Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Gerald Patrick Hemming Cuba Spook

  1. Gerald Patrick Hemming Cuba Spook

  2. Gerry Patrick Hemming From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Gerald Patrick "Gerry" Hemming, Jr. (March 1, 1937 – January 28, 2008) was a former U.S. Marine, mercenary and Central Intelligence Agency operative associated with attacks against on Cuba in the 1960s.

  3. He had a background with many similarities to Lee Harvey Oswald

  4. Hemming and Lee Harvey Oswald[edit]

    According to Victor Marchetti, he was also Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer at then-secret NAF Atsugi.[1]
    Gerry Hemming has granted long interviews with several writers working on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These includeAnthony Summers (Conspiracy), Noel Twyman (Bloody Treason) and John M. Newman (Oswald and the CIA). Some researchers believe that a combination of Interpen members and anti-Castro Cubans were involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This included Hemming, James Arthur Lewis, Roy Hargraves, Edwin Collins, Steve Wilson, David Sanchez Morales, Herminio Diaz Garcia, Tony Cuesta, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, Felipe Vidal Santiago and William "Rip" Robertson.

  7. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Patrick_Hemming‎

    ... Intelligence Agency operative associated with attacks against on Cuba in the ... byGerald Patrick Hemming with Dick Watley and Ed Colby running the camp.
    ‎Early background - ‎Interpen - ‎Hemming and Lee Harvey Oswald - ‎Arms trading

  8. Gerry Patrick Hemming

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Gerald Patrick "Gerry" Hemming, Jr. (March 1, 1937 – January 28, 2008) was a former U.S. Marine, mercenary and Central Intelligence Agency operative associated with attacks against on Cuba in the 1960s.

    Early background[edit]

    One of eleven children, Hemming was born in Los Angeles, California on March 1, 1937. He attended El Monte Union High School in California before joining the United States Marine Corps in 1954.
    Hemming left the Marines in October 1958 and the following year traveled to Cuba where he gave help to Fidel Castro and his revolutionary forces. In January 1959 Hemming met Lee Harvey Oswald at the Atsugi Naval Air Station in Japan. Hemming complained that Oswald boasted too much about his inside knowledge. For instance, upon their first meeting; Oswald tried to impress Hemming by showing off how much he knew about Hemming's background and mission - somebody in an intelligence capacity had briefed Lee Harvey Oswald, and Oswald sort of teased Hemming with this information. So, Hemming did not particularly enjoy the company of Oswald from the start.[citation needed]
    Like many young Americans, including Frank Sturgis, David Ferrie and Harry Dean, Hemming joined an American effort to overthrow the Batista regime through the efforts of Fidel Castro. When Castro proved to be a Communist, and subjected some Americans to firing squads, most Americans "switched sides" and this included Gerry Patrick Hemming.[citation needed] who, in 1961, established Interpen as a means to attack and weaken the Castro regime. Other members of Interpen reportedly included Loran Hall, Roy Hargraves, William Seymour, Lawrence Howard, Steve Wilson, Howard K. Davis, Edwin Collins, James Arthur Lewis, Dennis Harber, Bill Dempsey, Dick Whatley, Ramigo Arce, Ronald Augustinovich, Joe Garman, Edmund Kolby, Ralph Schlafter, Manuel Aguilar and Oscar Del Pinto.[citation needed]

    Interpen[edit]

    Main article: Interpen
    Hemming was a leader of Interpen, or Intercontinental Penetration Force, a group of anti-Castro guerrillas who trained at No Name Key in the early 1960s.
    Declassified FBI files show that the agency had an informer within Interpen. His code name was MM T-1. In one document dated June 16, 1961, it said that MM T-1 had "been connected with Cuban revolutionary activities for the past three years". One document dated May 12, 1961, claims that Allen Lushane of Miami "had made a trip to Texas to recruit Americans for some future military action against the Government of Cuba". The document adds that the "first training camp was established by Gerald Patrick Hemming with Dick Watley and Ed Colby running the camp." In an interview that he gave to John M. Newman on January 6, 1995, Hemming claimed that the FBI informer was Steve Wilson.
    This group of experienced soldiers were involved in training members of the anti-Castro groups funded by the Central Intelligence Agency in Florida in the early 1960s. When the government began to crack down on raids from Florida in 1962, Interpen set up a new training camp in New Orleans, Louisiana. When this work came to an end in 1964 Hemming was employed in the construction industry in Miami.

    Hemming and Lee Harvey Oswald[edit]

    According to Victor Marchetti, he was also Lee Harvey Oswald's case officer at then-secret NAF Atsugi.[1]
    Gerry Hemming has granted long interviews with several writers working on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. These includeAnthony Summers (Conspiracy), Noel Twyman (Bloody Treason) and John M. Newman (Oswald and the CIA). Some researchers believe that a combination of Interpen members and anti-Castro Cubans were involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. This included Hemming, James Arthur Lewis, Roy Hargraves, Edwin Collins, Steve Wilson, David Sanchez Morales, Herminio Diaz Garcia, Tony Cuesta, Eugenio Martinez, Virgilio Gonzalez, Felipe Vidal Santiago and William "Rip" Robertson.

    Arms trading[edit]

    Gerry Hemming was arrested on August 23, 1976 for the illegal transfer of a silencer and drug smuggling. It seems that this was the point that he began talking about his past work with the CIA. He told one reporter: "All of a sudden they're accusing me of conspiracy to import marijuana and cocaine. Hey, what about all the other things I've been into for the last 15 years, lets talk about them. Let's talk about the Martin Luther King thing, let's talk about Don Freed, Le Coubre, nigger-killers in bed with the Mafia, the Mafia in bed with the FBI, and the goddamn CIA in bed with all of them. Let's talk about all the people I dirtied up for them over the years."

    1978 conviction and acquittal[edit]

    Hemming was convicted by a Miami jury of conspiracy to import marijuana. In 1978 he was sentenced to six months in prison by U.S. District Judge William M. Hoeveler. Hemming was released on appeal bond and the conviction was later overturned.
    In August, 1978, Victor Marchetti published an article about the assassination of John F. Kennedy in the Liberty Lobbynewspaper, The Spotlight. In the article Marchetti argued that the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) had obtained a 1966 CIA memo that revealed Hemming, E. Howard Hunt, and Frank Sturgis had been involved in the plot to kill Kennedy. Marchetti's article also included a story that Marita Lorenz had provided information on this plot. Later that monthJoseph Trento and Jacquie Powers wrote a similar story for the Sunday News Journal.
    On April 14, 1980, Hemming was arrested and charged with drug trafficking. He was held on $200,000 bond in Palm Beach County, Florida. He claimed that he had not smuggled Quaaludes, but was establishing his bona fides with drug traffickers so he could penetrate their networks. Hemming told Alan J. Weberman that he was working for Mitchell Werbell III and Lucien Conein. Hemming was sentenced to 35 years in prison with a minimum mandatory sentence of three years but the conviction was later overturned on appeal.
    The HSCA did not publish this CIA memo linking its agents to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Hunt now decided to take legal action against the Liberty Lobby. In December, 1981, he was awarded $650,000 in damages. Liberty Lobby appealed to the United States Court of Appeals. It was claimed that Hunt's attorney, Ellis Rubin, had offered a clearly erroneous instruction as to the law of defamation. The three-judge panel agreed and the case was retried. This time Mark Lane defended the Liberty Lobbyagainst Hunt's action.
    Lane eventually discovered Marchetti’s sources. The main source was William Corson. It also emerged that Marchetti had also consulted James Angleton and Alan J. Weberman before publishing the article. As a result of obtaining depositions from David Atlee Phillips, Richard Helms, G. Gordon Liddy, Stansfield Turner, and Marita Lorenz, plus a skillful cross-examination by Lane ofE. Howard Hunt, the jury decided in January, 1995, that Marchetti had not been guilty of libel when he suggested that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated by people working for the CIA. Lane states that during a later meeting they had, Hemming corroborated the details of the assassination which were outlined during the trial.

    See also[edit]

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    References[edit]

    1. Jump up^ The Spotlight (August 14, 1978 issue)

    External links[edit]







We should not trust the claims of Gerald Patrick Hemming: that he met Oswald at the Cuban Consulate in Los Angeles in 1959 and gave Oswald documents while he was stationed at El Toro that year. A 1976 CIA internal memo clearly outed Hemming as a liar for claiming Agency affiliation when in fact there was none. That the same CIA memo stated that Hemming's "long-time cohort" Frank Sturgis of Watergate infamy "also has a long-time record of falsely claiming Agency affiliation" just shows that poseurs like each others company.


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    Gerry P. Hemming : Biography - Spartacus Educational

    www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhemming.htm‎

    by John Simkin - in 121 Google+ circles
    Gerald Patrick Hemming, one of nine children, was born in Los Angeles on 1st ... March 1960 reports that Hemming was "stationed with Cuban rebel air force in  ...

















  1. JFK Files: Gerald Patrick Hemming: Dead at 70

    jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2008/01/gerald-patrick-hemming-dead-at-70.html‎

    Jan 31, 2008 - Gerald Patrick Hemming: Dead at 70 ... He was looked up to by a lot ofCuban exile groups. ... He states he has been in Cuba for two years.

  2. Gerry Patrick Hemming dies - Anti-Castro spook, Interpen founder ...

    www.democraticunderground.com › Discuss‎

    Feb 1, 2008 - 4 posts - ‎4 authors
    Gerald Patrick Hemming, Jr. (March 1, 1937 – January 28, 2008) was a ... 1958 and the following year traveled to Cuba where he gave help to  ...

  3. Gerald Patrick Hemming, Jr. Dead at 71 - Google Groups

    https://groups.google.com/d/topic/alt.assassination.jfk/8q-G26pMI4w‎

    Feb 6, 2008 - Gerald Patrick Hemming, Jr., a swashbuckling six-foot five ex-Marine ...In Cuba, Hemming worked as an instructor in a Cuban parachute  ...

  4. Geald Patrick Hemming Dead at 71 - Constant Contact

    archive.constantcontact.com/fs038/.../archive/1101966301369.html‎

    Gerald Patrick Hemming, Jr., a swashbuckling six-foot five ex-Marine turned ... After he left the Marine Corp in the fall of 1958, Hemming travelled to Cuba and  ...
  5. [PDF]

    JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM Date:07/27/93 ... - History Matters

    history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/unpub.../Hemming_3-21-78.pdf‎

    Jul 27, 1993 - DEPOSITION OF GERALD PATRICK HEMMING. ... he spent more than one weekend in Cuba -- .... group to take over a Cuban vessel on the.

  6. Gerald Patrick Hemming Jr. - About | Facebook

    https://www.facebook.com/GerryHemming/info?ref=stream‎

    Gerald Patrick Hemming Jr. 102 likes · 0 talking about this. ... a trip to Texas to recruit Americans for some future military action against the Government of Cuba".

  7. A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the ...

    books.google.com/books?isbn=1574889737
    Joan Mellen - 2005 - ‎Biography & Autobiography
    Helms says: “They made the decision to fight for Cuba because they ... Edgar Hoover, Subject: Gerald Patrick Hemming, Internal Security- Cuba, 105-86406. p.
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