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PROJECT SUN STREAK
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PROJECT NUMBER:
0082 (Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
26 MAR 90
DATE OF REPORT:
28 MAR 90
START:
1400
END:
1425
METHODOLOGY:
Solo
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
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1.
(S/SK)
MISSION:
To describe the target site (Holy Grottos of
Cappadocia, Turkey) in Stage 3 terminology, working solo.
2.
(S/SK)
VIEWER TASKING:
Encrypted coordinates only.
3.
(S/SK)
COMMENTS:
No Physical Inclemencies. This session probably
marks the "breakthrough" I have been expecting in 052's Stage 3 work.
The
overall site was resolved by page 7. From there, 052 was able to continue
into Stage 3 "detail work" (where various points on the site resolution page
are used as cueing to prompt information about smaller details of the site) .
4.
(S/SK) EVALUATION:
3
5.
(S/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
N/A
MONITOR:
018
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
SECRET/NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY:
OADR
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PI: none
AV: none
018
052
26 March92
Ft. Meade
1400
121983
000082
A. Wavy Accros
sofi
B. Water
UA. Angle
hard
1 B. Structure
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AOL BK
Canal
121983
000082
Y A. Wavy Accross
Soft
Y B. Water
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0
A. Angle
hard
0 B. Structure
A. down, fast
Smooth
B. motion
52
Black
Blue
1
dark
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Dage 5
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AOL BK
Banana
Half moon
shape
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ADC BK
Tree
feel Warm
feet are ice cold
:
Bright
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1
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Busit
.
Bug Lt
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A lot of wavy (Curvy) line
With
something sticking out
Big
choking feeling
From smaller
K
Shapes
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Black
Bright
inner care
1
12
Bright
jagged Thing
Blue shape
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<
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Ackenting feeling
AIBK
Sickening
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AOL BK
hourglass shape
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Sife
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9013pop908pct 1425

cunning, military might, terror-more ef-
fective than these were Byzantium's mis-
sionaries. The Orthodox faith forged unity
out of a diversity of nations. It brought the
Slavs into the Byzantine universe.
The "apostles of the Slavs," ninth-century
Cyril and Methodius of Thessalonica, in-
vented an alphabet in which the newly con-
verted Slavs first learned to write. Their
script, and the Greek-based Cyrillic that
soon supplanted it, conveyed Byzantine lit-
urgy and learning to the Balkans, then to
Russia, molding their thoughts, giving them
brotherhood in faith and a Slavonic literary
language, the Latin of the East.
"Civilizing the Slavs was Byzantium's
most enduring gift to the world," Harvard
Professor Ihor Ševčenko told me. Among the
consequences, Kievan Russia emerged from
pagan isolation to join the European po-
litical and cultural community. Byzantium
was Russia's gateway to Europe.
In Kiev, Professor Andrei Bielecki told
me how Vladimir, prince in that Mother of
Russian Cities, shopped about for a reli-
gion for his people. He sampled the Hebrew,
Latin, and Islamic faiths. Fond of women,
he favored the Muslim promise after death
of fulfillment of carnal desires. But alas.
No wine. "Drinking is the joy of the Rus,"
a chronicle has him say.
So he sent emissaries to Constantinople.
Inspired by the resplendent liturgy in Hagia
Sophia, they "knew not whether we were in
heaven or on earth. For on earth there is no
such splendor. . . . We only know that God
dwells there among men. .. . " Whereupon
Vladimir had his people, on pain of the
sword, baptized in the Dnieper.
Out of the wreckage of the Mongol em-
pire, princes of Muscovy climbed to power,
golden domes and crosses gleaming above
the red-brick walls of their Kremlin. Cos-
sacks, fur traders, missionaries spread
across Siberia.
At Sitka, on snow-peaked Baranof Island
in Alaska, the icons, incense, and chanting
in onion-domed St. Michael's Cathedral
serve as reminders that in the 18th century
the faith of Byzantium came across the Be-
ring Sea to its fourth continent: Russian
America. Here I joined a Tlingit congrega-
tion worshiping with an Aleut priest-a rit-
ual like that I had witnessed in Justinian's
monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai.
"We change very little," Father Eugene
Bourdukofsky said as he proudly showed
me an icon, the Virgin of Sitka. "That is the
essence of Orthodoxy, the true faith."
T
O CHANGE or not to change. Here
was a key to understanding the chasm
that divides the thought world of
Byzantium-and Eastern Europe-
from the West.
The West transformed itself through the
Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment,
and the rise of science into a dynamic society
enshrining the individual and progress
through free inquiry and experiment. The
East, until the 18th century, remained es-
sentially static. Byzantine thought sees its
world not in process; it has arrived, its eter-
nal order God-ordained.
The Byzantine mind transformed the
classical Greek word "to innovate" into "to
injure." In a monarch, a penchant for inno-
vation is disastrous, Procopius insisted, for
where there is innovation, there is no se-
curity. In a subject, deviation is not only
heresy but also a crime against the state.
So threatening was change that ritual
reforms in 17th-century Russia split the
church. Old Believers endured unspeakable
tortures and martyred themselves in mass
suicide rather than make the sign of the cross
with three fingers instead of two.
Ritual details widened the rift between
Rome and Constantinople in the 11th cen-
tury. Until then East and West shared a
common faith and heritage.
The patriarchs of five Christian centers
had helped shape this universal faith. Then
in the seventh century the march of Islam
engulfed three-Jerusalem, Antioch, and
Alexandria.
(Continued on page 746)
Holy grottoes of Cappadocia once housed the largest community of monks in
Asia Minor. From here missionaries spread the Christian faith as far as Ethiopia.
Some 300 beautifully frescoed churches and dwelling spaces for 30,000 were
carved from the soft volcanic pinnacles between the 4th and 14th centuries.
National Geographic, December 1983
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