SUN STREAK PROJECT 0079 SESSION NUMBER: 01 ERV VIEWER: 052

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001200140005-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 7, 1990
• Content Type: REQ

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SECRET/NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER: J79
SESSION NUMBER: 01
DATE OF SESSION: ( SEPT 90 DATE OF REPORT: 11 SEPT 90
'fANT: 1000 END: 1100
METHODOLOGY: ERV VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
(S/NF/SK) MISSION: To access and describe Venice, Italy.
(S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Utilizing Encrypted Coordinates
4526/1220, access and describe the site.
(S/NE/SF) COMMENTS: This was viewer's first session in the
REV mode. Viewekaikiou,Asanctuary. Viewer did quite well.
Viewer was able to sketch the top of the tallest structure.
Viewer identified the water and the vessels moving in a
?:ircular motion in the water.
(S/NF/SK) EVALUATION:
(S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
gANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
SECRET/NOFORN
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dellieW/NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER: 0?79
DATE OF SESSION: 7 SEPT 90
START: 1000
METHODOLOGY: ERV
SESSION NUMBER: 01
DATE OF REPORT: 11 SEPT 90
END: 1100
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
1. (S/NF/SK) MISSION: To access and describe Venice, Italy.
2. (S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Utilizing Encrypted Coordinates
4526/1220, access and describe the site.
3. (S/NF/SK) COMMENTS: This was viewer's first session in the
ERV mode. VieweR_RW,iz04,sanctuary. Viewer did quite well.
Viewer was able to sketch the top of the tallest structure.
Viewer identified the water and the vessels moving in a
circular motion in the water.
4. (S/NF/SK) EVALUATION:
5
5. (S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
11000WW/NOFORN
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DECLASSIFY ON: OADR
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THE YEAR 1071 was a bad one for the
Byzantines, East and West. At Man-
zikert, in the highlands of eastern
Turkey, the multinational Byzantine
Army, riven by dissensions and desertions
and for once sloppy in reconnaissance, was
annihilated by the invading Seljuk Turks
it had marched east to destroy. Anatolia,
breadbasket and prime recruiting ground
for Byzantium, subsequently was stripped
forever from Christendom, opening the way
to later Ottoman invasions of Europe.
In Bari, port city in southeastern Italy, I
saw blood on the pavement. Assassins had
gunned down a political opponent, and
-ieving partisans marched around the stain
bitter memorial. Nine centuries earlier
olood had flowed in the streets of Byzantine
Geog
The Byzantine Empi're
Bari, sacked by the Normans after a three-
year siege. Five years after the Battle of
Hastings in England, the Normans had con-
quered southern Italy.
The year 1204 was even worse. On April
13, Fourth Crusaders en route to Jerusalem
committed what historian Sir Steven Runci-
man called "the greatest crime in history"?
the Christian sack of Constantinople.
Burning, pillaging, raping, the crusaders
looted what they didn't destroy to enrich
Venice, Paris, Turin, and other Western
centers with "every choicest thing found
upon the earth." (They even brought back
two heads of John the Baptist, so rich was
Constantinople in relics.)
When, after 57 years, a Byzantine emper-
or once again reigned in Constantinople, the
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