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13-00000 ON ~- POkE i sdarch 1963 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: © Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination: q ines Interview of Garrison-en Duteh TV by 3 ao Wiliam L. Oltmans (201-155221) REFERENCES: A. Joint State-USIA cable, HCM $53, . HAGUE - 3981, 24 February 1948 CE B. The Hague 3870, IN $9064, RS Oe A 27 February 1968 eee: Dist rie A7sTorne y . SUMMARY | Ames aexigom appearéa én Dutch TV om 22 February 1963. He continued -- in fact, escalated -- his attack upon CLA in a persuagzive performance. There is a possibility of & follow-up program in . . . Heliand and replays elsewhere in Europe. Garrison's interviewer, po  . Willis. Olomans, ise Juick oro-Communist, although he pretends. not to be, and a homosexual who seems fo be or to have been intimate with ex-President Sukarno of Indonesia. | Consideration is being given to forwarding to the Station at The Hague overt derogatory information about Garrison from the U.S. press and TV/radio interviews for release to CA assets there. > DETAILS Ll, References state that on 22 February 1963 Garrison» appeared om Dutch TY (Dutch Television Foundation, NTS) during | prime time for one hour (time not stated). Neither reference explains whether Garrison travelled to The Hague or whether the show was taned im the U.S. and gent on tape to Holland. The Dutch desk believes that the latter ig true. coal — “5
13-00000 2. ‘he following were Garrison's charges: a, Kennedy wac murdered because he favored a detente detrimental to the interests of the “milltary- industrial complex”. (by Kennedy wao the victim of a CEA plot. CIA ’ has made common cause with the military-industrial establishment because of a vested interest im maintaining the cold war. e. CIA is committed to the land war in Asia, wherena eng of President Kennedy's last orders directed & reduction of teeops there. . - y  & AUS. president whe brings the U.S. te the - beiak of peace will suffer Kennedy's fate. | oo e.; Asked why the program had been dasigned for ‘ a European audience, Garrison aald that the growing influence of CYA on U.S. media had mada ig impossible £ for him to be heard in his mym country. _, ok! *Se> Reference A. gagGarriaeas.. cake: and composed, waa: ‘Juiftctensly exedible to elicit rather favorable reviews from penerally — well informed Dutch newspapers. "Several Dutch viewers also commented om the credibility i of} his persoa and presentation. L&ileoly that the NXS will try te sell this program to other European Stations. 4, Reference B says that the Dutch press was generally favorable and that many comments noted he seemed logical and in control of his facts. The majority opinion amoug Embassy, USIS, and GLA persone) at The Hague is that be seemed credible te a large proportion of the . Dutch viewers. SYMPATHIZER 17 feels that the program created an all-time low in the U.S. image im the Netherlands, Dutch TY alluded to a third past of the interview, sll to come. 5. Garrison was interviewed by William L. Oltmans. A synoosis regarding Olemans follows: enecny i oper)
13-00000 } Be DPCB 10 June 1925 Huizen, The Netherlands. a wr Studied at Yale 1950 but t expelled for unstated a 3 misbehavior. a i oe on Ce ‘Thereafter worked nriefly as s correspondent - See for U.P, and for Dutch paper Be ee but dismissed a er “By! both for unstated cause. oo yey ‘de An FBI report of 1960- states that he calls” ar 2 himself anti-Communist but expresses the views Mol a oe SO Saat Stenger of comananiges" . an .) An SENS report of 1962 lists his address efor” a o 1956-19 AS 118-09 83rd a Aver, Kew Gardens, fang 1 feland, a Ae tk GHA cepoct of 1961 Hote Man'as a UN | ae . correspondent then planning an unsponsored trip to East . °". Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Dutch . _ | corvespondents said that they had yet to see a story written | ‘by him. When he applied for membership inthe UN correspondents association, he was unable to produce a — aa cipping t in n Support of the © application. He travels we Pa The Haague Post Post of 15 April rgb, with a "| nationwide readership, characterized Oltmans as an intimate friend of the then President of Indonesia, Sukarno, _. and.as having tried for five years to arrange contacts - for Sukarno in Holand. hj An FBI report of 24 Noveraber 1961 restates | the above and adds that he had been separated or divorced | from hie American wife 13 months earHer because “he ia _ not aman". He was living with a male at the time of the _ report... ; , i. An FBI report of | February 1962 includes an interview with the ex-wife Frieda Bieling (she had remarried). nee
13-00000 XA R Za66 She said that her ex-husband and President Sukarno were close friends and that he wrote to Sukarno at least once a week throughout their marriage. Around ‘1957 she and Oltmane lived at the Paramount Hotel, Now York, for atime. The Indonesian government _ paid thelr bill, which was more than $300. She met Sukarno through her husband im May 1959 im Copenhagen. . 4t the Ume of the introduction Sukarne cleared the ’ room of all advisors and bodyguards, them said to her, "So you are Bricda. Well, fam Sukie." He told her "that he locked forward to recelying his weekly messages from her husband and that he always read them just before he went to sleep while he was in bed.” She said that ten minutes after hex wedding ceremony with Oltmand was ever, She was alone. Her father, she said, learned that Oltimans had a police record for molesting young boys in Amoterdam. She obtained a Mexican divorce in 1960. She said that Oltmans is at Reast intellectually a Communist and belicves Communism te be the economic system of the future. j. HAGU-1565, 24 October 1966, says Olfmans wrote pro-Lumumba articles In 1969, visited Cuba in 1962 and perhaps 1963;. developed friendly relations with ; Chicoras at The Hague and may have visited China in 1964. in August 1966 he applMed for a Chicom visa at The Hague. k. Aa PBI vepert of 12 May 1967 says that Oltmans claimed to have written for Ramparts an article about CEA in Indonesia. No such article has been found. 6. Reference B requested background information about Garrison's mental health and performance as a public official. A suminary of derogatory information from overt U.S. media for the past year (March 1967 to March 1963) hao been compiled in response. A decision will goon be made as to whether part or all of this material may be sent to the Station for use by | 4