EPISODE · Dec 3, 2021 · 16 MIN
James Dozier
from Now I've Heard Everything · host Bill Thompson
Fprty years ago this weekend a U.S. Army general who was stationed at a NATO facility in Italy was kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group known as the Red Brigades. General James Dozier spent the next 42 days in captivity, before a dramatic rescue. And, as you're about to hear in this interview, Dozier's rescue by Italian special forces actually help break the back of the Red Brigades. I met General Dozier and his wife Judy several years later. They wrote a book about that harrowing episode.
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Fprty years ago this weekend a U.S. Army general who was stationed at a NATO facility in Italy was kidnapped by a Marxist terrorist group known as the Red Brigades. General James Dozier spent the next 42 days in captivity, before a dramatic rescue. And, as you're about to hear in this interview, Dozier's rescue by Italian special forces actually help break the back of the Red Brigades. I met General Dozier and his wife Judy several years later. They wrote a book about that harrowing episode.
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