REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 2: DECLASSIFIED Enclosure No. 2, Despatch No. 379, August mihority State Letter hz ey ML, NARI 02:0 24 18 TRANSLATION MEMORANDUM ON COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PROVINCE OF LIMON The reports which from various sources the Government has received in this matter do not appear to have been taken into account in the manner which the seriousness thereof counsels, It is sufficient to hear the subversive propaganda which by means of editorials in if Trabajo and incendiary leaflets circulated profusely in the Province by the Party, to convince one that it is really the intention of these people to commence a bloody strike.
Reports are picked up from everywhere which are echoes of conversations had among them, that they intend to assassinate the so called representatives of capitalism (owners of farms, bosses, etc. first, and afterwards sack commissaries and burn settlements, etc. as well as impede the cutting of fruit, threatening the negro laborers.
Major Campos has done all in his power; but it would be advisable for him to communicate directly with the President of the Republic in order to work with the maximum backing.
The Chief of Action of Communism is Juan Luis, Fallas, who was confined here by the Government. To him may be credited the incredible power which this movement has gained here.
He is assisted admirably, among others by the following: