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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000400470001-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Content Type: PHOTO

Like giant chessmen, mad-tack
pigeon tozvm dot the landscape near
Isfahan (following pages). Built in the
1 nth cenhn_? by melon farmers, each of
thevvr avian high rises collected and
stored natural fertiliser from as many
as ;L,000 live-in pigeons, which raided
out ' ing wheat fields. Today, their glory
acs ended by chemical fertilizers, the
tot; era are neglected and largely empty.