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2623202 JAN 96

DIRECTOR 615577

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262318Z DIRECTOR 615577

PRIORITY THE HAGUE.

FROM: LIMIT EUR/BNL INFO EUR/LGL, PCS/ CL

SLUGS: WNINTEL RYBAT

SUBJECT: TRACE RESPONSE ON DUTCH JOURNALIST

PREF: THE HAGUE 13519 96 2762623

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1..

ACTION REQUIRED: NONE, FOR STATION BACKGROUND ONLY,

RESPONSE TO REF QUESTIONS RE THE SHARING OF INFO WITH LIAISON WILL BE

PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE MESSAGE

2.

HQS BELIEVES SUBJECT TO BE IDENTICAL TO WILLIAM LEONARD

(DPOB 10 JUNE 1925, HUIZEN, THE NETHERLANDS) ,

WHO WAS

ASSIGNED 201-0155221 ON 27 FEBRUARY, 1957, ON THE OCCASION OF A NAME

CHECK REQUEST AGAINST PNINFINITE FILES FROM NVGIFT: AT THE TIME,

OLTMANS WAS OSTENSIBLY A CORRESPÖNDENT FOR AN OBSCURE DUTCH WEEKLY

PUBLICATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK. HIS REPUTATION AT THE

UN WAS SUCH THAT HE WAS OSTRACISED BY THE DUTCH DELEGATION AND FELLOW

DUTCH NEWSMEN FOR HIS OPENLY PRO-INDONESIAN PUBLIC STAND ON THE DUTCH

GUINEA QUESTION. HE ALSO CLAIMED TO WORK FOR AN UNKNOWN NEWS

SYNDICATE IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT NONE OF HIS COLLEAGUES COULD

CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN ANY OF HIS WRITINGS PUBLISHED. HIS MAIN INCOME

IN THE UNITED STATES

, ESPECIALLY MATTERS TOUCHING ON ASIA IN

GENERAL, AND INDONESIA SPECIFICALLY. HE CLAIMED HE GREW UP IN

INDONESIA, AND THEREFORE KNEW THE AREA AND IT'S "CONDITIONS" WELL. IN

ADDITION, HE WAS CONSTANTLY SEEN WITH WHAT A WESTERN SOURCE WOULD

CALL "THE WRONG CROWD", AND HE HAD EXCELLENT CONTACTS WITH ALL THE

COMMUNIST DOMINATED COUNTRIES, INCLUDING CUBA AND WAS ON INTIMATE

TERMS WITH ELEMENTS SUCH AS THE GUINEANS, THE INDONESIANS, AND THE

3. ACCORDING TO DIRECTOR 243172, 12 JANUARY 1987, ONE OF THE

LAST ENTRIES IN OLTMANS' FILE,

"OLTMANS HAS BEEN A THORN IN OUR SIDE

FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

HE HAS HIGH LEVEL CONTACTS IN THE SOVIET

UNION. HE IS INDEPENDENTLY WEALTHY BY VIRTUE OF HIS FAMILY HAVING HAD

A VIRTUAL MONOPOLY ON THE QUININE TRADE AT ONE TIME. HE IS HIGHLY

INTELLIGENT BUT PECULIAR, AND WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS

EVER IN THE PAY

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OF THE SOVIETS, HE CERTAINLY HAD BEEN A FERVENT SUPPORTER OF THEIR

CAUSES. "

THE FOLLOWING ARE HIGHLIGHTS TAKEN FROM SUBJECTS RATHER

LARGE HOS FILE.

4.

HE STUDIED BRIEFLY AT YALE UNIVERSITY AND WAS EXPELLED FOR

MISBEHAVIOR (NFI). FOR A SHORT TIME THEREAFTER, HE WORKED FOR UNITED

PRESS INTERNATIONAL AND "DE TELEGRAFF", A MAJOR DUTCH DAILY

NEWSPAPER, BUT WAS FIRED FROM BOTH.

IN 1956, HE MARRIED AN AMERICAN

GROUND STEWARDESS, AND IN ON 10. JUNE 1958, HE WAS ADMITTED TO THE

UNITED STATES IN NEW YORK CITY AS A PRA, A STATUS WHICH HE HELD UNTIL

AT LEAST 1987. IN 1960, HE DIVORCED HIS WIFE, AND IN 1961, WAS

LIVING WITH A PHILIPINO MALE.

5.

NUMEROUS FIELD REPORTS INDICATE THAT IN 1956, OLTMANS

ARRANGED AN INTRODUCTION FOR HIMSELF TO INDONESIAN PRESIDENT

( (SUKARNO)) WITH WHOM HE THEN TRAVELED THROUGH EURPOPE IN 1956 AS

SUKARNO'S GUEST. HIS TRIP FROM INDONESIA TO THE U.S. IN FEBRUARY 1957

WAS PAID FOR BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT, AND ALL INDICTIONS WERE

THAT HE WAS BEING USED AS A TOOL BY THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT TO

CARRY ON PROPAGANDA IN THE U.S. AND AT THE UN. DURING THE PERIOD

1960-1961, HE SHUTTLED BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES.

6..

TELEPHONED THE DIRECTOR OF THE U.S.

EN THAT HE WAS NIL ARE CAN AS TO TUE

INFORMATION AGENCY (USIA) IN THE

INFORMATION ON ANTI-AMERICAN DUTCH GROUPS IN THE NETHERLANDS.

IN 1972, SUBJECT PLANNED TO MAKE A FILM ON ECOLOGY IN THE

FORMER SOVIET UNION AND VISITED THERE 23-26 JANUARY TO MAKE THE FINAL

ARRANGEMENTS. JAT THIS TIME, THE DUTCH SERVICE CLAIMED THAT, OLTMANS

HAD A FIVE YEAR RETAINER FROM THE RUSSIANS AS AN OVERT PR MANY. THERE

IS NO INDICATION IN THE FILE THAT THE FILM WAS EVER MADE.

IN MARCH AND APRIL 1977, OLTMANS GAINED A GREAT DEAL OF

PUBLIC ATTENTION IN THE U. S. AND THE NETHERLANDS. WHEN HE TESTIFIED

*BEFORE THE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES<ASSASSINATIONS> COMMITTEE ON

*THE LATE GEORGE DE ((MOHRENSCHILDT)) 'S CONNECTION WITH<LEE HARVEY>

*< ( (OSWALD)) ›AND THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT<JOHN>F. < ( (KENNEDY) ) .> IT HAD

LONG BEEN KNOWN THAT DE MOHRENSCHILDI, AS PART OF THE DALLAS

RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY, WAS CLOSE TO OSWALD.

OLTMANS HAD LOnG

BEEN CULTIVATING DE MOHRENSCHILDT AS A NEWS SOURCE AND FRIEND. IN

JANUARY, 1976, DE MOHRENSCHILDT WROTE OLTMANS THAT HE WAS PREPARING A

BOOK ON HOW HE (DE MOHRENSCHILDI) WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OSWALD'S

* ASSASSINATION>OF<KENNEDY. >

9.

IN. MAY 1983, THE DUTCH SERVICE HAD A TELTAP (WHICH THEY*

CONSIDERED HIGHLY SENSITIVE AS IT INVOLVED ONE OF THEIR OWN CITIZENS)

WHICH MIGHT BE CONSIDERED GOSSIP,

INTEREST TO ANALYSTS WATCHING THE INTERPLAY OF HIGH LEVEL SOVIET

PERSONALITIES, PARTICULARLY WHEN HE TALKED TO HIS LEFTIST DUTCH

FRIENDS.

THE QUESTION OF OLTMANS' PRA STATUS. CAUSED HQS TO REQUEST

STANDDOWN ON FURTHER ELICITATION OF INFO DERIVED FROM THE DUTCH

SERVICE TELTAP ON OLIMANS UNTIL A REVIEN OF LEGAL ASPECTS COULD BE 1

MADE. IT BECAME HOS UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS TELTAP WAS BEING

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*CONDUCTED BY THE DUTCH SERVICE FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES AND THAT. THEIR

INTERESTS WERE INDEPENDENT OF ANY NBOLTON INTERESTS. SINCE INFO OF

INTEREST TO NWBOLTON WAS THE BYPRODUCT OF THE TELTAP, AND

NOT INFO CONCERNING OLTMANS HIMSELF,

THE HAGUE STATION COULD CONTINUE

TO RECEIVE INFO OFFERED AND TO REQUEST ADDITIONAL AND MORE DETAILED

INFO CONCERNING SOVIET INTENTIONS WITHOUT SPECIFYING THE MANNER IN

WHICH IT WAS TO BE ACQUIRED.

THE BASIS FOR THIS DECISION WAS THAT

A)

OLTMANS HIMSELF WAS NOT THE SUBJECT OF BOLTON INTEREST AND:

B) NWBOLTON WAS NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE TELTAP.

10. ON 16 JANUARY 1987, SAN FRANCISCO STATION ADVISED THAT

SUBJECT HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN BROKERING HIGH-LEVEL CONTACTS BETWEEN A

LARGE U.S. COMPUTER MANUFACTURING COMPANY AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP AND SUPPORT AND ENHANCED RUSSIAN

MICROCOMPUTER MANUFACTURING CAPABILITY.

11. ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1987, FBIS MONITORED THE ACTIVITY OF

SUBJECT IN MARTINIQUE WHER HE WAS MEETING WITH SURINAMESE CITIZENS

AND ACCUSED FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS OF FAVORING THE SURINAME

12.

OLTMANS NEXT APPEARS IN A PRESS RELEASE OF 20 MAY 1992 WHEN

HE SOUGHT REFUGE AT THE NETHERLANDS EMBASSY IN PRETORIA, SOUTH

AFRICA, AFTER HE WAS ALLEGEDLY ACCUSED BY SOUTH AFRICA'S SECRET

SERVICE OF BEING AN AGENT FOR NWBOLTON, SAYING HE HAD GONE TO THE

EMBASSY FOR "PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE:

I FEEL UNSAFE HAVING BEEN

BRANDED A CIA AGENT".

HE ALSO SAID THAT HIS APARTMENT HAD BEEN

BROKEN INTO AND BUGGEDAND MANY OF HIS PROJECTS HAD BEEN TORPEDOED

BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN BRANDED AN NWBOLTON AGENT.

13. CL REASON: 1.5 (C), DECL ON: X-1.

FILE: 201-155221. DECL OADR DRV HUM 4-82 . >

ORIG:

EUR/BNL (RICHSNC, 39188) ; AUTH: DC/EUR/BNL (0' DONOVAN) ; COORD

FURLIGL (FRED); REL:

C/EUR/BNL.

CL BY 0528417.

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