INFO RE GERALD PATRICK HEMMING.
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY, DC/SAG
To: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 06/11/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

PROTET

11 June 1976

MEMORANDLM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

HENNING,

Gerald Patrick

SF#429 229

Cn 9 June 1969

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEiMING.

was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMING

i1' advised that he

is the action officer for a cable from

i contacted the writel"the Guatemala Station

reporting an assassination plot on the life of President

LAUGERUD of Guatemala.

was unfamiliar with

the case of

Gerald Patrick HENNING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file

on HEMMING.

I was requested to alert

and JNNAVE

to the below-mentioned cable and to provide the writer with a

copy of the report coming in from the Guatemala Station.

1. ' provided the writer with a copy of the cable

(IN 944357,

•_¿, dated & June 1976),

which is attached.

In substance, the cable reflects that

circa 8 June 1976 a Guatemalan source,

with the knowledge of

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided the Guatemala Station

a written report, and a detailed briefing,

concerning a plot

to assassinate President LAUGERUD.

According

to the informa-

tion the plot was to have been carried out on 15 September

•one.of the major conspirators,

Jorge Antonio

'Cokie" ZIMERI Safie left

of an attack upon his,

ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living

in Miami since August 1975.

the National Liberation

Movement was involved with ZIMERI

According to the report'in the assassination plot

aircraft.

The report also

claims. that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials

in Miami and New Orleans.

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NOTE: The Guatemala Station also included

information the Chief of Station had received

fron

had

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lon 8 June.

said that he

seen providing information on ZINERI to the

Guatemalan government for the past six months of

50.

He claimed that two Americans were involved

with ZIMERI, one of them who runs a guard

service

in Miami.

did not mention names but

described one of the Americans as

about six feet

four inches and weighing about 230 pounds.

4. The Guatemalan report of the assassination plot ends

with five requests for information by President LAUGERUD:

a.' Is ZIMERI still in the United States?

b. In the event ZIMERI is not in the United

States legally, deport him to Guatemala.

c.

IS ZINERI recruiting merceraries in the

United States for possible use in

Guatemala?

d..

Does ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-

tial treatment by U. S. authorities which

permit him to carry firearms, as well as

to purchase arms and ammunition for

shipment to Guatemala?

Any information on Robert and Gerald:

HEMMING?

On 19 June 1976

that DDO is referring the entire matter to

advised

the FBI and State

Department.

6.

Office of Security indices are

negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING.

alleged®

activity,

229, who has been described as six-foot five,

250 pounds,

who is

a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who

as

of May 1975 was

ostensibly employed by a private investigation

company, TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record) in

Miami, Florida.

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Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to this Agency,

the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JNWAVE.

numerous occasions since

The nost recent incident wherein HEMMING clained such

affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his services

to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Gerald Patrick HE MING

is a long-time cohort of Frank Anthony STURGIS (SF#353 459),

long-tine record of

FIER: FIORINI, falsely claiming Agency affiliation..

of. Watergate notoriety who also has a

• the late 1950'g HEMNING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Marines,

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter

claiming disillusionnent with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thereafter,

STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

Central Anerican activities which he named the International

Anti-Connuaist Brigade.

A reported sub-unit of this

"Brigade"

(the backers of whom have never been fully established) was

named the Intercontinental Penetration Force, headed by Gerald

Patrick HEMMING.

For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan

government expose of this assassination plot

involving HENNING, you are referred to attachnents to instant

memorandun, to wie:

a memorandum by the writer dated 10 June

1975 in the name of Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNT, JI.;

and an'extract

from a book published in early 1976 written by

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

The book Coup d'etat

in America--The CIA and the Assassination of John F.

Kennedy

diatribe against the Agency and attempts to link the Agency

with the assassination of President KENNEDY.

One of the major

links attempted by the authors is through Everett Howard HUNT,

JI. to Frank STURGIS to Gerald Patrick HEMMING to Loran Eugene

HALL. Loran Eugene HALL was a member of HEMING's Interconti-

nental Penetration Force.

Loran Eugene HALL received nationwide

publicity in 1967 when New Orleans District Attorney "Jim"

GARRISON alleged that HALL (and the Intercontinental Penetration

Force) was involved in the assassination of President KENNEDY

and that members of this unit were connected with CIA.

GARRISON

shortly thereafter dropped his interest in Hall, but it is

interesting that he did so after Gerald Patrick HE NING

another cohort, Robert K. BROWN, joined GARRISN's investigation.

Jerry G. Brown

Deputy Chief

Security Analysis Group

Atts

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