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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1981
PLEA TO KIDNAPERS
Associated Press
Judith Dozier, wife of kidnaped U.S. Brig. Gen James Lee televised news conference to his Red Brigade abductors
Dozier, accompanied by her daughter Cheryl, appeals at a . for humane treatment and a quick release.
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Sunday, December 20, 1981
THE WASHINGTON POST
General's Kidnapers Issue Communique
By Sari Gilbert
Special to The Washington Post
ROME, Dec. 19 - The Red Brigades
terrorists holding American Brig. Gen.
James Lee Dozier in a "people's prison,"
today described U.S. military personnel
here as an "occupation army" and called
for an all-out war against NATO and
"the American military machine."
A six-page mimeographed document,
bearing the Red Brigades terrorist organ-
ization's five-pointed star, was found in a
garbage pail in downtown Rome after a
call to a Rome newspaper.
The statement, entitled "Communique
No. 1," offered no terms for Dozier's re-
lease.
Shortly before the communique was
found, Dozier's wife made a tearful plea
on television to his captors.
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"To those of you who have taken my
husband and the father of our children, I
appeal to you for humane treatment,"
Mrs. Dozier said. "Jim is very important
to us; he is everything to us. I hope you
will return him safe and well."
Dozier, 50, is deputy chief of staff for
logistics and administration at the
Verona NATO base and thus the senior
American officer at NATO's Southern
Europe Command.
Meanwhile, a liaison team of six U.S.
Defense Department experts arrived here
to join Italian investigators. A spokesman
for the U.S. Embassy said he could not
elaborate on the Americans' role.
The rambling, ideological message,
signed "for communism the Red Bri-
gades," called Dozier a "Yankee pig of the
American occupation army."
It called for the formation of an anti-
imperialist combat front, praising the
West German terrorists of the Red Army
Faction who in the past have attacked
NATO and American military targets.
The communique also appealed for closer
ties to "other European revolutionary
forces."
The statement said that Dozier had
been "captured and imprisoned in a peo-
ple's prison" by "an armed unit" on
Thursday. It discussed the "crisis of im-
perialism" and the likelihood of war, and
said that only an "anti-imperialist civil
war can wipe out war. War against im-
perialist war is an essential passage for
the transition to communism," the mes-
sage added.
The document concluded with five
one-sentence slogans, including, "War
against imperialism. War against NATO"
and "Attack the centers, the strategists
and the bases of the American military
machine."
Dozier's abduction was the Red Bri-
gades' first move against an American.
Today's statement was far more interna-
tional in scope than those issued during
the Brigades' previous kidnapings.
Italian police continued their investi-
gation without appreciable results being
made public.
At a press conference in Verona, Police
Chief Pasquale Zappone, reconstructing
the kidnaping, said eight terrorists, in-
cluding a woman, participated.
He said five arrived in a blue rented
Fiat van that was later abandoned. Two
men, dressed as plumbers, gained admit-
tance to the general's apartment by say-
ing there was a leak coming through to
the apartment below. Shortly afterward,
two other terrorists, carrying a trunk,
joined them. After overpowering the gen-
eral and his wife, the terrorists used a
radio transmitter to contact the van.
They loaded the trunk with the general
inside into the van and drove a few
blocks, where they abandoned the van
and presumably changed to another ve-
hicle. The other terrorists were in radio
contact with the abductors.
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