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14-00000 . : », a . : t Jaren lyes - ME/AORANDUM SUBJECT:  -D Garrigon and the Kennedy Assassination: - ‘ Interview of Garrigon on Dutea TV by Willlam L. Olt.nane (2u1-155221) REFERENCES: A. Joint State-USIA cable, HCM 553, HAGUE - 3981, 24 February 1963" : a B. |The Hague 3370, IN 59004, . . (ir ar 27 Fesruary 1969 Oo : Lr re Ds Prov * ATTornsy : 4 Sus aKK, New OW leans SUMMARY aH Semone ao Saar 42rd “Ames, Garrigon appeared én Dutch TV on 22 February 1963... He continued -- in fact, escalated -- his attack upon CIA ina persuasive " performance. There is a possibility of a follow-up program in _ Holland and replaye eleewhere in Europe. Garrison's interviewer, {illam lL. Ol@mans, ic a Dutch pro-Comrmunist, although he pretends ot ¢6 bs, and a homosexual who seems to ve or to have been intimate’ with ex-Pregident Sukarno of Indonsola.. _Gonpideration ta being given to forwarding to the Statioa at | fhe Hague overt derogatory information about Garrisca from the W.: 5. “preeo and id TY / radio interviews for roloase to CA assotea there. re 2 con _DETALLS — - References state that on 22. Fobruary 1968 Garrison ccenred on Dutch TV (Dutch Televisioa Foundation, NTS) during © ‘prime time for ons hour (timo not stated}. Neither reference explains _ ‘@hather, Girrioon travellod to Tha Hague or whether the, show was -~ taped an the U.S. and sent on tape to Holland. . The Dutch desk believes - . that the latter to true. .
&.e- “2. The following were Garriocn'’s charges: © me _* 9, Konmedy wao nurdsred because ho favored a : dotente Catrimontal to the interosto of the "inflitary-” — oe -. dmdustrial complex". - b. Keansdy was the victlin of a CHA pict. CLA * "oe > hag :nade gommea cause with the military -industrial > eetabMohment because of a vested interest in maintaining _, the cold war. - ; ; . oo c. GIA fo ‘committed to the losid war in Acta, whareas ona of Prooldent Konmedy's last ordre directed | a reduction of troops there. ; - \ : 1. a -  @: A U.S. preoidant who brings the U.S. to the - _° brink of peace will ouffor Kennody's fate. * ' g. Agked why ths program had been designed for . 2 a Evuropsaa audienco, Garrisca ecald that the growing 2 8 | ' ° 9eftuence of GIA ea U.S. modia had mada ig impooaible for . | “him te be beard in his Gwa country. 5 - :$, Reference A cayo Gargsicen, calm and sompeced, waa ‘> gufffetently credible to olicit rathar fgvorable reviews fram gonsrally well inlormad Daich eawopapees. “Ssvoral Duicsh viawere silso, -eommentud ca the credibility (ef / bio porvea end prescntatica. Rékoly that the NFS will try to sell this program td other European i Co 4. Reforcncs BD cayo that the Butch preos was gonovally faverable | and thst many conmonts asted ho ceomsd logical and fia central ef his. feeto.” The majority opiaica ameag Erabasoy, USS, ‘end CLA \porseamcl a3 Bho Hagus fo thas ko esemed erodibis to 5 larga preportica cf the ~ Butch visworo| SYMPATHIZER L7\fcals thatthe program created on. allctime low in tho U.S. image in the Rethorlands. Dyieh TV alluded: - td o third part of the intarview, cillltocome. “~ = j §. Garrisca was interviewed by William L. O18 A. synopsis regarding Oltmans follewo:. .?
a. DPUB tu June 1925 Hulzen, The Netherlands, - 6 ‘ vo. Studied at Yale 1950 Sut exvelled for unstated misbehavior. ; a. c. Thereatter worked vrielly as correspondent tor U. 2. and for Dutch paper Be Tekegront but dlomissed by both for unstated cause. d. An FBI report of 1969 states that he calfs himeelf anti-Conmunist but expresses the views “ot a ‘great adnifrer of commundam". e. An §&NS report of 1961 Mets his address for iJ9oG~1961 ag 1i8-09 3rd Ave., Kew Gardens, Long island, New York. me f. A CEA report af 1961 liste him as a UN correspondent then planning an unsponsored trip to Enst- Germany, Poland, Gsechoolovaida, and Hungary.. Dutch corroospondents cald that they had yet to sec a story written | by him. When he applied for membership ia the UN - correspondents asecciation, he was unable to produce a oinglo clipping in support of the application. He travels extensively. He has excellent contacts in all Communiat countrics including Cuba. ye Tho Haague Poot of 15 April 1951, with a nationwide readership, “characterized Oltmans ao an intimate friend of tho thon President of Indonesia, Sukarno, aad 49 having tried for five years to arrange contacts - for Sukarno im Holland, he An BE roport of 24 November 1961 restates the above ond adda that he had beoa ceparated or divorced — from his American wife 13 monthd earlier because “he is not aman". He was ving with a male at the time of the Po port. " ss . i. An FBI report ot } Fobruary 1962 includes an intor view with the ex-wife Frieda Bleling (che had remarried). 2 * i \ i 3 ‘a a is H
a ” Sie said that her exehusvand and President Sukarno , 3 “were close iriends and tnat he Wrote to Sukarno at least once a wedk tiruughout their marriages Around 1357 she and Oltmane lived at the Paraiiount Hotel, New York, for a thine. The Indonesian governinent ; paid their ofl], which was nore than $300. She met cS a Sukarno through her nyaband, fim May 1959 in Copenhagen. 4 At the time of thé introduction Sukarno cleared the _ room of all.advisors and bodyguards, then said to her, “So youare <s‘rieda. Well, Tam Sukie.’ He told her “that he looked torward to receiving his weekly mesGages from hor husband and that he always read thein just vefofe he went to sleep while he was in bed." She said tht ten ininutes, after her wedding eeremony with Wttrmans wae over, she was alone. Her father, she ot - said, learned that Oltuans hada police record for ° nelesting young »oys in Ameterdain. She obtained a Mexican divorce in 1960. She said that Ol€inans is at” least intellectually a Co.nmuniat and beHeves Com:nuniemn to be the econoinie systein of the future. fas. oe Ce TER Ae aS IS I tao CI BAL ME j.\ HAGU, 1365, 24 October 1960, says Ultinans wrote pro-Luinunba articles in 1960, visited Cuba in 1702 and perhaps 1963, developed friendly relations with Chicos. at The Hague and may have visited China in 1964, CS : in “Auguat 196. he applied for a Chicom viea at The Hague. k. An FBI Feport of 1@ May 1967 gaya that Oltnians yclaiined to have written for Rainparts an article about CLA in Indonsota. No such: article has been found. Set ° o. Reforonce B requested background information avout . Garrison's inental health and parforsmance ao a public official. A a aan i Suununary of dsrogstory information from overt U.S. :-nedia for the ve a past year (March 1967 to March 1964) hag been compiled im reaponse. . a ava dociaion will soon be made as to whéthoer part or all of thie material ; shay ve sent{to the Statioa| ° er . - a -~ t » iz s 47 £ oie eae b “ z - A € : rf ae &.. i , y ° F = - y ; refers