HEMMING, GERALD PATRICK.
Originator: CIA
From: BROWN, JERRY G., DC/SAG/OS, CIA
To: C/SAG
Document date: 06/11/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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11 June 1976

MEMORANDUN FOR:

*SUBJECT

Chief, Security Analysis Group

HEMMING,

Gerald Patrick

SF#429 229

On 9. June 1969

contacted Staff and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation

Section for information concerning

Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

Iwas reterred to

the writer, who is holding the HEMMING

contacted the writer

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 Guatemala.

I was unfamiliar with the case of

Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed

the 201 file

on HEMMING.

¡was requested to alert

and JNWAVE

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

copy of the report coming in from[the Guatemala Station:)

provided the writer with a copy of the cable

(IN 944357,

¡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 the Guatemala Station!

concerning a plot

a written report, and a detailed bridccording to the informa-

to assassinate President LAUGERUD.

tion 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 ZINERI

in the assassination

in turn was involved with two Americans,

brothers,

Robert and

Gerald Patrick HEMMING.

The HEMMING brothers

were flown to Guatemala in

The report also

•Claims that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials

and New Orleans.

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NOTE: The Guotemala Station] also included

information the Chief of Stationhad received

from:

on 8 june.

said

that hic

had doen providing

information on ZIMERI to the

Guatemalan governnent for the past six months or

He claimed that two Americans were

involved

rith alMer!, one of them who runs a guard servic

did not mention names bu

described one of the Americans as about six feet

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. In the event ZIMERI is not in the United

States legally, deport him

to Guatenala.

C.

Is ZIMERI recruiting merceraries in the

United States for possible use

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?

that

5.

On 19 June 1976

advised

DDO is referring the entire matter to the FBI and State

Department.

6.

Office of Security indices are negative in pertinent

variations of the name of ZIMERI or Robert HEMMING.

activity,

alleged

employment, amishyparent that perald Pativit

is identical with the subject of Office of Security file

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

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

Miani, Florida.

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Gerald Patrick HEMMING is well known to

this Agency,

the Office of Security Miami Field Offico, and JMWAVE.

lind claimed Agency affiliation when in fact there

sco anns been

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 HAMMING

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

Frank FIORINI,

of Watergate notoriety who also has &

long-time record of

falsely claiming Agency affiliation.

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

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 American 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.

appreciation of the possible ramifications of

a Guatemalan

government expose of this assassination plot

involving HEMMING, you are referred to attachments to instant

memorandum,

a memorandum by the writer dated 10 Junc

1975 in the nan of Frank STURGIS and Everett Howard HUNT, Jr-;

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

Michael CANFIELD and Alan J. WEBERMAN.

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"

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.

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 GARRISN's investigation.

JerrY G.

Brown

Downty Chief

Security Analysis Group

Atts

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