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

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

• HEMMING,

SF#429 229

Gerald Patrick

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

contacted Staff and Operations

Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

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

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 JMWAVE

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

8 June 1976

a Guatemalan source, with the knowledge of

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided the Guatemala Station

a written

concerning a plot

to assassinate President LAUGERUD.

report, and a detailed briaccording to the informa-

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

Jorge Antonio

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

in Miami since August 1975.

3. 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 HEMMING brothers

assisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms,

among other things, which

were flown to Guatemala in a small 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

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information the Chief of Station/ had received

from ESDEW-l on 8 June.

ESDEW-I said that he

had been providing information on ZIMERI to the

Guatemalan government for the past six months or

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He claimed that two Americans were involved

with ZIMERI,

in Miami.

ESDEn-l did not mention names but

described one of the Americans

as about six feet

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 ZIMERI 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 fo

shipment to Guatemala!

e.

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.

alleged employment at is apparent that perond PetiNity HEARING

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 as

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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Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency,

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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),

Frank FIORINI, of Watergate notoriety who also has a

long-time record of

falsely claiming Agency affiliation.

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

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter

claiming disillusionment with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thereafter,

STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

Central American activities which he named the International

Anti-Communist 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 HEMMING.

9. For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot

involving HEMMING, 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, Jr.;

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

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

The book Coup d'etat

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

Kennedy

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

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 HEMMING and

another cohort, Robert

K. BROWN, joined GARRISON's investigation.

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Deputy Chief

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GUATEMALA

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GUATEMALA CITY 19375 SNOT SENT LASMIAMI, (IN 890367)

1: ESMICA-EE 6E-681 PASSED STATION WRITTEN REPORT AND MADE

VERBAL REPORT IN DETAIL, ALL WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PRESIDENT LAUGERUD,

ON REF A CASE AND RESULTS. ACCORDING REPORT AND E-68, NATIONAL

LIBERATION MOVEMENT (MLND WAS INVOLVED WITH JORGE ANTONION COKIE"

ZIMER I SAFIE, WHO HAS BEEN LIVING MIAMI SINCE AUGUST 75;

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IN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE LAUGERUD. PLOT WAS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED

OUT 15 SEPTEMBEP 75 BUT ZIMERI WAS VICTIM OF ATTACK ON HIS LIFE.

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LATE AUGUST AND AS RESULT WENT TO MIAMI FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

REPORT AND E-68 CLAIM THAT TWO AMERICANS. BROTHERS ROBERT AND

GETALD PATRICK HEMMING IND STATION TRACESS, WERE ALSO

INVOLVED WITH ZIMERI IN PLOT AND THAT THEY ASSISTED HIM IN

ACOURING ARMS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WHICH FLOWN 9O GUATEMALA

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A• IS ZIMERI STILL IN THE UNITED STATES.

B. DOES HE RECEIVE ANY KIND OF PJEFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY

AUTHORITIES

THERE WHICH PERMITS HIM TO CARRY FIREARMS, AS WELL

AS PURCHASE ARMS AND AMMUNITION FOR SHIPMENT TO GUATEMALA.:.

THEY CLAIM HE HAS CLOSE RELATIONS WITH POLICE OFFICIALS IN

NEW ORLEANS AND MIAMI.

?. IS HE RECRUITING MERCENARIES THERE FOR-POSSIBLE USE IN

GUATEMALA. ...

DO REQUEST FOR INFO ON ROBERT AND GERALD HEMMING.

E. IN EVENT ZIMERI NOT IN STATES LEGALLY, THEY RELEST HE BE

DEPORIED TO GUATEMALA, E-68 SAYS HE LEFT GUATEMALA ILLESALLY

BUT ÄRRIVED IN STATES LEGALLY, BUT GOG THINKS HIS VISA HZS

EXPIRED AND HE THERE ILLEGALLY.

2: ESTATION PLANS DISSEM INTO ON ZIMERI CASE BUT WITHENT

MENTiONING HEMMINGS BY NAME. PLAN PREPARE MEMO FOR CHAFE

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KIDNAPPING PLAN. JORGE ALFONSO LO BO DUBON, IN WHICH ANOTHER

LOBO RROTHER, JESE FERNANDO LO BO DUBON, ALSO INVOLVED.

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SIX MONTHS OR SO AND ADDED THAT TWO AMERICANS INVOLVED WITH

ZIMERi, ONE OF WHOM RUNS

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ALiU WEIGHING ABOUT 238 POUNDS. ESDEH-1 PLANS RETURN MIAMI WITHIN

TWO WEEKS SINCE IN OVER TWO YEARS. HERE HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO

FIND JOB WITH SUFFICIENT SALARY PERMIT HIM LIVE COMFORTABLY.

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