MEMO:HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK, SF#429 229
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From: DC/SAG, BROWN, JERRY G.
To: C/SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 06/11/1976
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11 June 1976

MENORANDUN FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

HENNING,

Gerald

Patrick

SF#429

229

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On 9 June 1969

contacted Staff and

Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HENNING.

was referred to the writer,

who is holding the HEMMING

contacted the writer,

• advised that ha

is the action officer for a cable from

the Guatemala Station

reporting an assassination plot on the life of President

LAUGERUN of Guatemala.

! was unfamiliar with the case of

Gerald. Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file

On HEMMING.

was requested to alert

and JMWAVE

to the below mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a

copy of the report coming in

from the Guatemala Station.

(provided the writer with a cop! of the cable

(IN 944357,

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 (Guatemala 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

"Colle" LeMeRi Sate tehe cuitenada

•one of the major conspirators,

of an attack

upon his,

ZIMERI's, life. ZINERI has been living

in Miami since August 1975.

Novement was indone wthe report he vasons latera poot

and ZINERI in turn was involved with two Ancricans, brothers,

Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING. The HENNING brothers

were flown to Guatemala in

assisteù ZINERI in acquiring small aircraft:

among other things;

The report also

claims that ZINERI has close relations with police officials

in Miami and New: Orleans.

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NOTE:: The Cuatemala Station also included

information the Chief of Station had received

from

• on 8 jurio.

said thai he

had been providing information on ZIMERI to the

Guatemalan governnent for the past six months of

50.

He clained that two Americans were involved

service

in Miani.

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

Guatcmala?

d.

Does ZIMEKI receive any kind of preferen-.

tial treatment by U. S. authorities

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?

On 19 June 1976

'advised

that DDO is referring the entire matter to the FBI and State

Department.

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

Patrick HEMING

is identical with the subject of Office of Sccurity file

429 229, who has been

described as six-foot five, 250 pounds,

who 1s a notorions mercenary and soldier of fortune and nio

as

of May 1975 vas ostensibly employed by a private

investigation

company, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in

Miani, Florida.

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Gorald Patrick HEMMING is well known

to this Agine;,

the Office of Security Miani Field Office, and

hind claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there

ai luasi in carly isco "has been

The most recent incident wherein HEMMING clained such

affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his servis

to the Dru! Enforcement Administration.

Gerald Patrick HEMMINC

is a long-time cohurt of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SFL353 459),

of Watergate notoriety

long-time record of

Frank FIORIN' falsely claiming Agency

who also has"

the late 1950's HEMMING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Marines,

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter

claiming disillusionnent with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thercafter,

STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

Central American activities which he naned the International

Anti-Conmunist Brigade:

A reported sub-unit of this "Brigade"

(the backers of whom have never been fully established) wis

named the Intercontinental Penetration Force, headed by Gerald

Patrick HEMMING.

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 Jun?

1975 in the name of Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNt, i;

and an extract fron a book published in early 1976 written by

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

in America--The CIA and the

Assassination of John F

€ John t. Kenne

is a diatrine against the Agency

attempts to link the Agency

kith 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"

GAKRISON alleged that HALL (and the Intercontinental Penetrition

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.

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11 June 1976

MEMORINDUN! FOR: Chief,

Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

SP# 429 229

Gerald Patrick

SF#429

On 9 June 1969

contacted Staff and

Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HENNING.

was referied to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING

contacted the writer,

• advised that he

is the action officer for

a cable from

the Guatemala Station

reporting

an assassination plot on the life of President

LAUGERUD of Guatemala.

! was unfamiliar

Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file

on HEMMING.

was requested to alert

to the below-mentioned

cable and to provide the writer with a

copy of the report coming in from the Guatemala Station.

2

provided the writer with a copy

of the cable

(IN 944357,

dated 8 June 1976),

which is attached. In substance, the cable reflects

circa 8 June 1976

a Guatemalan source,

with the knowledge of

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided the Guatemala Station •

a written

to assassinate

report, and a detailed brieflording

concerning a plot.

President LAUGERUD.

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

Novement was involved with ZIMERI in the assassination plot

and ZIMERl in turn was involved with two Americans, brothers,

Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

The HEMMING brothers

sisteu LIMERl in acquiring arms

among other things, which

vere flown to Guatemala in a snali aircraft.

The report also

claims that ZIMERI has close relations with

police officials

in Miami and New Orleans.

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NOTI:: The Cuatrmala Station also included

information the Chief of Station had received

- 011 8 june.

said thai ho

had been providing information on ZIMERI

to the

Guatchalan governnent for the past six months or

He claimed that two Americans were involved

with ZIMERI, one of them who

runs a guard

service

in Miami.

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 ZINERI still in the United States?

b. In the event ZIMERI is not in the United

States legally, deport him to Guatemala.

c. Is ZINERI recruiting merceraries in the

United States for possible use in

Guatemala?

d.

Does ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-.

treatment by U. S. authorities

permit him to carry firearms,

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 the entire matter to the FBI and State

Department.

Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZINERI or Robert HEMMING.

-29 229, Mio has been described as six-foot five, 250 pounds,

who is a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who

of May 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation

TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no

record) in

Jiani, Florida.

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Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agons;,

th: Office of Security Niani Field Offico,

I claimed Agency affiliation when in fact

a dust the carly 1sóo ghas been

The most recent incident wherein HEMMING claimed such

affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his services

to the Drus Enforcement Administration.

Gerald Patrick HAVINC

is a long-time cohurt of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SFD353 459),

Frank FlORINI,

of Watergate notoriety who

also has ^

long-time record of falsely claiming Agenc

affiliation.

In

the late 1950's HENNING 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) wis

named the Intercontinental Penetration Force, headed by Gerald

Patrick HEMMING.

For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot

involving HErMING, you are referred to attachments to instant

memorandum, to wit:

a memorandum by the writer dated 10 Jun.

1975 in the name of Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNT, .Ti.;

and an extract fron a book published in carly 1976 written by

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

The book Coup d'otai

in America--The CIA and the

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

is a diatrine against the Agency

and attempts to link the Agency

with the assassination of President KENNEDY.

links attempted by the authors is through Everett Howard HUNT,

Jr. to Frank STURGIS to Gerald Patrick HEMMING to Loran Eugone

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.

shortly thereafter dropped his interest in HALL, but it is

interesting

that he did

so after Gerald Patrick

another cohort, Robert K. BROWN,

joined GARRISON's investigation.

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