Article published on October 10th, 1984.

Like many other letters, it was signed by the "Monster with 21 Faces," a name ; derived from a children's TV series of the 1960s and adopted by a group that is trying to extort $410,000 from Morinaga.

Police so far have recovered 13 packages of Morinaga candies spiked with lethal 200 milligram doses of sodium cyanide.

One was sent to a news organization and 12 were recovered from food store shelves in the Osaka region.

The extortionists, believed to be responsible for kidnapping the president of another candy company chain last March, warned that other, unspecified , food products also would be poisoned unless all Morinaga products are withdrawn from sale.

"We are out to destroy Morinaga," the typewritten letter said. "We have many sweets laced with sodium cyanide.

TOKYO (UPI)-Extortionists who laced candies with deadly cyanide have threatened in a new letter to poison other foods unless stores quit selling products made by the Morinaga Confectionary Co,, police said today. .

"It is going to be like treasure hunting," the letter taunted. The latest gruesome twist in the case that has baffled police for seven months came in the form of a letter postmarked Sunday and sent to the president of the Osaka-based Izu-miya supermarket chain, officials said.

It is going to be like treasure hunting. We are next going to have 100 more." Morinaga, one of Japan's major candy manufacturers, has appealed to stores not to stop selling its products, but 870 outlets nave already done so.

All the packages recovered so far have been labeled with warnings that they contain cyanide.

But in letters to news organizations, the group has threatened to place 30 unmarked packages of cyanide-contaminated sweets on the store shelves unless Morinaga gives in to its exortion demands.