BODY OF MISSING DOCTOR FOUND IN HOLLAND CANAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200790004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Body of Missing Dactor
Found in Holland Canal
From the Herald Trtoune Bureau
WASHINGTON.
The body of a man police
tentativel? identified as that
of the mysteriously missing
Dr. Richard H. Folks, a Wash-
ington pathologist, was found
floating yesterday in a canal
in Amsterdam, The Nether-
lands.
. The 56-year-old doctor; who
was stopping to Amsterdam
for four dgys , on his way to
f.g r ces of nutrition,?. dis ---'", c
geared after 2:30 a.m 1 t t r hta disannP ranee
Dec. 5 after what witnesses 0 4
,
A passer-by ,spotted the
body in the Herengracht
Cana}} opposite the spot where
a witness saw someone wbo
looked like. Dr. 'ollis "as tight
as a drum" during a severe
wind and rain storm that
early morning.
Amsterdam Police Inspector
Jaap Valken told the New
Yqrk 3erald. Tribune there
v e e fi stjis of violence_ on
the body' and tfiat ]5"r, o1Tis'
death has almost uitainly, an
aCC1de1'>tit. ~`.
Nonetheless, an autopsy by
two doctors was ordered to
heavy drinking.
determine the exact cause of
death and to confirm that the
body had been submerged in
the canal for a month.
Normally, a body in the
shallow canal would have
been expected to surface long
ago, but Inspector Valken
said yesterday the body might
have been caught by rubbish.
He also stressed that the night
of the doctor's disappearance
was terribly windy, a con-
. tributing fa"ctor
to an acci-
-nr: Follis_ was regarded by
associates in the U. S. and
abroad as pe>haps the world's
top nutritional pathologist.
His two textboolfs are used In
most of the accredited medi-
caf'sa~ools in tiie_U 9:" and
elsewhere.
He leave_ s a wife, and two
daughters, Angela, 23, and
Louise, 21, of Washington.
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Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000200790004-3