BRITISH EMBASSY                       
 
                         WASHINGTON, D.C.                   
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
                                                            
 
      British doctors should be communicated to them. This report, 
      a copy of which is enclosed, has now been handed to a representative 
      of the Inter-national Red Cross, who is passing it on through 
      confidential channels to the International Red Cross Headquarters 
      in Geneva under cover of a letter emphasizing that it is confidential, 
      that it is for Frau Hess personal information, and that there 
                  must be no publicity whatever.            
 
                                                            
                                                            
 
                                                            
 
 
                                                            
You will see that this 
      report makes no explicit reference to Hess' mental state as described 
      in the last paragraph of the memorandum which I gave you on December 
      8th. This was done deliberately to avoid the danger that the 
      medical certificate might be used publicly by the Germans to 
      expose our original propaganda that Hess was sane, and to bear 
      out their own original contention that he was mentally deranged 
                       when he flew to the