- scopy of the report coming in from ‘404-10137-10304 Circa 8 June 1976.a Guatemalan source, with the kn Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided? 1l June 1976 “MEMORANDUN FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group | ‘SUBJECT =v 't HENMING, Gerald Patrick - SFHA29 229 1. On 9 June:-1969° oo - Cay OT contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation , Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING. W Iwas referred tothe writer, who is holding the HEMMING is the action officer For a cable from reporting an assassination plot on the Tire our President LAUGERUD of Guatemata.: 1 was unfamiliar with the case of Gerald Patrick HEMMING’ and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file. on HEMMING, 3.) @o yaya requested to alert tt! and JMWAVE to the below-mentioned cable and Qo provid an so eae 2, -©.-d provided the writer with a copy of the cable. ‘(CIN 944357, eee ‘dated 8 June 1976), | -Which is attached... In substance, the cable reflects that ow 7 va written report, and a detailed briefing, Concerning a plot ~~ “to assassinate Président “LAUGERUD.. -According to the informa- “o#tion the plot was to have been carried out on 15 September 81975; howéver,* one of the major conspirators, Jorge Antonio -™'Cokiet ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result of an attack upon his, ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has heen living sim Miami since August 1975, . 3. According to the report, the National Liberation - 8Movement 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 - Sassisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms, among other things, which “were flown to Guatemala in a small aircraft. The report also “aClaims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials In-Miami and New Orleans. . 2 WI CIA employee E2 IMPDET CL BY 063994 file. When “uy. f/contacted the writer, nS adiised that hey * a ghz
14-00000 NOTE: . 2 piss included information| _ : iad received from.” @r Son 8 duno, said 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.’ qa. -|-did mot 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. 1S 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?. ) | 5. On 19 June 1976 | ‘advised that DDO is referring oh to the FBI and State © ‘Mepartment. . | 6. Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent ‘Mariations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HENMING. - 7. From the name, physical description, activity, and: salieged 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 wno. as i@f“May 1975 was. ostensibly employed by a private investigation “company, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in Miami, Florida.. (pD- cia ew ploy eu (2) v= CL} Be CompeneuXs™ ay Belin asset
14-00000 8. Gerald Patrick IHEMMING is well known to this Agounecy, the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JMWAVE. Ona dew tiis GCHslois Simic. at least the early 1960's, NEMMGAG Had claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there has been none. 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 HEMMINC is a long-time cohort of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SFH353 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 "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 smemorandum, 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 by ‘Michael CANFIELD and Alan J, WEBERMAN. The book Coup d'etat in America--The CIA and the Assassination of John’ F. Kennedy 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- nnental 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 another cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISON's investigation. | Jerky G. Brown uty Chief Security Analysis ‘Group Atts