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ROME, Feb. 2-U.S. Brig.
Gen. James L. Dozier said today
that he spent all 42 days of his
captivity in the hands of the Red
Brigades chained by one wrist and
an ankle to a cot inside a small
tent.
In his first full press conference
since he was freed by Italian anti-
terrorist police last Thursday,
Dozier suggested that the fiercest
confrontation with his captors
came not over any attempts on
their part to extract military se-
crets from him, but rather over
the kind and volume of music to
which he was forced to listen.
The 50-year-old general por-
trayed his captors as being some-
what amateurish. That picture
contrasted sharply with the bri-
gades' reputation for political so-
phistication and military preci-
sion.
It also clouded speculation here
that the motive for Dozier's kid-
naping was either to try to extract
military secrets from him or was
part of a plan to exploit the
emerging antinuclear movement
here.
Dozier, 50, speaking to the
press in Vicenza before flying to
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Brig. Gen. James Dozier tells how he had to listen to rock music through earphones during his captivity at the hands of italian Red Brigades.
Italian Terrorists
Seem to Have Lost
Their Expertise
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said his captors made no serious effort to pry pil-
itary secrets from him and their inability to spak
English limited their interrogation efforts. Wien
they realized his Italian was not fluent, tley
brought him an Italian-English dictionary, Dozer
said.
While the general described the men and
women who held him prisoner as "smart, wel-
organized criminals," he Said they did not appear
to be members of a military organization.
His worst problems during captivity were bort -:
dom and lack of exercise, he said, but he was nit.
mistreated and was adequately fed.
He said he was forced to listen to eight or nine
hours of loud, hard-rock music through earphones
to block out any tell-tale noises that could reveal:
his whereabouts.
After he argued with his captors, who usually
numbered four, they substituted waltzes and
Gershwin and turned down the volume, Dozier
· said.
Past kidnapings by the Red Brigades were
much more skillfully handled. Their management
of the 1978 kidnaping of former prime minister
Aldo Moro, whose presumed prison was located
only last weekend, enabled them to keep this
country in terror for 54 days.
When they kidnaped Rome magistrate Giovani
d'Urso in December 1980, the brigades skillfully
used the press to focus attention on Italy's over-
crowded prisons.
During the kidnaping last spring of Christian-
Democratic politician Ciro Cirillo of Naples, the
Red Brigades were at least partially successful in
exploiting the economic and social frustrations in
southern Italy after the earthquake disaster there
in November 1980.
Several explanations are offered for the terror-
ists' apparent decline in expertise, a decline that
may have helped police free Dozier and thus deal
the brigades what authorities believe is a crip-
pling, although probably not final, blow.
First, with the majority of veteran Red Bri-
gades in jail, those still on the loose are increas-
ingly forced to rely on the help of young or un-
trained terrorists.
In the past, for example; the Red Brigades
would never have had anything to do with drug
addicts such as 22-year-old Paolo Galati from
Verona who, police now confirm, was the person
who revealed Dozier's place of captivity-an
apartment above a grocery store in Padua.
Another reason is that an overall weakening of
support for the brigades in Italian left-wing circles
has made it harder for them to find sophisticated
theoreticians to guide them. Moreover, the cumu-
lative effect of past police operations has cut
sharply into a once-powerful organization that is
now internally divided.
Antiterrorist experts here say the arrest in early
January of Giovanni Senzani may have been cru-
cial in freeing Dozier.
Although the English-speaking Senzani, 39, and
the Padua group reportedly were rivals, the latter
may have been depending on Senzani-the mas-
termind of several past kidnapings. The ex-
professor at Florence University was accused of
being a contact with Dozier's kidnapers.
Today, Rome Magistrate Francesco Amato
used new information gleaned from recent police
work to issue 260 new arrest warrants for armed
insurrection in crimes that go back over a decade.
Dozier, who leaves Wednesday for Washington
where he is to take part in a prayer breakfast with
President Reagan, said his capton did not appear
to have international connections.
.
"They gave me no indication of outside support
whatsoever and assured me they were Italian com-
munists," he said.
The general said he was embarrassed because
he failed to heed warnings to take security precau-
tions against kidnaping.
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