Approved For Release 2000/08/07 : CIA-RDP96-00788R000100270009-4 + A Recyl Caller Says U. S.General | ‘To Be Tried — GENERAL, From Ai No immediate demands.have been made for Dozier’s release. Despite a vast police dragnet ‘throughout much of northern Italy, -police were unable to find any trace ‘vof the general. They located a blue Fiat van, rented in Milan, that they believe was probably used by a com- mando unit of as many as 10 terror- ists in the kidnaping. , The unidentified caller said the ~“Kidnaping had been organized by the “Venetian Column” of the Red Bri- jgades, and. that branches of the ‘Marxist group from Milan, Naples ‘and Rome as well as Venice had par- ticipated in the kidnaping of the “hangman.” The message’ gave no ‘indication of why Dozier was called a. “hangman.” (Pentagon sources said the De- fense Department sent a six-member team to Rome to serve as liaison . with Italian authorities investigating . the kidnaping, but the Defense De- partment declined comment, The Associated Press reported.] Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini said after a meeting this morning with his government’s de- fense and security experts, that the kidnaping “is certainly a qualitative : jump in the strategy of terrorism.” Leftist Italian terrorists began op- erating in Italy 10 years ago, but the the first. against a military officer and the first against. a foreigner. It was also the first time that Ital- ian terrorists moved against a NATO base here and appears to rep- resent a shift toward the anti- American, anti-NATO tactics that, ~ West Germany's Red Army faction terrorists have followed. Although spokesmen at the NATO base in Verona said. Dozier’s function as deputy chief of logistics - and administration of the integrated NATO command was primarily ad- ministrative, press . accounts have speculated that the terrorists holding him will seék to extort secret infor- mation regarding the: deployment of troops and military supplies in Italy and Europ: [Joe Favorite; a NATO spokes- man, sald: such a motive would be | di ;Or Release 2000/08/07 : CIA- RDPOG- 90788R000100270009-4 possibly under dictation. - mer prime minister Aldo Moro was| ‘ unexpected operation yesterday was - . JUDITH DOZIER +» appeared on television more plausible if the victim were in * opérations, intelligence or commu- nications, AP reported] “ Most of the Italians who have - been kidnaped by the Red Brigades |; so’. far — judges, politicians and - business. executives — are said to have “cooperated,” writing frequent, | letters to government authorities,| One executive who police believe did not cooperate, petrochemical plant manager Giuseppe Taliercio, was killed early last summer. But}, cooperation also does not ensure sur- vival, as became evident when for- slain after writing scores of letters to political friends and foes during his}. 54 days of captivity in 1978. , Furthermore, although it is far too}. early to tell what, if any demands}. the terrorists might make for the release. of the general, an embassy|' spokesman today said that in pre- vious occasions in other parts of the world the United States has said it will not negotiate with terrorista,- - ‘Judith Dozier, the general’s wife,|’ appeared briefly on Italian national he television. One of her cheeks. was badly bruised. But she seemed calm and] , spoke in a steady voice in English. to reassure friends and relatives. ~~" * “Mom and Dad, please stay calm,” she said, “I just want to let all our | friends in the United States know that T am fine.” i we [a