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13-00000 “MEMORAND UAT. FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group “SUBJECT oe -HEMMING, Gerald Patrick contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation on HEMMING. |. | Was .requested to alert | -and JMWAVE “(CIN 944357, —- ‘dated 8 June 1976), . which is attached.: In substance, the cable reflects that circa § June 1976 a. Guatemalan source, [with the knowledge of “Guatemalan President LAUGERUD,] provided | |- -a written report,:and a detailed bricfing, concerning a plot: ‘to assassinate President LAUGERUD. According to the informa- “1975; however,’ one of the major conspirators, Jorge Antonio— “Cokie™ ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result “in Miami since August 1975, “Movement was involved with ZIMERI in the assassination plot . sand ZIMERI in turn was involved with two Americans, brothers, . “Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING. The HEMMING brothers - | 11 June 1976. - SBH429 229 1. On 9 “June - 1969 Peck agn for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING. was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING _ file. When - <|contacted the writer, | ‘advised that he is the action officer for a cable from reporting an assassination plot on the life of President LAUGERUD .of Guatemala. j}was unfamiliar with the case of — Gerald Pa trick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file to the below- ‘mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a copy of the report coming in from| | 2, oS provided the writer with a copy of the cable tion the plot was to have been carried out on 15 September of an attack upon his, ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living 3. According to the report, the National Liberation .assisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms, among other things, which |... | j ~wwere flown to Guatemala in a small aircraft. The report also _ .Claims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials <in’Miami and New Orleans. E2 IMPDET CL BY 063994 =o pamoumenonsem eres oe reeees tee geeieee yess as semen mS Se iamnow ones arnanrnnoresaasona ee aga cana cane ema. nanens leaner tan | Odlo| 3
13-Q0000 © also included information [the Station\had received from -  .-..°’on 8 June. Said that he had peen providing information on ZIMERI. to the Guatemalan. government for the past six months or SO, He. claimed. that two Americans were involved with ZIMERT, ‘one of them who runs a guard service in Miami. oo | 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: ‘ZINERT still in the United ‘States? oe eae the. ‘event ZIMERI is not in the United | States. legally, deport him to Guatemala. c. Ts. ZINERI recruiting merceraries in the _- United.States for possible use in Guatemala? d. Does. -LIMERI 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? ky information on Robert and Gerald _HEMMING?. . “that DDO is "yeferring ‘the entire matter to the” FBI and State “Department. 6. Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent ™ | “variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING. CO 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 - 429 229, 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 “conpany, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in -Miani, Florida. . co aves a anne ap Gn Sem oo ND
13-00000 8. Gerald Patrick NEMMING is well known to this Agency, * | “the Office of» Security Miami Field Office, and JMWVAVE, On 4 ae dd ee 8 wD Ueccas logis Sadie ae ACaSL rayte eariy 100° 29 Hitttote arnt, had claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there has beea | snone. The most.recent incident wherein HEMMING claimed such affiliation was.-in.May 1975 when he volunteered his services ‘to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Gerald Patrick HEMMING is a long-time cohort 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 se Anti-Communist Brigade, A reported sub-unit of this "Brigade" (the backers of ‘whow 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 7 1975 in the name of. Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNT, Jr.;_ -vand an extract. from a book published in early 1976 written by “Michael CANFIELD and:Alan J. WEBERMAN. The book Coup dV etat “in Anerica~-The. CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy <ES a diatribe a against the Agency and attempts to link the A Agency Sith 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 SHALL. Loran Eugene HALL was a member of HEMMING's Interconti- vnental 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. sand 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 Se vanother cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISON's investigation. - G. B Igy chief. “Security™ Analysis ° Group ALES