Approved For.Ppjqas -RDP96-00788ROO01 00270012-0 p,,2000/08/07 CIA '7'5'G' - IA: 0 1081, The Washington Post Company SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1981 PLEA TO KIDNAP tow ...... Judith Dozier, wife ot kidnaped US. Brig. Gem James Lee Do2ier, acm,mpanied by her daughter Cheryl, appeals at a Approved For Release 2000108107 : CIA-RDP96-00788ROO0100270012-0 ed televis news coderence to his Red Brigade abductorg for, humane treatment and a quick release, Story, AA Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIA-RDP96-00788ROO0100270012-.0 A28 Sunday, December M 1981 THE WASHINGTON POST Commumque General s, Mdnapers Issue I By Sari Gilbert to The Washington Post Speclea ROME, Dec. 19 'The Red Brigades terrorists holding American Brig. Gen. James Lee Dozier in a "people's prison," todaSr 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 tearhil plea on television to his captors. "To those of you who have taken my husband and the father of our children, I appeal to you for humane tteatment," Mrs '. Dozier said. "Jim is very important 'to us; he is everything to us. I hope ~op will return him safe and well.' Dozier, 50,, is deputy chief of staff for 'sties logi and administration at 'the Verona NATO base and thus the senior American officer at NATO's Southern Europe Command. Meanwhile,, a liaison teani.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 ini- 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" - "Attack the centers, the strategists and and the bases of the American military machine." Dozier's abduction was the Red Bri- gade8' 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, saio eight terrorists, in- cluding a woman, participated. He said rive arrived in a blue rented Fiat van that was later abandoned. Two inen, 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 trtillk 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., Approved For Release 2000/08/07 CIA-RDP96-00788ROO0100270012-0