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         1.1,ATE OF `)ESSSION: SEPT 90 DATE OF REPORT: 11 SEPT 90
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         END: 1100
                          IDENTIFIER: 5 2
         METHODOLOGY: ERV VIEWER
         Ml@'SION: To access and describe Venice, Italy.
          (@'!NF/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Utilizing Encrypted Coord-inal
         2 2 0 , access and describe the site.
         @.:1'NF/--K) COMMENTS: This was viewer's first session in the
         ERV mode. Viewer- utilized sanctuary. Viewer did quite well.
         Vi@wer was able s etcH fhe top uf the tallest structure.
         Viewer identified the water and the vessels moving in a
         motion in the water.
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         @fANDLE 'VIA S'KEET CHANNELS ONLY
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  PROJECT NUMBER:M79 SESSION NUMBER: 01
  DATE OF SESSION: 7 SEPT 90
  START: 1000
  DATE OF REPORT: 11 SEPT 90
  END: 1100
  METHODOLOGY: ERV VIEWER IDENTIFIER: 052
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  1. (SINFISK) MISSION: To access and describe Venice, Italy.
    2. (SINFISK) VIEWER TASKING: Utilizing Encrypted Coordinates
  4526/1220, access and describe the site.
    3. (SINFISK) COMMENTS: This was viewer's first session in the
  ERV mode. Viewe +-,kiz Ok sanctuary. Viewer did quite well.
  Viewer was able @6@sW@@N the top of the tallest structure.
  Viewer identified the water and the vessels moving in a
  circular motion in the water.
  4. (SINFISK) EVALUATION: 5
  S. (SINFISK) SEARCH EVALUATION:
  HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
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         HE YEAR 1071 was a bad one for the
 Byzantines, East and West, At Man
 zikert, in the highlands of eastern
         T
         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 cast 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 cit.y in southeastern Italy, I
 saw blood on the pavement. Assassins had
 gunned down a political opponent, and
 - ng partisans -marched around the stain
 v
         eb ite memorial. Nine centuries earlier
 I)loo it r
 d had flowed in the streets of Byzantine
 'The Byzantine Enipj'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 5 7 years, a Byzantine emper-
 or once again reigned in Constantinople, the
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