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13-00000 oN - 206 1 March 1968 MEMORANDUM SUBJECT: © Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination: ~~ _ Interview of Garrison on Dutch TV by aN William L. Oltmans {201-155222) REFERENCES: <A. Joint State-USIA cable, HCM 553, . HAGUE - 3981, 24 Nepean 1968 _ OF ASR 27 February 1963 ore. District A7Torney a | Aeuisat Mew Or leans i . ‘ ; James rrison appearéd én Dutch TV on 22 February 1968:- He continued -- in fact, escalated -- his attack upon CIA in a persyasive performance. There is a possibility of a follow-up program in . Holland and replays elsewhere in Europe. Garrison's interviewer, . -... William:.L.. Olnmans, is:e Dutch pro-Cormmunist. although he pretends. not to be, and a homosexual wnho seems to be or to have been intimate . with ex-President Sukarno of Indonesia. | Consideration is being given to forwarding to oe Sttoway  Gihe“Hague overt derogatory information about Garrison from the U.S. press and TV/ radio interviews for release to CA assets there. DETAILS. - 4. References state that on 22 February 1968 Garrison» ‘appeared on Dutch TV (Dutch Television Foundation, NTS) during | prime time for one hour (time not stated). Neither reference explaina . whether Garrison travelled to The Hague or whether the show was taped in the U.S. and sent on tape to Holland. The Dutch desk believes ‘that the latter is true. . on ye GS COPY
13-00000 fm anor nr ee | 2. The following were Garrison's charges: a., Kennedy was murdered because he favored a detente detrimental to the interests of the "rmilitary- industrial complex". . (by Kennedy was the victim of a CIA plot. CIA af has made common cause with the military~-industrial establishment because of a veated interest in maintaining the cold Wars c. CIA is committed: to the land war in Asia, . whereas one of President Kennedy's last orders directed Fy reduction of troops there. ge dd. AU.S. president who brings | the U.S. tothe — brink of peace will suffer Kennedy's fate. . {@s; Aaked why the program had been designed for,’ ‘a European audience, Garrison said that the growing’ ©. influence of CIA on U.S. media had made it impossible for him to bs heard in his own country. j . Re Reference A- ways: Garrison, calm and composed, was - - ‘guiticicaily credible to elicit rather favorable reviews from generally well informed Dutch newspapers. "Several Dutch viewers also commented on the credibility i of / his person and presentation. Likely that the NTS will ey to sell this program to other European stations." . 4. Reference B says that the Dutch press was penerally favorable and that many comments noted he seemed logical and in contrel of his facts. The majority opinion among Embassy, USIS, and GIA personnel) at The Hague is that he seemed credible to a large proportion of the . Dutch viewers. G¥YMPATHIZER 17 feels that the program created an ' all-time low in the U.S. image in the Netherlands, Duteh TV alluded to a third part of the interview, still to come. 5. Garrison was interviewed by William L. Oltmans. A synopsis regarding Oltmans follows: nd GEARS Baye: |
13-00000 a. DPOB 10 Jane’ 1925 Huizen, The Netherlands. b. Studied at Yale 1950 but expelled for unstated misbehavior. . c. Thereafter worked briefly as correspondent for U.P. and for Dutch paper De  Tetearast but dismissed by both for unstated cause. ear d. An FBI report of 1960 states that he calis - himself anti-Communist but expresses the views “of a great admirer of communism". . ‘@e; AB IRNS report of 1961 lists his address for 1956-1961 as 118-09 83rd Ave., Kew Gardens, Long Island, New York. f. & CIA report of 1961 HstshimasaUN ~~ _ correspondent then planning an unspensored trip to East. Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Dutch,” correspondents sald 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 single clipping in support of the application. He travels a extensively. He- has excellent: contacts: fm-all. Communist. ‘countries including Cuba. g. The Haague Post Post of 15 5 April i961, with a nationwide readership, . “characterized Oltmans as an intimate friend of the then President of Indonesia, Sukarno, ; , and as baving tried for five years to arrange contacts ee for Sukarno in Holland. 7 h, An FBI report of 24 November 1961 restates. the above and adds that he had been separated or divorced from his American wife 13 months earlier because "he is nota man". He was diving with a male at the time of the report. i. An FBI report of 1 February 1962 includes an. interview with the ex-wife Frieda Bieling (she had remarried). wwe errr ca °
13-00000 Ex 2066 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 Oltmanse lived at the Paramount Hotel, New. York, for atime. The Indonesian government ‘pald their bill, which was more than $300. She met | Sukarno through her husband in May 1959 in Copenhagen. || At the time of the introduction Sukarno cleared the *.yoom of all advisors and bodyguards, then said te her, . "So you are Frieda. Well, Iam Sukle."" He told her "that he looked forward to receiving his weekly messages ' from her husband and that he always read them just . before he went to sleep while he was in bed." She waid- that ten minutes after her wedding ceremony with , _ Oltmans was over, she was alone. Her father, she paid, learned that Oltmans had a police record for molesting young boys in Amsterdam. She obtained a. . Mexican divorce in 1960. She said that.Oltmans is at - least intellectually a Communist and believes Communism to be the economic system of the future. — ee oo j. GHAC ULI 365, 24 October 1966, says Oltmans* ‘wrote pro-Lumurnba articles in 1960, visited Cuba in 1962 and perhaps 1963,. developed friendly relations. with | Chicoms at The Hague and may have visited China in 1964, In August 1964 he applied for a Chicom visa at The Hague. k. An PBI report of 12 May 1967 says that Oltmans claimed te have written for Ramparts an article about CIA in Indonesia. Neo such article has been found. 6. Reference B requested background information about Garrison's mental health and performance as a public official. A summary of derogatory information from overt U.S. media for the past year (March 1967 to March 1963) has been compiled in response. A decision will soon be made as to whether part or all of this material tothe Station
13-00000 Distribution: Orig ~ DCI '] - DBP, ADDP Lb -A/DCI _ - | » Eur/Netherlands l - Office of General Counsel | . Office of Security i - C/I, DC/CI l.~ R&A chrono 1 + DP reports file -