(SANITIZED) FROM DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R002300060010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Content Type: CABLE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/30: CIA-RDP80R01731 R002300060010-4
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/30: CIA-RDP80R01731 R002300060010-4
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AM Dov Sion succeeds
Doran as army spokesman
War of Independence, with the Etz-
loni Brigade in Jerusalem.
Jerusalem Post Military Correspondent
Aluf-Mishne Dov Sion, who took
part in negotiations for both the
Egyptian and Syrian disengagement
agreements, has been named the new
army spokesman. He will be taking
over from Tat-Aluf Ephraim Poran,
who was last week asked by Premier
Yitzhak Rabin to serve as his mili-
tary secretary.
Sion, 53, will be promoted to the
rank of Tat-Aluf when he assumes
his new post this morning.
a i Sion, who arrived in Israel from
Russia in 1940, has had a long and
varied military 'career since he joined
the Hagana. During the Second
Wor9d War, he served with the Jew-
.-'k Ish Brigade in Italy, and during the
The holder of an M.A. degree from
the Hebrew University, Sion served
with the paratroopers in the Sinai
Campaign, and during the Six Day
War was attached to Aluf Arik Sha-
ron's division and took part in the
conquest of Abu Agheila. Shortly
after the Six Day War, in July 1967,
he married Yael Dayan, the novelist
daughter of former Defence Minister
Moshe Dayan. They have two child-
ren.
Apart from a five-year stint with
the Foreign Ministry on special as-
signments abroad, Sion has served as
Israel's military attache in Western
Europe, being based in Paris during
the crucial years 1968 to 1972, when
A/M Dov Sion
France clamped down an embargo on
arms to Israel, and as Israel's chief
liaison officer with the U.N. In 1967.
He is a graduate of the National
Defence College and the Israeli Staff
and Command College, as well as of
the battalion commanders course.
Sion's name become prominent in
February this year when he aided the
Israeli team in the disengagement
talks with the Egyptians, which
were handled by the incumbent Chief
of Staff, Mordechai Gur, and more
recently when he was attached to the
Israeli delegation under O.C. General
Staff Branch Aluf Herzl Shafir,
which negotiated the disengagement
agreement with the Syrians.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/30: CIA-RDP80RO1731 R002300060010-4