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7 NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER: 8808
SESSION NUMBER:
DATE OF SESSION:
21 MAY 88
DATE OF REPORT:
21 MAY 88
START:
1300
END:
1412
METHODOLOGY:
NRV
VIEWER IDENTIFIER:
079
1.
(S/NF/SK)
MISSION:
Determine if USMC LTC William (Rich)
Higgins is currently being held aboard a vessel west of Lebanon.
Describe the vessel.
2.
(S/NF/SK)
VIEWER TASKING: Tasking as in Para 1.
3.
(S/NF/SK)
COMMENTS: No Inclemencies noted.
Summary is
attached.
Summary indicates a feasible potential of mounting a
Voice intercept operation at grid location H-4.5.
Viewer 079
believes that Higgins will be released before 13 June 1988, the
most recent projected date of release.
4.
(S/NF/SK): EVALUATION:
G
De Novova
76
/
on 22 May 88
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY:
OADR
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SUMMARY
079
2, Mas
Leto 11
0079/8808/052188
Higgins is in an oversized, type
skiff that was towed to the
point on the map indicated as "C-7".
Other craft in the area of
"C-7" are present to monitor and alert the captors of impending
danger .
Radio contact is being maintained with a radio station
(H= 4 1/2)
Israeli
Defense Forces
located between "Abalat" and "Ayntrar".
1
(IDF) have the capability of conducting a voice, radio intercept
against that position (Point between Abalat and Ayntrar) .
Israeli reconnaissance would
emanate
area located in the
(8-12)
immediate vicinity of "Nahanya. "
Higgins will be transferred
from the oversized skiff to a motor boat that will
attempt to
reach Beirut.
Water passage ways should be monitored to detect
"an abnormal
activity (by a boat)
attempting to gain access top
Beirut at an abnormal time (evening hours?) .
The captors will
feel the pressure of a "closing in" upon them.
They will not
be
able to reach Beirut; they will land somewhere south of Beirut.
They will release Higgins in the near future (by the end of May)
and make believe that they have done so deliberately, when in
fact short of killing him (which they are not allowed to do) they
feel the pressure of pursuit and interception.
The presence of
excessive heat (fire) is associated with the time frame
surrounding the release of Higgins.
*
motor boat with Mach windshield
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