REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES LEGATION OF THI. DECLASSIGED UNITED STATES OF AM Authority Stateletter Whe, San José, Costa Rica, Aux8 ML, NARA Czte 2498 AUG 1885 KILLING OF ALBERTO GORZALEZ FAHMANN TT: 1818. 00B No. 811 Subject: VISION SYERN AN AFFAIRS kava 1935 Werbement OF STATE RECEYLD DEPARTMENT OF STATE 1935 AUG 29 AM 11 35 DIVISION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS FOR DISTRISUFIXERUK Yar No 818. 00 1492 Slov, se di ON OF STATE The Honorable The Secretary of State, CONSTANT SECRETARY OF Washington, SEP 1935 MR. WELLES Sir: SEP FILED 1935 have the honor to report that all Costa Rica was shocked by the shooting on the morning of August 17th of one of its most distinguished agriculturist and industrialist, Mr. Alberto González Lahmann, by two Costa Rican citizens who attempted to extort from him the sum of 20, 000 under pain of death.
Isolated killings of this kind would of course attract little attention in a country less free of events of that nature. Costa Ricans have been shocked LM as