Word: senzani
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...committee's report charges that Giovanni Senzani, a purported Red Brigade terrorist whom Italian police have linked to the Dozier kidnapping, is being investigated for possible membership in terrorist networks associated with the Berkeley sociology and criminology departments...
Several suspected terrorists have visited and studied at Berkeley. Senzani attended the campus in 1972-73, and the Oakland Tribune reported last year that Iranian revolutionary leaders also studied there...
...suspected terrorists, Stefano Petrella and Ennio di Rocco, were arrested near Rome's famed Spanish Steps. Those arrests led to raids on three Rome apartments, where police turned up Brigades documents and weapons and ten more Red Brigades members, including Giovanni Senzani, a former criminologist who became leader of the Brigades' Rome column. Less than two weeks later, after a bank robbery in Siena, police arrested two members of an ultramilitant Red Brigades splinter group called Prima Linea, or Front Line. Those arrests in turn led to the discovery of a secret Rome hideout, which, remarkably, was used...
...material discovered in Senzani's apartment provided new insight into the fissures dividing the Brigades. Since the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, the group has split into two factions: the "militarists" who espouse the killing and kidnaping of all perceived enemies, and the "propagandists" who contend that terrorist tactics-including killing-must actually undermine state institutions. The dichotomy is believed to run through the five major Brigades columns, in Rome, Turin, Milan, Genoa and the Veneto area...
Police suspect that Dozier was captured by the Veneto militarist wing. A clumsy interrogation of the general published in a communique on Dec. 27 displayed neither ideological sophistication nor skill at questioning. According to evidence found in his apartment, Senzani, the leader of the Rome column's propagandists, opposed the Dozier kidnaping, believing it to be irrelevant to the Brigades' true aims. Police theorize that the arrested courier was carrying the kidnapers' invitation to Senzani, who once studied at the University of California in Berkeley and speaks English, to assist in future interrogations of Dozier. In previous...