CABLE RE RECENT AIR TRIP OF ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU TO PUERTO BARRIOS, GUATEMALA, INVOLVING GERALD PATRICK HEMMING AS PILOT.
Agency: CIA
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Document date: 10/16/1965
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SUBJ: RECENT AIR TRIP OF ROBERTO ALEJOS ARZU TO PUERTO BARRIOS,

GUATEMALA, INVOLVING. GERALD PATRICK HEMMING AS PILOT.

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(FIELD COMMENT: ROBERTO PALEJOS ARZU, GUATEMALAN MILLIONAIRE

RESIDING TAMIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA. SANNED TO OVERTHROW THE .

GOVERNMENT OF GUATEMALA IN THE SPRING OF 65, USING A GROUP. OF

CUBAN EMIGRES WHOM HE HAD RECRUITED. FOR THE OPERATION. ON 4 MAY

ALEJOS AND LUIS SIERRA LOPEZ, MILITARY. LEADER OF THE GROUP, WERE

APPREHENDEO AND THEIR ARMS CACHES SEIZED BY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

OFFICIALS. THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL REPORTS ON ALEJOS' RECENT

INVOLVEMENT IN ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT.

Cil: Gutemala? AUSA?

2. ON 13 OCT 65 ARMANDO MEDINA MONTES DE OCA, A MEMSER OF ROBERTO

his material contains information nilceting the Vational Defeuse of the Vaited States within the meaning of the Espionage

Title IB, U.S.C. Scca, 793 and 794, the traosm

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ALEJOS ARZU'S ABORTIVE PLOT TO OVERTHROW THE GUATEMALAN GOVERNVENT

IN THE SPRING OF 65, SAID THAT. THE PILOT WHO FLEW ALEJOS TO

GUATEMALA "A SHORT TIME AGO" WAS GERALD PATRICK HEMING. THE

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AIRCRAFT LANDED AT PUERTO BARRIOS, GUATEMALA, WHERE IT REMAINED FOR

ABOUT TWO WEEKS. HEMMING IS NOW IN MIAMI. (FIELD COMMENT:

HEMMING, AN AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AND FORMER UNITED STATES

MARINE, HAS SEEN ENGAGED IN CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES FOR

ABOUT FIVE YEARS. HEMMING, LEADER OF THE INTER-AMERICAN PENETRATION

FORCE (INTERPEN), A GUERRILLA GROUP, WAS MOST RECENTLY INVOLVED

IN THE RECRUITMENT OF CUBAN EMIGRES WITH GUERRILLA WARFÁRE

EXPERIENCE WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO FIGHT THE COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS

IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ON BEHALF OF GENERAL ANTONIO IMBERT

BARRERA. IT. IS BELIEVED THAT THIS PLAN NEVER MATERIALIZED.)

3. • MEDINA INTENDS TO GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO THE NEW GUATEMALAN

CONSUL GENERAL IN MIAMI, HOPING THAT THIS WILL SHARPEN HIS INTEREST

IN ALEJOS. (FIELD COMMENT: IT WAS RECENTLY REPORTED THAT MEDINA

ACCEPTED AN OFFER OF $38, EDO TO DELIVER ALEJOS SAFELY TO THE

GUATEMALAN AUTHORITIES.) MEDINA SAID THAT HE HAD TALKED TO (GENERAL

JOSE DO TUAREZ ARACON, CiA; GUMILI UATEMALAN CONSUL GENERAL

IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, AND JUAREZ INFORMED HIM THAT THE NEW

CONSUL GENERAL SHOÜLD ARRIVE IN MIAMI BY 15 OCT AND WOULD CONTACT

MEDINA. (FIELD COMMENT: COLONEL CARLOS IGNACIO GONZALEZ

AUSA

PALACIOS, NEWLY APPOINTED CONSUL GENERAL TO MIAMI, ARRIVED IN MIAMI

ON 13 OCT.)

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