104-10273-40346 vEAR NUMBER a NEW DOCUMENT RECORD 5. ‘ ] 4 instevetcons for Divisions ond Stoffs: 1 : F ’ a leq ay) 82 6 Ba : }. Fill ia ond Sign on line 7), r ‘ = 2. Use back of form for eny additionol comments. DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION (Circle if oppropriste} (130 CHARACTERS) 2 on CABLE “FORM ; Pa TCH BETTER . MEMO ) ‘ vty ott — S , 8 if JUN r=) RY AIRGRAM . . a a — FROM/ORIGINATOR (2% CHARACTERS) - TO/RECIPIENT (30 CHARACTERS} Depry Chief fr Araly SiS | S SUBJECT 160 CHARACTERS) Hemm’ > Gerald Patrick . Tony | wontw | a or ay A. Release in full text ___ E. Sustain initial denial in toto. B. Release in sanitized form F, Sustain initial release of Cc. Deny in toto of sanitized version Defer decision to (Specify in line 8) G. Release additional information Coordinate with (Specify in line 8) LK wl etrreah SIGNATURE OF DO/JIMS/ FPL G REVIEWING OFFICER Determinations: Ob ag ET EXEMPTIONS AND PROVISIONS CLAIMED (490 CHARACTERS) : . . €.0, 12356 . FOIA PA 1. Classification (b) (1) (xk) (1) 2. Information from liaison with a Foreign Government  (b) (3) (3) Q) 3. Information pertaining to a liaison (b) (3) (3). 2) relationship with a Foreign Government , Information which would/could identify the (b) (3) (jd) Q) source ; Information pertaining to a source (b) (3) (3) Q) Information pertaining to intelligence methods (b) (3) (J) Q) Location of CIA overseas installation (b) (3). (3) Q) Location of unacknowledged domestic . . (b}(3) -+ +44) (ie installation ; Namé ” bE fa employee ¢ (b) (3) (3) QQ) File numberS ; (b) (3) (3) (2) Pseudonym . (b) (3)..--45) (2) - Cryptonym — (b) (3) (3) (1) Internal organizational data (3) (1) Name of an FBI agent - FBI file number _ Privacy of other individual Does not pertain to request - Other (Specify in line 11) ee _ —s x 9. 10. il. bt pa fe Ws e¢ @ bee ad e¢ @ NLT REMARKS UF OTHER WAS CHECKED ABOVE} (49 CHARACTERS) SIGNATURE /OF FICE OF CO COMPONENT REVIEWING OF FICER REMARKS (160 CHARACTERS: ic WEMMING : Thea Form sa Uncloaansfeed Uniess The Clesarfrcation is Choc ton , end The lalormation below as completed. 14 Ci By DECL OADR
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13-00000 ll June 1976 MESORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group SUBJECT ‘> HEMMING, Gerald Patrick SF#429 229 1. On 9 June 1969 oY 2 a contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING. S° lwas referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING file. When «wy [contacted the writer, i advised that he is the action” officer for a cable from the | | Station reporting an assassination plot on the life 6 resident LAUGERUD of Guatemala. 1 }was unfamiliar with the case of Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file . on HEMMING. was requested to alert ia and JMWAVE to the below-mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a copy of the report coming in from the [Stations 2. .“ (provided the writer with a copy of the cable CIN 944357, . ‘dated 8 June 19765), which 1s attached. In substance, the cable reflects that circa § June 1976 a Guatemalan source, with the knowledge of Guatemalan President EAUGERUD, provided the [Station a written report, and a detailed briefing, concerning a plot ‘to assassinate President LAUGERUD. According to the informa- ‘tion the plot was to have been carried out on 15 September 1975; however,’ one of the major conspirators, Jorge Antonio "Cokie" ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result of an attack upon his, ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living in Miami since August 1975. 3. According to the report, the National Liberation Movement was involved with ZIMERI in the assassination plot and ZIMERI in turn was involved with two Americans, brothers, Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING. The HEMMING brothers assisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms, among other things, which were flown to Guatemala in a small aircraft. The report also claims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials in Miami and New Orleans. re ee | E2 IMPDET if i , oe CL BY 0635992.
NOTE: Thel [Statvon also included information the Chics of Station had received ~: Ss, 1 \. fx TOR A? . on § Junc. ae 34a thar sae had oecen providing information on ZIMERI to the Guatemalan government for the past six months or so. He claimed that two Americans were involved with ZIMERI, one of them who runs a guard service in Miami. cy | did not mention names but described one of the-Americans as about six feet four inches and weighing about 230 pounds. 4. The Guatemalan report of the assassination plot ends with five requests for information by President LAUGERUD: a. Is ZIMERI still in the United States? b. In the event ZIMERI is not in the United States legally, deport him to Guatemala. c. Is ZIMERI recruiting merceraries in the United States for possible use in Guatemala? d. Boes ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen- tial treatment by U. S. authorities which permit him to carry firearms, as well as to purchase arms and ammunition for shipment to Guatemala? e. Any information on Robert and Gerald «.. HEMMING? 5S. On 19 June 1976 ww . . tay advised that DDO is referring the entire matter to the FBI and State Nepartment. 6. Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING. 7. From the name, physical description, activity, and alleged employment, it is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEMMING — is identical with the subject of Office of Security file 429 225, who has been described as six-foot five, 250 pounds, who is a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who as_ of May 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation company, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in Miami, Florida. 2 tele 3 4 ! he ome teal, ba ade a eu Sela a
13-00000 8. Gerald Patrick NEMMING is well known to this Agency, the Office of Security Miami Ficld Office, and JMWAVE. Ga Hewwe rubs OStas Gis SLC atl Least the carly 1566's, NOMA. had claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there has beea none. The most. recent incident wherein HEMMING claimed such. affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his servi:es to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Geraid Patrick HEMMING is a long-time cohort of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SF#355 459), * aka: Frank FIORINI, of Watergate notoriety who also has a long-time record of falsely claiming Agency affiliation. In the late 1950's HENMING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Marines, joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter Claiming disillusionment with the CASTRO cause. Soon thereafter, STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and Central American activities which he named the International _ 4 Anti-Communist- Brigade. A reported sub-unit of this "Brigade" (the backers of whom have never been fully established) was named the Intercontinental Penetration Force, headed by Gerald Patrick HEMMING. 9. For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot involving HEMMING, you are referred to attachments to instant memorandum, to wit: a memorandum by the writer dated 10 June 1975 in the name of Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNT, Jr.; and an extract from a book published in early 1976 written hy Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN. The book Coup d'etat in America--The CIA and the Assassination of John’ F. Kenacuy is a diatribe against the Agency and attempts to link the Agency with the assassination of President KENNEDY. One of the major links attempted by the authors is through Everett Howard HUNT, Jr. to Frank STURGIS to Gerald Patrick HEMMING to Loran Eugene HALL. Loran Eugene HALL was a member of HEMMING's Interconti- nental Penetration Force. Loran Eugene HALL received nationwide publicity in 1967 when New Orleans District Attorney "Jim" GARRISON alleged that HALL (and the Intercontinental Penetration Force) was involved in the assassination of President KENNEDY and that members of this unit were connected with CIA. GARRISON shortly thereafter dropped his interest in HALL, but it is interesting that he did so after Gerald Patrick HEMMING and another cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISOCN's investigation. try G. Brown taal Security Analysis Group | | é tity Chief Atts ty tt ee ee
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13-00000 ll June 197 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group SUBJECT — —:-—s«HEMMING, Gerald Patrick : SEH429 229 1. On 9 June 1969 -» 2 contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING. S’ Jwas referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING file. When «ww |contacted the writer, we advised that. he is the action officer for a cable from the Station) reporting an assassination plot on the life Of President LAUGERUD of Guatemala. ‘vo of was unfamiliar with the case of Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file  . on HEMMING. was requested to alert +2 and JMWAVE- : to the below-mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a Ii copy of the report coming in from the| Stations 2.  .™ (provided the writer with a copy of the cable (IN 944357, ‘dated 8 June 1976), © which is attached. In substance, the cable reflects that Circa 8 June 1976 a Guatemalan source, with the knowledge of y- Guatemalan President LAUCERUD, provided the Station; ye a written report, and a detailed briefing, cerning a plot ‘to assassinate President LAUGERUD. According to the informa- i ‘tion the plot was to have been carried out on 15 September 4 1975; however,’ one of the majot conspirators, Jorge Antonio tt “Cokie"™ ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result if of an attack upon his, ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living | in Miami since August 1975, i 3. According to the report, the National Liberation iH Movement was involved with ZIMERI in the assassination plot and ZIMERI in turn was involved with two Americans, brothers, Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING. The HEMMING brothers assisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms, among other things, which were flown to Guatemala in a small aircraft. The report also Claims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials in Miami and New Orleans. mee ce ve ae E2 IMPDET : an CL BY 04399: t 3
NOTE: Thef [Statyon? also included information the Chicf of Station had received from "<3!  . on § duno. (2) $4@ia that he had been providing information on ZIMERI to the Guatemalan government for the past six months or So. He claimed that two Americans were involved With ZIMERI, one of them who runs a guard service in Miami. cy | did not mention names but described one of the-Americans as about Six feet four inches and weighing about 230 pounds. — 4. The Guatemalan report of the assassination plot ends with five requests for information by President LAUGERUD: a.- Is ZIMERI still in the United States? -b. In the event ZIMERI is not in the United _ States legally, deport him to Guatemala. c. Is ZIMERI recruiting merceraries in the United States for possible use in Guatemala? d. Does ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-. tial treatment by U. S. authorities which permit him to carry firearms, as well as to purchase arms and ammunition for Shipment to Guatemala? e. Any information on Robert and Gerald HEMMING? 5S. On 19 June 1976 wt advised that DDO is referring the entire matter to the FBI and State Nepartment. . 6. Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HENMING. 7. From'the name, physical description, activity, and alleged employment, it is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEMBMING is identical with the subject of Office of Security file 429 229, who has been described as six-foot five, 250 pounds, who is a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who as of May 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation Compiny, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in Miami, Florida. ( fo C1& cow RPC. Sone ws . at 5) ~GQ am Le - Soa ~ te eo 4 as i ar
§. Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency, the Office of Security Miami Ficld Office, and JMWAVE. Ca bieiwe vs CCCUS GIS SEC al Least the caily 1563's, HEM incl Claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there has beca _ none. The most recent incident wherein HEMMING claimed such affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his servi-ses to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Geraid Patrick HFSBIINC is a long-time cohurt of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SF#353 459), aka: Frank FIORINI, of Watergate notoriety who also has a long-time record of falsely claiming Agency affiliation. In the late 1950's HEMMING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Marines, joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter — Claiming disillusionment with the CASTRO cause. Soon thereafter, STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and Central American activities which he named the International Anti-Communist- Brigade. A reported sub-unit of this "Brigadc" (the backers of whom have never been fully established) was named the Intercontinental Penetration Force, headed by Gerald Patrick HEMMING. 9. For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot involving HEHMING, you are referred to attachments to instunt menorandum, to wit: a memorandum by the writer dated 10 Jun> 1975 in the name of Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNT, Jr.; and an extract from a book published in early 1976 written hy Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN. The bock Coup d'etat in America--Thé CIA and the Assassination of John F, Kennecy Is a diatrinesagainst the Agency and attempts to link the Agency With the assassination of President KENNEDY. One of the major ‘links attempted by the authors is through Everett Howard HUNT, Jr. to Frank STURGIS to Gerald Patrick HEMMING to Loran Eugene HALL. Loran Eugene HALL was a member of HEMMING’s Interconti- nental Penetration Force. Loran Eugene HALL received nationwide publicity in 1967 when New Orleans District Attorney "Jim" GARRISON alleged that HALL (and the Intercontinental Penetration Force) was involved in the assassination of President KENNEDY -and that members of this unit were connected with CIA. GARRISON shortly thereafter dropped his interest in HALL, but it is interesting that he did so after Gerald Patrick HEMMING and another cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISCN's investigation. () sey G. Brown Doguty Chief - Security Analysis Group Atts ye ey? rath i $ i, t | i H ! i H | | ! | we cae UN ak EE of RES EERE 8 me ot gm tees ge: