REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority State Letter Mhz By MENARI Date 2458 singing of the International and other revolutionary hymns. story in DIARIO DE COSTA RICA today reported a meeting of the League for Social Action (Liga de Acción Social. a local group of wdivulged membership organized to combat the spread of communism. long article of Reverened Rosendo de Valenciano, of La Merced Church, was read and publication proposed. It also stated that there are at present eleven Soviet agents in all Latin America whose mission it is to organize sub agencies, et cetera, for the propagation of Communistic ideas. The League hopes to induce local capitalists to keep their money in ciroulation through building enterprises, et cetera, so as to reduce the dangers of social unrest from unemployment.
In today LA TRIBUNA Dr. Calderón Muñoz, physician, member of Congress and late president of congress, scored the capitalists of Costa Rica for their benighted and inhuman attitude. Capital ought to understand that by cooperating to bring about more work it contributes to the greater prosperity of the nation and to the seourity of its own possessions. But the capitalists do not see it that way and are off on a dangerous course.
He also declared that there was a real Communism in this country; not just a state of mind brought on by hunger and unemployment but an idealogical communism. granddaughter