SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY AGAINST FIGUERES REGIME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400140006-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 25, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

SUBJECT Subversive Activity Against. Figueres Regfnid'
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1, Despite the denial of the Vanguardia Popular that it is contributing to the
general unrest and government sabotage in Costa Rica,. a member of the party
reported. having received from a man named Oscar Benavides two small home-
made bombs, along with a group of the latest bulletins from the Calderon
Guardia invasion forces. The bulletins, along with detailed instructions,,
originated. in the Nicaraguan Legation.-
2. The Vanguardia Popular member, while he admitted to source that his knowledge
,of any terroristic program within Costa Rican against the Figueres regime
was very incomplete, stated that it was his impression that sabotage would
increase in intensity and culminate in revolution during the first week of
February. He added that sabotage was .helping Calderonista efforts, against.
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3. .A second source stated that the party was in possession of a small quantity
of arms hidden during the course of the 1948 Costa Rican invasion,
4. Both sources reported that the Vanguardia Popular had received funds from
Venezuela and from Mexico, the latter through the medium of Ticente Lombardo
25X1A6a Toledano, who reportedly conferred with Vanguarida Popular leaders Luis
Carballo Corrales, Jaime Cerdas Mora, and irnoldo Ferreto Segura on,-the
25X1 A2g of 22 January, Comment. reported that Lombardo
Toledano was scheduled to pass through Costa Rica aglin on 12 February, en
route to Mexico from France.)
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