HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK
Originator: CIA
From: DEP CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
To: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 06/11/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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11 June 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

: HEMMING, Gerald Patrick

SF#429 229

1.

On 9 June 1969

1041)

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING

contacted the writer,

advised that he

is the action officer for a cable from the Guatemala Stationi

reporting an assassination plot on the life of Président

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

and JMWAVE

to the below mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a

copy of the report coming in from the Guatemala Station.

2.

"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

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

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided the (Guatemala Station

a written report, and a detailed briefing, concerning a plot.

According to the informa-

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

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 LIMERI in acquiring arms

vere flown to Guatenala in a smar?

among other things, which

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 also included

information the Chief of Station/ had received

from ESDEW-1 on & June. ESDEW-1

said thai he

had been providing information on ZIMERI to the

Guatemalan government for the past six months or

50.

He claimed that two Americans

were involved

with LiMERI, one of them who runs a guard service

In MIami. ESDEW-I did not mention names but

described one of the Americans as

about six feet

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 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 weld as

to purchase arms and ammunition for

shipment to Guatemala?

e. Any information on Robert and Gerald

HEMMING?

5.

On 19 June 1976

•£ 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.

' From the name, physical description, activity, anc

aLleged employment, it is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEMINC

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,

the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JMWAVE.

On

Marious ducasions sires aù duasi the candy 19uo' has bein

had claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there

none.

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),

Exank FIORINI, of Watergate notoriety who also has a

long-time record of falsely claiming Agency affiliation.

In

the late 1950's HEMMING 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 I.

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,

Jr. 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.

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.

G.

Brown

gouty Chief

Security Analysis Group

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