DEPARTMENT OF STATE                     
 
                                                            
 
                    ASSISTANT SECRETARY                     
 
 
August 1, 1941
 
 
Mr. President:
 
 
The attached memorandum of conversation relates to 
the activities of a German agent, Fenthol, known to us, 
now in Rio, who is apparently to discover what peace terms 
would be offered to Germany were the Hitler Government 
eliminated. Fenthol claims to represent a cabal of high 
German Army officers known as the "Friends of Werner Von Fritsch".
 
 
This may be of no significance; but it would seem logical 
that feelers of this kind should appear.
 
 
A. A. Berle, Jr.
 
 
Attachment
 
 
(handwritten) [Fenthol carried the documents relating to the Bolivian
plot, just broken up.!