Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: MM
To: HQ
Document date: 10/4/63
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

5/26/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10350-10070

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 105-114160-9

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

MM

TO: HQ

TITLE :

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/04/1963

5

GERALD PATRICK HEMMING

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS :

4

CURRENT STATUS:

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

09/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA :

INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

MEMO; INC LHM

v9.1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

.. OPTIONAL FORM

5010-104-01

UNITED-STATES

ERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-114160)

DATE:

OCT 4 1963

SAC, MIAMI

(105-6290) (P)

SUBJECT:

ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD DE CUBA

(ALLIANCE FOR FREEDOM FOR CUBA)CIA HAS NO OBLECTION TO,

IS - CUBA

DECLASSIRICAMION AND/OR,

RELEASE DA CIA INTFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT.

Re Miami letter to Bureau, 7-23-63. KP 12-19-97

Enclosed herewith are 12 copies of a LHM, SUD ISR

dated and captioned as above.

1-13-48

locally to:

copies of the enclosed IlM are being disseminated

ALL IN:

. 1

-

U.S. Border Patrol, Miami

U.S. Customs, Miami

U.S. Customs, Region II

INS, Miami

ONI, Miami

G=2, Ft. McPherson, Georgia

OSI, Robins AFB, Georgia

*ITION! CONTAINED

-

CIA, Miami

1

1

-

Coast Guard, Miami

-

Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs,

Dept of State, Miami

MM I-1 is MM 639-S - location of Information -

MM 134-238-Sub A, 750 and 752.

The Miami Office will continue to follow and

report activities of captioned organization.

(2.-Bureau (Enc.

REG 12 105-114160-9

(4)

00k Halt M1A

E OCT 7

IN 10/15863101

Copy i: CIA /STATEMAR.

ONE/OSI/ACSI

By routing slip for info.

010.24-65

OCT 111969-3531

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2 copies tado

HSCAre: Henning)

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Released) under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Note).

"DATE?

11-14-2017

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

Miami, Florida

OCT. 4 1963

RE:

ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD DE CUBA

(ALLIANCE FOR FREEDOM FOR CUBA)

INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA

MM T-1,

who has been active in Cuban revolutionary

matters for the past six years and has furnished reliable

information in the past, on July 29, 1963,

advised that

the ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD DE CUBA recently formed &

military group and boughta Japanese light machinegun fro

JOE GARMAN for about $85.00.

MM T-I explained that GARMAN 1s a member of a small

group of American adventurers and mersenaries In Miami,

Florida,

under the leadership of GERALD PATRICK HEMING, a woula-be

soldier of fortune

who is Involved in cuban revolutionary

CokA

activities.

in the office of the ALIANZA PARA IA LIBERTAD DE CUBA, 3460

N. W. 17th Avenue. MARIO recently obtained an old automobile

"u" joint and an automobile axle and is trying to make a

gun mount in the office of the ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD

DE CUBA.

This office serves as a hang-out for the older

Cuban exiles who formerly held lesser positions In the Cuban

government during the regime of FULGENCIO BATISTA, President

of Cuba, prior to January 1, 1959.

The organization uses General GENEROSO CAMPOS

MARQUETTI as a figurehead.

CAMPOS has a good name,

B. APPROX.

good reputation and was a

Spain.

hero in the war of llberty against 1883

He is a very old man, over 80 years of age, a Negro,

uneducated, and has no political experience.

of the members of this organization sre "atista majority

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN,

IS UNCLASSIFIED

(57K)

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Released under the John F. Kenedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

• DATE: 11-14-2017

RE: ALIANZA PARA IA LIBERTAD DE CUBA

there are very few members under the age of 50.

MM T-1 advised on August 8,

1963,

that

. the

previous day CAMPOS MARQUETTI stated the organization 1a

going to Nicaragua for future participation in

the

training

camps reportedly promised to them by LUIS SOMOZA, former

President of Nicaragua.

CAMPOS said the organization

would be interested in

obtaining boats of forty to fifty

feet in length for use in transporting volunteers of the

organization to Nicaragua.

SOMOZA was in Miami,

MM T-1 explained that during July 1963, LUIS

Florida,

conferred with the majority

of the Cuban exile leaders and was promising to give each

group their own military training camp in Nicaragua for

future military action against Cuba.

On September 24, 1963, MM T-1 advised that GERALD

PATRICK HEMMING and an unidentified Cuban exile returned

Miami from Chicago, Illinols, September 22, 1903.

Chicago HEMMING and the Cuban exile visited RICHYLAUCHLI

in

of Collinsville, Illinois, who is an American arms dealer.

who has visited In Miami previously and has sold arms to

Cuban exiles.

MM I"] explained that it is belleved this Cuban

exile is a member of the ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD DE CUBA

and may have bought some arms from LAUCHLI.

MM T-I said

it is not known if this unidentified exile was acting or

his own or was representing the ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD

DE CUBA.

On September 27, 1963, General GENEROSO

• CAMPOS

MARQUETTI, 3460 N. W. 17ch Avenue,

Miant, advised that he

continues as the head of the ALIANZA PARA LA LIBERTAD DE

CUBA, which organization is a unity group of 55 independent

organizations. CAMPOS explained he does not know how many

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