Approved For Release 2001/0 7 : C IA-RDP96-00789 ROO 1 200OP2903#' t @/), 1@ -V SECRET/NOFORN PROJECT SUN 'STREAK WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED ------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROJECT NUMBER: 0082 ("rng) SESSION NUMBER: I DATE OF SESSION- 26 MAR 90 DATE OF REPORT: 28 MAR 90 START: 1400 END: 1425 METHODOLOGY: VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052 ------------------- ------------------------------------------- 1. (S/SK) MISSION: To describe the targo--5-iTe (Hol " ottos 04: Cappadocia, Turkey) in Stage 3 terminology,_.v4orking solo. 71 2. (S/SK) VIEWER TASKINGg Encrypted C@qa-rdinates---61-11y. 3. (S/SK) COMMENTS: No Physical Inclemencies. This session probably mart;s the "breaf-,-.through" 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-. 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The Orthodox faith forged unity )ut of a diversity of nations. It brought the 31avs into the Byzantine universe. The "apostles of the Slavs, " ninth-century Pyril 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 enduringgift to the world," Harvard ProfessorIhor SevZenko 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 Ragia 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 of1the 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, an snow-peaked Baranof Island he icons, incense, and chanting in Alaska, t in onion-domed St. Michael's Cathedral serve as reminders that in the 18th centu-,y 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 r-t- 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 flie essence of Orthodoxy, the true faith." 0 CHANGE or not to change. Here was a key to understanding the chasm T 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 progr(ss 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 ie- curity. In a subject, deviation is not oilly heresv 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 cn)ss with three fingers instead of two. Ritual details widened the rift betw(en Rome and Constantinople in the I Ith 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 Islun engulfed three-Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria. (Continued on page 7.16) Holy grottoes of Cappadocia once housed the largest community of monks in Asia Minor. From here missionaries spread the Christianfaith 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