14-00000 to fulfill a mission: a new formulated meeting of the interests of The Netherlands and Indonesia. He wanted to go to Djakarta to make a thorough study of the problems and after paying a number of visits he secured financial aid (10,000 guilders) of some six Netherlands enterprises with interests in Indonesia. Moreover, he entexgd into arrangements: with some papers, for which he could write articles as their foreign. correspondent. . | vin Djakarta, he soon met numerous Dutchmen, including Professot : P., Ne _ DROST (who after having served in 1950 for one year with the United Nations Human Rights Division, discontinued his ser- vice because of unsatisfactory cooperation). During a visit which he paid to DROST, OLTMANS discussed with him the position of the Dutch in Indonesia, their dissatisfaction with the policy pursued in. The Hague, their desire to emerge from the Indonesian-Netherlands impasse and. in this connection also the New Guinea issue. He made the suggestion of expressing all these desires in an address to the States General; Professor DROST himself was enthusiastic over it, and that very’ evening, he drafted an address which was stenciled with the. cooperation of.a Dutch enterprise in Djakarta, and within | some days was signed by 300 Dutch nationals. The address, which invited Parliament to set talks with . Indonesia going again and to assume a more accommodating attitude towards ‘SUKARNO because otherwise sharp measures were to be expec- ted against Dutch nationals and interests in Indonesia, was used by the Indonesian representative to the United Nations to weaken the official arguments. In The Netherlands press a storm was raised against the signatories to the address and especially against the journalist OLTMANS who was cited by DROST as the initiator. The papers for which he acted as foreign correspondent terminated the contracts. [Haagse Post, 15 April 1961.] 1956 OLTMANS claimed during an open session before the Senate Subcommittee, on 30 November. 1962, that he interviewed SUKARNO in Role, although the editor of De Telegraaf, the leading Dutch news- paper, forbade OLTMANS to interview President SUKARNO.
14-00000 "In order to verify my impressions, I went to Indonesia for the first time in my life for the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant, that is the Times of The Netherlands, and I stayed there until 1956 and 1957, and I made many trips throughout the country, and I got to. know President SUKARNO intimarely, and I am now writing a- ‘ ‘book on . him, | the first book ever written on SUKARNO". [Hearing. before- Senate Subcommittee, 30 November 1962, p. 42.] May 1956_ | _.. Inasmuch as OLTMANS had not been very successful’ in his writings~in Holland, he went to Rome where he was able to wangle an invitation toa reception for SUKARNO at the Indonesian Embassy. He then contacted ‘the representative of a leading French newspaper and offered to. do a: story on SUKARNO for that newspaper. This offer was accepted, ‘and. OLTMANS subsequently attended the reception for SUKARNO, where he presented SUKARNO with a silver ash tray. Appar- ently through this meeting and subsequent meetings SUKARNO permitted him to travel with the press entourage from Indonesia which was tra- veling with SUKARNO. He later became the only Western newspaperman who traveled, ‘with the SUKARNO party as it made its way around Europe on state visits and this travel included a visit to Yugoslavia. He was unable to: gotto the USSR as he was unable to obtain a visa and _ to get a seat on the airplane. Frieda BIELING stated that despite the cordiality of ‘Indonesian newspapermen toward OLTMANS there was a certain amount of jealousy exhibited by these newsmen because of OLTMANS' close personal contact with SUKARNO. [FBI FR (New York), 1 February 1962 - DBA 796.] OLTMANS subsequently returned to Holland where he started to contact various Dutch industrial corporations whose holdings in Indonesia had been seized or were in jeopardy of being seized by the Indonesian Government. He was able to convince some of these indus- trialists, particularly a Mr. REINKENS, the President of Unilever, © that because of his close relationship with SUKARNO he would be able to arbitrate between the industrial empires and the Indonesian Governinent for adequate compensation for their properties. In addi-. tion, he had also made arrangements with the Amsterdam newspaper Elsevier to furnish them with several articles concerning Indonesia SESRET
14-00000 and, according to Mrs. BIELING, did have two or three articles published from Indonesia. | [Ibid.] December 1956- Hee cecmereateamaadiin mae anuiaeceemmaeeanseemeetneraaen erence neat eal ~ OLTMANS went to Indonesia. Shortly after his arrival there, he published the so-called "appeal of Netherlanders in Indonesia ‘to The Netherlands States General" to reconsider its a attitude on Netherlands New Guinea. The signatures under this appeal were collected through the intermediary of the Nieuwsgier, a Dutch language newspaper now, according to sourc e, completely in Indonesian hands and assumed to be indirectly controlled by the Indonesian . Government. [CSCI- 3/748, 549. 4 February 1958 ly a report dated 12 February 1957 from eel February, ‘4957 OLIMANS' efforts to bring about some type of rapproche- ment between the industrialists and the Indonesian Government ap- parently failed and in February 1957, at which time Frieda BIELING was in’ the United States, she received a télegram stating he was coming to ‘the’ United Nations. to do press work for the Indonesian Government. At the time he arrived, the whole question of Dutch control of. New Guinea was being “brought before the United Nations and she presumed that this was the reason for his arrival in the. United States. [FBI FR (New York), 1 February 1962 - DBA 796.] 9 February 1957 __ 5 Notice from Immigration and Natur&lization Service announcing ALTMANS ' arrival in Honolulu. The reasonzgiven for this visit was to attend the United Nations General Assembly (about four weeks). | [Enclosure to CSCI-3/775,788.] 19 February 1957 - OLTMANS married Frieda WESTERMAN. According to her, her marriage to OLTMANS was not a normal SECRET  &
14-00000 relationship, e.g., he was constantly traveling and had left the United States less than a month after their marriage. On theday of their marriage, ten minutes after the ceremony, he had left her and .she was walking through Greenwich Village in New York City by herself. At, one time her father had determined that OLTMANS had a police record for molesting young boys in Amsterdam, Holland, and that. he had been under ‘psychiatric care with his uncle, a well-known Dutch psychiatrist, for homosexuality. Subsequently, by chance, she read a diary which he maintained, which gave a detailed account of his daily life, in addition to his homosexual activities; she stated that this convinced her that she must obtain a divorce. [FBI FR (ew York), 1 February 1962 - DBA 796.] September 1957. _ OLTMANS: traveled to The Netherlands. After paying a number of visits to prominent Dutch politicians and industrialists, during which. he pleaded for talks on Irian (Netherlands New Guinea) between - ‘the ‘two countries, he rented a reception hall in the Hotel de Witteberg, and organized a meeting of some well-known members of Parliament, of the Council of State, industrialists, and financiers. This meet ing actually took place on 16 October 1957. OLT- MANS ‘opened the meeting and warned about an impending Irian action unless early talks were initiated with the. Indonesians. At the con- clusion of the meeting OLTMANS received 1500 guilders to cover expen- ses (which actually amounted to 900 guilders). [Haagse Post, 15 April 1961.] 17 April 1958. Anfofficial _| stated that according to press communications dated 17 April 1958, OLTMANS wrongly posed as a correspondent of the Wall Street Journal while in Djakarta. [CSCL-3/767, 597 18 October 1961 to I§NS.] 10 June 1958 OLTMANS was readmitted to the United States as a permanent resident. He had been issued an M-1 visa and. was carrying a Dutch passport no. 2016214 issued by the Diplomatic Representative in SLORET 7 ey