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PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
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PROJECT NUMBER:
0126 (Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
12 FEB 90
DATE OF REPORT:
12 FEB 90
START:
1417
END:
1443
METHODOLOGY:
CRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
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1.
(S/NF/SK) MISSION:
To describe the target site (Volcano eruption in
Columbia) in Stage 2 terminology.
2.
(S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates only.
3.
(S/NF/SK) COMMENTS:
No Physical Inclemencies. 052 had progressed
beautifully right up to the complete resolution of the site, when I
inadvertently cued some site information into the session.
I am teaching
052 to NEVER allow a monitor to "feed" into the session any information they
may want the Viewer to get.
I therefore apologized and had 052 abort the )
Session, making note of my) error.
4.
(S/NF/SK) EVALUATION:
1
5.
(S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
N/A
MONITOR:
018
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
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NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY:
OADR
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AV: none
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Ft. Meade
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Amoon shaped
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Soft
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A. Wavy Peerless
Soft
B. Water
A sloping down
Sloping up
peak
down
hard
B. Hills + Mountain
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Blue
Black
AOL BK
mountain
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Blue Spart
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Shiny
AOL BK
Volcano erupting
Hot
Red
Rumble
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Rumble
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Session was aborted
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monitor fed information
that viewer was on a mountain
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Weather
Today: Partly sunny. High 61-66.
Low 37-42. Wind NE 10-20 mph.
Saturday: Cloudy, 30 percent
chance of rain. High 50-56.
Yesterday: AQI: 60, Temp. range
55-77. Details on Page C2.
The
lashin
Post
Sections
*
A News/Editorials
B Style/Television
C Metro/Obituaries/Classified
D Sports
E Business/Comics
Inside: Weekend
Detailed index on Page A2
108TH YEAR
...
No. 345.
· 1985, The Washington Post Company
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1985
S
Higher in Areas Approximately 75 Miles
From District of Columbia (See Box on A4)
25¢
Colombian Volcano Erupts, Killing Thousands
CPYRGHT
ASSOCIATED PRE
Unidentified child pulled from house hit by
15-foot wall of mud sits dazed near Armero.
Survivors Recall
Night of Horror
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Foreign Service
MARIQUITA, Colombia, Nov. 14-It
came over them in the black of night, with
the suddenness and force of a giant wave,
swallowing everything in its wake.
Survivors of Armero, the Colombian cot-
ton-growing town drowned in a river of mud
and stones after the Nevado del Ruiz vol-
cano erupted, told today of a night of horror
in which family members were torn from
each other as they struggled for air and se-
cure ground.
Caked with mud, burned by the scalding
temperature of the river of dirt and debris
that overwhelmed their town, cut and bat-
tered from being dragged hundreds of yards
across the valley floor, some of the victims
of Armero were brought here to this neigh-
boring village by Red Cross, Civil Guard and
Army units.
They were unloaded from helicopters and
transported in jeeps, trucks and other
makeshift ambulances to a small, over-
crowded country hospital. There they lay
on crowded beds or cots and waited, many
with tubes in their arms feeding medicine,
to be evacuated to hospitals in Bogota.
Some wept. Others. dressed only in the
underwear or bedclothes they had on when
the disaster struck, shivered in shock in the
warm air here.
The stories they recounted had haunting
similarities-about awakening in their
homes before midnight to cries of alarm and
a heavy rain of ash, about grabbing children
and the elderly, then fleeing to the streets,
about finding nowhere to run as the
Lagunilla River, normally just a tributary of
the valley's main Magdalena River, turned
into a raging mass of liquid earth.
Doris Rico Aldania, 21, said the river of
mud and rocks came crashing through the
doors and windows of her home, pursuing
See ARMERO, A34, Col. 5
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL/REUTER
Covered with mud and volcanic ash, a couple holds daughter after being rescued from Armero. .
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three children, whose parents are missing, sleep in the back of a truck as they wait for a
helicopter to lift them out of Armero. The girl in the foreground has a broken left ankle.
Red Cross Sees
Toll Up to 20,000
By Bradley Graham
Washington Post Foreign Service
MARIQUITA, Colombia, Nov. 14-A
volcano in central Colombia erupted last
night, triggering floods in valleys below that
buried large sections of at least two towns
under tons of mud and rubble. Government
and Red Cross officials said the death toll
could reach 20,000.
President Belisario Betancur declared a
national emergency as Army, Civil Defense
and Red Cross teams rushed to the disaster
zone located around the . 17,400-foot
Nevado del Ruiz volcano, about 85 miles
northwest of Bogota.
"The tragedy is immeasurable," said the
president, who visited the devastated re-
gion this morning. "It is a new tragedy that
has hit Colombia," he said, alluding to the
siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogota last
week in which 97 persons were killed. "But
I'm sure that with the solidarity of the
world and in the country, we will over-
come," he added.
Part of the volcano's top exploded late
yesterday, breaking off chunks of snow near
the summit. The ice melted rapidly into cas-
cading waters that gathered dirt and debris
and turned the rivers at the mountain's
base into killer currents.
The inundation took inhabitants of this
farming region by surprise during the night,
despite recent warnings that the mountain
might erupt. It had been dormant for 400
years but had become restless in recent
months.
Colombian geologists said the volcano,
the second highest peak in Colombia's cen-
tral range of the Andes, might continue
erupting, further threatening populations
below it.
The government issued urgent appeals
See VOLCANO, A34, Col. 1
Months of harmonic tremors preceded
the Nevado del Ruiz blast. Page A34
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.SHINGTON POST
'HE NEVADA DEL RUIZ
CPYRGHT
Magdalena River
Honda.
Lagunilla River
Armero®
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Mariquita
ia Libano
NEVADO DEL RUIZ
-Guali River
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olcanic eruption: magma reservoir
underneath the volcano increases in
size and pushes upwards. When rock
strata can no longer contain the
pressurized magma, lava erupts through
fissures. Nevado del Ruiz erupted on its
northeastern side, melting its ice cap and
causing huge quantities of mud to flow
down its flanking rivers.
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Manizales
Chinchina
MAGMA
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t
largest mud slides in South Amer-
ican history. The USGS' Dr. Darrel
G. Herd described it as a "wall of
mud, trees and ice that went racing
down the valley to the Rio Mag-
dalena, killing an estimated 1,000
people" then living in the valley.
sen said. This means they retain
their gases, allowing pressure to
build, rather than venting them in a
way that would relieve the pressure
that builds up inside volcanoes, he
said. "Hawaiian volcanoes are al-
ways blowing off pressure, which
might be one reason they don't
erupt catastrophically."
Another reason lies with volca-
noes themselves, among the most
unpredictable phenomena of nature.
Said Dr. Meyer Rubin of the USGS:
"Volcanoes can go 1,000 years
without an eruption. There's no
way to predict their behavior."
The upward movement of magma
can continue off and on for years,
building in strength until it exce
the weight of the rocks above t
are holding it in. The result can
another eruption. The twin erupt
of Nevado del Ruiz Wednes.
night could thus signal the starı
an eruptive period that could !
another 10 years.
There is also the chance t
Nevado del Ruiz will have-an imp
on the world's weather. Depend
on how much sulfur dioxide gas
pumps into the upper atmosphe
the erupting volcano could send
cloud of gas and dust around
world blocking just enough sunli
from reaching the surface -to (
the earth by a degree or two.
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VIDINO
Magdalena
River
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Why did Nevado del Ruiz go al-
most 400 years without a major
eruption? Geologists say they don't
know, but many suspect it is in the
makeup of the magma that lies be-
low the volcanoes that formed the
Andes Mountains.
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ICE CAP
"The magmas in the Andes are
very viscous and stickier, let's say,
than the magmas that lie beneath
the Hawaiian volcanoes," Christian-