Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SULLIVAN, W. C.
To: BAUMGARDNER, F. J.
Document date: 8/4/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/27/201

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-10298-10266

HQ

2-1693-30

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Motel.

Case#:NW 53074 Date:

05-25-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

BAUMGARDNER, F. J.

TO :

SULLIVAN, W. C

TITLE:

DATE: 08/04/1961

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

INTERPEN, TEST, FINEGAN, GEORGE WILLIAM JOHN

PATRICK, ACA, ARMS, MEMBERS, ARRESTS

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/05/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

RE:

INTERCONTINENTAL PENETRATION FORCES

2-1693

evidence for a conviction to furnish this information to the state's

attorney so that a conviction could be obtained and that the FBI.

after he had been compromised by someone in the post office, said

that the Bureau had no jurisdiction, which angered Finegan.

Interpen is currently under an active neutrality matters

investigation by the Miami Office at the request of the Department.

Interpen is headed by Gerald Patrick Hemming and

we are well aware

of his recent activities. This group was formerly known as the

Anticommunist Legionnaires. The members have reportedly been living

in the Everglades on snakes and swamp cabbage and have no housing.

Miami has an informant in the organization who is an aide to Hemming

and who has reported that the group consists of mercenaries, vagrants,

adventurers and unreliable delinquents with an average age of about

22 years. Informant stated the group seeks publicity; has no arms,

equipment or transportation; is not accepted in the Cuban revolutionary

movement; and informant does not anticipate any expedition by the

group.

Recently this group engaged in parachute jumping in the Miami

area

for publicity purposes.

A number of members of Interpen have been arrested by local

authorities on charges of vagrancy. Local authorities have stated

these individuals have made a nuisance of themselves. One of those

arrested in July was an individual named George Williams. Finegan

advised the Subcommittee that he has used several names while

associated with Interpen, one of which is George Williams.

The

George Williams who,was arrested by local authorities was described

as a salesman.

Union to come

feels it is a violation of civil rights. He said his group was not

attempting to violate United States neutrality statutes but he feels

I that neutrality laws are immoral.

immortates neutrality statutes but

Act - Cuba case in

Vincent Josephilanard was the subject of a Registration

the recent past. He was a registered agent of the

Cuban Government until about one year ago.

The Miami Office presently

has pending cases on him and his organization, known as the "Freedom

Fighters of the Americas" which is headed by Hanard. Hanard has

furnished information concerning his group, and investigation in

Miami as of June, 1961, failed to reveal that he is violating any

United States statutes.

Information concerning Interpen and Hanard received in the

past has been furnished to the Department and interested agencies.

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