HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK.
Originator: CIA
From: JERRY G. BROWN
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

11 June 1976

MEMORANDUN FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

: HEMMING,

Gerald Patrick

SF:429 229

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On 9 June 1969 "Dan" of the DDO Arenatashesk 22944)

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

"Dan" was referred to the writer, who is holding the HEMMING

file.

When "Dan" contacted the writer, lin" advised that he

is the action officer for a cable from

the Guatemala Station

reporting an assassination plot on the life of President

LAUGERUD of Guatenala.

"Dan" was unfamiliar with the case of

Gerald Patrick HEM!ING and had not as yet reviewed the 201 file

on HEMMING.

"Dan" was requested to alert CI Staff and JMAVE

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

copy of the report. coming in from the uterata-Station.

2.

"Dan" provided the writer with a copy of the cable

(IN 944357,

#verbeat emal a City 19536, dated 8 June 1976),

which is attached.

In substance, the

cable reflects that

circa & June 1976 a Guatenalan source, with the knowledge of

Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided enemala- Statien

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 of the major conspirators, Jorge Antonio

"Cokie" ZIMERÍ Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result

ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living

in Miami since August 1975.

3.

According to the report, the National Liberation

Movement was involved with ZIMERI

in the assassination plot

and ZIMERI in turn was

involved with two Americans, brothers,

Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMMING. The HEMMING brothers

assisted ZIMERI in acquiring arms, among other things, which

were flown to Guatemala in a

small aircraft. The report also

claims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials

in Miami and New Orleans.

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NOTE:

teen. also included

information the Chief of Station had received

from DEW-1 on & June. " DEW-l said that he

had been providing information on ZIMERI

to the

Guateralan government for the past six months or

SO.

He clained that two Americans were involved

with LIMERI

one of them who runs a guard service

in Niami. {B9DEN-1 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 firearns

to purchase arms and ammunition orll as

shipment to Guatemala?

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Any information on Robert and Gerald

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HEMMING?

5.

On 19 June 1976 "Dan" of the Guatemalansk advised

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

Department.

6. Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING.

1. From the name, physical description,

activity, and

alleged employment, it is apparent that Gerald Patrick HEMMINC

is identical with the subject of Office of Security file

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

who is a notorious mercenary and soldier of fortune and who

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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8: Gerald Patrick HemMiNg is well known to this Agency,

the Office of Security Miami Field Office, and JWAVE.

numerous occasions since at least. the early 1960's, HENMIN

ad clained Agency affiliation when in fact there has bee

none.

The most recent incident wherein HEMMING claimed 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),

aka:

long-tine record of

In

the late 1950's HENMING and STURGIS, both former U.S. Narines,

joined Fidel CASTRO in Cuba but returned shortly thereafter

claiming cisillusionnent with the CASTRO cause.

Soon thereafter,

STURGIS organized a group of mercenaries for Caribbean and

Central Anerican activities which he named the International

Anti-Communist 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.

9.

For an appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan government expose of this assassination plot

involving HENMING, 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, JT.;

and an extract from a book published in early 1976 written by

The book Coup d'etat

in Anerica--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,

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

HALL.

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

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

Jerry G. Brown

Deputy Chief

Security Analysis Group

Atts

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