SUN STREAK PROJECT 0079 SESSION NUMBER: 01 ERV VIEWER: 052

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SECRET/NOFORN 
PROJECT SUN STREAK 
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PROJECT NUMBER: J79 
SESSION NUMBER: 01 
DATE OF SESSION: ( SEPT 90 DATE OF REPORT: 11 SEPT 90 
'fANT: 1000 END: 1100 
METHODOLOGY: ERV VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052 
(S/NF/SK) MISSION: To access and describe Venice, Italy. 
(S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Utilizing Encrypted Coordinates 
4526/1220, access and describe the site. 
(S/NE/SF) COMMENTS: This was viewer's first session in the 
REV mode. Viewekaikiou,Asanctuary. Viewer did quite well. 
Viewer was able to sketch the top of the tallest structure. 
Viewer identified the water and the vessels moving in a 
?:ircular motion in the water. 
(S/NF/SK) EVALUATION: 
(S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION: 
gANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY 
SECRET/NOFORN 
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PROJECT SUN STREAK 
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED  
PROJECT NUMBER: 0?79 
DATE OF SESSION: 7 SEPT 90 
START: 1000 
METHODOLOGY: ERV 
SESSION NUMBER: 01 
DATE OF REPORT: 11 SEPT 90 
END: 1100 
VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052 
1. (S/NF/SK) MISSION: To access and describe Venice, Italy. 
2. (S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Utilizing Encrypted Coordinates 
4526/1220, access and describe the site. 
3. (S/NF/SK) COMMENTS: This was viewer's first session in the 
ERV mode. VieweR_RW,iz04,sanctuary. Viewer did quite well. 
Viewer was able to sketch the top of the tallest structure. 
Viewer identified the water and the vessels moving in a 
circular motion in the water. 
4. (S/NF/SK) EVALUATION: 
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5. (S/NF/SK) SEARCH EVALUATION: 
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY  
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THE 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 
-ieving partisans marched around the stain 
bitter memorial. Nine centuries earlier 
olood had flowed in the streets of Byzantine 
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The Byzantine Empi're 
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 
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