14-00000 Djakarta, Indonesia. He claimed to be a non-quota immigrant as the husband of Josephine A. F..OLTMANS, a United States citizen. [FBI FR (New York), 29 June 1962 - DBA 145232] Summer of 1958. OLTMANS worked in a book store at the old terminal at Idelwild Airport, but he was subsequently fired from this job. [FBI FR (New r York)» 1 February 1962 - DBA 796.] September 1958 - OLTMANS began lecturing on political affairs for Colston Leigh. i [FBI FR (New. York), 1 February 1962 - DBA 796.1 1959 “According to an article appearing in Haagse Past on 15 April 1961 (an independent weekend publication with a nationwide | readership) , "Leading figures of Netherlands trade and industry had a secret, arrangement with President SUKARNO two years ago in Rome to ‘talk with him about Netherlands assets in Indonesia. How- ever, they waited in vain in the Italian capital for several weeks; in spite of a clear arrangement made via a Dutch journalist, SUKARNO failed to turn up. “His name is only known to few in The Netherlands - the young: Dutch: reporter who, an intimate friend of SUKARNO, for five long years has been trying to lay contacts between the Indonesian Chief of State, Netherlands captains of industry. and Netherlands politicians - the same man who currently is active in the United States and in. the lobbies of the United Nations and is the trouble- some opposite number of (Foreign) Minister LUNS: it is the 35-year: old Willem L. OLTMANS, who stands recorded, with Domestic Security Service as an activist opposing Dutch interests, but who himself emphatically says 'Whatever I do I am doing in the interest of The Netherlands and international peace'." . | [Haagse Post, 15 April 1961; reported in American Embassy airgram no. G-474, from The Hague, 21 April 1961.]. | May 1959 | Because of OLTMANS' wife's. employment with KLM, she was en- SEGRET
14-00000 -19 May 1959 fo G titled to a free airplane flight, as was her husband, to any point — “on the KLM system and so he decided to meet SUKARNO in Istanbul | ' while. he was on-his way to Copenhagen. She said that. she joined | her husband in ‘Amsterdam when the: SUKARNO party arrived there and* then they, subsequently went on to. Copenhagen. [FBI FR ( New York), 1. February. 1962 - DBA. 796. 1 According to an FBI source, OLTMANS had formerly been carried | as. ‘a United Nations correspondent. to the Amsterdam news - paper ‘vrij Nederland; however, he has | ‘not been accredited since 19 May” 19s9. | [FBI FR ew, York), 1. February 1962 - DBA. 796. 1 1 1 February | 1960 - . - _ OLTMANS ‘spoke before the Women: s Club in Sewickly, Penn- sylvania, in a. speéch entitled "Let's, Stop Losing Friends Abroad". His. services. in’ making. this speech were obtained. through a New York . booking agent, “Colston Leigh. He. ‘made, according. ‘to this source, - many stining remarks regarding. the United States and expressed opi-. nions of a. definite anti- Netherlands nature. “He referred to the “Netherlands Government as stupid and stated The Netherlands should have given, New Guinea to Indonesia. He mentioned that the Netherlands . Government considers him a traitor. It was. observed by this source. that OLTMANS is accepted in th e well-to- do circles. and that listen-_ ers are. impressed by hin. Source commented that although OLTMANS | calls himself anti- communist, his views. are at best, those of a great admirer of communism ° y and what the communist. system ‘represents. Many: - of those with whom he comes in contact docnat Tecognize his true sym- pathies. [FBI FR (Pietsburgh), 14 March 1960 - DBF . AS391. 1 1960 - + os OLTMANS in the Congo. © _TONHW 13150, 46 April 1961.].- January 1960 7 _ OLTMANS states (during an executive session, 16 August a | - SEGRET.
14-00000 30 June 1960-. cone oe: = 10 - 1962) "My first visit (to Cuba) was abrief one and I did not write’ about it. “I made a Statement to Revolucion and El Mundo, ; two Havana newspapers, in which r said that it seemed. to me of — primary importance that relations, between Washington and Havana remained fluent [sic - fluid 2] and that. the U. S. ‘Government should work together with CASTRO. I likened Fidel CASTRO to: | President. SUKARNO of: Indonesia. I drew a parallel. and called both leaders: the. fathers of their ‘countries. ¥ do know SUKARNO. rather “intimately ‘well and I saw clear similarities, at that. time, in their political philosophies. I maintained that I believed ‘Cuba should | associate with the Afro- Asian bloc, as foreign Minister Raul ROA' s visits ‘to Cairo and. Belgrade at the time’ seemed to ‘suggest. * ‘That ae same year. President SUKARNO went on a state visit to Havana". ‘(Hearing before the ‘Senate ‘Subcommittee, 30 November , 1962, Pe 34. on ae teense Frieda _BIELING stated she and her husband were separated in March 1960. 5 ‘She obtained a. Mexican divorce on, 30 June 1960. (FBI FR. “Olen York) 5 1 February 1962 ~ DBA 796. 1 August’ and. September 1960 OLTMANS traveled. to Leopoldvitte and Brazzaville as a a | journalist, with Vij Nederland, He was, strongly pro- -LUMUMBA, in, his comments, and criticized the French interference in the Congo" ss politics. re oo 5 we [CSCI-3/767,897 18 October 1961 to sy somes: [Bette 9 September 1960 | s OLTMANS left Brazzaville for Rome. _ CO , > [CSCI-3/767,597' 18 October 1961 to I&NS; source: [ official Latter Part of 1960 OLTMANS visited Cuba as a guest of Anbassador ‘BISBE (Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations) . [Hearing before Senate Subcommittee, 30 November 1962, p. 44.] oe
14-00000 Late 1969 or Farly 1961 “OLTMANS states (durine an executive session on. 16 August 1962) that. "following my sécond journey to Cuba, as _ “reported in ‘the Republican. of Pottsville, Pennsylvania,. i | have said, (It takes me a- long. time. before T call. anyone a a conmunist, for, we too often: call foreign leaders connunists, “put, vunder_ Fidel CASTRO, Cuba is going: communist’, re | (Hearing before. a Senate Subcommittee,. 39. November | 1962, pe 35. Pow 19. 31. Decenber 1969 . ee, ODTMANS in. Bonn, Germany, as: a. correspondent of the Vrij Nederland, to, inforn himself of the relations between Germany ‘and. the ussr,. of ‘the German position on NATO and ‘of o the aiestion, ‘concerning | the reunification of the two parts © a of Germany. “According | to source ,, OLTMANS calls himself anti- communist ; hovever, he is greatly interested in the communist countries in ‘Asia and Europe. and ‘throughout, the world. | a {Cscr- 3/767, 597. "18 October 1961 to TENS; eee | 18 Decembér 1960 | _ OLTMANS ‘Wrote in the Providence Journal (Re . 2). ‘that ace kids” ‘on. the ‘street fin Havana] wave communist Chinese: » etaee | and. wear hanner and sickle insignas:= ; - teenage boys stroll ~" around carrying revolvers and Czech- made weapons. woe CASTRO has ordered the loval Fidelistas to report defeatists to the police - « »« What a difference the Cuba today of what I saw a year-ago. . . today people live in fear they thought had gone oe forever with the ouster of the dictator BATISTA. an me | [Hearing before a Senate Subcannittee, 39, November. 1962, p. 31. 1 | “1 January 1961 OLTMAN iS states (during an executive session on 16 Au- - gist. 1962) that ny revorted in the - same ‘paper [Providence | Journal), "These cooperatives. are only a hairbreadth, from the | Chinese. commune system. “Ana tte hairbreadth may well disapvear oe when CASTRO begins to feel the pinch of the U. S. -embargo-on his sucar crov. a CASTRO has made no bones about the fact that he | SELRET.