CABLE RE ZIMERI PLOT TO ASSASSINATE LAUGERUD
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 06/08/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SECRET ESZZZBE JUN 76 STAFF

CITE GUATEMALA CITY 19536

TO :

PRIDRITY DIRECTOR INTO LA/MIAMI,

ESDEW ESMICA

REFS: A. GUATEMALA CITY 19518 (IN 937052)

BA GUATEMALA CITY 19375 SNOT SENT LASMIAMI (IN 8903607)

1.

ESMICA-GE (E-Ó&S PASSED

STATION WRITTEN REPORT AND MADE

I 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 ANTONIO " COKIE"

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

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

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

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

REPORT AND E-68 CLAIM THAT THO AMERICANS, BROTHERS ROBERT AND

GESALD PATRICK HEMMING (NO STATION TRACES?, WERE ALSO

INVOLVED WITH ZIMERI IN PLOT AND THAT THEY ASSISTED HIM IN

ACQUIRING ARMS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WHICH FLOWN 70 GUATEMALA

ILLEGÄLLY IN SMÄLL AIRCRAFT. REPORT ENDS WITH FIVE (5) REQUESTS

BY LAUGERUD FOR INFO AS FOLLOWS:

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A• 15 ZIMERI STILL IN THE UNITED STATES.

B. DOES HE RECEIVE ANY KIND OF PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY

AUTHORITIES THERE WHICH PERMITS HIM TO CARRY FIREARMS, AS WELL

AS PURCHASE ARMS AND AMMUNITIÓN 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 REQUEST HE BE

DEPORTED TO GUATEMALA. E-68 SAYS HE LEFT GUATEMALA ILLESALLY

BUT ÄRRIVED IN STATES LEGALLY, BUT GOG THINKS HIS VISA-HAS.

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EXPIRED AND HE THERE ILLEGALLY.

2. STATION PLANS DISSEM INTO ON ZIMERi CASE BUT WITHEUT

MENTIONING HEMMINGS BY NAME. PLAN PREPARE MEMO FOR CHAREE

AND RSO

AND WILL SUGGEST THAT LATTER ATTEMPT ANSWER QUESTIONS

FOR LAUGERUD...

3.. ESDEW-4 AND E-68 ALSO REPORTED 7 JUNE IN SOME DETAIL ON

SOLUTION OF NOVELLA KIDVAPPING CASE (REF BI. THERE POLITICAL

IMPLICATIONS THIS CASE ALSO SO HE DISSEMING.

E-68 CLAIMS

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THERE AMERICA: POSSIBLY INVOLVED THIS CASE, ONE FRANK BUCK

(PRORABLY IDENTICAL TO SUSJECT OF 201-0819515, A REGISTERED

DEA SÓURCES, WHO CLAIMS BE DOCTOR BUT DOES NOT PRACTICE HERE.

HE ALLEGEDLY LOVER OF SISTER OF INTELLECTUAL AUTHOR OF NOVELLA

KIDNAPPING PLAN. JORGE ALFONSO LOB O DUBON, IN WHICH ANOTHER

LOBO BROTHER, JOSE FERNANDO LO BO DUBON, ALSO INVOLVED.

E 68 HAS REQUESTED WHATEVER INFO WE MIGHT HAVE ON BUCK, STATION

PLANS INCLUDE THAT NAME ALSO IN MEMO TO CHARGE AND RSO BUT WILL

OMIT IT FROM DISSEM,

: 4.

FOR MIAMIA ONE SOURCE OF INFO ON ZIMERI CASE MAY WELL

HAVE BEEN ESDEW-1, COS SAW LATTER BY ACCIDENT & JUNE. ESDEW-1

SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN PROVIDING INFO TO GOG ON ZIMERI FOR PAST

SIX MONTHS OR SO AND ADDED THAT TWO AMERICANS INVOLVED WITH

ZIMERI, ONE OF WHOM RUNS A GUARD SERVICE IN MIAMI. HE DID

NOT MENTION NAMES BUT DESCRIBED ONE.

AS ABOUT SIX FEET FOUR INCHES

AliU WEIGHING ABOUT 230 POUNDS. ESDEW-1 PLANS RETURN MIAMI WITHIN

TWO WEEK'S SINCE IN OVER TWO YEARS HERE HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO

FIND JOB WITH SUFFICIENT SALARY PERMIT. HIM LIVE COMFORTABLY.:

5. PLS ADVISE IF YOU CONCUR WITH THIS METHOD OF HANDLING

REQUESTS FOR INFO ON AMERICANS AND OTHER LAUGERUD REQUESTS.

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