TO: Coordinator of Information
 
FROM: W. D. Whitney
 
     This is a memorandum of conference held at 1647-30 St.,
N. w., September 30, 1941, 5 o'clock p.m., between the informant
(whose name is given on a separate memorandum.), Colonel Donovan, and W. D. Whitney. The
informant's story follows, using the first person singular:
 
         In 1940, about the end of June or early July, I was in Berlin and had a personal conversation
with Goering. He proposed a peace plan, after conferring with Hitler.- The plan was:
 
     l)  British Empire in status quo, except certain colonies for Germany.
 
     2)  Political independence for France, Belgium, and Holland (except Alsace-Lorralne and
Luxembourg to Germany).
 
     3) Germany to have free hand in the East, including  Poland and Czecho-Slovakia.
 
         On August 12 I arrived in the United States and submitted this plan to Wilson of the State
Department and to Drury a British representative. I understand that it came to the attention of the
Prime Minister and the President, and was of course turned down.
 
         At the beginning of May, 1941, I was again in Germany, this time on the business of
negotiating the sale of ships belonging to Axis-controlled countries in the Western hemisphere,
and for which, although the ships were not German owned, German consent was necessary. I
inquired for Goering, but this time he refused to see me. I was later advised that this was because
Ribbentrop was in complete charge--and that all were confident of complete victory, so that
Goering did not dare see me.
 
         In talks with the Army, I was told that the plan to invade Russia had been fully agreed upon
in early November and indeed the very day of June 22 had been set. There had been two
disappointments: