# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-l-dozier
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:56:50.889Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-l-dozier"
name: "James L. Dozier"
slug: "james-l-dozier"
description: "James Lee Dozier is a retired United States Army officer. In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades, a Marxist–Leninist guerilla group. 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. In a press statement, the Red Brigades claimed that the excellent diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Italy—and the fact that Dozier was an American officer invited to work in Italy—rendered his abduction \"justified\". To date, he remains the only American flag officer ever taken prisoner by a violent non-state actor."
tagline: "United States general"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Lee_Dozier.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1931-04-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.67
  momentum:             7.774381084614199
  historical:           6.048790666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dozier"
    title: "James L. Dozier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A5%D9%84._%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جيمس إل. دوزير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Dozier"
    title: "James L. Dozier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%9B%D0%B8"
    title: "Дозиер, Джеймс Ли"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lee_Dozier"
    title: "James Lee Dozier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dozier"
    title: "James Dozier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1089279"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump