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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[GUATEMALA (1TY) 19375 INDI SENT EASMIAMI, (IN 890367)

ESMICAMG8 EJOJI PASSED §TATIONIHRITTEN REPORT AND MADE

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

ON REF A CASE AND RESULTS. ACCORDING REPORT AND EZGO, NATIONAL

LIBERAITION MOVEMENT MLND WAS INVOLVED WITH JORGE ANTONIO N COKIEN

21 MERLI SAFIE, WHO MAS BEEN LIVING MIAMI SINCE AUGUST 75,

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

OUT iS SEPTEMBER 75 BUT ZIMERI HAS VICTIM OF ATTACK ON HIS LIFE

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

REPORT AND EÇUè GLASM THAT TWO AMERICANS. BROTHERS ROBERT AND

GRALD PATRICK HEMMING

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INVOLVED WITH ZIMERI IN PLOT AND THAT THEY ASSISTED HIM IN

ACOUTAING ARMS. AMONG OTHER THINOS, WHICH FLOUN TO GUATEMALA

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

BY LAUGERUD FOR INFO AS FOLLOHSI

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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

NEH ORLEANS AND MIAMI.

C• IS HE RECRUSTING 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, E68 SAYS HE LEFT GUATEMALA ILLEGALLY

BUT ARRIVED IN STATES LEGALLY, BUT'GOG THINKS HIS VISA HAS

EXPIRED AND HE THERE ILLEGALLY.

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2. [STATION PLANS DISSEM INFO ON ZIMERI CASE BUT WITHOUT

MENTIONING HEMMINGS BY NAME. PLAN PREPARE MEMO FOR CHARGE

AND RSO AND HILL SUGGEST THAT LATTER ATTEMPT ANSWER QUESTIONS

FOR LAUGERUD. •

3. LESDEH-A AND E-O8 ALSO REPORTED.

JUNE IN SOME DETAiL ON

SOLUTION OF NOVELLA KIDNARPING CASE PREF BI. THERE POLITICAL

IMPLICATIONS THIS CASE ALSO SO WE DISSEMING.

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THERE AMERICAN POSSIBLY INVOLVED THIS CASE, ONE FRANX BUCK

(FRORABLY IDENTICAL TO SUBJECT OF 201-0819515, A REGISTERED

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

HE ALLEGEDLY LOVER OF SISTER OF INTELLECTUAL AUTHOR OF NOVELLA

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

LOBO BROTHER, JOSE FERNANDO LO 8 O DUBON, ALSO INVOLVED.

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OEE7O8 HAS REQUESTED MHATEVER INFO ME HIGHT HAVE ON BUCK. ETATION]

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

OMIT IT FROM DISSEM.

: 4. FOR MIAMID ONE SOURCE OF INFO ON ZIMERI GASE MAY HELL

MAVE BEEN ESDEN-S. [COS)SAN LATTER BY ACCIDENT & JUNE LESTERE

SAID

THAT

HE HAD BEEN PROVIDING INFO

TO GOG ON ZIMERI FOR PAST.

SIX MONTHS OR SO AND ADDED THAT THO 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

AU WEIGHING ABOUT 233 POUNDS. CESDEÑ-1 PLANS RETURN MIAMI NITHIN

TWO WEEKS SINCE IN OVER THO 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 LAUGERUO REQUESTS.

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