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7 Feb 90
QUIZZ / 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 FEB 90
START:
1413
END:
1420
METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
1.
(S/NF/SK) MISSION:
To describe the target site (The city of Venice,
Italy) in Stage I terminology.
2.
(S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates only.
3.
(S/NF/SK) COMMENTS:
No Physical Inclemencies.
052 successfully
resolved the site on the 2nd full AIB sequence.
4.
(S/NF/SK) EVALUATION:
3
5.
(S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
N/A
MONITOR:
018
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
WOORD ITROFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY:
DADR
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PI: none
AV: none
052
1Feb 90
Ft. meade
1413
018
e
452600
122000
miss BK
452600
122000
A. Angle
hard
B. Structure
AI BK
That's weird
A. LOOP
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Ice
452600
D
122000
A. Wavy
Soft
B. Water
A. Loops
hard
B -
AOL BK
islands
Site 1420
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ait out an Athos storm, you
lore dramatic haven than
gh on a spur above the Ae-
s dovecote of cells onto tiers
hies propped by aged beams.
ne 800 feet over the sea in a
of faith. Clutching the splin-
ing over a gap in the floor
I down mesmerized at walls
Ing walls of rock.
honopetra no longer shook.
ost 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
tought 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
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
"al Geographic, December 1983
The Byzantine Empire
751
CPYRGHT
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