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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001200040005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 1, 1990
• Content Type: REQ

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LT/NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER:
0079 (Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
01 FEB 90
DATE OF REPORT:
01 FEE 90
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METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
1? (S/NF/SKI) MISSION: To describe the target site (The city of Venice,
Italy) in Stage I terminology.
2. (S/NFrSt.) VIEWER TASKING: Encrypted coordinates only.
3,, (S/NF/SK) COMMENTS: No Physical Inclemencies. 052 successfully
resolved the site on the 2nd full Al:O sequence.
4. (S/NF/SK) EVALUATION:
_.. (C Nf?/S!?,) SEARCH EVALUATION: N/A
MONITOR: 01(
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
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CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY: OAOR
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 ait out an Athos storm, you
ore dramatic haven than
gh on a spur above the Ae-
s dovecote of cells onto tiers
des propped by aged beams.
ne 800 feet over the sea in a
f faith. Clutching the splin-
ng over a gap in the floor
down mesmerized at walls
ng walls of rock.
onopetra no longer shook.
st its howl; the sea was flat-
No more dodging waves. I
Not so that boy who looked
he leaped across the rocks, a
m away before his father's
boats ran again, they found
~oiight it in from the sea.
T HE 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
grieving partisans :marched around the stain
in bitter memorial. Nine centuries earlier
blood had flowed in the streets of Byzantine
-al Geographic, December 1983 The Byzantine Empire
CPYRGHT
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 5 7 years, a Byzantine emper-
or once again reigned in Constantinople, the
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