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104-10137-10304 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/11/1976)

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                                           11 June 1976


      MEMORAND JXM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

      SUBJECT           HEMMING, Gerald Patrick
                        SF429  229


            1.  On  9 June 1969  
    . contacted Staff  and Operations Branch/Operational Evaluation
      Secti n for informatLion concerning Gerald Patrick HEMMING.
        fewas   refere-d to the writer, who  is holding the HEMMING
    f file.  When  1,0- l contacted the wvriter (0Advised that     '
      is the action officer for a cable from
      reporting an assassination plot on the  ±±e ut rresiaent
      'LAIJGERUJ) of Guatemala., was unfamiliar with the case of
      Gerald Patrick HEMMING and had not as yet reviewed the  201 file
      oil HEMMING.       was requested to alert     .   . and JMWAVE
      to the below-mentioned cable and t~o _rovide the wri te- a  a
      :copy of the report coming in from

            2N9 5 .    rovided the writer with a copy of the cable
      bN  944357                            .dated 8 June 1976),
      Which is attached   In substance, the cable reflects that
      dirca 8 June 1976 a Guatemalan source, with the knowledge nF
      Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided,
      .a written report, and a detailed briefing, concernine a -plot
      ~to assassinate President IAUGERUD  According to the informa-
      :tion the plot was -to-have been carried out on 15 September
      975; however'  onflthe major conspirators, Jorge Antonio
      ',1Cokie ZIMERI Safie left Guatemala in August 1975 as a result.
      of an attack upon hi-s, ZIMERI's, life. ZIMERI has been living
      in Miami since Augiist 1975.

           3.  According to the report,  the National Liberation
    IWOvenent was involved with  ZIMERI in the assassination plot
    -nd  ZIMERI in turn was involved with  two Americans, brothers
    `Robert and Gerald Patrick HEMING.   The HEMMING brothers
    assisted  ZINERT in acquiring arms, among other things', which
    were  flown to Guatemala in a small aircraft.  The report also
      nims  that ZIMERI has close relations with police officials
      -Miami  and New Orleans,.



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