ee Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100270011-1 © | Red Brigades Kidnap an American General in Italy , " : spate Ta ew Ye Tien | quoted by The Associated Press, there ‘staff officer, was abducted today in| generalwashurt. ‘Verona, Italy, a Pentagon spokesman The police sources said the general from the Military Academy at West Point in 1956 and-is an armored forces officer. Before going to Italy, he wat successively a brigade commander, division chief of staff and a corps chief disclosed tonight. had been placed inside a trunk and | of staff at Fort Hood, Tex: i ‘  \group, took responsibility for the kid- Before his assignment in Italy, Gen- 7 ie oping ina telephone call to the Itatian eral Dozier was a student at the Defense Italy Orders Search esa deine ANSA. . : Language Institute, where he studied SpecialtoThe New York Times — 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. i The Italian news agency ANSA said, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had’ ordered a major search. | The spokesman, Maj. Mario Gargiu-’ 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: uit up no resistance, possibly to prevent; parm 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 | } Major Garguilo said the abduction, was discovered when Mrs. Dozier alerted neighbors by banging on the’ wall of her sixth-floor apartment: i The spokesman said the police had found a van.in Verona that they believed |. was the getaway vehicle. ; \ ‘The Pentagon spokesman, Col. Ron- . wld A. Duchin, said that an unknown nuimber of men broke into General Do- yier’s apartment at 5:30 P.M. Italian ' e (11:30 A.M. New York time), tied . ‘his wife, Judith, and bodily carried ‘ ‘General Dozier away. : | A phone call to the Milan office of ‘ANSA said: “We have kidnapped Briga- dier General James Dozier in Verona. A boramuniqué will follow.” . | ‘The general is the first American kid- na} by the Red Brigades, although There have been previous terrorist at- tacks on senior United States Army offi- cers in Europe. In Junie 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 On Sept. 15 a terrorist unit in West Cera rederick J. Krossen, the grou abducted several Italian . erick J. en, the oe te Ero cluding former Prime Minis- | Commander of United States forces in ter Aldo Moro, who was killed in 1978. BPE hee cee rere the officers seri - 1. ServedinNATO Command ously injured. But security guards were ' The Pentagon spokesman said Gen- | hurt. wo eral Dozier, who is 50 years oldandfrom| A Pentagon spokesman said tonight ‘Arcadia, Fla., is deputy chief of stafffor|that generals serving in Europe had : logistics and administration at the | been cautioned after the attack on Gen- ho Verona headquarter for’ allied land | eral Kroesen to be more aware of their forces in southerg Europe. That com- person security. He declined to.give de- on is part of the North Atlantic . ; : General Dozier, according to his aty Organization. . According to police sources in Verona! records in the Pentagon, was graduated Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100270011-1