MEMO: HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY G., DC/SAG/OS, CIA
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

PRONET.

11 June 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

•SUBJECT

IEMMING.

Gerald Patrick

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On 9 June 1969

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational

Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HENMING.

was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING

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 JMNAVE

to the below-mentioned

cable and to provide the writer with a

copy of the report. coming in (from the Guatemala Station.

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(IN 944357;

provided the writer wi had for leable

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

1975;

however,

one.ot the major conspirators.

"Cokie" ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala

In August 1975

of an attack upon his,.

ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living

in Miami since August

1975.

Movement was ording the report me assass latera poot

and LiMERl in turn was involved with two. Americans, brothers,

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

infornation \the Chief of Station) had received

from

I.on 8 June.

Isaid that he

providing information on ZIMERI to the

Guatenalan government for the past six months or

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

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 ZIMERI recruiting merceraries in the

United States

Guatemala?

for possible use

in

d.

DoeS ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-

treatment by U. S. authorities which

permit him to carry firearms,

as well as

to purchase arms and ammunition for

shipment to Guatemala?

e.

Any information on Robert and Gerald

HEMMING?

5.

On 19 June 1976

advised

that DDO is referring the entire matter to the FBI and State

Department.

Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING.

activity,

alleged employment,

429 229, who has been described as six-foot five, 250 pounds,

who is a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who

of May 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation

TEPCOL Security (Office of Security--no record)

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 at least the early 1960'Sfas beer

HEIMING

had clained Agency affiliation when in fact there

The most recent incident wherein HEMMING clained such

affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his services

to the Drug

Enforcement Administration.

Gerald Patrick HEMMING

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

Fran' FIORINI,

long-tine record of

of Watergate notoriety who also has a

falsely claiming Agency affiliation.

the late 1950's HENNING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Marines,

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter

claiming iisillusionnent with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thereafter,

STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

• Central American activities which he named the International

Anti-Comnunist 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 HEMING.

For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

government expose of this assassination plot

involving HENMING, you are referred to attachnents to instant

memorandun,

a memorandum by the writer dated 10 June

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

and an extract from a book published in early 1976 written b)

lichael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

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

Is a 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,

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

Loran Eugene HALL was a member of HEMMING'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

GARRISON

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

Jerry G. Brown

Deputy Chief

Security Analysis Group

Atts

SEGRET

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