.. > f..J ., perceives S vessels (ships) as
a
firing cannon fir.'t! (no further details).
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Viewer 003
perceives no activity during the reporting period.
However, 003 beheld the smoke-blackened superstructure of a US
(appear?:i. r?.g) frigate as the result of hostile activity occurring
on 3 I?+Ir.:;vt?;;?ml::;t?,1'.. 1987. In mid-November attack aircraft of
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undetermined nationality
Viewer (:199 .....
099 perceives the presence of a mine dropped from a small
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.. r' a I"Y :l. a n vessel at night. The mine causes an i?:';; I:] 1 t::l s::s : 1 . o i"Y t c:a as
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medium-sized 1..1;.:i warship acting as a lead vessel, .? - -s TT-'Indicat:1or't > of (US) >hc::,w of force through precipitate(J
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