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James L. Dozier General Dozier Brigadier General James L. Dozier	Military	Person Military Stargate	Brigadier General James L. Dozier was the U.S. Army deputy chief of staff at NATO's southern Europe command, kidnapped by the Red Brigades in Verona on December 17, 1981 and rescued January 28, 1982.	1931-04-10	type with role start end fn employed_by U.S. Army Brigadier General; deputy chief of staff, NATO southern Europe command 1981 1982 2	Arcadia, Florida	2026-10-12

Brigadier General James L. Dozier was a senior U.S. Army official and deputy chief of staff in the NATO Southern Command. On December 17, 1981, he was kidnapped from his penthouse apartment in Verona, Italy, by the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group¹. A press clipping of the kidnapping describes him as "the highest-ranking U.S. officer in NATO's southern Europe command."²

Dozier, a graduate of West Point and a Vietnam veteran, was reading a letter when his doorbell rang. Two young men, posing as plumbers, gained entry to his apartment. Dozier was attacked, and he and his wife, Judy, were bound and gagged. Dozier was then forced into a steamer trunk and secreted away in the back of a blue Fiat van¹.

His abduction triggered a massive international response. The Federal Bureau of Investigation offered a $2 million reward for information, and a Joint Special Operations Command team was dispatched to Italy. In Washington, the Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center of United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, under Colonel Charles F. Scanlon, the command's deputy chief of staff for operations, asked the Defense Intelligence Agency on December 18, 1981 to help provide Grill Flame derived data to U.S. authorities in Europe concerning the search for Dozier, and the first Grill Flame session on the case was held that day.³⁴ Jacobsen wrote that Dale Graff and the Grill Flame remote viewers at Fort Meade were tasked with providing intelligence to locate him.¹

Remote viewers, including Joe McMoneagle, Hartleigh Trent, and Ken Bell, provided information that Dozier was still alive and in the same place. However, the information was often vague and disparate, making it difficult to pinpoint his exact location¹. A memorandum of March 23, 1982 from the Grill Flame project manager records a debriefing of Dozier on February 9, 1982, at which he was asked to review remote-viewing drawings made during the search and to comment on places and events of his captivity.⁵ A January 1982 Army message reported visions by several private individuals in Kent, Washington, concerning Dozier, describing a settlement called the "place of the shepherds" and a hallway behind metal bars.⁶

Graff himself experienced vivid dreams and impressions, believing Dozier was held "upstairs in a room above a grocery store" in Padua. This information, combined with intelligence from a U.S. signals intelligence team, led Italian police to the exact street address where Dozier was being held¹.

On Nightline in November 1995, Graff said of the Dozier case, "we had one viewer come up with the name of the city, Padua. We had another one come up with the name of the building he was in."⁷ INSCOM's 1983 briefing states that the drawing from the third session, on January 20, 1982, carried "NOTE THE NAME PADUA" and "WAS NOT FORWARDED TO ITALY," and that a drawing from the first session was used by a DIA analyst to brief the commander of the Southern European Task Force that the search should be concentrated in the Padua area two days before the rescue.⁴ A press report datelined Rome, February 2, 1982, stated that police confirmed a 22-year-old from Verona had revealed Dozier's place of captivity, an apartment above a grocery store in Padua.⁸

After 42 days in captivity, Dozier was rescued on January 28, 1982, by ten men from Italy's Central Operative Security Nucleus who stormed the apartment. He was found alive and was flown home to a hero's welcome, including an invitation to the White House from Ronald Reagan¹.

Despite the remote viewers' involvement, Dozier later stated that he finally figured out where he was being held by listening to voices and realizing that groceries were being sold. He called psychic functioning "pure nonsense"¹.

Footnotes

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1. Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩︎

2. CIA-RDP96-00788R000100240026-8, press clipping on the Red Brigades kidnapping of Brigadier General James L. Dozier. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r000100240026-8 ↩︎

3. Defense Intelligence Agency staff summary bearing the name of Jack Vorona, CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130004-8, cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R000700130004-8.pdf. The passage reads "was requested by COL C.F. Scanlon, the Deputy Chief of Staff: Operations, Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center, INSCOM to assist in providing GRILL FLAME derived data to U.S. authorities in Europe concerning the search for BG Dozier." Other INSCOM documents in the collection (for example CIA-RDP96-00788R001100440042-7) identify COL Scanlon as DCSOPS, INSCOM, and two memoranda carry the signature block of Charles F. Scanlon (CIA-RDP96-00788R000100240002-4, CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250029-4). ↩︎

4. US Army Intelligence and Security Command briefing on the Dozier search, 1983, CIA-RDP96-00788R001700370002-3, cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700370002-3.pdf. The briefing reads "GENERAL DOZIER WAS KIDNAPPED THE EVENING OF 17 DECEMBER 1981. ON 18 DECEMBER, WE CONDUCTED OUR FIRST SESSION." ↩︎

5. CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250001-4, memorandum of March 23, 1982 from Robert J. Jachim, GRILL FLAME project manager, on the debriefing of BG Dozier at the Command SCIF, Fort Meade, on February 9, 1982. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r000100250001-4 ↩︎

6. CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250011-3, Army Intelligence and Security Command message of January 25, 1982 reporting visions concerning BG Dozier, including "THE PLACE OF THE SHEPHERDS." https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r000100250011-3 ↩︎

7. "Psychic Spies: Cold War Whimsy or Secret Weapon?," ABC News Nightline, November 28, 1995, Radio TV Reports transcript for the CIA Public Affairs Staff, CIA-RDP99-01448R000402140001-7. ↩︎

8. Press report datelined Rome, February 2, 1982, on General Dozier's press conference (publication not identified on the clipping), CIA-RDP96-00788R000100270006-7, cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R000100270006-7.pdf. ↩︎