CIA STARGATE release

CIA-RDP96-00792R000400470001-2

Opens with: outlying wheat fields. Today, their glory

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Approved For Release 2001/03/07 - CIA-RDPOF
Like giant chessmen, mud-trick
pigeon towers dot the landscape near
Isfahan (following pages). Built in the
17th century by melon farmers, each of
these avian high vises collected and
stored natural fertilizer from as many
as 10.000 live-in pigeons, which raided
outlying wheat fields. Today, their glory
years ended by chemical fertilizers, the
toru ers are neglected and largely empty.
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