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1958 Press Photo Map of Costa Rica and Panama shows border province of Chiriqui

Panama City, Panama- Government sources here said 9/24 that the arrest of 9 conspirators has broken up plot to seize Panama's border province of Chiriqui and perhaps Panama City itself. The plotters had been stockpiling arms on a ranch in Chiriqui, the sources said, and they had planned to rob banks in David, the provincial capital, to get money needed to hired "soldiers of fortune." The mercenary troops would have been smuggled into Chiriqui from Costa Rica to seize the province and perhaps to march on Panama City if plot was successful in its early stages. Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches. Photo Is dated 1958.

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