REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Fuhr y. NART Date 2498 The DAILY WORKER, Central Organ of the Communist Party, published in New York, arrives regularly in San José, and is said to be received at the office of LA NUEVA PRENSA, whence it is placed in the mails. Since it is printed in English, its chief purpose would seem to be to create dissension among the negro laborers (West Indian) whose activities are confined largely to the Port Limon district. Papers printed in Spanish come at irregular intervals from Mexico and Uruguay, the latter probably supplied by the CONFEDERACIÓN SINDICAL LATINO AMERICANA whose headquarters are in Montevideo. small unimportant sheet called EL PELUDO, also printed in Spanish, is issued very irregularly and infrequently from a side street in San José.
The Military Attaché of this Legation, investigating this subject a few weeks ago, was able to find very little concrete evidence beyond the fact that the DAILY WORKER and other Communist literature seem to be distributed regularly by a clerk in the Mexican Legation in San José. A copy of a memorandum from Colonel Cruse on this subject is transmitted herewith.
At my request, Consul Caffery interviewed Charles Thomson, Latin American Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, whose headquarters are in San José. As the Department may recall, Mr. Thomson mingles frequently with the laboring element in Costa Rica and also with any who show anti foreign and or anti American tendencies.
His written reply to Mr. Caffery gives what he himself terms a somewhat sketchy article on labor conditions in Costa Rica. copy is transmitted for the information of