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104-10130-10080 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/11/1976)

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                                           11 June 1976



       MEMORANDUM FOR:  Chief, Security Analysis Group

       SUBJECT       :  HEMMING, Gerald Patrick
                        SFf429 229



             1.  On 9 June 1969 Dan of the  DDO
       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,  a     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.  Dan was unfamiliar with  the case of
       Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not  as yet reviewed the 201 file
       on-HEMMING.  Dan was requested  to alert CI Staff and JMWAVE
       to the below-mentioned cable and  to provide the writer with a
       copy of the report.-coming in from

             2.  Dan provided the writer  with a copy of the cable
        (IN 944357,                    19536,  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
  _--  -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 IS September
       1975; however, one of the major  conspirators, Jorge Antonio
       Cokie  ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result
       of an attack upon his,  ZIMERI's, life.  ZIMERI has been living
       in Miami since Augist 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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