NATIONAL AGENCY NAME CHECKS REQUESTED BY IRS IN NOV 1960 ON GERALD HEMMING

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00302035
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 52
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: May 16, 1975

104-10133-10344 CIA IIISTORICAL-REVIDV PROGRAM ; -1 1 LS-k_. � : � DATE OF LIRTH OF BIRTH PE2SnN'AFL SECURITY PLEDGE AND NAME CHECK INfORMATICN RELEASE APPROVED TOR MUSE 103 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL 199Es � c; if � DATE OF In k.-0---\-) � 19,c, National Agency Name Checks were conducted on the Subject with the following results: i IL FEI 1 ON I ACS 1 STATE PASSPORT CSC HCUA 031 OS I / 4 I&,1 AGO � Donci 1 1 � 16: i t � POSITIVE c) I\ ,.:�,..,�1._"2--,.... .....t...... s: H � NEGATIVE . As a duly accredited representative of the Requesting Agency 11.112. uuders'Land that all personnel security information released to me con-:: the Subject by review of his file, by memoranda, by copies of reports, or hy means is furnished in strict confidence in connection with my official Accordingly, I hereby pledge the following: 1. The information is for official United States Government use only and will be handled in accordance with its classification. 2. The information, the source thereof, the identity of informants, and the collection methods will not be divulged nor disseminated to anyone, except officials of the Requesting Agency named above on a strict need- to-know basis. 3. The information will not be divulged in any hearing or board action without the prior written consent of the Releasing Agency. RaEXST7D CY /NAME) Fr.:3 OFF1 CATC (4-12-43; UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT I !qemoranduin Chief, Personnel ec�ty Division, AT: Er. S�.-Ven Kuhn Er.Edward Dunn rovi,;Th.00 SUBJECT: 11_ING, Gerald Patrick F2-29229 Talc' CS DATE: 27 A118:USt 19674 Permission to Reveal Identity of a US Citizen as a Source of this Agency to the FBI. : flra Dunn's oral request regardi-ng FBI interest in information resulting- from interviews with Subject 1. This Division has no Objection to your reveelilic-s- to the YBI that Subject is a source of this Agency, provided the FBI does not disclose his identity outside the Bureau. 2. The reports listed belov resulted from cur interviews with Eubject: Copies of the 00B-3,169,985 003 3,169,982 002 3,170,124 002 3,170,077 003 3,170,616 00B 3,172,187 003 3,179,740 reports 003 , 3,179,856 OCA 34178,533 00A(S) 3,170,536 01S) 3,170,529 OCA S) 3,170,528 00A(S) 3,170,614 00A(S) 3,170,615 Co() 73,1F;-) attached as requestd. 7); -2- 27 Angust.1964 SUBJECT: M''.1,5MZ, Gerald Patrick Permission to Reveal Identity of a US Citizen as a Source or znas Agency to the FBI 3. Any questions pertaining to this memorpnaum should be directed to Mrs. Virginia Thorne, Ext. 2202. � I� ES^ " MURPHY. " Attachments: As stated above APPROVED: / / (i2s Assistant DirectOr for Operations Data/ 40417 (When lied. In) RELEASE OF PERSONNEL SECURITY INFORMATION PLEDGE c Cy NAME OF SUBJECT (Lat. 4 \,' '-'. � . First . ( � ' _4 e e . .1: .. Midd ) 4-1.-kli k FILE NO. , ri EL F AS I FiCi OF FiCEP .-- REOUEZZI(N5,--4,GENCY - ( / 1 (.1...., As a duly accredited representative of the Requesting Agency named above, I understand that all personnel security information released to me concerning the Subject by review of his flip, by memoranda, by copies of reports, or by an other means is furnished in strict confidence in connection with my official duties. Accord- ingly, I hereby pledge the following: 1. The information is for official United States Govern- ment use only and will be handled in accordance with its classification. 2. The information, the source thereof, the identity of . informants, and the collection methods will not be divulged nor disseminated to anyone, except officials of the Requesting Agency named above on a strict need-to-know basis. 3. The information will not be divulged in any hearing or board action without the prior written consent of the Central Intelligence Agency. rt .4-7(-7,-4- DATE � 2095 aET SIGNATURE (1,4 TITLE 8.1CCI.Cnr.a. 1�-�C'e? ;--7o4s.r:c ( nETURN TO: E-A,GL-oh. 7116,/t54 GERALD PATRICK 105-60370 1J� Los isAgelofs�Calif0 SEX: L10, LTI,::70, DESIRED; All z 19;54 to tnfluence them. Source said that SA111,hates all law enforcnt, particularly the FBI-, CIA and local police agencies. 5. Another retired FBI Agent advised that he has known of Mol-t SAM. since the 1950's as "a satirical and vindictive comediap on .LIto stage, radio and television". Source does not believe that SAPLws ever a member of the Communist Party or its front groups; however, it is believed that SAUL has attended and participated in meetings in which Communist Party members were interested-. Source describ-d SAii% as "professional protestor against the established order, and against what is good, decent and clean. He-is a hater and his venom is directed against all law enforcement, particularly J. Edgar HOOVER, the FBI and the CIA". ' . 6. The previously mentioned confidential source at the Sheriff's Office related that Eugene BRADLEY, who was recently indicted by JatLes GARRISON it).-eae latter's investigation of the KENNEDY assassination, stated tildI Mark LANE and Mort SAUL were investigators for James GARRISON and Olaf SAUL and LANE were also closely associated with Bill TURNER of RampaXts Magazine. SAUL and LANE, according to source, recently attended a lyeeting of G�RISON's investigators at the Center for the Study of ...,....D&PCrOtic_Institutions, Santa Barbara, California. Source said'that- Gerald Patr4,12:EZfiaNG;:.!_vho is not publicly known to be a membr of GARRISON s itIvestigdZing team, was also present at the meeting. HEMMING ---�was described as a "professional snitch;'which was explained to be a paid informant . HEMMING reportedly was known as Captain Patrick when he was participating in the training of anti-Castro guerillas in Florida. EEi.!MING allegedly was with CASTRO in Cuba for an unknown period of time. HENNING was also described as a close associate of Lloyd PULLEN who is a local leader of an organization called "Staff", which is the front- nanie for the Minute Men. 7. A Confidential Informant at the Beverly Hills Police Department advised that his department had, no information on SAUL but the informant had heard that SAUL and Joey BISHOP. were close friends. 8. The above-mentioned inforp.ant-at-thrSheriff's-Office ndvif:o(1 that the January 1967 issue of tA,Los,Angeles Free Press contained an interview with Mort SAUL. The article repOite:aly-coata-irred comment by .SAUL about how the CHRISTIANS IN ACTION group were responsible for the KENNEDY assassination. The article was not immediately available for review. If it is obtained from source, it will be forwarded to Head- quarters. The same source said that a clipping from the Los Angeles Times, dated 29 March 1958, reflected that SAUL obtained a divorce from his wife, k76 -2- Chi 7.1.. 6. The previously mentioned confidential source at the Sheriff's Office related that Eugene BRADLEY, who was recently indicted by James GARRISON in the latter!s investigation of the KENNEDY: assassination, . stated that Mark LANE and.Mort SAHL were investigators for James GARRISON and that tAHL and LANE were also closely associated with Bill TURNER of Ramparts Magazine. SAHL and LANE, according to source, recently attended.'� . a meeting of C. RRISONts investigators at .the Center for the Study of i) Demorrnrig. Ins itutions, Santa -Barbara, California. Source said that