After 42 days of captivity, he was rescued by NOCS - an elite Italian special forces unit - with help from the Intelligence Support Activity's Operation Winter Harvest.

At the time, General Dozier was serving as deputy Chief of Staff at NATO's Southern European land forces headquarters in Verona, Italy.

Naval War College, explains that For more than a month, Dozier's right wrist and left ankle were chained to a steel cot, which was placed under a small tent.

The fifth communiqué, retrieved from a trash can in downtown Rome, contained a number of anti-NATO and anti-American statements but did not make any specific demands for Dozier's release.

[11] Dozier was held for 42 days until January 28, 1982, when a team from NOCS - a special operations unit of the Italian police) - rescued him from an apartment in Padua without firing a shot, capturing the entire terrorist cell.

According to Luis Elizondo, remote viewers — trained as “supersoldiers” with psychic abilities under the Stargate program — were credited with locating Brigadier General Dozier during his kidnapping by the Red Brigades.

During his military career he was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star and Purple Heart (for actions during Vietnam War), Ranger Tab and Parachutist Badge.