FOLLIS SPENT LAST DAYS AT HIGH SPOTS

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000200790024-1
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1
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November 11, 2016
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July 7, 1999
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24
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December 15, 1965
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M.TS F HL' , iL'.) Approved For Release 1999/D5T t 5 OPA-RDP75- Follis arrived by air on Dec. , Fohis Spent Ience but interrupted his plane trip to talk with Dr. I-I,A.P.C. Last Days a' Oomcn, clirector of the Insti? JJii6.a1/J tote .for Tropical Hygiene, who lives in Laren, 17 miles from ? here. P,,,,-h S7,ao-r Talks with Dutch authorities i~ ?. on food problems were planned in advance. Fouls met with Oomen that morning. Scientist 3(t AlICJ1 He also had scheduled a talk Missing Recently with Prof. A..Querido in Lei-I 'den hat he never met Querido.! In Amsterdam Behavior: Different By W. G. Ket Oomen said later: "l' know; STATINTL AMSTERDAM, Dec. 14 "?",. "? talk. 11'c drank a cup of cof- Dr. Richard M. Follis Jr..of. fee. Follis was very en- Washington" was. the third, chcnted to see me again. It foc'cign visitor to disappear; was 10 o'clock in the morning. He said he wondered what mysteriously in Amsterdam,. Amsterdam was like at Christ- the Netherlands, within a,,inas time. Nothing gave me the impression of a sudden statue of the master painter, feW months. Folliss associates in Wash- disaster. Only one thing I,Rembrandt. Although the many canals rcmemb,-r was that it was not ington say that American Em- here have been dragged on,; Follis was' known as an al bassy officials do not know of quite the behavior of the Follis most total abstainer, not a the remise that he was mur- ?I knew before. Follis was, how any contact between Follis premise drinker. But at midnight in?and the girl. dered, the body of the Ameri? can I explain it, let us say, ab Amsterdam, he was full ofd, Follis was gone from his-ho- can authority on nutritional sent minded." ' spirits' and had very friendly;tel room the next morning.' pathology; iias not been found., Monday afternoon, Prof. discussions with everybody,He was seen next in an under-. He disapi'earcd. Dec. 5. '1Querido waited in. vain for out of that waterfront milieu'world jewelry store on the Follis to keep a date with him who begs for a drink when Heisteeg where he promised (1')c Associated Press re at the University of Leiden.; they think a rich American isito buy an $80 ring, but he ported yesterday that Amster-,'When the American failed to a here. never came back for it. dam police have called off the'appear, he called the Ameri- Follis met a woman there He vanished until midnight search.) can Embassy. His call trig. named Wally. when he was seen again in $1000 Prey? gered the investigation. She told me: Queridos said later: "I was "That man was a nice man. the Schiller Hotel, not drunk , desceibed' The Amsterdam Criminal He seemed depressed to but very nervous, like a tiger going to and fro. Investigation Departrteut says' I gU1Ci4 wi thoughtth my Follis did alarm, some beca+ase work' He was carrying something in that" Follis presumably was, for the CIA. He traveled much! his mind that was heavy. He Then he left the hotel and murdered by gangsters who; more than necessary for his! said I was a sincere girl de- visited the Trocadero night- thought him a $1000 prey. scientific duties." spite my profession. He bought club. There, witnesses say, he It is known that Follis spent` Follis was booked at the me a bottle of champagne. We drank quite a lot and was not one'. evening before he disap' Hotel Schiller, went from bar to bar. He got able to pay his bill of $15, ? pearcd in the company of a a first rate lintel .on Rembrandt Square, - lieiplessly drunk and we Caine He was seen again in the woman he met in a bar. to anI end in the Amstelbar, a I Schiller Hotel but did not 'ask ':the picturesque joy-center of for his ke and soon left. Amsterdam police feel he