COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES: PRO-PEACE CAMPAIGN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000070005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 11, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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H"MFO R AT O REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY Costa Rica
DATE DISTR.. 11 Oct 50
SUBJECT Communist Activities: Pro-peace Campaign NO. OF PAGES 3.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
INFO. REPORT NO.
1. Source reports that. Costa Rican Communists are endeavoring to conclude
the nrc--peace campaign by November in coordination with the Peace Congress
scheduled for 13-19 November in London.
2, Collection of signatures against atonic warfare continues, with an all-out
ref'ort which includes the assistance of all cells, the Union do I'ujeres
Carmen Lyra (ITCL), the Communist-controlled labor syndicates and the
Liga Juvenil Revolucionania (IJR). The Peace Committee in San Jose has
d3signed and presented the original draft of a flysheet entitled "Give
Your Signature Against the Atomic Bomb", a woodcut depicting a bombed
city, to the Political Commission of the Vanguardia Popular, which in
turn has cone racted the printing of thrc--, thousand copies at the Imprenta
.lena in San Jose, to be pasted on malls and posts. Orders have also
seen placed with the same printing shop for five thousand peace forms,
the original of .,,h:_ch was received from the :iris Pro-peace Committee.
3 On " September 199), the Committee of the UUorld Congress of the Defenders
of Peace in Paris, through the Pro-peace Committee of San Jose, instt?uc-,
ted all delegates from Costa Rica to the Second :.orld Peace Congress in
London to obtain visas from the Costa Rican Consulate in Paris,
4. About the middle of September, Alvaro r"ontero Vega of the LJR, then at
the Second Congress, International Union of Students in Prague, contacted
~irnoldo Ferreto, Secretary General of the Vanguardia Popular (whose
pseudonym is Oscar Vargas), requesting either money (:".'9C) to continue to
London or instructions to return to Costa Rica. ",ontero is also reported
to have sent a personal note to Senora I."argarita Benavides,, stating that
she should have no fear of car, since In his opinion ?urope and the entire
-:rorld were against it.
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comment: according to the press in late September, the
British Government will refuse visas to delegates
to the Peace Conference.
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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