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SECRET Operat:ng under a consgtvative governmeut, tin Farty. hme been obsarved olosely by raloabien police, nho, in Saceaber, 194t. begmn inguiries intending t provs oollaboration bet-o3r the Soriet Logation and Couamnists in that ro:mtry. Tho Qovern- mot regwmated tho assistanes of the Amri an Anbensador iho had besn kept inforned by tho Mureau of ell ovicionce of auch collaterstion, Circumstances af tho Party heaame suoh in late 1946, that it wan neoesmry to direct lotter to thn Cosnmist Party of Braxil. roquosting finanoial aid.7 At the timo t e SIs offico in Bogote olosed Mar h l7,. 1947, there ws considerable resastment among the Colombian peopls against ths Coursunists snd the Soviet legation becauso of alleged shabby treataont reoeivod by the Colombian Minister in Wbacow and beoause of reputed offorts ot Soviot officials ta Drihe meabors or the Colomti.an Government. U COSTA RICASU The office of tho Legal Attache was closed in Costa Rica on Fugust 15, l946. No dovslopments of note coourred prior to tho oloaing of the orfico.( U Cormia Bresu covers e of the Vanguardia roular (Coman1.t) Party of Costa Rioa dh:ring tho suwner of l9g? rovealed that it We working with Nioareguan ?resilont Sonoze. In return, it exycted a free hand in organising Nicarag.an lbor aooording to tho idoxs of Corsanist leador, Menuel Mgra of Costa Rice, And Vionte Lymbardo Toledano of Vexico. nra hncnferred with Hjoaragunn rovolutiraari9s in Nexlco in Haroh, l946, and maintained loonl liaison in Coata Fioe through Frnost Lydovico Carlos Rechnitaer. o'ferinr arma ani mon to assist wi uprising.XU Beginnin, in yay. l94n, Costa Rionn Comaumiats bogan colleoting snall arms and armmitlot, aided by Farty fumds and even assistance rom Colonel Vietor Carrillo, a Cormunit sympathiser on the stafr of Frosiuent Teooro Ficado. Pioado, whn feared his om govornront might b. orerthrow, comted on Coaunist help to When the Bureau operatims in Costa Rica ocased August 15.l9ss.Manuel tora and the Ceammiata had a free han in controlling the labor noveseat in that country. Their suocoes in this fleld beoane ap aront iu lacomber, l946, when Viounte Iombardo Tledano lold the imyortant Conference of the Cantral San Jose. 30