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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch83942 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-32610057] 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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1 .ACTION REQUIRED: NONE, FOR STATION BACKGRO ONL _
`RESPONSE TO REF QUESTIONS RE THE SHARING OF INFO
PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE MESSAGE WIL BF
2. HQS BELIEVES SUBJECT TO BE IDENTICAL TO WILLIAM LEONARD
((OLTMANS)), (DPOB 10 JUNE 1925, HUIZEN, THE NETHERLANDS) WHO WAS
ASSIGNED 201-0155221 ON 27 FEBRUARY, 1957, THE OCCASION OF A NAME
CHECK REQUEST AGAINST PNINFINITE FILESFROM NVGIFT/ AT THE TIME,
OLTMANS-WAS- OSTENSIBLY A -CORRESPONDENT 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
SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN DERIVED FROM PUBLIC LECTURES IN THE UNITED STATES
ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS , ESPECIALLY MATTERS TOUCHING ON ASIA IN
GENERAL, AND INDONESIA SPECIFICALLY. HE CLAIMED HE GREW UP IN
INDONESIA, AND THEREFORE KNEW THE AREA AND ITS 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
EGYPTIANS.
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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