REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Statele fer Whz By ML NARS Date 2498 LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA San José, Costa Rica, August 23, 1935.
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Te Moscouro feron AFFAIRS e Honorable 91137337 zu rem 121 able on OF STATE The Secretary of State, Washington, 1935 ASSISTANT MR. MOORE TANT SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF STATE C ED STATE os SEP 14 1935 FILMF I have the honor to inform the Department that the ommunist Party has received an unusually large amount of publicity in the San José press and has been the subject of much comment in local circles since the assassination of Alberto González Lahmann (see my Despatch No. 811 of August 19, 1935. The local newspapers have naturally blamed the assassination on at least the influence of the Communist Party, and evidence has been produced to prove that the two brothers who committed the crime, Rodolfo