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104-10130-10080 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (06/11/1976)

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                                     11 June 1976



MEMORANDUM  FOR:  Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT        :  HEMMING, Gerald Patrick
                  SF;429 229



       1.  On 9 June 1969 Dan of the DDO
 contacte.d 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,       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                a

       2.  Dan provided the writer with a copy of the cable
 (IN 944357,        mtla,:i      19536, dated  8 June 1976),
 which is attache .In   su stance, the cable reflects that
 circa 8 June 1976 a Guatemalan source, with the knowledge  of-
 Guatemalan President LAUGERUD, provided                    i
--a written report, and-a detailed briefi-ng, 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  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 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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