[roe - corr - . ‘ _ . oo . ot . oe % William I. Glimans (20i~185221) REFERENCES: A. Joint State-USIA cable, HCM 553, 27 February 1968 SUMMARY Garrison appeared on Dutch TV oa 22 February. 1968. He econtiqued ~- in fact, eacalated -~ his attack upon CIA in a persuasive | performance. Pepe aie ayes fnlaay abi diy veal net te be, and a homosexual whe seems to be or to have been fntimate with exe-President Sukarno of Indonesia. Consideration is being given to forwarding[to the Station at oe The Haguejovert dsrogatory information about Garrison from the U.5- — . | press and TV/radio interviews for release to CA assets there. DETAILS 1. References state that on 22 February 1965 Garrison appeared oa Dutch TV (Dutch Television Foundation, NTS) during prime time for one hour (time not stated}. Neither reference explaine whether Garrison travelled to The Mague or whether the show was taped in the U.S. and sent on tape te Holland. The Dutch desk beifeves that the latter is true. REVIEWED BY EBINJEK TASK FORCE GROUP 1- Exctute 4d from automatic downgrading and declasstiicailea RELEASE IN FULL G ; [J] RELEASE IN PART | seorer( TOTAL DENIAL
ra 2. The following were Garrison's charges: Be Hheeetth to the tadtecnte elt, he favored @ . b. Kennedy was the victim of a CIA plot. CIA has made common cause with the military-industrial establishment because of a vested interest in maintaining the cald war. c. GIA is committed te the land war in Agia, whereas one of President Kennedy's last orders. divected = Traduction ef troops thaye. | ce. \ d. A U.S. president who brings the U.S. to the brink of peace will suffer Kennedy's fate. e. Asked why the pregram 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 be heard in his own country. -. 3: Reference A saya Garrison, calm and composed, was : " pufficiently credible to elicit rather faverable reviews from generally well informed Datch newspapers. “Several Dutch viewers also commented on the credibility i of] hia person and presentation. Likely that the NTS will try to sell thia pregram te other European stations. * 4. Reference B says that the Dutch press was generally favorable and that many comments noted he seemed logical and in contre] af his facts. The majority opinion among Embasay, USIS, and CIA personnel [as The Hague]ie that he scemed credible to a large propertion of the Dutch viewers. [SYMPATHIZER 17}teels that the program created an all-time low in the U.S. image in the Netherlands. Dutch TV alluded to a third part of the interview, still to come. 5. Garrison was interviewed by Willlam L. Oltmans. A Synopsis regarding Oltmans follows: 2 ie Nana
a. DPOB 10 June 1925 Huiszen, The Netherlands. b. Studied at Yale 1950 but expelled for unstated | ce. Thereafter worked briefly as correspondent for U.P. and for Dutch paper De Telegraaf but dismissed by both for unstated cause. a d. An FRI report of 1960 etates that he calls himgelf anti-Communist but expresses the views “of great admirer of commenism". — ~e e. An I&NS report of 1961 Mists his address for 19561961 as 118409 83rd Ave., Kew Gardens, Long Island, New York. f. A CIA report of 1961 liste him as a UN correspondent then planning an unsponsored trip te East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungery. Datch correspondents said that they had yet to see a story written by him. When he applied for membership in the UN correspondents association, he was unable to produce @ spinels dipping in support of the application... He.travele .. extensively. He has excellent contacts in all Communist esuntries including Cuba. g- The Haague Post of 15 April 1951, with a nationwide readership, characterized Oltmans ag an intimate friend of the then President of Indonesia, Sukarno, and as having tried fer five years to arrange contacts for Sukarno in Holland. h. An FBI report of 24 November 1961 restates the above and adds that he had been separated or divorced from his American wife 18 months earlier because “he is not asoan". He wae living 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).
er genre She said that her ex-husband and President Sukarno were close friends and that he wrote to Sukarno at least ence e week throughout their marriage. Around .  * paid thee bill, which wad more than $300. She met Sukarno through her husband ia May 1959 ia Copenkagen. At the time of the introduction Sukarno cleared the room of all advisors and bodyguards, then said to her, “So you are Frieda. Well, lam Sukie.“ 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 te sleep while he was in bed." She sald that ten minutes after her wedding ceremony with OClimans was over, she was alone. Her father, she said, learned that Cltmans had a police record fos molesting young boys in Amsterdam. She obtained Mexican divorce in 1966. She said that Oltmans is at least intellectually a Communist and believes Communism to be the economic system of the future. j- [HAGU-1365, 24 Gctober 1966, says Oltmans wrote pro-Lumumba cles in 1960, visited Cuba in 1962 vu. 3Bd perhaps 1963, developed friendly relations with = __ ~“ Chiceme at The Hague and may have visited China in 1964. in August 1966 he applied for a Chicom visa at The Hague. k. An FBI report of 12 May 1967 says that Oltmans claimed to have written for Rarnparts an article about CIA in Indonesia. No euch article has been found. ; &. Reference B requested background information abeut 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 1968) has been compiled in response. A decision will soon he made as to whether part or all of this material may be sent to[the Station}for use by Dutch CA assets. C9 ace | | Bante 6
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