104-10273-10318 VLAaR HUMBER Ort eo€es)ez es es] 2 3s 18571 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION (Circle if epprepriete} (30 CHARACTERS) €aer.t FORM ee ae LETTER rat) 7 AIRGRAM F ROM /ORIGINATOR (KH CHARACTERS} —pe\ Sec Nana Qr - Down €uass S SUBJECT 186 CHARACTERS) REFERRED BY (10 CHARACTERS) OHERE LOCATED (10 CHARACTERS) obo ? NEW DOCUMENT RECORD fnsteuctions for Divesions ond Sofie: 4 Fill in end Sign on fine 32. 2. Use beck of form for any edditionel comments. Day MT MONTH YEAR 2% TO/RECIPLENT (30 CHARACTERS) C/ Sex Ano, Group DO FILE NUMBER (20 CHARACTERS) > iN DAY § MONTH YEAR TYPE DATE oF ieaA OF 5 REVIEW © REVIEW Determinations: A. Release in full text E. Sustain initial denial in toto 7 B. Release in sanitized form F. Sustain initial release of Cc. Deny in tote of sanitized version D. Defer decision to (Specify in line 8) G. Release additional information H. Coordinate with (Specify in line 8) DEFER DEOSION TO 110 GARACTERS || COORDINATE WITH (10 CHARACTERS) | fy ES. 8 | . SIGNATYURE OF DOs/IMS/FPLG REVIEWING OFFICER EXEMPTIONS AND PROVISIONS CLAIMED (40 CHARACTERS) 9 FOIA PA E.0. 12356 @1 B82 83 84 BS BE B7C Bossy at KS Exemptions and Provisions claimed to protect the following: FOIA PA 1. Classification (b) (1) (k) (1) 2. Information from liaison with a Foreign Government (b) (3) (9) 0) 3. Information pertaining to a liaison (b) (3) (Jj) Q)) relationship with a Foreign Government 4. Information which would/could identify the (b) (3) (3) Q) source 5. Information pertaining to a source (b) (3) (3) C2) 6. Information pertaining to intelligence methods (b) (3) 09) (1) 7. Location of CIA overseas installation (b) (3) (3) GQ) 10 8. Location of unacknowledged domestic (b) (3) (3) Q) installation 9, Name of CIA employee (b) (3) (3) 1) 10. File number (b) (3) (5) (Q) 11. Pseudonym (b) (3) (j) Q) 12. Cryptonym (b) (3) (9) G2) 13. Internal organizational data (b) (3) (3) (1) 14. Name of an FBI agent (b) (7) (c) (5) (1) 15. FBI file number (b) (2) (3) (1) 16. Privacy of other individual (b) (6) (b) 17. Does not pertain to request 19. Other (Specify in line 11) REMARKS UF OTHER WAS CRECKEL ABOVE: ac CHARACTERS) ll | | | , "4 E:GLATORE CREICE CE ID COMPING | REY CANE CFE CEP REMARRES C1ES CreShOTVER: ee i 12 htt fe eRe Bsa “| Box + a con Faer cn Ge cicgarteed Glace: Ter Qieegat rete: of Creer. j 4 v ees Tra befoemetion below ar ener laced, oy Cu bY. rer. ene + 2 ee re tee mmm tae soemermemn -seran meee «Here
13-00000 YaHee we unt e hated Yo 11 June 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR: . Chief, Security Analysis Group SUBJECT _: HEMMING, Gerald Patrick _ SF#429 229 1. On 9 June 1969 io ay on) contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING. t .was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING . file. When w) i-contacted the writer, uw) “ advised that he is the action officer for a cable from the| [Station): reporting an assassination plot on the life of President LAUGERUD oz Guatemala. uw) ‘was unfamiliar with the case of Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file on HEMMING. ‘was requested to alert ~ ts» and JMWAVE to the below-mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a copy of the report. coming in from the[ «Station, 2, Wo ' provided the writer with ‘a copy of the cable (IN 944357, © _.3, dated 8 June 1976), which is attached. In substance, the cable reflects that circa 8 June 1976 a Guatemalan source, with dge of Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, 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. an 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. QV) CHA cre deuec. - fer Gh ebayer oar | E2 IMPDET | | CL BY 063994 wile ‘ > 5 Pe marae J tn:
13-00000 ee ( , ( vt * > NOTE: The | [Station] also included information the Chief of Stationyhad received fron a jon 8 June. a" isaid that he had t2en 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 Miemi., =. [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? _ Db. In the event ZIMERI is not in the United. a et a States legally, deport him to Guatemala. — , 7 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. co HEMMING? a | a 5. On 19 June 1976 | nt - bdvised that DDO is referring 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. _ . 7. From the name, physical description, activity, and _ alleged employment, it is apparent that Gerald Patrick HENMMING is identical with the subject ofO0ffice 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 company, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in Miami, Florida. Se e a 2 ce . doatate ctr \ QEROTT wo Cte Brey Lee G \
13-00000 8. Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency, the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JMWAVE. On numerous occasions since at least the early 1960's, HEMMING had clained Agency affiliation when in fact there has bern none, Tne 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 1250'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 Anerican 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 (8. involving HEMMING, you are referred to attachments to instant © memorandun, 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 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- 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. te : r Jerry G. Brown Deputy Chief Security Analysis Group Atts
13-90000 | b rite Peed WEGRE ~ 11 June 1976 MEMORANDIX FOR! “Chief, Security Analysis Group SUBJECT _t HEMMING, Gerald Patrick _ ». SFF429 229 1. Cn 9 June 1969 ww C4) D contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation — Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING. to. was referred to the writer, who is hoiding the HEMMING file. When w) j.contacted the writer, uw) . advised that he is the action officer for a cable from the Station) - reporting an assassination plot on the life o resident LAUGERUD of Guatemala. «\)  /was unfamiliar with the case of Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file on HEMMING. ww /¢ was requested to alert ~ Gt) -and JMWAVE to the below-mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a copy of the report. coming in from the| Station. 2. Ws. ' 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 Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided the Station. a written report, and a detailed briefing, 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. oO 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. CADRE] cL By 063994 \ \ 18571
13-00000 * e . ~ NOTE: The | rar cy Station also included information the/Thie Station had received fron ww jon 8 June. ws isaid that he had seen providing information on ZIMERI te 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 Moemi. on [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: | as Is ZIMERT still in-the United States? b. ‘In the event ZIMERI is not in the United : Ot oa States legally, deport hin to Guatemala.” . , Le c. Is ZIMERI recruiting merceraries in the SG ' United States for possible use in Se eS Guatemala? _ mo d. Doe& 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? a ; 5.° On 19 June 1976 uy . ae .  pavised that DDO is referring 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. 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 company, TEPCOL Security. (Office of Security--no record) in Miami, Florida. . a 2 ‘cae Taata aio enor oS) bey ton love C.. \
. ° 8. Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency, the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JMWAVE. On numerous occasions since at least the early 1960's, HEMMING had clained 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 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 1550's HEMMING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Marines, joined Ficel 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 memorandua, 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- 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 oo another cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISON's investigation. .e . : we a ont ° a Jerry G. Brown Deputy Chief Security Analysis Group Atts