REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES All2 DIVISION OF LATIN AME. DECLASSIFIED LEGATION OF OGE Authority Statele fer lahz UNITED STATE SPANYOL by ME, NARA Date 2458 San Jose, Costa September 24, 1935.
No. 868 Subject: FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH ASSASSINATI ON OF ALBERTO GONZALEZ LAHMANN COMMUNISM 001 1 1935 818. 00 note 8i8. 00 810, 00B All 11 39 RECEIVED DEFARTHENT OF STATS 1935 OCT 818. 00 498 The Honorable The Secretary of State, Washington.
Sir: DEC 1935 FILED 818. 00 1492 In continuation of my de spat ch No. 811 of August 19, reporting the assassination of a prominent Costa Rican business man, Mr. Alberto González Lahmann, in an extortion plot, and the suspicion that the local communist party was connected with the crime, now have the honor HO to report that the police have arrested a suspected accomplice of the two assassins who has confessed his comphicity and has publicly accused the leader of the Communist party in Costa Rica and its candidate for president, deputy Manuel Mora Valverde, of being the intellectual