CABLE: JORGE ANTONIO ZIMERI SAFIE AND GERALD PATRICK HEMMING
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: FBI/INTELLIGENCE DIV
To: CIA
Document date: 06/15/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2. ON A JUNE 1976, A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE REPORTED THAT

JORGE ANTONIO "COKIE" ZINERI SAFIE, A GUATEMALAN CITIZEN WHO HAS BEEN

LIVING IN MIAMI SINCE AUGUST 1975, WAS INVOLVED IN A PLOT TO ASSASSI-

NATE GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT KUELL EUGENIO LAUGERUD GARCIA. THE ACTION

WAS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT 15 SEPTEMBER 1975, BUT ZIMERI WAS

WOUNDED IN GUATEMALA CITY DURING AN ARMED ATTÄCK ON HIS LIFE IN LATE

AUGUST 1975. AND WENT TO MIAMI FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT. ZIMERI LEFT

GUATEMALA ILLEGALLY AND MAY BE IN THE U.S. UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. Y

3. ZIMERI MAS BORN 15 MAY 3944, IN GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA.

HIS PARENTS ARE ELIAS ZIMERI NASSAR AND ELENA JESUS SAFIE. INFORMA-

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GUATEMALAN ID CARD NO. @-1286340 ISSUED IN GUATEMALA CITY ON 29 MAY

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• 4• ALSO REPORTEDLY INVOLVED IN THE ASSASSINATION PLAN WAS A

U.S. CITIZEN, GERALD PATRICK HEMMING, SALSO KNOUS AS JERRY MENNINGS.

WHO WAS SAID TO BE INVOLVED IN ACQUIRING AND TRANSPORTING AREMS TO

GUATEMALA-Y

S. HEMMING IS POSSIBLY IDENTICAL TO G. P. HEMMINGO FORMER U.S.

MARINE AND SOLDIER OF FORTUNE WHO HAS BEEN ENGAGED IN CUBAN AND ANTI-

CASTRO MOVEMENTS FOR SEVERALA YEARS. Y

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