REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter 112 2: ML, RC::9 24981 realistic person, denies any connection with the Soviet Union or the Communist International but is rather, as stated elsewhere, an admirer of President Roosevelt and his policies. In this he and his associates appear to be in accord. Both he and other local communists have from time to time bitterly attacked the Nazi and Fascist regime, particularly the latter on the occasion of the visit of an Italian warship to Costa Rica in February, but their usual theme is the improvement of social conditions in Costa Rica through such orderly pressure as they can bring to bear upon the elected representatives of the people, or through the election or their own representatives. At the present time mora is the only communist deputy in the Congress. He is an able speaker, however, and he is heard with respect. Some time ago, when there was agitation in favor of expropriating the properties in Costa Rica of the lectric Bond and Share Company, he worked actively ior that cause, but this was not because he was a conmunist. Many other Costa Ricans who have no sympathy with communism were in wholehearted accord with him on this issue and were as active as he was in pressing the campaign.
The Communist Party suffers no repression from the Government, which, however, is not to say that the latter has any communistic leanings. The explanation presumably is that it has no fear of the party under its present leadership. On the surface it is an innocuous organization, which nevertheless is seemingly, by its present me thods, gaining the support of no few individuals of