Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger brought back the names of three Israeli prisoners of war recently captured in Syria when he returned from Damascus last night. Kissinger told Premier Golda Meir he had been given the names by President Hafez Assad in what was regarded as a good will gesture.
The POWs were identified today as Binyamin Kiryati, an air force navigator who baled out over Syrian territory when his Phantom Jet was shot down April 19; and Amikam Markus and Yosef Weitz, tank corpsmen captured by the Syrians May 2. Israel had asked Kissinger to seek information from Syria on recently captured POWs. The two tankmen are believed to be among three Israeli soldiers captured in a Syrian commando raid on Israeli positions on Mt. Hermon.
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