MEMO - GERALD PATRICK HEMMING, SE#429 229.
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY G., DC/SAG
To: C/SAG
Document date: 06/11/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

11 June 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

HEMMING, Gerald Patrick

SF#429 229

1.

On 9 June 1969 "Dan" of the DDO Guatemala Desk (x9041)

contacted Staff and Operations

• Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HENMING.

"Dan" was referred to the writer, who is holding the HENMING

file.

When "'Dan" contacted the

writer,

"Dan" 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.

"Dan' was unfamiliar with the case of

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

on HEMMING.

"Dan" was requested to alert CI Staff and JMNAVE

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

copy of the report coming in from the Guatemala Station.

"Dan" provided the writer with a copy of the cable

IN 944357, Cite Guatemala City 19536, 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 Guatemala Station

a written

report, and a detailed briefing, concerning

to assassinate President LAUGERUD.

a plot

According to the informa-

tion the plot was to have been carried out on 15 September

Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result

of an attack upon his, ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living

in Miami since Augüst 1975.

3. According to the report, the National Liberation

Movement was involved with ZIMERI in the assassination plot

and ZIMERI in turn was

Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING. - The

involved with two Americans, brothers,

assisted ZIMERI in acquiring smas, among other things, which.

were flown

i to Guatemala in a smali

aircraft.

The report also

claims. that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials

in Miami and New Orleans.

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NOTE: The Guatemala Station also included

information the Chief of Station had received

from ESDEW-1 on 8 June.

ESDEW-1 said that he

had been providing information on ZINERI to the

Guatemalan government for the past six months or

50.

He claimed that two Americans were involved

WIth LIMERI,

one of them who runs a guard service

in Niami.

ESDEW-1 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?

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.

e.

DoeS ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-

tial treatment by U. S. authorities which

permit him to carry firearms, as weil as

to purchase arms and ammunition for

shipment to Guatemala?

Any information on Robert and Gerald

HEMMING?

On 19 June 1976 "Dan" of the Guatemala Desk advised

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.

• 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

of May 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation

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

Miami, Florida.

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8.

Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency,

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 FIORIN, Of Watergate notoriety who also has a

long-time record of

falsely claiming Agency affiliation.

.. In

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

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter

claiming disillusionnent with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thereafter,

STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

Central American activities which he named the International

Anti-Comnunist 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 HENMING.

9.

For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot

involving HENMING, you are referred to attachments to instant

memorandum, to wit:

a memorandum by the writer dated 10 June

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

JI.;

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

Nichael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERIAN. The book Coupkennedy

In America--the ClA and the Assassination of John F

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,

JI. 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 HENNING and

another cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISN's investigation.

Jerry G. Brown

Deputy Chief

Security Analysis Group

Atts

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