104-10926-10057}, Oe SECRET MHPFNO: 96-2985818 . SENSIND: RYBAT PAGE: 1 / f/f SECRET FRP; . STAFF -— / CONF :..EUR/BNL. Dg 0 ~ INFO... EUDORECORD,. BUR/LGL, LIMITO, MDSx, ODPD, PCS/CL, FILE (0/P) 7 7 96 2985818 ASP PAGE O01 ! TOT: 262320Z JAN 96 DIRECTOR 615577 ‘ STAFP 262318Z DIRECTOR 615577 _ FROM: LIMIT EUR/BNL INFO EUR/LGL, PCS/CL ‘ SLUGS: WNINTEL RYBAT _ SUBJECT: TRACE RESPONSE ON DUTCH JOURNALIST ' pee | fisae Se dese x TEXT: 1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE, FOR STATION BACKGROUND’ CHEWS. RESPONSE TO REF QUESTIONS RE THE SHARING OF INFO | WILL BES PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE MESSAGE,” a 2. HQS BELIEVES SUBJECT TO BE IDENTICAL TO WILLIAM LEONARD ((OLTMANS)), (DPOB 10 JUNE 1925, HUIZEN, THE NETHERLANDS) , WHO WAS _ ASSIGNED 201-0155221 ON 27 PEBRUARY, 1957, {ON THE OCCASION OF A NAME CHECK REQUEST AGAINST PNINFINITE FILES FROM NVGIFT: AT THE TIME, OLTMANS WAS” OSTENSIBLY A~ CORRESPONDENT FOR-AN ORSCURR DUTCH WEEKLY PUBLICATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK. HTS REPUTATION AT THE UN WAS SUCH THAT HE WAS OSTRACISED BY THE DUTCH DELEGATION AND FELLOW DUTCH NEWSMEN FOR HIS OPENLY PRO-INDONESIAN PUBLIC STAND ON THE DUTCH GUINEA QUESTION. HE ALSO CLAIMED TO WORK FOR AN UNKNOWN NEWS SYNDICATE IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT NONE OF HIS COLLEAGUES COULD CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN ANY OF HIS WRITINGS PUBLISHED. HIS MAIN INCOME SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM PUBLIC LECTURES IN THE UNITED STATES ON INTGRNATIONAL POLITICS , ESPECIALLY MATTERS TOUCHING oN ASIA IN GENERAL, AND INDONESIA SPECIFICALLY. HE CLAIMED HE GREW UP IN INDONESTA, AND THEREFORE KNEW THE AREA AND ITS "CONDITIONS" WELL. IN ADDITION, HE WAS CONSTANTLY SEEN WITH WHAT A WESTERN SOURCE WOULD CALL "THE WRONG CROWD", AND HE HAD EXCELLENT CONTACTS WITH ALL THE COMMUNIST DOMINATED COUNTRIES, INCLUDING CUBA AND WAS ON INTIMATE TERMS WITH ELEMENTS SUCH AS THE GUINEANS, THE INDONESIANS, AND THE EGYPTIANS. 3.° ACCORDING TO DIRECTOR 243172, 12 JANUARY 1987, ONE OF THI LAST ENTRIES IN OLTMANS’ FILE, "OLTMANS HAS BREN A THORN IN OUR SIDE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. HE HAS HIGH LEVEL CONTACTS IN THE SOVIET UNION. HE IS INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY BY VIRTUE OF HIS PAMILY HAVING HAD A VIRTUAL MONOPOLY ON THE QUININE TRADE AT ONE TIME. HE IS HIGHLY INTELLIGENT BUT PECULIAR, AND WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS EVER IN THE PAY SECRET GJ
13-00000 SECRET . MHFNO.:: 96-2985818 SENSIND: RYBAT ; ; PAGE: _ 2 OF THE SOVIETS, HE CERTAINLY HAD BEEN A FERVENT SUPPORTER OF THEIR CAUSES." THE FOLLOWING ARE HIGHLIGHTS TAKEN FROM SUBJECTS RATHER LARGE HOS FILE. 4. HE STUDIED BRIEFLY AT YALE UNIVERSITY AND WAS EXPELLED FOR MISBEHAVIOR (NFI). FOR A SHORT TIME THEREAFTER, HE WORKED FOR UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL AND "DE TELEGRAFF", A MAJOR DUTCH DAILY NEWSPAPER, BUT WAS FIRED FROM BOTH. IN 1956, HE MARRIED AN AMERICAN GROUND STEWARDESS, AND IN ON 10.JUNE 1958, HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES IN NEW YORK CITY AS A PRA, A STATUS WHICH HE HELD. UNTIL AT LEAST 1987. IN 1960, HE DIVORCED HIS WIFE, AND IN 1961, WAS LIVING WITH A PHILIPINO MALE. 5. ‘NUMEROUS FIELD REPORTS INDICATE THAT IN 1956, OLTMANS ARRANGED AN INTRODUCTION FOR HIMSELF TO INDONESIAN PRESIDENT. ((SUKARNO)) WITH WHOM HE THEN TRAVELED THROUGH EURPOPE IN 1956 AS SUKARNO’S GUEST. HIS TRIP FROM INDONESIA TO THE U.S. IN FEBRUARY 19357 WAS PAID FOR BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT, AND ALL INDICTIONS WERE . THAT HE WAS BEING USED AS A TOOL BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT TO CARRY ON PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S. AND AT THE UN. DURING THE PERIOD 1960-1961, HE SHUTTLED BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. 6. SUBJECT NEXT APPEARS IN OUR RECORDS IN 1968, WHEN HE TELEPHONED THE DIRECTOR OF THE. U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY (USIA) IN THE HAGUE TO ADVISE THEM THAT HE WAS ANTI-AMERICAN AND TO GIVE THE USIA INFORMATION ON ANTI-AMERICAN ‘DUTCH GROUPS IN THE NETHERLANDS. 7. j&IN 1972, SUBJECT PLANNED TO MAKE A FILM ON ECOLOGY IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND VISITED THERE 23-26 JANUARY TO MAKE THE FINAL ARRANGEMENTS. ; 4,0 A FIVE YEAR RETAINER FROM THE RUSSIANS AS “AN OVERT PR I). ‘THERE INDICATION IN FILE THAT THE FILM WAS 8. IN MARCH AND APRIL 1377, OLTMANS GAINED A GREAT DEAL OF PUBLIC ATTENTION IN THE U. S. AND THE NETHERLANDS. WHEN HE TESTIFIED *BEFORE THE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES<ASSASSINATIONS>COMMITTEE ON *THE LATE GEORGE DE ((MOHRENSCHILDT))‘S CONNECTION WITH<LEE HARVEY> *<( (OSWALD) }>AND THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT<JOHN>F.<((KENNEDY)).> IT HAD LONG BEEN KNOWN THAT DE MOHRENSCHILDT, AS PART OF THE DALLAS RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY, WAS CLOSE TO OSWALD. OLTMANS HAD LONG BEEN CULTIVATING DE MOHRENSCHILDT AS A NEWS SOURCE AND FRIEND. IN JANUARY, 1976, DE MOHRENSCHILDT WROTE OLTMANS THAT HE WAS PREPARING A BOOK ON HOW HE (DE MOHRENSCHILDT) WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OSWALD’S * <ASSASSINATION>OF<KENNEDY . > 9. ENAMAS THEY? SONSIDEREDSHIGHLY SENSITIVE AS IT INVOLVED ONE OF THEIR OWN CITIZENS) ON OLTMANS WHO SEEMED TO REVEAL SOME INTERESTING TIDBITS , SOME OF ICH’ MIGHT BE CONSIDERED GOSSIP, BUT WHICH MIGHT BE OF SERIOUS INTEREST TO ANALYSTS WATCHING THE INTERPLAY OF HIGH LEVEL SOVIET PERSONALITIES, PARTICULARLY WHEN HE TALKED TO HIS LEFTIST IENDS. THE QUESTION OF OLTMANS’ CAUSED HOS TO REQUEST STANDDOWN ON FURTHER ELICITATION OF INFO DERIVED FROM THE ON OL S_ UNTIL AJ CTS COULD BEy ‘MADE. IT_BE HOS RST BEING as SECRET
13-00000 SECRET MHFNO: 96-2985818 ‘SENSIND: RYBAT PAGE: 3 : E FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES AND THAT THETER. ERESTS WERE INDEPENDENT OF ANY NWEOLTON INTER : iPO-GE. INTEREST TO NWBOLTON WAS THE BYPRODUCT OF THE | |_ AND: “NOT INFO CONCERNING OLTMANS HIMSELF, | COULD CONTINUE ¥O RECEIVE INFO OFFERED AND TO REQUEST ADDITIONAL AND MORE DETAILED INFO CONCERNING SOVIET INTENTIONS WITHOUT SPECIFYING THE MANNER IN WHICH IT WAS TO BE ACQUIRED. THE BASIS FOR THIS DECISION WAS THAT {A) OLTMANS HIMSELF WAS NOT THE SUBJECT OF NWBOLTON INTEREST AND. : B)NWBOLTON WAS NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE 10. ON 16 JANUARY 1987, SAN FRANCISCO STATION ADVISED THAT SUBJECT HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN BROKERING HIGH-LEVEL CONTACTS BETWEEN Al ARGE U.S. COMPUTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNIDN’ N AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT AND ENHANCED RUSSIAN ICROCOMPUTER MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY. 11. ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1987, FBIS MONITORED THE ACTIVITY OF SUBJECT IN MARTINIQUE WHER HE WAS MEETING WITH SURINAMESE CITIZENS AND ACCUSED FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS OF FAVORING THE SURINAME REBELLION. 12. OLTMANS NEXT APPEARS IN A PRESS RELEASE OF 20 MAY 1992 WHEN. HE SOUGHT REFUGE AT THE NETHERLANDS EMBASSY IN PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, AFTER HE WAS ALLEGEDLY ACCUSED BY SOUTH AFRICA’S SECRET SERVICE OF BEING AN AGENT FOR NWBOLTON, SAYING HE HAD GONE TO THE EMBASSY FOR "PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE: I FEEL UNSAFE HAVING BEEN ; IBRANDED A CIA AGENT". HE ALSO SAID THAT HIS APARTMENT HAD BEEN BROKEN INTO AND BUGGEDAND MANY OF HIS PROJECTS HAD BEEN TORPEDOED BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN BRANDED AN NWBOLTON AGENT. 13. CL REASON: 1.5 (C), DECL ON: X-1. -DECL OADR DRV HUM 4-82.> 9188); AUTH: DC/EUR/BNL[ ——s«|—Ss COORD: EL: C/EUR/BNL. CL BY 0528417. ar | "SECRET FILE: 201-155221. SECRET