HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK, INVOLVED IN ASSASSINATION ON GUATEMALAN PRES. LAUGERUD
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY G.
To: C/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

11 June 1976

MEMORANDUN FOR:

SUBJECT

Chief, Security Analysis Group

HENNING,

Gerald Patrick

SF# 429 220

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 HENNING

Icontacted the writer,

in Ladvised that ha

is the action officer for a cable from the tuatemalaustation >

reporting an assassination plot on the

life of President

LAUGERUD of Guatemala.

I was unfamiliar with the case of

Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the 201

On HEMMING.

was requested to alert

INWAVE

to the below-mentioned

cable and to provide the writer with a

copy of the report coming in from chanttemala starion.

"provided the writer with a copy of the cable

TN 944357;

¡dated 8 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 Guatemaladstation

id written report;

and a detailed briefing;

concerning a plot

ato assassinate President LAUGERUD.

According

to. the informa-

ation the plot was to have been carried out on

15 September

of an attack upon his,

ZIMERI's, life.

ZIMERI has been living

In Miami since August 1975.

• According to the report, the National Liberation

Movement was involved with ZIMERI

in the assassination plot

wand ZIMERI in turn was involved with two Americans,

brothers,

Robert and

Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

The HEMMING brothers

sassisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms,

among other things, which

Guatemala in a

The report also

that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials

Fin Niami and New Orleans.

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ala statron also included

information adren

Station had received

on 8 Juno.

had been providing information on ZINERI to the

Guatomalan

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 as about six

four inches and weighing about 230 pounds.

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.

c.

In the event ZIMERI is not in the United

States legally, deport him

to Guatenala.

Is ZIMERI recruiting merceraries in the

United States for possible use in

Guatemala?

d.

Does ZIMERI receive any kind of preferen-.

treatment by U. 'S. authorities which

permit him to carry firearms,

to purchase arms and ammunition for

shipment to Guatemala?

e.

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.

Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING.

From the name, physical description,

activity,

alleged

emproyment, It is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEMING

is identical with

the subject of Office of Security file

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

a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who as

of Nay 1975 was ostensibly employed by a private investigation

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

Miami, Florida.

11- CiA employee

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Gerald Patrick lEMMING is well known to this Agency,

The most recent incident wherein HEMMING clained such

affiliation was in May 1975 when he volunteered his services

"to the Drug Enforcemont Administration.

Gerald Patrick HEMMING

is a long-time cohort of Frank Anthony

STURGIS (SF#353 459),

Frank FIORINI, of Watergate notoriety who also has a

long-time record of

falsely

claiming Agency affiliation.

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

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba

but returned shortly thereafter

claiming disillusionment with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thereafter,

suRGis organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

Central American activities which he named the International

Anti-Conmunist 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 HEMMING, you are referred to attachments to instant

memorandum, to wit:

a memorandum by the writer dated 10 June

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

and an extract from a book published in carly 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

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 Eugone

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"

GAKRISON 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

HEMMING and

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

ry G.

Brown

Douty Chief

Security Analysis Group

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