REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority Statele fer lahz By ML NARS Date 24 18 THE FOREIGN SERVICE OF THE UNTED STATES OF AMERICA CONFIDENTIAL No. 63 San José, February 10, 1949 SUBJECT: Publication of Communication from Manuel MORA to Otilio ULATE.
EEN OF DIATE OFFICE OF AMERICAN REPUBLIC OAIKS EEB 171949 THE HONORABLE RESID 13 15 AOTION wa Dar 110 DAI FOR 818. 00 1049 THE SECRETARY OF STATE, WASHINGTON.
SIR: 8. 00 2747. roa. Eur 23. have the honor to refer to the Embassy despatch no. 456 of September 27, 1948 and to the long series of deapaoches, and other communications forwarded to the Department during the revolution of March and Amril, 1948, and to report that on February 8, Mr. Ulate newspaper, El Diario de Costa Rica, announced that it planned to publish a lengthy and important communication, which had been sent to Mr. ate by Manuel Mora, now in exile. in: Mendico. Accordingly on the following day, February 9, the Diario published the text of a letter of February from Mora to Ulate. On the same date, La Nac. kart, refug to the previous day announcement in the Diarte: Zeganding its proposed publication of a sensational communication from Manuel Mora, published the text of the letter of April 19, 1948 from Father Benjamin Nuñez to Mora and the accompanying Bexies of guarantees. of the same date signed by Father Nuties as delicate of the Army of National Liberation. The Embassy entored into the question of the possible authenticity or the April 19 latter from Father Nuñas. In detail in its despatch no. 456. It will be recalled that Father Nuñes had Aimsell dealed that the letter was achantie after it had Mrst been published in El Dia! of Tegueiralpa on June 23, 1948. The text. published in. La Nacions on.
February 9, 1949. 18 apparently an accurate Cops the toxt carried by Manuel Mora. When his papers word araminad by authorities in the Canal. Zone, while an route Moxico Since the last, pararraph done not. contain the presumably Apocryphal phrase contained. In the text as published in Da cucigalpa. The contents of the. Aprt):19. er were transmitted an appendix to the enclosure to the Embassy despach no. 152, of September The Mufiesdora letter, and the aying aloo of guaranteen given the Vanguardia Poe pubi Malarirication. OLIB 11minary ramarko, to the effect that the newspaper wie refraining CONFIDENTIAL MAR ACTION COPY RETURN TO DC FILES WITHIN 14 DAYS, WITH NOTATION OF 1949