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104-10326-10057 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/26/1996)

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 MHFNO:  96-2985818          SENSIND: RYBAT                          PAGE:
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                                                           STAFF
     F    JEURBNL(      INFO: EUDORECORD  EUR/LL,  LIMITO, MDSX,  ODPD,
  PCS/CL, FILE  (0/P)
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  96 2985818    ASP                  PAGE 001
                                TOT: 262320Z JAN 96       DIRECTOR 615577
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  S E C R E T
  STAFF                             262318Z DIRECTOR 615577
  TO:  PRIORITY                     2       D        657

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

  SLUGS:  WNINTEL RYBAT

  SUBJECT:  TRACE RESPONSE ON DUTCH JOURNALIST

  REF:            13519  96 2762623

  TEXT:

  _-   .ACTION   REQUIRED: NONE,  FOR STATION BACKGROUND ONLY 1--
  (RESPONSE TO REF QUESTIONS RE THE SHARING OF  FO
  PROVIDED IN A SEPARATE MESSAGE,.  -L

      2.  HQS BELIEVES SUBJECT TO BE IDENTICAL TO WILLIAM LEONARD
   ((OLTM5)), (DPOB 10 JUNE 1925, HUIZEN, THE NETHERLANDS)  WHO WAS
 ASSIGNED 201-0155221_QN2TLEEBRUA     _135TLI
                         ____   _________ ____AT T-IE TIME,
 OLTMANS WAS- STENSIBLY A  CORRESPONDENT FORAN  OBSCURE DUTCH  EEKLY
 PUBLICATION AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK. HIS REPUTATION AT THE
 UN  AS SUCH THAT HE WAS OSTRACISED BY THE DUTCH DELEGATION AND FELLOW
 DUTCH NEWSMEN FOR HIS OPENLY PRO-INDONESIAN PUBLIC STAN  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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