PROFESSORS ASK ODUBER TO INVESTIGATE VESCO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09-00956R000105640059-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2013
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: December 21, 1972
• Content Type: MISC

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PROFESSORS ASK ODUBER TO INVESTIGATE VESCO
COSTA RICA
[Article; San Jose La Nacion, Spanish, 21 December 1972, pp 1, 106]
College professors requested that a legislative
committee be appointed to present a report to the nation
on the activities and operations of Vesco in Costa Rica.
Twenty-three college professors signed the petition,
stating that they do not approve of the entry of capital
of fraudulent origin. The day before yesterday these 23
university professors requested the President of the
Legislative Assembly to see to it that an investigation
be conducted "in a definitive period of time" on the
activities and financial operations of Mr. Rober Vesco
in Costa Rica."
In a letter addressed to Mr. Daniel Oduber, a copy
of which they sent to La Nacion, the professors of the
University asked for the appointment of a legislative
commission and expressed their concern over the
publications of U. S. and European newspapers and journals
regarding Mr. Vesco's activities. These articles appeared
in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Newsweek,
New York Times, Sunday Times, etc.
They indicated that this publicity cannot be "simply
frowned upon." Although it condemns "openly those Costa
Ricans who, using weak arguments, send their capital
abroad they cannot warrant the "entry of capital of
fraudulent origin." Among other reasons they stated that
"the institutions which supply the greatest amounts of
outside resources through legal channels could close the
doors to us."
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The professors stated that "personal interests should
not be mixed with the high interests of the nation.. The
moral values of our people should always be above the
interests of a few. We should not, for any reason, permit
our country to become the refuge place for international
financial adventurism."
The letter was signed by Dr. Fernando E. Naranjo V.,
Prof. Carlos Monge A., Prof. Isaac F. Azofeifa, Mr. Raul
?Hess E., Mr. Marco V. Tristan 0., Mr. Jorge E. Guier, Miss
Maria Eugenia Dengo de Vargas, Mr. Alvaro Hernandez Piedra,
Prof. Francisco Gutierrez G? Dr. Fernando Zumbado J., Mr.
Carlos L. Leiva S., Dr. Hilda Chen Apuy, Dr. Sherman Thomas,
Dr. Chester Zelaya G., Dr. Carlos Araya, P., Mr. Jose M.
?Jimenez, F., Mr. Jenaro Valverde Marin, Dr. Fernando Mora
Rojas, Dr. Claudio Gutierrez C., Mr. Victor H. Cespedes, S.,
Prof. Rafael A. Trejos, S. and Prof. Jose Francisco Cordoba
J. One signature was illegible.
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CSO: 4200-w
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