CABLE RE JORGE ANTONIO ZIMERI SAFIE AND GERALD PATRICK HEMMING (SUMMARY TRACE TO FBI).
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From: CIA
To: FBI/INTELLIGENCE DIVISION
Document date: 06/15/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2. ON 8 JUNE 1976, A USUALLY RELIABLE SOURCE REPORTED THAT

JORGE ANTONIO "COKIE" ZIMERI SAFIE, A GUATEMALAN CITIZEN WHO HAS BEEN

LIVING IN MIAMI SINCE AUGUST 1575, WAS INVOLVED IN A PLOT TO ASSASSI

NATE GUATEMALAN PRESIDENT KJELL EUGENIO LAUGERUD GARCIA. THE ACTION

WAS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IS SEPTEMBER 1975, BUT ZIMERI WAS

WOUNDED IN GUATEMALA CITY DURING AN ARMED ATTÄCK ON HIS LIFE IN LATE

AUGUST 1975 AND WENT TO MIAMI FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT. ZIMERI LEFT

GUATEMALA ILLEGALLY AND MAY BE IN THE U-S. UNDER FALSE PRETENSES-Y

3. ZIMERI WAS BORN IS MAY 1944. IN GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA.

HIS PARENTS ARE ELIAS ZIMERI NASSAR AND ELENA JESUS SAFIE. INFORMA-

TION ON HIS TRAVEL DOCUMENTATION IS NOT AVAILABLE BUT HE CARRIES

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4. ALSO REPORTEDLY INVOLVED IN THE ASSASSINATION PLAN WASÀ

U.S. CITIZEN: GERALD. PATRICK HEMMING, CALSO KNOUN AS JERRY HENNINGS,

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S. HEMMING IS POSSIBLY IDENTICAL TO G. P. HEMMING, FORMER U.S.

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