POSSIBLE UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN PARTIDO VANGUARDIA POPULAR AND THE GOVERNING JUNTA OF COSTA RICA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02640030
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• Document Creation Date: March 8, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2019
• Case Number: F-2018-01413
• Publication Date: April 7, 1949

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COUNTRY Costa Rica
REPORT NO.
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SUBJECT Possible Understanding between Partido Wnguardia
Popular and the Governing Junta of Costa Rica
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1. The hypothesis that a working agreement exists between the governing junta of
Costa Rica and the WInguardia Popular Party (PVP) has been advanced on the
basis of data obtained from Jaime Gerdes Mora and Luis Carballo Corrales,
San Jose PVP leaders.
2. The Political bureau of the PVP has been urged to meet and declare itself
in accord with the policies of the Costa Rican junta as a result of the
changed opinions of Manuel Mora, leader of the PVP. Mora now approves of
the ten per cent capital tax and the nationalization of the banks, He is
also attempting to apply the principles of the New Economic Policy which
Lenin introduced and developed.
3. The PIT is collaborating secretly with President Figueres. According to
source, the satisfaction of the Party with all the acts of the junta is
being kept secret in order that the United States will not be informed of
the sympathy between the two groups,'
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The strike in the banana zone was ordered by Mora in order that Padre Benjamin
Nunez, Costa Rican Minister of Labor, would have to intervene and grant some
concessions to the workers. Mora, Figueroa, and Nunez collaborated secretly
in this affair.
5, The PVP and the governing junta have reached an understanding on the following
points:
a, Simulated persecution, and at times actual imprisonment, of PP
leaders are not important to the Party. This is only for the bene-
fit of the U.S. State Department.
b. The PVP will not intervene in any counter-revolution aimed at
the overthrow of Figeeres.
c. Aid will be given to the junta in case of necessity, and it will be
immediate in the event of an invasion from Nicaragua.
d. The syndicates of the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Costa Rica
(CTCR) will be newly organized as soon as posaible, perhaps under
a different name.
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Aid to the working classes is to be given by means of social
legislation, the Labor Code, and new laws.
f, Repeal of the retirement pension and advance notice of discharge
is mutually accepted.
6. According to information from Prudencio Sayagues, Assistant Director of
the Office of Economic Coordination for Costa Rica, these agreements have
been carried out to the letter.
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