INFORMATION ON GERALD PATRICK HEMMING.
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY G., DC/ SECURITY ANALY
To: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 06/11/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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11 June 1970

MEMORANDUN FOR:

SUBJECT

Chief, Security Analysis Group

HENMING,

Gerald Patrick

SF#429 229

On 9 June 1969

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMING.

was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING

Icontacted

'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.

I 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 JAHAVE

to the below-mentioned

and to provide the writer with a

copy of the

report coming in from the Guatemala Station.

provided the writer with a copy of the

(IN 944357,

dated & June 1976),

which is attached.'.

In substance, the cable reflects that

circa 8 June 1976 a Guatenalan source, with the knowledge of

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided the Guatemala Station

a written report;

-to assassinate President LAUGERUD.

esident LAUGERUD. ACCOrdins to thee

concerning a plot

informa-

was to have been carried out on 15 September

in August 1975

of an attack upon his,

ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living

in Miami since August 1975.

According to the report, the National Liberation

Movement was involved with ZIMERI

in the assassination plot

and ZIMERI in turn was

involved with two Americans, brothers,

Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

The HENMING brothers

assisted ZINERI in acquiring armii aircraft.

among other things,

were flown to Guatemala in a

claims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials

in Miami and New Orleans.

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NOTF: The Guatomala

Station also included

information the Chief of Station had received

had doen providing information on ZIMERI to the

Guatemalan government for the past six months or

He claimed that two Americans were

involved

who runs a guard

with ZIMERI, one qaid not mention names but

in Miami.

doscribed one of the Americans as about

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 ZINERI recruiting merceraries in the

United States for possible use in

Guatemala?

d.

Does ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-.

tial treatment by U. S.

authorities which

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?

5.

On 19 June 1976

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 HEMNING.

7. From the name, physical description,

activity, and

alleged employment,

it is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEMING

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

TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record)

Miami, Florida.

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Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known

to this Ag.ney,

the Office of Security Miani Field Offico, and JuwAVe.

jicasions sinc

lad claimed Agency affiliation

Juasi the daily isco has been

firminio

when in fact there

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 HEM:!INC

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

of Watergate notoriety who

long-time record of

Frank FIORIN' falsely ciaiming Agency affiliation.

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 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)

named the

Intercontinental Penetration Force, headed by

Patrick HEMMING.

For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot

involving HEMING,

you are referred to attachments to instant

a memorandum by

the writer

dated 10 June

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

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

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

The book Coup detat

in America--The CIA 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 najor

links attempted by the authors is through Everett Howard HUNT,

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 and

interesting that he did so after Gerald Patrick

another cohort; Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISCN's investigation.

Jerry

G.

Brown

Doyayty Chief

Security Analysis Group

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