Mohammed Hafez Ismail
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Mohammed Hafez Ismail (October 28,1919 – January 1, 1997) was an Egyptian statesman better known for his role as as Adviser on National Security to President Anwar Sadat in 1971–1974.
Ismail was a career military man and diplomat who served Egypt for over four decades. In the military he worked his way from a tutor at the military academy up to deputy Minister of War as director of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer's office.
Hafez Ismail was called to restructure the foreign service and served as Egyptian Ambassador to Great Britain, France and Italy at a crucial time between 1959 and 1970. In the wake of 1967 defeat from Israel, Ismail was appointed by Nasser as the head of the General Intelligence Services, before becoming Sadat's National Security Adviser in 1971.
After falling out with Sadat in 1974, he returned to the foreign service where he was postee to the Soviet Union and Paris before he retired in 1979.
Further reading
- Kenneth Stein, Heroic Diplomacy (Routledge, 1999)
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