At the time Mr Peters was foreign minister, a position he stood down from because of investigations into donations to his New Zealand First Party.
Mr Glenn, who is based in Monaco, donated $100,000 to NZ First but Mr Peters had denied there was any connection between that and the expatriate billionaire's lobbying for the post.
He has been coy about how he dealt with the situation but the papers, released under the Official Information Act by the Foreign Affairs Ministry (Mfat), show he was initially keen to appoint Mr Glenn.
A memo on April 19, 2007 from Mfat chief executive Simon Murdoch said Mr Peters "wants to appoint an honorary consul in Monaco. It is a distinguished expat of his choice".
A memo the next day said the name mentioned was Owen Glenn... "I have no further details except that he is a mega-rich NZer living in Monaco. Presumably someone can google him".
In the face of delays from officials Mr Peters asked for updates.
At one August 27 meeting, an official warned embassy staff in Paris that Mr Peters was "clearly annoyed that this issue had not made faster progress".
On August 30, 2007 one official said "just to let you know the minister had another go last night about the above, still a raw nerve there!"
The ministry had doubts about whether an honorary consul was needed in Monaco, and the issue appears to have made no further progress.
ACT leader Rodney Hide said last night the documents showed Mr Peters had wanted to appoint Mr Glenn. "He vigorously denied every seeking a consulship for Owen Glenn which we now know to have been untrue," Mr Hide said in a statement headed Cash for Consulship.
"Helen Clark has stood Winston down from his job but is still defending his baubles," he said.
"The cash for consulship scandal doesn't appear to faze her...Winston Peters is a disgrace."
National Party leader John Key said Mr Peters had denied pushing for Mr Glenn to get the position and the papers showed that was what he did.
Mr Peters was still vigorously denying that last night.
He said Mr Glenn first showed an interest in the position in 2002.
"I inherited that application," said Mr Peters who became foreign minister after the 2005 election.
"All due process was followed. The department said we didn't need a consul and the rest is irrelevant.
"If I would not sign any cabinet papers because I believed the idea was dead, then it's dead," he said.
Miss Clark said also said there was "no issue" because no appointment had been made.
She accepted that Mr Glenn may have seemed a good proposition to Mr Peters at the time.
"I'm sure that he genuinely believed that he was (a good proposition)...but for my part once I heard that there had been a donation, or Mr Glenn believed there had been one, I didn't think it was appropriate," she said.
