Agency: ARMY
Originator: OSD
From: COL PATCHELL
To: GEN LANSDALE
Document date: 8/2/62
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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198-10005-10014

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

6/24/201

Agency Information

AGENCY:

ARMY

RECORD NUMBER :

198-10005-10014

RECORD SERIES :

CALIFANO PAPERS

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: OSD

FROM: COL PATCHELL

TO :

GEN LANSDALE

TITLE :

DATE: 08/02/1962

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS:

ANTI-CASTRO CUBANS

HEMMING, JERRY PATRICK

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: IC

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/07/1997

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

Califano Papers, Box 3, Folder I. Newspaper clipping regarding Gerald Patrick Hemming and the

training of anti-Castro Cubans with attached cover memos and copy of extract from dossier on

Hemming.

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• OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

MEMO FOR

2 Oug 62

Gen Sanadalen

IN FOLLOW WP ON JERRY

PATRICK HEMMING - CIA

HAS A DOSIER ABOUT AN

INCH THICK - AS FAR AS

THEY ARE CONCERNED HE

1S OK, - 15 NOT THEIR

MAN- BUT COVERS THre

His ActIons mucH of

THEIR ACtioN, THey CoNsIDER

HIM HELPFUL TO THEIR

CAUSE, EXTRACTS OF

CIA REPORTS ARE SECOND

ATTACHED,

doe Patchell

thanks

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MEMORANDUM

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

GEN LANSDALE.

AFTER YOU HAVE NOTED

ATTACHED FROM LT COL

CHAVEZ- I WILL CHECK

To seE WitAt kind off

A FIX CIA HAS ON

THIS ITEM,

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Gen f asked met

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* 12B THE MIAMI HERALD Sunday, July 22, 1062

Anti-Castro War Camp

Ruled Out by Exiles

By JAMES BUCHANAN

then another, Patrick finall

Herald Stall Wrlter.

settled, upon the name Intel

Anti-Castro Cubans and their

national Penetration Forcel do

American

supporters have

his organization

tand asbega

been forced to drop plans for

guerrilla tratning of Cuban rel

a large guervilla warfare

ugees here withmoney suppile

training camp near New Or-

by the Cuban colony,

leans, The Herald learned Sat-

A 6 foot, 5 inch, 231 pounder

urday.

Patrickchas abandoned the lon

hait pointed beard ande nua

of Lake Pontchartrain

trallan, bush at he wore

miles north i New Orleans

more than a year curing

was donated this spring by an

carly activities here

anonymous U.S. businessman.

A veteran of four years wit

The tratning of onti-Castro

Jerry Patrick

the a Marine:

Corps,

the

Cubans and them camp itselt

work for nought?

dresses as unobtrusively as por

were to have been command-

sible and is still considered on

ed by Gerald Patrick Hem

publie: knowledge of the pro-

jof the most ardent and effec

tive Americans working wit

Inna 85-year-old soldier Sot

posed camp became too vide-

fortune well? known. to Cu-

the anti-Castro forces

spread and the Counch want-

bans here.?

ed to dodge any connection

The stop order came from with a large scale operation

the Cuban Revolutionary Coun lon which the U.S. State De-

cil's Miami headquarters which

advised its New Orleans at-

partment and Central Intelli-

sociates they rould not süpport Bence Agency would frown

any clandestine

training sites

Homming, who operates un-

in the United States,

der the name derry Patrick,

Preparations for activating

has been netive in anti-Castro

the guerrilla wartate school

activities here since: late 1960.

were begun last February as He had been in Cuba since

New Orleans' Cuban colony

1958 with Castro's fornes and

began rounding up arms.. am-

defected.

munition and money for the

venture.

Leading first one group and

Reportedly, they were suc

cessful in raising large sums

of money.

and acquiring large

stocks of late model weapons.

Patrick made Innumerable

tripe between Miamil and New

Orleans during the past four

nontlis preparing

the site,

which is conplete with an air-

strip, for July occupancy.

Plans had called for the.

training of 50 to 75 Cubans

in classes lasting from six to

cight weeks.

At the

completion of the

"courses" the guerrilla fight-

cis ivould have been ready to

infiltrate

Cuba where

they

could work with local under-

ground:

leaders

in

sabo-

lage and operations against

Castro's army and millitla

Louis Rabell, the

New Or.

leans representative of the Cu-

ban Revolutionary

Council

headed by Dra: Miro Cardona;

confireed the Council. had or.

dered thie camp closed before

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