REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIGED uthority Stateletter inter m2. HAR 9 24 181 سامر meanwhile radicul e in the political situation, althou it is calculated tut not more than a thirà oi the estima teu communist votes will be cast by actual communists.
It seems reasonably certain that the Communist Party in Costa Rica is not now receiving any support from Moscow or that it is in active communication with the Communist International, although the local party may be suspected of having adopted to some extent the subtle approach tactics alluded to on pages and of the Department Summary. It is not, however, using a Popular Front to screen its efforts nor is it holding up the Soviet Union as an example to be followed; indeed, the Soviet Union is never publicly mentioned, except when the party leaders are forced to reply to allegations of support from quarter, which they invariably disavow.
The party, in fact, claims publicly no connections with any outside organization; on the contrary, its leaders, particularly Mora Valverde, make strenuous efforts to convince the public that their party is a patriotic organization trying only to improve the living conditions or the masses through the existing democratic framework.
mora constanuly points to President Roosevelt as the model statesman, and it is president Roosevelt ideas, he says, which he wishes to introuuce into Costa Rica. He ana all the other prominent members of the party are violent in their haureu or the ivazi and Fascist regimes, as might be expectea, but it is not to the Soviet Union that they point as their ideal but rather to the United States.