Pieter Johannes Hoets was a Dutch Engelandvaarder, an active Dutch resistance fighter against the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War- World War II
Education
After the war he emigrated to the United States of America where he studied United States law at Yale University, joined The Coca-Cola Company where he became Chief Counsel for Coca Cola Europe, and later joined New York-based Reid & Priest, a law firm with 160 attorneys founded in 1935 with an office in Washington, District of Columbia
Career
After a failed attempt to sail to England on June 19, 1940 he eventually left the country from Delfzijl on October 13, 1944. In Stockholm he signed up as a volunteer and was assigned to the Dutch Intelligence in Stockholm to interrogate new arrivals. After he arrived in England, he served in the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army.
Hoets authored five historic books, including De jacht op de Marcos-miljarden en het Zwitsers bankgeheim ("The Yale Connection Hunting the Marcos billions and Swiss banking secrecy") Hoets died on August 28, 2014 in Stamford, Connecticut the United States.
Cross of Merit (Netherlands) Oorlogsherinneringskruis with four stars (War Memorial Cross).