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

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

: HEMMING,

Gerald Patrick

SF#429 229

On 9 June 1969

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

was referred to the wilter, who is holding the haulng

contacted the writer,

advised that ho

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 with

the case of

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 94435,7,

dated & June 1975),

which

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attached.

In substance, the cable reflects that

circa 8 June 1976

source,

the knowledge of

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided

the Guatemala Station

a written report,

and a detailed briefing

to assassinate President LAUGERUD.

According to

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

1975; however,

"Colie" ZIMERÍ Safie left Guatemala

of an attack upon his,

ZIMERI's, life.

ZIMERI has been living

in Miami since August

According

to the report, the National Liberation

Movement was involved with ZIMERI

in the assassination plot

and ZIMERI in turn was

with two Americans,

brothers,

Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

The HENNING brothers

assisted ZINERI in acquiring arms, among other things, which

were flown

to Guatemala in a small

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

on 8 june.

had been providing information on ZINERI to the

Guatcmalan government for the past six months or

sun on tho

said thai li

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

four inches and weighing about 230 pounds.

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 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 which

permit him to carry

firearms,

as well as

to purchase arms and ammunition for

shipment to Guatemala?

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 arè negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING.

allosed emproyment, ate is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEING

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 Nay 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation

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

Miami, Florida.

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Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency,

the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JNWAVE.

jicasions sinc

claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there

ät last the carly lsóo bros been

The most recent incident wherein HEMMING claimed such

affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his servies

to the Drug

Enforcement Administration.

Gerald Patrick MEMMINC

is a long-time cohort of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SF#353 459),

Frank FIORINI, of Watergate notoriety who also has ^

long-time record of

falsely claiming Agency affiliation.

the late 1950's HEMMING and STURGIS,

both former UoS. Maries,

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafto:

claiming disillusionnent with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thercafter,

STURGIS organized a

group of mercenaries

for Caribbean and

Central American

activities which he named the International

Anti-Conmunist Brigade.

A reported sub-unit of this

"Brigade"

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

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,

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,

and an extract from a book

published in early 1976 writton by

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

The book Coup d'ciat

in America--The CIA and the Assassination of John F.

is a diatribe against the Agency and attempts to link the Mency

with 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

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

so after Gerald Patrick

HEMMING and

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

my G. Brown

Nuty Chief

Security Analysis Group

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