The intensity spectra of the superstructure diffraction spots of the clean platinum (100) surface are presented for normal or nearly normal incidence. Their gross features are interpreted in terms of multiple diffraction contributions. It is shown that most of the maxima in the spectra can be explained by double diffraction processes from an idealized pure hexagonal surface layer and quadratic bulk layers. Alternative models in which the surface layer exchanges already all occuring reciprocal lattice vectors would predict additional peaks which, however, do not arise. Therefore superstructure features of the surface layer are assumed to be of second order. Thus double diffraction involving only idealized hexagonal and quadratic structures seems to dominate the diffraction behaviour of clean Pt(100).