CLIP FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, HAND-DATED FRI 18 DEC 1981.

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• Publication Date: December 18, 1981
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WASHINGTON, Dec. - Brig. Gen.
?James L. Dozier, a tJTIltfed States Army
,staff officer, was abducted today in
Verona, Italy, a Pentagon spokesman
,disclosed tonight.
1. Pe Red B ~~ibthe leftist ility for the kiid-
;grouP, took
,napping in a telephone call to, the Italian
,news agency ANSA.
1 The Pentagon spokesman, Col. Ron-
Old A. Duchin, said that an unknown
number of men broke into General Do-
kier's apartment at 5:30 P.M. Italian
e (11:30 A.M. New York time), tied
tp his wife, Judith, and bodily carried
General Dozier away.
A phone call to the Milan office of
NSA said: "We have kidnapped Briga-
dier General James Dozierdn Verona. A
iro nunique will follow."
? The general is the first American kid-
na by the Red Brigades, although
4he group has abducted several Italian
, and
e
which the
a scuffle took place during
general was hurt. -
The police sources said the general
had been placed inside a trunk and
loaded into a vehicle, which sped away.
Before his assignment in Italy, Gen-
eral Dozier was a student at the Defense
Language Institute, where he studied
There have been previous terrorist at-
tacks on senior United States Army offi-
cers in Europe. In Jude 1979 a bomb was
placed under an automobile in which
Gen. Alexander M. Haig. Jr, then the
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces
in Europe, was riding near his head-
quarters in Belgium. Mr., Haig is Secre-
tary of State now.
General's Auto Was Ambushed
from the' Military Academy at West
Point in 1956 and-is an armored forces
officer. Before going to Italy, he wow
successively a brigade commander, 0
division chief of staff and a corps chief
of staff at Fort Hood, Tex.
Italy Orders Search
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ROME, Friday, Dec. 18 - A United!
states Army spokesman said tonight
that General Dozier had been.abducted'
by four armed men who entered his,
apartment disguised as plumbers.
The Italian news agency ANSA saidi
Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had`
ordered a major search.
Tlie spokesman, Maj. Mario Gargiu s
lo, said-the kidnappers had struck the,
general, stunning him. They bound his'
wife with chains and plastic tape.
Major Gargiulo said the general had"
put up no resistance, possibly to prevent
harm to his wife, Judith. He quoted Mrs.
Dozier as saying the men took her hus-
band away in what appeared to be a
steamship trunk. She was slightly in-
ured around the wrists from being
bound
Major Gargullo said the abduction
was discovered when Mrs. Dozier
alerted neighbors by banging on the
wall of her sixth-floor a ent.
The spokesman sal the police had
found a vanin Verona.that they believed
was the getaway vehicle.
On Sept. 15 a terrorist unit' in West
Germany ambushed an automobile car-
rying Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, the
commander of United States forces in
Europe, and his wife.
In neither case were the officers seri-
ously injured. But security guards were
hurt. A Pentagon spokesman said tonight
that generals serving in Europe had
been cautioned after the attack on Gen-
eral Kroesen to be more aware of their
person security. He declined to;give de=.
tails.
General Dozier, according to his
records in the Pentagon, was graduated
ter Adld More, who was killed in 1978
According to police sources in Verona
Served In NATO Command
The Pentagon spokesman said Gen-
eralDozier, who is 50 years old and from
~-.rrccaadia, Fla., is deputy chief of staff for
logistics and administration at the
Verona headquarters for allied land
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