CABLE RE ZIMERI PLOT
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 06/08/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TO: PRIORITY DIRECTOR INFO LAAMIAMI.

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ESDEW ESMICA.

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A. GUATEMALA CITY 19518 (IN 937052)

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EMALA CITY 19375 SNOT SENTCLA/MIAMID (IN 8903667)

1: ESMICA-RE NE-68) PASSED STATION WRITTEN REPORT AND MADE

VERBAL REPORT IN DETAIL, ALL WITH KNOWLEDGE OF PRESIDENT LAUGERUD,

ON REF A CASE AND RESULTS. ACCORDING REPORT ANDCE 68, NATIONAL

LIBERATION MOVEMENT (MLND WAS INVOLVED WITH JORGE ANTONIO " COKIE"

ZIMER I SAFIE, WHO HAS BEEN LIVING MIAMI SINCE AUGUST 75.

IN PLOT TO ASSASSINATE LAUGERUD. PLOT WAS TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED

OUT 15 SEPTEMBER 75 BUT ZIMERI WAS VICTIM OF ATTACK ON HIS LIFE

LATE AUGUST AND AS RESULT WENT TO MIAMI FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT.

REPORT AND E-G8 CLAIM THAT TWO AMERICANS, BROTHERS ROBERT AND

GERALD PATRICK HEMMING INBISTATION TRACESS, WERE ALSO

INVOLVED WITH ZIMERI IN PLOT AND THAT THEY ASSISTED HIM IN

ACQUIRING ARMS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WHICH FLOWN 90 GUATEMALA

ILLEGALLY IN SMALL AIRCRAFT. REPORT ENDS WITH FIVE 15) REQUESTS

BY LAUGERUD FOR INFO AS FOLLOWS:

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IS ZIMERI STILL IN THE UNITED STATES.

B. DOES HE RECEIVE ANY KIND OF POEFERENTIAL TREATMENT BY

AUTHORITIES THERE WHICH PERMITS HIM TO CARRY FIREARMS, AS WELL

AS PURCHASE ARMS AND AMMUNITION FOR SHIPMENT TO GUATEMALA.

THEY CLAIM HE HAS CLOSE RELATIONS WITH POLICE OFFICIALS IN

NEW ORLEANS AND MIAMI.

?. IS HE RECRUITING MERCENARIES THERE FOR POSSIBLE USE IN

GUATEMALAO.:

• DO REQUEST FOR INFO ON ROBERT AND GERALD HEMMING.

E. IN EVENT ZIMERI NOT IN STATES LEGALLY, THEY REQUEST HE BE

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DEPORTED TO GUATEMALA, E-68 SAYS HE LEFT GUATEMALA ILLESALLY

BUT. ÄRRIVED IN STATES LEGALLY, BUT GOG THINKS HIS VISA HAS

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MENTIONING HEMMINGS BY NAME, PLAN PREPARE MEMO FOR CHAPE

AND SO AND WILL SUGGEST THAT LATTER ATTEMPT ANSWER QUEST?INS

FOR LAUGERUD..

•CESDEW-4 AND (E-68 ALSO REPORTED 7 JUNE IN SOME DETAIL ON

SOLUTION OF NOVELLA KIDVAPPING CASE (REF BI, THERE POLITICAL

IMPLICATIONS THIS CASE ALSO SO WE DISSEMING.

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•THERE AMERICA! = OSSIBLY INVOLVED THIS CASE, ONE FRANK BUCK

(PRORABLY IDENT:SAL TO SUBJECT OF 201-0819515, A REGISTERED

DEA SOURCES, MES CLAIMS EE DOCTOR BUT DOES NOT PRACTICE HERE.

HE ALLEGEDLY LOWER OF SISTER OF INTELLECTUAL AUTHOR OF NOVELLA

KIDNAPPING PLAN. JORGE ALFONSO LOB O DUBON, IN WHICH ANOTHER

LOBO BROTHER, DISE FERNANDO LO BO DUBON, ALSO INVOLVED.

TE-68 HAS REQUESTED WHATEVER INFO WE MIGHT HAVE ON BUCK, (STATION:

PLANS INCLUDE THI: NAME ALSO IN MEMO TO CHARGE AND RSO BUT WILL

OMIT IT FROM DiSSEM.

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: 4. FOR MIAMIE ONE SOURCE OF INFO ON ZIMERI CASE MAY WELL

HAVE BEEN ESDEH-1, COS SAW LATTER BY ACCIDENT & JUNE. ESDEW-S

SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN PROVIDING INFO TO GOG ON ZIMERI FOR PAST

SIX MONTHS OR SO AND ADDED THAT TWO AMERICANS INVOLVED WITH

ZIMERI, ONE OF WHOM RUNS

A GUARD SERVICE IN MIAMI, HE DID

NOT MENTION NAMES BUT DESCRIBED ONE AS ABOUT SIX FEET FOUR INCHES

ALiU WEIGHING ABOUT 238 POUNDS.

DESDEW-1 PLANS RETURN MIAMI WITHIN

TWO WEEKS SINCE IN OVER TWO YEARS HERE HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO

FIND JOB WITH SUFFICIENT SALARY PERMIT HIM LIVE COMFORTABLY.

5. PLS ADVISE IF YOU CONCUR WITH THIS METHOD OF HANDLING

REQUESTS FOR INFO ON AMERICANS AND OTHER LAUGERUD REQUESTS.

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