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PC cee one. Oat . sailing he ot. rien Saane Lee oes: Memorandun for Mr. Boardman Our investigation disclosed that Von Trott, whose full name Is Adan Von Trott. ZfSola, arrived in the United States on 10/2/39; that he travelled on a visa issued in Berlin, Germany, in August, 1939, far the purpose of making the trip and indicated he intended to visit his uncle, William Schieffelin, 620 Park Avenue, New York. There ig some tndication that Von Trott's expenses to the United States were paid by the IPR. Von Trott left the United States in January, 1940, to return to Germany via the Far Hast and Moscow and was \kult imately executed in Germany for complicity in a plot of July 20, [2 944, to assassinate Hitler. While in the United States, Von Trott wi contacted a nunber of individuals, including Dr. Heinrich Bruening, then a professor at Harvard University and former chancellor of the German Government; Edward C. Carter, American Council of the IPR; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, editor on foreign affairs in New York; Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Secretary of the IPR; Otto Jeidels, German financier and partner tn the firm of Lasard Preres and Company; and Philip C. Jessup of the JPR, Von Trott was also tn contact with a number of other individuals who obviously held anti-Nazi views. On 12/16/39 we transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury a 35-page memorandum covering the activities of Von Trott, the file copy of whicn #3 enclosed. <A copy of this memorandum was also made available to the Fonorable Adolph A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State; Brigudier General Edwin M. Watson, Secretary to the President, as well as to Ge2 and ON. OBSERVATIONS i 1. he results of the investigation of Von Trott's activities as set forth in the ji-page memorandum makes it obvious that the Bureqy utilized microphone survezijances, technical surveitilances and - Ts personal lail> onfide es ing us ess_to Yon 7 nis is evidenceaby the fact that certain items of correspondence are quoted verbatim in the memorandum and that certain telephone conversations of Yon Trott are set forth verbatim. We also utilized information obtained through trash covers in connection with this investigation. 2. The conversations and correspondence of Von Trott indicate that he was opposed to the Hitler Government and that he was pressing the views of a socialistic group in Germany. Jn one of his conversations he made reference to the fact that “his group was not in a position to abrogate the Hitler-Stalin agreement but he would