Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROol &ZO T10 0 1 - 8 NOFORN - HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY PROJECT SUN STREAK (U) WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PROJECT NUMBER: 0126 SESSION NUMBER: 1 DATE OF SESSION: 7 JUN 88 START: 1434 DATE OF REPORT: 7 JUN 88 END: 1507 METHODOLOGY: CRV VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 025 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. (S/NF/SK) MISSION: Stage 2 training. Site was the town of Armero, Columbia on the day of a natural disaster (town washed away by mud slide). Monitor intent was for the viewer to experience and describe percepts associated with moving mud. 2. (S/NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Coordinates 0126/1185. 3. (SINFISK) COMMENTS: Excellent session from beginning to end. 025 experienced the first strong Aesthetic Impact (AI). 4. (S/NF/SK) EVALUATION: 1111111113 SG1J CPT, USA ONNWANWNOFORN - SKEET CHANNELS ONLY CLASSIFIED BY: DIA-DT DECLASSIFY : OADR Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1500610001-8 JU U~,I ItUlb 10 LIIL, L 11JUU UJIMIJ III aUL adI.J. 1111b 11,Cd11:3All 014'Z11AL11 11,11~,L& LJUULII 11111W, ~'Azj &CW"L -i- - V.A-,, ILIL6tJ U = Lallest of six volcanoes. their gases, ailowingthe weigirit of ' strung . pressure to the rocks aaLo)-vee agilla dALd UbUdlity IUNII fir9fory. Ille dLtf dM uSub Dr. Darrel "" P~ t I C go are holding it in. Fi out in a line thrgugh The resuit ca rst signs of an impendingfsn Ka ( W,~emina - major G HeMrdellVe 4*$fiJWkW l WWM9n* 8[ 7 r rWWjX*8 , he tw A W n fW th er ti ne ru !d eruption. The U.S. ti , an . i Geological Sur- w , . ressure a pp o er on. 1 up ; )n vey said yesterday , the Andes Mountains,down the valley to that builds up insideof Nevado del Ruiz that Nevado del Nevado del the Rio Mag- volcanoes, he Wedne Ifil Ruiz suffered "two Ruiz has also been dalena, killing an said. "Hawaiian volcanoesnight could thus catastrophic the most de- estimated 1,000 are al- signal the sta t w eruptions" Wednesday. structive of the six people" then living ways blowing off pressure,an eruptive period night be- Colombian'vol- ' in the valley. which.. that,cotli(.' I tween 11 p.m. and midnight-.-----cano"es,--e-r-u-ptingWhy did Nevado del might be one reason another 10 years. in a "thunderous" Ruiz go al- they don't The back-to-back eruptionsexplosion on March most 400 years withouterupt catastrophically."There is also the on 12, 1595, and a major chince )r the northeast flahk erupting again in 1828eruption? Geologists Another reason hes Nevado del Ruiz of the mountain and 1829. say they don't with volca- will have ~~nim) it melted enough ice The volcano was "stillknow, but many suspectnoes themselves, amongon the world's weather. and snow on the smoking" in - it is in. the the most Depen y mountaintop to trigger1831 after its twoi makeup of the magma unpredictable phenomenaon how much sulfur what the 19th-century that lies be- of nature. dioxide gi f USGS called "two catastrophic'eruptions. low thevolcanoes; thatSaid Dr. Meyer Rubin -pumps into the mud formed the of the USGS: upper atmosph ) flows down the northeastThe Colombian mountainAndes Mountains. "Volcanoes can go the erupting volcano flank," was 1,000 years could sei n which were channeled also the scene of a "The magmas in the without an eruption. cloud of gas and directly into major earth- Andes are There's no dust around y the Lagunillas River quake on Feb. 19, 1845,very viscous and , way to predict their world blocking just in the broad that shook ~Xkier, let's say, behavior." enough sun' ' t valley at the base loose enough snow and than the magmas that ' The upward movementfrom reaching the of the mountain. ice on top of lie beneath of Surface --to Magma 0 Eyewitnesses said, the mountain to triggerthe Hawaiian volcanoes,'can continue off and the earth by a degree the mud in four one of the Christian- on for years, or fw6. (K MILES Magdalena River 'M 4 MCA ,River Manizal,~s Cartago B6g Ibague` VENEZUELA' Padfi Bogota 0 F COLOMBIA UA EC BY ORRY FOGa-TW WAWIW.TGN POSt PERU RAZIL -7 ASSODATED PRFSS Mud surrounds and partially buries Armero, as seen from a nearby hill. The town center is inundated ai lower right. a ue~~ 21 _4 UMTED PRM INTERNATIONALAEUTER ibian rescue workers assist a woman washed away from the town of Armero by the muddy flood waters. church-a 5- or.6-story build- after a natural dam But less accurately-as - of rocks and - last was almost completelystone above the town night's events proved-the buried, broke under report d. the force of onrushingalso predicted that waters. the flow of mud ieverry made it The destructive mud would be slow and to safety, he flows had easily permit, the ned, by building been predicted in a evacuation of surrounding a bridge to report popula- ,round with bits presented only yesterdaytions. Citing Armero of wood, pick- by Colom- specifically, s Way past piecesbian geologists. The the study-as summarized of pots, tele- report was or- in to- sets, homes and dered several months day's editions of bodies. ' ago after the Colombian dai- ~aking calmly Nevado del Ruiz started but bitterly, showing 1y El Tiempo-said the the town could ial administratorearly signs of reawakening.be cleared within criticized It was two hours without nnient authoritiesthe scene of an earthquakedanger. for hesitat- in 1845 -fore declaring that set ff floods an emergency. and Wed aseTM0108MttatWA4MF q0 J'e A , te reports of I tral air traffic corridor volcanic activit imo, and its y 49%r ?& ex- AW tS ~.m. yesterday, quin Acosta. , lie said, nation- plosion last night io stations were The last time lava was witnessed by still advising flowed was in 1 11 . . . " .. BY LARRY FOCU-THE WASHINGTON POST VENEZUELA V'NEZUIU Bogota )130g't, 0 COLOMBIA M BIA PERU Some went. Others,'dressed only in t1ke" underivear. or bedclothes they had on_`w* hen the disaster struck, shivered in shock Zn the warm air here. CPYRG-HT Ruined '10W_n S Dese'ribe Night CPYRGHT- Sur,viVors of Hor -r ,or ARMERO, From Al in Armero instructed him to take cover in the stadium. There;- he saw 'her and her family . perhaps 3,000 people as they climbed - pressing to the second story against the entfance to pray for their when the tor- lives. rent of hot mud came over them. -in the Sandra Patricia Perez,He, too, was immersed. 13, her - - flood, he said, which - face badly scratchedscalded his and her head wrapped in a white body. Holding to a tree cloth, said she branch, he nearly choked beneath drifted six miles to the mud but, the,.tol~rn of somehow remained consciousGuayaval, where at 5:30 as' this morn- she tumbled away from ing he was rescued. "I Annero in was just the flood. about to give up," he said..His wife, . Hortensia Oliveros, eight months pregnant,..-has 19 years old not and eight months pregnant,been found. saw the In this town, about six, rushing water sweep miles their 11- north of Amero. flood- month-old child out waters of her hus- knocked out a bridge band's arms. In the spanning the panic she heard , Guali River and demolished 10 to lomb. a 20 waterside homes, said 00 fsW 8 residents. 00, t e NIU& Some people decided to heard of him. She endedevacuate, up near a but hundreds of curious I rnad nitt-gidp nf onlookers Armprn qrreaMil Approved For Release 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO15006100 /' r~'Xc Al~ "V e4 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1500610001-8 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1500610001-8 a/-, n/7 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 Ic I zez//~ Approved For Release 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1500610001-8 8 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1500610001-8