| AW 53074 JFK Assassination System Date: 5/27/201 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: FBI Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10294-10351 lssassination Records : oOllection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: HQ (44 USC 2107 Note}. ase#: NW S3074 Date: AGENCY FILE NUMBER: = 2-1693-80 HS—-25-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC,MM TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE: ~ DATE: 03/14/1963 PAGES:. 5 SUBJECTS : INTERPEN, GPH, ANTI-COMMUNIST LEGIONAIRES, PUBLICITY, TRAINING, ASSOC, CRIM ACT DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified ; RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/24/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC MEMO i v9.1 DoclId: 32306493 Page 1
: OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 - 2 oe: + ¥2'5010-104-01 po bd ~ are UNITiD STATES GOY “XNMENT ~. Memorandum TO: Director, FBI (2-1693) DATE: 3/14/63 Cb, Hate, Miami (2- 345) GUC) coe : supjecT: = ¢ WALLACE H. WELCH | og F | JERRY PATRICK HEMMING ips. , LORENZO HALL | iB ‘ NEUTRALITY MATTERS ay Dallas 00 a 7 ane ev Ege ce. FE), ERTL A ET I Re Dallas letter to Bureau 2/7/63, and Bureau letter to Dallas 2/20/63. ° _ | B Appaok 999 Gh Ghabans The files of the Miami Office gntain the follow- ing information concerning GERALD PATRICK TSE which information has been furnished byJ byaMM 639- =S. A) WS In April, 1961, _GEORGE/ XE ER, |former Army Major, established an anti-CASTRO. 0 ‘ganization known. as the Anti-Communist Legionnaires. This ortganization consisted of about twenty American adventurers and soldiers of fortune. =e tn OTS In May, 1961, HEMMING took over the organization and established a military training camp in the Florida Everglades, about 40 miles west of Miami. He recruited about 17 Americans from Houston, Denver and Chicago, with y) reckless promises of high pay and adventure. a ‘a . In June, 1961, HEMMING held a parachute demon- Sy stration at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and received con- Ks M siderable press publicity. As a result a large number & SN of adventurets came to Miami to join him and his group, Vad if many of these persons were later arrested for vagrancy, . Che layesy bad checks, breakingvand entering, and thefts. Most of Noe YRS: them have since left Mbanit oy, Yo by . BEX C2? Bureau cyt 5 - ‘6 Fe 4 g NS cA @ " | 1 - Jacksonville. (info. i ht 1S |! 2 - Miami | HW 4535074 pockd: 32308493 Page 2?
Nee eee MM 2-345 . “ On: December 4, 1963, HEMMING and twelve of his men were arrested by United States Customs, for attempting to illegally export arms, and going on a military expedition. Later the U.S. District Court Judge, Miami, Florida, dismissed the case because the U.Ss. Department of Justice failed to go ahead with the prosecution. In February:;) 1963, HEMMING collaborated with Miami Attorney CHARLES ASHMANN, and furnished false in- formation to the press and the British government con- cerning the capture of eight Cubans on February 20, 1963 by the Cuban government. -HEMMING, a 6'6", 26 year old adventurer and mercenary, is frequently seen wearing a U.S. Marine Corps Combat suit in downtown Miami; frequently wears a Van Dyke type of goatee, and is called one of the "Three Musketeers" by the press, because of his handsome appear- ance, and his flair for wearing an Australian type bush hat. : -HEMMING is not cooperative with the United States government, is a self-styled expert on Latin affairs, U.S. policy, federal law and guerrilla war- fare. HEMMING interprets the failure of the United States government to prosecute him for his violations of federal law as meaning U.S. government approval of his activity. . ’ “fs AIM) \ £3, fons 639- dvised that_LORENZO.4 .is loosely associated with HEMMING, has been in Miami “for about three months, is. disagreeable, not liked, has bad personality and is of low moral standards. HALL speaks some Spanish, is unemployed and from his demeanor and ~3 « | HW 53074 DoclId:32308493 Page 3