--- title: 'Nikola Tesla' url: 'https://samisdat.in/books/nikola-tesla-fbi-2003/read' markdown: 'https://samisdat.in/books/nikola-tesla-fbi-2003/read.md' lang: en date: '2003-01-01' description: 'Freedom of Information Release On Subject: Nikola Tesla File #: 100-2237 Pages Reviewed - 160 Pages Released - 160 Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice, Atten. Mr. G. Edgar Hoover, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Hoovers ALL EIFORMATION CONTAINED IN IS UNCLASSIFIED E 7-2-80 BYSP4 Janga…' --- # Freedom of Information Release On Subject: Nikola Tesla File #: 100-2237 Pages Reviewed - 160 Pages Released - 160 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_0_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice, Atten. Mr. G. Edgar Hoover, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Hoovers ALL EIFORMATION CONTAINED IN IS UNCLASSIFIED E 7-2-80 BYSP4 Jangar The appended article was printed in the New York Times issue of Sunda September 22, 1940 and if based on proven facts, should be of vital importance to cur war Department as well as to that of other nations now controlled by insane dictators. If ,as the author states, the teleforce has seen perfected by Nikola resla, at would be a measure of foresightedness to insure his constant guarding against his being molested, possibly kidnapped and tortured, by alien enemies for the purpose of seizing the secret of such an invaluable instrument of war and/or defense The foregoing is offered just in case the article and its inferences have not Very truly yours FEWORKE Mark 10/1/406 MT:2 m 1500 22 20 3 7-1 1500 22 20 3 7-1 1500 22 20 1910 1500 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 250 NY 7 MES .9/25/40 Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great invantors who celebrated his eighty-for the birthday on July 10 tells the writer that he stands ready to idivulge to the United States Government the secret of his 'teleforce.' with which, he said, simplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible Chinese Wall of Defense would be built around the country against any attempted attack by an enemy air force, no matter how large. This "teleforce," he said, is based on an entirely new principle of physics that "no one has ever dreamed about," different from the principle embodied in his inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which he has received a number of basic patents. This new type of force, Mr. Tesla said, would operate through a beam one one-hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in diameter, and could be generated from a special plant that would cost no more than \\$2,000,000 and would take only about three months to construct. A dozen such plants, located at strategic points along the coast, according to Mr. Tesla, would be enough to defend the country against all possible aerial attack. The beam would melt any engine, whether Diesel or gasoline-driven, and would also ignite the explosives aboard any bomber. No possible defense against it could be devised, he asserts, as the beam world be all-penetrating. High Vacuum Eliminated The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already have been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus for producing rays? 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He has been working on this invention, he added, for many years and has recently made a number of improvements in it Mr. Tesla makes one important stipulation. Should the government decide to take up his offer he would go to work at once, but they would have to trust him. He would suf- In ordinary times such a condition would very likely interpose an insuperable obstacle. But times being what they are, and with the nation getting ready to spend billions for national defense, at the same time taking in consideration the reputation of Mr. Tesla as an inventor who always was many years ahead of his time, the question arises whether it may not be advisable to take Mr. Tesla at his word and commission him to go ahead with the construction of his teleforce plant. Such a Device "Invaluable" After all, \\$2,000,000 would be relatively a very small sum compared with what is at stake. If Mr. Tesla really fulfills his promise the result achieved would be truly staggering. Not only would it save billions now planned for air defense, by making the country absolutely impregnable against any air attack, but it would also save many more billions in property that would otherwise be surely destroyed no matter how strong the defenses are as witness current events in England. Take, for example, the Panama Canal. No matter how strong the defenses, a suicide squadron of dive bombers, according to some experts, might succeed in getting through and cause such damage that would make the Canal unusable, in which case our Navy might find itself bottled up. Considering the probabilities in the case even if the chances were 100,000 to 1 against Mr. Tesla the odds would still be largely in favor of taking a chance on spending \\$2,000,000. In the opinion of the writer, who has known Mr. Tesla for many years and can testify that for many years and can testify that he still retains full intellectual region, the authorities in charge of disting the national defense should at once look into the matter. The sum is insignificant compared with the magnitude of the stake. MAINTH IS CHIMTION CONTAIN. MEMIN IS UNCLASSIFIED LATED MARY PROCESSIFIED RECORDED EWT:ZM 100-2237-1 October 1, 1940 h70 Dear I wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated September 24, 1940, together with its enclosure. Your courtesy and interest in bringing this information to my attention are indeed appreciated, and you may be assured your letter will receive appropriate consideration. Sincerely yours, John Edgar Hoover ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED SEEIN IS UNCLASSIFIED COMMUNICATIONS SECTION MAILED \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* \*\* OCT 1 1940 \*\* AMES. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_4_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) REDACTIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT FOIA DELETIONS ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_5_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) OPMENT MIGHT BE INTERESTED FOXWORTH END NYC S2 WHS HOLD WA R 2 RSG ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_5_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) REDACTIONS ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT FOIA DELETIONS FITZSERALD ALSO KNOWS THATTESLA HAS CONCEIVED AND BEAUTIONARY TYPE OF TORPEDO WHICH IS NOT PRESENTLY IN USE BY THE NATIONS. IT IS FITZGERALDS BELIEF THAT THIS DESIGN HAS NOT BE AVAILABLE TO ANY NATION UP TO THE PRESENT TIME. FROM STATEME TO FITZGEARLD BY TESLA, HE KNOWS THAT THE COMPLETE PLANS. ICATIONS AND EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC THEORIES OF THESE THIN COME PLACE IN THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF TESLA. HE ALSO KNOWS THAT AND A WORKING MODEL OF TESLAS WHICH COST MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND DE TO BUILD IN A SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX BELONGING TO TESLAS BOVERNOR CLINTON HE AND FOUND FITZGEARLD BE THIS MODEL WITH SMODEL WITH THE SO CALLEDE DEATH RAY OR THE WIREL WINDIFFERE CONVERSATIONS THAT HE HAS SOME AND SEIGHTY TRUNKS INDIFFERE CES CONTAINING TRANSCRIPTS AND PLANS HAVING TO DO WITH EXPERIMENTS CONVERSATIONS BUREAU IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE IMMEDIATELY WHAT, IF A TION SHOULD BE TAKEN CONCERNING THIS MATTER BY THE NEW YORK FIELD ON. FOXWORTH CORRECTION- THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TELETYPE THE NAME THAT SHOULD APPEAR IS FITZGEARLD NOT FITZGERALD AS IT SOMETIMES IS SPELLED HOLD Redactions on this page are not FOIA Deletions Memorandum for the Director The New York Office was instructed to discretive the matter up with the State's Attorney in New York City with the control possibly taking Kosanovich into custody on a burglary charge and obtained the various papers which Kosanovich is reported to have taken from Teslation. It was pointed out that any activities pursued by the State's Attorned and be hardled in a most secret fashion in order to avoid any publicity the sect to Tesla's inventions. The New York Office was also instructed that the Surrogate Court in order that stops could be placed against the control to Tesla both in his hotel and any other points, in particular, the control to boxes that he may have in order that no one may enter them without a surem the secretive being present and every precaution taken to preserve the secrecy to the state's inventions. The New York Office is to keep the Bureau advised of all declinations. L. M. C. Smith is handlen, this with alexy trope the Custodian so there appoins to by no need on us to Mess o count in it ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_10_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Instice Washington, D. C. EAT: DS January 12, 1943 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. LADD ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_10_Picture_6.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Mr. E. A. Tamm Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Coffey Mr. Hendon Mr. Kramer Mr. McGuire Mr. Harbo Mr. Quinn Tamm Tele. Room Mr. Nease Miss Beahm On Friday, January 8th, Mr. L. M. C. Smith called me Miss Gapd in connection with the death of Nikola Tesla. He advised me that he was concerned about the possibility of enemy agents confiscating some of the trunks of Tesla, who had died on January 7th. He understood that the War Department was interested in this matter and that apparently the Alien Property Custodian's office was taking some action. He desired to know whether the Bureau would take some steps to refrain relatives of Tesla from taking the contents of his trunks and whether the Bureau would seize possession of the trunks. Mr. Smith indicated that he was talking to the Alien Property Custodian along the same lines. I told him that in view of the fact he was going to handle the matter with the Alien Property Custodian's office, there did not appear to be any action which the Bureau could or should take. PRVICTORY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY BUY B 67C Milwanker 6, Wis April 16, 1948 Mr. J. E. Hooner HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-3-82 BY SPAfron pto Washington D.C. Dear Mr. Kaones 7. • Letter to Director, FBI NY 105-1391 MR. POTTS stated that no inquiry had been received by Manhattan from SAVA N. MOSANOVICH, nor had Manhattan informed him, in any way, that an examination of the TESIA effects had been made by anyone. In fact, added MR. POTTS, the only correspondence relating to the TESIA estate has been in the form of bills for storage. Mi. POTIS stated that any personal inquires regarding the estate would of necessity be directed to him, and to date no such inquiries have been made. Interviewing agents explained to MR. POTTS that the examination made, as mentioned above, was not instigated by the Bureau, nor had the Bureau taken part in that examination. Unless advised to the contrary, this investigation is being placed in a closed status, and no further investigative action is contemplated by this office. CIOSED. **b7C** Minneapolis 14, Minnesota August 18, 1952 Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Records Washington, D. C. DATE 22 - 80 DY SPA Graf Ato ## Gentlemen: In a manner of introduction, I wish to state that I am working toward a degree in Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Technology of the University of Minnesota. For several years, I have been engaged in a study of extensive compass and detail concerning the researches and writings of the late, world renowned scientist, Dr. Nikola Tesla. At considerable expense, I have acquired an extensive collection of materials relating to Dr. Tesla and his works which include: - 1) Personal letters written by Tesla to his close friend. - Numerous periodicals, some of which are to be found in only a few libraries throughout the United States. - 3) A few rare books which have now become "collector's items". - 4) A collection of issued patents. Although the items listed are considerable in number, the specific information desired is lacking. As I understand it, because of the nature of Dr. Tesla's role in scientific developments, all research papers, patent applications, etc., were secured by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time of Dr. Tesla's death in January of 1943. The purpose of this seizure, as described in numerous articles, was to determine whether these papers contained suggestions leading toward advancements in the field of science. RECORDED - 68 Reply 52 کک ۔ ک MATE 1/2 11. .. Now it seems that sufficient time has elapsed for an investigation of this kind. If Dr. Tesla's Estate has been released by the department in charge, any records that can be made available for examination will be welcomed. A letter from Harold I. Baynton, Assistant Attorney General, Director, Office of Alien Property, informed me that the Library of Congress listed Certain works, writings and research studies prepared by the late Dr. Tesla. However, a letter addressed to the Library failed to bring results as the Library "has no files on the researches of Tesla". A similar result was obtained from the Bureau of Naval Research and the Department of Commerce. I am especially interested in the research work in which Tesla was engaged in his later years. There are various unpublished works, such as a 10-page typewritten statement presented in 1937 at a meeting of several well-known editors outlining his discoveries and giving a resume of his work in the fields of gravity and cosmic ray research, etc. Also, Tesla prepared various papers, one of which was in effort to secure the Pierre Gutzman Prize from the Institute of France. My inquiry is in effort to determine whether any of these documents, as well as others, are at this time available. I will greatly appreciate any information in regard to any records which you may have. ANDARD FOREÈ NO. 64 # Office Memorandum . United STATES GOVERNMENT TO : PR. A. H. BELFENT DATE: May 5, 1953 FROM Th. L. L. LANGULYN SUBJECT : NIKOLA TESLA (Deceased) INFORMATION CONTAINE TO THE IS UNION A CONFIE ection of the Bureau of Standards (Em 2-4040, extension 623) called on the afternoon of May 4, 1903. "The Proaigal Genius - The Life of Nikola Tesla' by John J. C'Neill, whom described as a science writer for a New Fork newspaper (publisher - Ives Lashburn). hoted in this book that Bureau Agents went to Tesla's room following his death on January 7, 1943, opened his safe, examined his papers, and took over his personal files. said this appeared on page 277. Mr. stated that Tesla is the father of modern power engineering, being responsible for the invention of the A. C. generator, motor transmission, and other electrical engineering feats. He inquired (1) if the papers and works of Tasla were in the possession of the Bureau, and (2) if so, were they available for review in view of their scientific importance. I told Ir. that the statement concerning the Bureau's taking Tesla's files did not seem very logical but that I would check on the matter. The Bureau's files reflect that shortly after the death of Tesla in his hotel room in New York City on January 7, 1943, Sava Kosanovich, a distant relative, and other individuals entered his room and opened the safe, examining certain materials which he possessed. On January 8, 1943, Mr. L. M. C. Smith of the Department advised Mr. Tamm that he was concerned about the possibility of enemy agents confiscating some of the trunks of Tesla and apparently the Office of Alien Property Custodian was taking some action regarding these effects. Since the matter was being handled by the Office of Alien Property Custodian, the Bureau did not make any inquiries into this situation. (65-47953-6) It is noted also that the Bureau received a letter dated April 16, 1948, from Er of Milwaukee, Misconsin, explaining that he was studying electrical engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering and 100-2237. List: mer 65-47 53 J - Mr. Nichals INDEXFIRE A MAI CANS SP SEC was interested in the life and works of Tesla. Stated that he understood at the time Of Tesla's death the Bureau took his manuscripts and experiment data for national security. The Bureau on April 22, 1948, advised that the effects of Tesla were handled by the Office of Alien Property and not by the FBI. (65-47953-18) I called Lr. which this morning and told him that it was the office of Alien Property and not the F3I which took over the effects of Tesla following his death. Accordingly, I suggested that Er. might wish to communicate with the office of Alien Property for further information concerning this matter. The book "Prodical Genius - The Life of Nikola Tesla" is not in the Bureau Library. A copy is being obtained from the Library of Congress. It will be examined to determine specifically the reference made to the Bureau's taking these papers. At that time a determination can be made as to what further action should be taken. # ADDENDEM: LLL:mer 5-14-53 Page 277 of the "Prodigal Genius - The Life of Nikola Tesla," describing Tesla's death, contains the following statement: "Operatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation came and opened the safe in his room and took the papers it contained, to examine them for a reported important secret invention of possible use in the war." Since this work was published in 1944, it is not felt that any particular purpose would be served by raising an objection with the publishers at this time. The individual who raised the question, has been set straight and, therefore, no further action is being taken. # **ESLATINI ERNATIONAL** University Station, Box 135 MINNEAPOLIS • 14 • MINNESOT To Those Who Are Interested in the Life and Work of Dk. NIKOLA TESLA Following the death of Dr. Nikola Tesla on the 7th of Jennary, 1949, Mr. John J. O'Neill, former Science Editor of the New York Heral & Tribune presented the biography PRODIGAL GENIUS The Life of Hikola Tesla - a memorable tribute to one of the most outstanding figures in the entire field of electrical science. Many reading this biography learned of Nikola Tesla for the first time, despite his monumentous achievements with which he has won world-wide acclaim in scientific circles. Even those closely associated with the fields of science and engineering discovered a remarkable story not generally known of the brilliant genius Tesla whose sensitive personality and seclusion kept his fame in a shadow The TESLA-INTERNATIONAL organization is being established in the United States in name and honor of Dr. Nikola Tesla by those staring a mutual interest in his life and works. The organization has as its objective the promulgation of the truth about Nikola Tesla; that a full recognition be made for his unparalleled research work on the effects of currents of high frequency and high potential, and for his achievements in the realms of polyphase power transmission and telecommunication It would be the duty of the organization to do all in its power that the name of Tesla win in the eyes of the nation the fame deserving of a trafy great American for his contributions to science, industry, and to this country. A journal of the TESLA-INTERPATIONAL organization was issued beginning the month of November, 1953. In addition to items of recent and historical interest related to Tesla, the journal will include - A formal roster of all those who have an interest in the desia organization and wish to engage in its activities. - 2) An opportunity of editorial exchange by members of the or panisation through the medium of the journal. - 3) A comprehensive bibliographical listing of all available stand concerning Tesla, which would include a cataloging of the various collections of Tesliana not generally known. Such a listent will be of particular importance to conclars in the research field. - 4) A presentation of Mitherto unpublished writings and analyzes of Tosla's technical research studier as they become available The journal of the TESLA-INTERNATIONAL organization will be forth-coming at intervals of $\\frac{1}{2}$ - 2 months. Subscription rate is \\$1.00 for 10 issues. Membership in the TESLA-INTERNATIONAL organization is concurrent with subscription to the journal. Leland . Anderson 127 Seymour Ave. S. E. Winneapolis 14, Minnesota REGISTERFU Advisor in ideas of WILL STATE 3 N. ) IA AIR MA Letter Des Coll (C) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_25_Picture_7.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_25_Picture_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_25_Picture_9.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_25_Picture_10.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # Leland I. Anderson 127 Seymour Avenue Southeast Minneapolis 14, Minnesota February 12, 1953 Dear Mr. Scherff. It was so very rewarding to receive your reply concerning Dr. Nikola feela... I have initiated an undertaking on benalf of Teela because perpetuate the name of Teela and see to it that his name becomes a part of the heritage of this nation. A great task perhaps, but as in scientific developments. I hope that you may have an interest in be honored to have you as a member. The organization which I have proposed and established, and I will a free exchange of information between members. The first two issues cover, and should reach you in a day or two. Some other members which may be of interest to you are; Muriel Arbus, Dorothy Skerritt, Kenneth Swezey and W. W. Wilhelm. The recent deaths of John O'Neill and Edwin Armstrong were very unexpected, and it is members. Do you know if Mr. Lowenstien had a daughter? The reason I ask is that a woman visited Mr. O'Neill before his death and told him that she inherited a great amount of Tesliana from her father - whom I presume to be Mr. Lowenstien. This woman was afraid of disclosing the information by reason of her mistaken notion and fear that she would that a few army officials visited his nome with insistent requests for information. Of course all this sort of government interest was journalists. Well, the result of all this is that she refused to nor prince no less, and moved to some mid-western city. If this woman tainly be important to locate her. I believe that one of the valuable efforts of the Tesla organization would be to catalog every piece of information concerning Tesla. I have made a beginning effort along this line, and I move that before too long all collections of Tesliana may be located, cataloged, and reproduced for fear of eventual loss. Through Mary A. Benjamin (or Walter R. Benjamin Autographs in New York) I have obtained a number Johnson. The entire collection of correspondence between Tesla and Robert U. 11 E 1 E 1 E 1 E 1 E 1 E 1 E 1 E 1 E 1 University Station, Box 135 MinnEAPOLIS + 14 + MINNESOTA # TYPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT To Members of the TESLA-INTERMATIONAL organization and those interested in the works of Dr. Nikola Tesla # RAME EDITION REPAIRSON "The Inventions Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla" These Commerford Martin Trough special archigement, it is with great pleasure that the FUSIA-INTAPARTY Mile organization announces the reprinting of this closest of thehaleal literature. long recognized as the most important and significant work on the samily resourches of Tesla, a great demand for this book is anticipated. This NIM LIED ADITION IS STRICTLY LIED TO The special ofter will not be repeated when the supply is expensive. Those desiring a copy of the book are therefore alged to rouly promptly: Gost of this book at the special printing rate is only \\$4,00 post-oatd any bere within the United States to scatters and fried sor the TESTA INTER-ATIONAL organization. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_29_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_29_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_29_Picture_5.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_29_Picture_6.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_29_Picture_7.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) March 10, 1954 Not an FOIA Redadia leland I. Anderbon Miscellaneous; Internal Security - Yu Reurlet 2-19-54 concerning the above-captioned individual. Relat forwarded to the Bureau two Photostate of two letters from Anderson which were received and made available to your effice by George H. Beherff, Jr. There is returned herewith one set of the Photostats received by the Bureau as enclosures with your letter inassuch as it appears this set was intended for retention in your office file. Attationt ETB: aas HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 7-2-80 BY THE Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Gearty Mohr MAILED 16 MAR 1 0 1954 COMM-FBI Mor 15 2-2-80 BY SPA STAN Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Hoover: 163 Milton St. Met Rose Brooklyn 22, Mr. Size June 25, 1 Mr. Size Mr. Hell Miss Ga Mr. Hell man ................................... Back in 1943, the local Alien Property Custodian searched through the belongings of the late electrical inventor, Nikola Tesla, stored in the Manhattan Storage Warehouse in New York City. Tesla had been a naturalized American for more than fifty years, so I believe that the search was made on the grounds that the property was to be sent to Yugoslavia, through Tesla's nephew and heir, Mr. Sava Kosanović (Mr. Kosanović had been Minister of State under the King's government, later became Ambassador to the United States from the present government, and is now a Minister serving in Belgrade). According to the attorney who handled the Tesla estate, Er. Philip Wittenberg, the Alien Property Custodian assured him that nothing had been held. I have a letter from the Office of Alien Property, dated March 15, 1955, which confirms this statement. In gathering material to help in a nation-wide commemoration of Tesla's hundredth birthday next year---which will be participated in by leading scientific and engineering societies, museums, and universities---I have just discovered, however, that Tesla's solid gold Edison Medal somehow vanished during that search. As a friend who had known Tesla well during his last twenty years, I was with Mr. Kosanović in Tesla's room in the Hotel New Yorker on the day he died. A safe expert was called in to unlock Tesla's safe. Among its contents were several honorary degrees, a volume of greetings which I had gathered for him on his seventy-fifth birthday, a bunch of keys, and the Edison Medal. We kept out the book of greetings (I mentioned this at the time to the assistant manager of the hotel and later to a Mr. Gorsuch of the Alien Property Custodian's office), but everything else, including the medal and the keys, was replaced and the safe was looked. RECORDED - 82 / 20 22 2 2 Except when it was inspected by the Allen Property Custodian, the safe was never reopened any it 6/24/05 Det ach. E. 14/29:5:300 JUN 27 1955 VID CATA ari ved in Belgrade (where Tes. 's property was to be installed in a special Tesla Museum) and was there opened by Mr. Kosanović. According to his former secretary, both the bunch of keys and the medal were missing. The keys were later found in a tin box outside the safe; the medal was never found. I learned of the disappearance of the medal only by accident. Mr. Kosanović had asked his former secretary to get permission from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (who gave Tesla the Medal) to have it duplicated. This was given, but the cost, it turned out, would be about four hundred dollars. In the meantime, the Tesla Museum, in Yugoslavia, is quietly trying to raise the money to pay for it. The irony of this situation is more disturbing than the money involved. By giving us a system which made electric power universally available, Tesla---probably more than any other one man---helped put America on top of the world. At the time he died, his gold Edison Medal was the only material evidence left of this country's appreciation. That this last token should have disappeared ---to have to be replaced by his materially poor countrymen overseas for whom he had done nothing---seems a tragic denouement. John O'Neill, in his biography of Tesla, states that the FBI broke into Tesla's safe on the day he died, and an article in the current (June) Coronet repeats this. I know this isn't true. I did hear, however, that the FBI somehow lent a hand to the Alien Property Custodian during the latter's search in the warehouse. If that is so, I thought that perhaps some of your men might remember the conditions under which the search was made and therefore might have a suggestion as to what could have happened to the medal. After this long time, I have no hope that the medal can actually be restored, and I am already trying to interest Americans in making a replacement But future biographers might be spared a lot of wild guessin and wrong blaming if some hint could be obtained as to whether the original got lost, strayed, or stolen——and who might have been responsible. With best regards and sincere appreciation for any help you can give, Sincerely. Kanach Witheran M. Sweger P.S.: I am enclosing an editorial from last month's POWER magazine which outlines Tesla's contribution to the electric power industry. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_33_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # Strange Genius A SK ANY CROUP of power men to name those who laid the foundation for today's electrical generation and distribution. You'll wind up with an impressive list—Edison, Brush, Thomson, Westinghouse, many others. But there is almost sure to be a significant omission. Yet this forgotten man conceived the polyphase ac motor—still basic—and devised a suitable system of generation and distribution for applying it. To grasp the magnitude of this contribution, we must turn back to the 1880's when the electrical era was being born, and the "battle of the systems" held sway. Arc lights and motors were being operated on constantcurrent series systems. Edison's Pearl Street generating station had opened in 1882, supplying incandescent lamps and, later, dc motors on a constant-potential system. Under the leadership of Westinghouse and Stanley, the advantages of ac distribution were demonstrated. But there was no successful ac motor. In May, 1888, a young Yugo-Slav engineer, but four years in the United States, read a paper before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. In it he described a new ac system. Its heart was the induction motor with its basic and beautiful concept of the rotating magnetic field. The man was Nikola Tesla, the system he described was destined to sweep the field. With characteristic vision, George Westinghouse realized the fundamental importance of the polyphase ac system and acquired the basic patents. Its first impact on the general public was at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. There a 2-phase generator supplied motors and lamps, and, through rotary converters and motor-generators, a variety of dc equipment. But it remained for the Niagara Falls power project to demonstrate in the most dramatic way possible that polyphase ac was the system of the future. Since 1886 when a charter to develop its power had been granted, the eyes of the world had been on Niagara. An international commission, headed by Lord Kelvin, had reviewed 17 proposals, found none acceptable. Later, just five years after Tesla's AIEE paper, it was officially decided to use the polyphase system. In August, 1895, Niagara power was delivered to the first industrial customer and in 1896 ac transmission to Buffalo, 22 miles away, was begun. By that time, the steam turbine had been introduced in America and the modern age of electric power had truly opened. For Nikola Tesla, these far-reaching inventions were but a beginning. Still to come was brilliant work in high frequencies, thinking basic to much of today's radio art. Yet by the time of his death in 1943, both he and his work had begun to slip into obscurity. Why? A man of flashing insights and enormous brilliance, Tesla was largely indifferent to the development of his ideas. This he left to others while he followed the lure of new challenges. In later years, his projects became more grandiose, his ways more mysterious, his pronouncements more Olympian. And working alone, as he did, he formed none of the institutional ties that help to perpetuate a record of accomplishment. Next year—July 10, 1956—will be the 100th anniversary of Nikola Tesla's birth. It would be fitting for our engineering societies to commemorate this occasion, to acknowledge our debt to this strange and lonely genius who changed our world for the better. 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United sallies government TO .L. V. BOARDMAN DATE: June 29, 1955 FROM A. H. BELLONT ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-2-80 BY LEW Charles SUBJECT: NIKOLA TESLA WISCELLANEOUS - INFORMATION CONCERNING (ESPIONAGE) Belmont Harbo Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm Sizoo Winterrowd Tele. Room Nikola Tesla, a native of Yugoslavia, was a famous electrical inventor who died in New York City in 1943 where he had lived for many years. In attached letter to Bureau dated 6-25-55 Kenneth M. Swezey, Brooklyn, New York, advises he is gathering material to help in a nation-wide commemoration of Tesla's hundredth birth anniversary in 1956. Swezey relates he was present when Tesla's safe was opened by friends after his death and advises the contents were thereafter replaced and then impounded by the United States Alien Property Custodian. Later the safe was removed to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to be installed in Tesla Museum. Missing from Tesla's effects is a gold Edison medal he had been awarded. Swezey is seeking to locate the medal and has been advised by the Office of Alien Property (OAP) that OAP held none of Tesla's property. Swezey states he has heard the FBI assisted OAP in handling Tesla's effects while in storage, and accordingly, he asks whether Bureau could assist him in locating the Edison medal. Re FBI's assistance to OAP Swezey mentions that in the Tesla biography ("The Prodigal Genius" - 1944) by John O'Neill it was stated FBI broke into Tesla's safe the day he died (1-8-43 to protect contents from enemy hands). Swezey notes this same comment appears in article ("The Genius Who Walked Alone") by Alfred H. Sinks in the June, 1955, "Coronet." Swezey says he knows FBI did not do this. Bufiles not pertinent re Swezey. Bureau did not enter into Tesla safe matter upon Department's advice it was being handled by OAP. Bureau previously aware of comment in O'Neill's book. Fer Priles Finks was officer of American Civil Liberties Union in 1930-40; staff member of Communist Lie newspaper "The Anvill" 1933-37; member of langue American Writers ""CUA report 1944); close friend of reported CP member and suspecied underground member - In 1945 Sinks requested for his use as author data re Bureau's Enclosure level 6-30-55-100-2237 cc - 1 - 65-47953 Ticklers - Mr. Bird Mr. Belmont iga / Mr. Boardman TB: jaa far 1945 G : JUL 11 1955 ! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CK.104 6 JUL 7 1955 3 Expression 67C # RECOMMENDATION: That the attached letter be sent to Swezey advising Bureau did not participate in the handling of Tesla's effects and that the matter was handled by OAP. Therefore, Bureau unable to be of assistance; that no action be taken relative to Sinks' comment in "Coronet" article. May and Ser how ED June 30, 1955 NA Nr. Lenneth H. Swezey 163 Kilton Street Brooklyn 22, New Tork (Original) TE 22-80 BY SP4 June/126 Dear Mr. Swezen: With reference to your letter of June 25, 1955, our files disclose the effects of Nikola Tesla were taken into custody after his death by the Office of Alien Property and not by this Bureau. Since we did not participate in the handling of Mr. Tesla's effects, we are unable to supply the information you requested. Sincerely yours, JUN 3 0 1955 MAILED 25 J. Edgar Hoover dgar Hoover RECORDED - 26 2 INDEXED - 26 INDE 24 JUL 1 1955 A cover memorandum from Belmont to Been man was prepared by ETB: jaa on 6-29-55 in Connection with this outgoing mail. Bufiles contain no derogatory data re correspondent; reflect only that he was close friend and admirer of Tesla. Tolson Boardman Nichols Belmont Harbo Mohr Parsons Roses Tamm Sizoo Winterrowd Tele. Room Holloman V MA DI HOOM THE BY 113\. 64.111 8 958 August 1, 1955. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. Dear -r. Hoover: In his book, "Prodigal Genius", The Life of Mikola Tesla, Mr. John Jounell says, on page 277, that the F.B.I. went to Tesla's hotel room, opened his steel safe and removed from it, the papers it contained. Was there ever any publication of what these papers contained? If so, could you inform me where I might obtain a copy of such publication? If there was no publication of the Safe's content, after more than 18 years, would it be improper to publish them? If there was no publication of the safe's content, but there were no particular secrets found there in, could you inform me where I might learn what the safe contained? Any information on this matter will be appreciated. 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Since we did not participate in the handling Mr. Teala's effects, we are unable to supply the John Edgar Hoove rector NOTE: Bufiles reflect no record on correspondent. This type of reply utilized by Internal Security Division in answering similar inquiry on 6/30/55. (65-47953-33) Mr. Boardman Cover memo from Mr. Belmont to Mr. Boardman dated 6/29/55 set out background of this matter which concerned the death of Tesla, a famous electrical inventor. Bureau was not involved in this matter, and the opening of the safe mentioned was done by the Office of Allen Property. · Mu M Min Shiring No. 18-Se M. Indone M. Indone Min M. Indone M. M. Indone M. M. Indone 63 September 10., 1955. Mr. John Edgar Moover, Federal Bureau Of Investigation, Washington O5, D.C. Dear Mr. Hoover: Lefering to my letter to you August first, this year - your letter to me, August 11th., reletive to the matter of the papers of Mr. Mikola Tesla. On August 26, I wrote the office of Alien Property regarding this matter, indicating that I had received the information from you that it was their department which had taken the Tesla Property into custody - not yours. I have a letter from Mr. Henry G. Hilken - that Department - File Mumber HGH: M. SM: elk 017-3566, in which I am told that office "never had custody, nor has vested, any property of Mikola Tesla". As I began this matter with you - because it was stated in Mr. 0'Neill's book that it was your department who opened Tesla's safe I am wondering if you have any further suggestions along lines I might follow to obtain some information in this regard? Thank you for your time and trouble. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED. 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I FORMATION CONTAINED TITLE IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-3-80 BY 504 penfets # RECOGNITION FOR TESLA (Please fill out this form and mail to the address appearing below.) THE TESLA SOCIETY University Station, Box 135 Minneapolis 14, Minnesota (date) (city & state) Hon. Arthur E. Summerfield Postmaster General, Postoffice Dept. Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Nikola Tesla's contributions to science, industry, and to his adopted country have greatly inspired engineering progress. His electrical systems helped create an American conomy of world pre-eminence. We respectfully request issuance of a 1956 commemorative stamp to be issued on the centennial of Tesla's birth (1856-1943) signed) 106 INDEXED-59 NOT RECORDED 138 JUL 1. 1955 AMERICAN SREOBRAN June 29, 1955 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_43_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_43_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # by ALFRED H. SINKS Nikola Tesla was a great inventor and also a prophet without honor COUNTER-ESPIONACE WHEELS started turning early on the morning of January 8, 1943. Anxious FBI agents slipped into a room in the Hotel New Yorker where, late the night before, a chambermaid had discovered the body of Nikola Tesla, dead at 86, regarded by many as the greatest scientific register of his time. For years, Tesla had been making scientific predictions so fantastic as to be literally out of this world. Of late he had been working—or so he said—on revolutionary new weapons powerful enough to annihilate armies at a single blow. the story might—incredible as it sounded—be true. The old man's safe might hold these secrets, and the Government could not risk the chance of enemy spies getting there Half hoping to find something which would bring a sudden and decisive end to World War II, the Genen broke open the dead man's strong box. If anything of importance was discovered, it has never been revealed. Yet, their quick action was justified, for you could never be sure about Tesla, one of the stranges men who ever lived. Most people took him with a grain of salt, yet no serious scientist dared shrug away his claims as nonsense. Not after Thomas Edison tried it and Tesla proved him wrong. and electrical engineers had to eat crow back in the 1880s when Tesla solved a problem they had thought impossible. That one accomplishment—the invention of a practical alternating-current motor and gen- JUNE, 195 crator put Tesla's name amon From his invent sprang the industrial accave live in. For without his alternating current, there would be no mass production of automobiles, aircraft, refrigerators; no great water-power dams and generating plants, no Diesel-electric trains; we could not have developed radio refression or atomic review. The direct current that Edison worked with—a feelple force at best—could be sen no more than a couple of miles over wires because its power leaked away rapidly into the surrounding atmosphere. Lights near the power station might burn brightly and steadily, but those near the end of the line would be dim and fluttering. Tesla sold his basic alternatingcurrent patents in 1888, for a million dollars down. By 1895, the first great power station at Niagara Falls had been built, and by the end of 1896, two more Tesla generators had been installed. Within a few years, the pace of life over half the earth had changed from a crawl to a fast gallop—and it has been gathering speed ever since. The MAN WHO, by his brilliant idea of a "rotating magnetic field," changed the face of the earth and the living habits of the human tace was a Croat, born in 1857 in Smiljan, a village in what is now Yugoslavia, but was then part of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. When he was about six, Nikola Tesla's father, the village priest, was transferred to a larger parish in the city of Gospic. There, the lad grew up and perfected his earliest "inventions." Of these, his faProvide was an "engine" powered by 16 June bugs, harnessed in sets of four to spokes which radiated from the drive shaft. Nikola was a frail lad, often ill; and he nearly went blind from 100 much reading. He read everything he could get his hands on, not only science but also religion, philosophy, history, literature. By the time he finished high school, he was fluent in French, German and Italian, as well as his native Serbo-Croat. He got his schooling—the best his doting family could afford—at Gospic, Carlstadt, Gratz, the University of Prague and, finally, at Budapest. At the University, he saw his first electric motor, a new type direct-current affair whose brushes and commutators sent out showers of crackling blue sparks. "If we got rid of those brushes and commutators, with all that noise and loss of energy, we'd have a much better motor," Nikola told his professor. "Perhaps it might be done with an alternating surges." "Nonsense!" barked the professor, "An alternating current would never run anything. You're not the brilliant student I thought you were. Forget it! But Tesla could not forget. The teacher's ridicule only stamped the idea indelibly on his brain. It became an obsession, a passion - how to make an alternating current drive a motor. In every idle moment, wherever he went, he wrestled with this problem. Tesla's mind had an unusual twist. Almost from infancy, he had been able to see things in his mind's eye so yividly—and in such minute detail, that often he had trouble telling the real from the imaginary. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_45_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_47_Picture_10.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_47_Picture_12.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_48_Picture_10.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) I INTODMATION! CONTAINED 7-3-80 CISP 4 Junfate # SNF Opens Drive for Tesla Memorial at Libertyville- # \\$2000 PUBLIC AID SOUGHT PITTSBURGH, PA. — The Serb Nat'l Federation Executive Board has acted quickly to implement a Convention decision to honor the memory of the illustrious Dr. Niknia Tesla At its first meeting of October 8, the Board drafted a resolution calling on all SNF members and good Serbians to help fimance a memorial project for the This would stand before the entrance of the Monastery in Cost of the contemplated project, which would clarion to the world that Dr. Tesla was a Serbian, is estimated at \\$3000. The Convention voted \\$1000 to the cause and a hand collection among 122 delegates yielded several hundred dollars Kinsman Milos Konjevich ### Public Aid Sought Balance of the needed sum is now being sought thru good-will offerings of the general Serbian populace in the United States and Canadd. A fund, similar to the one being conducted to help defray mortgage expenses on Shadeland, has been established. It is hoped to raise the neces- sary monies and complete the project in time for the worldwide Centennial celebration for the genius next year. Spearheading the movement for recognition, especially aum on g American elements, is the TESLA SOCIETY, founded by scientistengineer Leland Anderson, a fanatical admirer of the late Dr. Nikola Tesla Mr. Anderson right now is conducting a search for a famous portrait of the Serbian electrical wizard done at the turn of the century in New York ### Seek Missing Portrait In his current TESLAIAN publication, Mr. Anderson revealed the work, by Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parleghy, is missing. Reviewing developments, Mr "On March 1, 1916, the Princess gave a reception in her new studio in New York especially to exhibit her latest protrait of Nikola Tesla. An article in the NFW YORK TIMES for March 2, 1916, stated— "It was one of the beliefs (b" Mr. Tesla that there was something unlucky about posing for a nicture and he never sat to any hefore he entered the studio of the Princess. The from which she had chosen did not have a sky- light in it and the much desired "At the suggestion of Mr. Tesla, a cluster of powerful incandescents was put up in the corner of the apartment and the rays, filtered thru blue glass, were just the right quality. The portrait was shown under the rame illumination. ### At Dase for Sitting " 'Mr. Tesla, having solved the problem of the artifical sun, fell to thinking about other parts of the universe, and there he sat oblivious to his surroundings." "The painter was able to produce a likeness in which there is no evidence that the subject was conscious that anybody was watching him much less studyine his features from the other side of the easel. "'Among those who attended the reception were Mrs. C. B. Alexander, Henry P. Davison, the Countless de Rittenburg and Mrs. E. T. Isham.'" After the Princess died, in 1923, her studio and all objects of art, The Telsa portrait, 53x48 inches, appeared on the cover of TIME muzzine (July 26, 1831) and in the ELECTRICAL EX-PERIMENTER (January 1819), Mr. Anderson says. Its location is not now known. INDEXED - 14 12 hours 1.55 AMERICAN SRBOBRAN October 26, 1955 Pittsbungh, Pa. <:··· 03 NOV 8 1855 # TASLAF \\$1580 # Half of \\$3000 Costs For Statue Pledged # Cadiz, O., Serb Gives \\$100 For Bust Image of Inventor To Be Placed at Monastery Pittsburgh, Pa.—Half of the \\$3000 fund goal for a statue memorial of the late Dr. Nikola Tesla has been realized, the SNF announced today. In fact, total contributions counted so far come to 1580. The Fund is an outgrowt for Serbians to do honor for the memory of the noted electrical wizard during the world-wide Centennial celebration planned for the genius next year. In the wake of the plea, voiced at the recent 7th Convention at Niagara Falls, Canada, the delegates approved a \\$1000 gift from the SNF and decided to raise, by public grant, the balance of \\$2000. A hand collection among the 122 grass-roots leaders of the Society raised another \\$450. Then, at its first meeting October 5, the newly-elected Executive Board of the SNF appealed to the membership at large to fulfill the balance required. ### First Contribution \\$100 A scant 24 hours after the appeal was published in the Society's "Srbobran" organ last Wednesday, Sime Zelich of Cadiz, O., gave \\$100. The proposed memorial, a statue image, would be placed before the entrance of the St. Sava Serbian Monastery in Libertyville, historians, writers, educators, scientists, etc., would not be misled Bishon Nicolai helieves. Be that as it may, the SNF a goal is to amass the needed monies in time to erect and dedicate the memorial before the Tesla Centennial celebration ends. Donors and the amounts of their donations are as follows: | 5 | NF | - \\$ 1 | |---|---|---| | e I | Deleg | ate M. Konjevich | | | •• | Todor Drazich | | . ! | •• | Petar Borovich | | . 5 | NF | Counsel N. Stone | | f I | Peleg | ate N. Stepanovich | | • . | | Maxim Jakovac | | - | •• | Ilija Janjanin | | ı | •• | Lou Balta | | .! | •• | Jovan Vukcevich | | 7 | •• | Milan Kajganovich | | • | . •• | Stevan Rogulia | | 8 | •• | Bogdan Dragisich | | | •• | Mila- T:-1 | Todor Vuicich 5.0 Djuro Lukich 5.0 G. Stoisavljevich 5.0 R. Vukadinovich 5.0 Janko Mrmich 5.0 Petar Maravich 5.0 I SUNCLASSIFIED Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D.C. # Gentlemen During my senior year at Georgetown University I read J.J.O'Niel's Biography of Nikoli Tesla; the book, entitled "Prodigal Genius," described quite a few of Tesla's experiments, most of which I tried myself in the physics lab. I am interested in reviewing Tesla's experiments in wireless electric power transmission. Unfortunately, Tesla died in 1945 just at the time he supposedly had developed a system of wireless power transmission. Since World War II was then in progress his papers were seized and sealed by the F.B.I. I suppose that by now Tesla's papers have been released for publication, but a call to the Library of Congress produced no results. Therefore, I have two questions: - 1) Does the F.B.I. now have Tesla's scientific papers? - 2) If so, are they available for public inspection? If they were released, who has them? I will certainly appreciate any help you can give me along these lines. Tesla published very little of his findings; this, coupled with the fact that wireless power is connected by most people with "Death Rays" and crack-pots has made it nearly impossible for me to find anything on the subject. Arlington 3, Virginia RECORDED - 86 100 - 22 37 MY VEL 3 1956 TESLA's only military invention was a method to which he once eluded but new fully described. This invention was a means whereby an inpenetrable "wall of force" can be erected around the United States' borders which would render helpless any military attack. TESLA disclosed the existence of his plan in 1934 and stated he intended to present it to the Geneva Conference but seldom referred to it afterward. The "New York Times" dated 9/22/40, carried an article setting forth NICDIA TESIA's plan for a "Death Ray". This article included information to the effect that TESIA, on his 84th birthday, July 10, 1940, advised New York Times reporter WILLIAM A LINKENCE that he was ready to divulge to the United States Government the secret of his "teleforce", with which he said airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles so that an invisible Chinese wall of defense would be built around the country against any attempted attack by an enemy airforce no matter how large. According to TESIA, this "teleforce" was based on an entirely new principle of Physics that "no one has ever dreamed about" and was different from the principle embodied in his inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which he received a number of basic patents. TESLA stated that this new type of force would operate through a beam one hundredth millionth of a square contact in diameter and could be generated from a special plant that would cost no more than two million dollars and would take only about three months to costruct. TESLA stated that a dzen such plants located at strategic points along the toast, according to TESLA, would be enough to defand the United States against all possible aerial attacks. TESLA stated that this beam would melt any engine and would also ignite explosives aboard any bomber. TESLA stated that no possible defense against it could be devised and he asserted that the beam would be all penetrating. TESLA stated to Mr. LAWRENCE that he makes one important stipulation before he would divulge this secret to the United States Government and that was that should the United States Government decide to take up his offer, he would go to work at once but that the United States Government would have to trust him. TESLA stated that he would suffer "no interference from experts." In this "New York Times" article Mr. LAWRENCE commented that with conditions as they were in 1940, and with the United States getting ready to spend millions of dollars for National Defense, Mr. TESLA's great reputation as an inventor, who always was many years ahead of his time, should be given careful consideration. Mr. LAWRENCE stated, in his opinion, the United States Government should take Mr. TESLA at his word and commission him to go ahead with the construction of his "teleforce" plant. The New York file of Mr. TESLA bears no indication that any additional developments were carried on in connection with TESA's invention and whether or not TESLA fully divulged his new plan to the United States Government. TESLA died at the age of 85 on January 7, 1943. Mr. provided a two page copy of the above mentioned newsletter which Mr. and Mrs. STORM have been distributing in connection with the alleged invention by TESLA, which, according to Mr. and Mrs. STORM, consists of a radio type machine known as the Tesla S&t which was invented by Mr. TESLA in 1938 for interplanetary communication. Mr. and Mrs. STORM claim that TESLA's engineers did not complete the Tesla Set until after TESLA's death in 1943. Mr. and Mrs. STORM claim that this Set was placed in operation in 1950 and since that time TESLA engineers' have been in close touch with space ships. etc. 670 The Newsletter furnished by Mr. included b7D the following names: MARGHET STORM JOHN STORM GEORGE VAN TASSEL, Yucca Valley, California N // DAN FRY N // NHE X GEORGE HING, London, England The files of the New York Office contained no pertinent information regarding any of the above mentioned individuals. Two photostatic copies of this newsletter are being sent to the Bureau for purposes of information while one copy is being submitted to the Los Angeles Office for information purposes. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_58_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Mr. J. Edgar Hoover I INFORMATION CONTAINED Lear Sir: you can help me obtain certain informa on records and data, which belonged to Dr. Nikola Tesla. He was an Electrical Engineer and prolific inventor. He was born in Yugoslavia in 1856 and died in the United States, New York City, January 7th, 1943. He was a naturalized citizen of this country. The only information I could find of his records was a report that the F.B.I. removed his papers for examination, and that the records were sealed by the custodian of alien property. I have been doing some theoretical research of my own, which I believe may be along the same lines he followed in certain of his experiments. I also believe the development of his ideas would be in the interest of our country regardless of who developes them. If it is at all possible for me to have access to at least some of his experimental work, I would certainly appreciate it. I am not able, by reason of the vast finances, which would be required, to conduct such experiments myself, so the data he made and collected would be invaluable. Of course, it is possible that his records do not contain material pertinent to his electronics work, tecause from what I understand from reading about him, he kept most of his records in his head and wrote down very little of his data. It is also possible that some of his ideas are impractical, but I feel sure that certain of his ideas will be of immense value to our country within the next several decades or even before, if they are developed at a rapid rate. I would appreciate hearing from you on the subject, if you have any information pertaining to it, which you could make available to me. REC- L Sincerely, 16 MAR 18 1958 **67C** (1ch) 3/14/58 "minto" Oc. L | (100-22) | (1-1) Loyer me | norandum tram Be | rmont to Reardma | in o/ zv/93 set | |---|---|---|---|---| | forth ba | ckground of this | matter which conce | rned the death of | Tesla, atamo | | electric | al inventor. 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ESPINA | 118(1.4.1958) | BC. LIH OZ | المستسب وي | J' | | Tosen | MAILED 19 | 42 14 9 20 AM 150 | MO : | | | Frotter G AA/ | | , , | tal | | | leaseO live: | 21 1250 114 | 301:500 | N | 1 | | folloman | - india kla | FBI | | ari. | | Gandy MAIL ROOM | **□** , ' | REDIN SE | | | | | | | | | ) June 24, 1959 Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, d. C. Dear Sira EX 101 Milwarker 15, Wis REC. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum то MR. TROTTER FROM A. K. Bowles SUBJECT NIKOLA TESLA (DECEASED) TEZ 3 UNCLAS CO 12-6-60 Gist. Was I Boston, Massachusetts, telephoned December 5 and was referred to Ident by switchboard because he wanted to talk with someone in charge of records of deceased. Said he is making a research study for U. S. Air Force on subject of geophysics. His deadline is ten days from now. Said he just discovered a sentence in a book by John J. O'Neill entitled "The Prodigal Genius -- The Life of Nikola Tesla," which states the FBI took oustody of papers from Tesla's safe after his death in New York City in 1943. Tesla was a world-famous Yugoslav scientist and inventor in the electrical field who died January 7, 1943, in New York City. Tequested immediate access to Tesla's scientific works which may shed light on the research study. I told the we would have somebody from our Boston Office contact him immediately. **67C** Bureau file 100-2237 shows no investigation of Tesla has been conducted by Bureau. Since erroneous statement concerning FBI's taking custody of papers from Tesla's safe after his death appeared in O'Neill's book published in 1944, Bureau has received numerous inquiries from scientists desiring to review Tesla's writings. Each inquiry has been answered by stating FBI did not participate in handling Tesla's effects, but information has come to our attention that Office of Alien Property of Department of Justice may have examined Tesla's effects. (File indicates that representatives of Office of Alien Property did actually review Tesla's possessions, including his writings, but file does not show what final disposition was made of Tesla's possessions.) A teletype to Boston Division was prepared, but before it was sent telephoned again to furnish me the exact page in O'Neill's book in which he refers to the FBI. At that time I told the statement in the book was untrue -- that the FBI had not examined or taken custody of Tesla's papers. I suggested to that he might contact Office of Alien Property. (Therefore, teletype to Boston was not necessary.) ACTION: For record **5**4K₽₽€ 131960 Bu file 100-2237 34 6 EX-113 REC- 34 EC 8 350 Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D.C. ## Gentlemen: I am making a study, motivated out of personal curiosity, into the life and works of Nikola Tesla. Mr. Tesla died on January 7, 1943 in the Hotel New Yorker. Since F.B.I. Operatives opened his safe and took his papers for examination, I wonder if these papers are available for perusal? If they are available, where would they be located, and are copies available to the public? I am a citizen of the United States, and have been cleared for security --- the latest one being for work on Air Force Contracts for Eastman Kodak Company / Thank you very much for any information or help you may be able to give me in this matter!! Respectfully yours. Respectfully yours. BY INFORMATION CONTAINED New York 23, N.Y. New York 23, N.Y. REC- 39 FX.11A REC- 39 117:37-60 EXX 67C S # AFB, IE. (b) Fich al Berian of Innestigation, Washington 25, D.C. 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He died during carry Journey 1743, while in residence at the Hotel Manyake, Manyake to Commente have\\nit that his telengings (propers, site) were studied Mendel approach (land, if anything) ton, along the third week of Especial This is mentioned, in case it is possible to mind and another to the guestion. 10317 64 10313 51W/M 67C # TRUE COPY Scott AFB, Ill. 10 March 1964. Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington 25, D. C. Dear Sirs, For some time, have been wondering about the matter of what was reported on the late Nikola Tesla, the inventor. He died during early January 1943, while in residence at the Hotel New Yorker, New York City. Accounts have it that his belingings (papers, etc.) were studied. Would appreciate learning if anything can be learned about this. Am hoping to be on leave, and in Washington, along the third week of April. This is mentioned, in case it is possible to view anything relating to the question. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_68_Figure_6.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 1.0-2237-14 March 18, 1964 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_69_Figure_2.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) THE 7-3-80 BY SET SINGLES Your letter of March 10th has been received. In response to your inquiry, I would like to point out that the effects of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not the FBI. Since we did not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's effects, I am unable to supply the information you desire. Sincerely yours, L Edgar Hoover ohn Edgar Hoove HOON TIPH'S MAR 18 1964 NOTE: No record could be located in Bufiles identifiable with correspondent. Bufile 100-2237 reflects that Dr. Tesla was a world-famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death, all of his personal papers and effects were believed dangerous to the country's security if they fell into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. O'Neil, alleges that the FBI took over a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his property. Bufiles clearly indicate that it was the Office of Alien Property of the Department who did so, and the above reply is forwarded in answer to related inquiries. Prop olson selmont SA-W:mc sper slidence (3) My Men y San Jan SAU 100 Boom 57 MAR 2: War word | may prove proper Sir. Tesla According to "Prodical Genius, Nikola Festa" by J. J. O'Neil (a book) some papers were taken from the safe of Mr. Festa about 1945 yr. Is this true. If so are the papers declasified yet? If so may I obtain a copy? 67C Wood River, Ill. Sir, Thorning to Producal Meine, Mihola Fesla Thy & O Meil (a look) some papers were take from the safe of Mr. Tesla about 1945 yr. Is this true. If so are the papers leclosified yet? Af so may d obtain a copy? Sip 52095 JUN 23:1964 The 6 - 22 - 4 MEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-3-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 BY STAFFED DATE 7-80 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_71_Figure_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) In response to your inquiry, I would like to point out that the effects of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not by the FBI. Since we did not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's effects, I am unable to furnish the information you desire. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_71_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Sincerely yours, .**J.** Edgar Hoover NOTE: No record could be located in Bufiles identifiable with correspondent. Bufile 100-2237 reflects that Dr. Tesla was a world-famous electrical inventor and at the time of his death, all of his personal papers and effects were believed dangerous to the country's security if they fell into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. O'Neil, alleges that the FBI took over a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his property. Bufiles clearly indicate that it was the Office of Alien Property of the Department which did so and the above reply is forwarded in answer to related inquiries. SAW:ufy (3) Jux 22 4 01 PH '54. BECEIVED DIRECTOR 4JUN 2 CASA Mulai. SCHOOL OF SCIENCE Reply to: DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SCIENCE March 28, 1967 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Department of Information 9th Street & Pennsylvania Aven, N.W. Washington 25. D. C. 20535 THE 12-3-60 BY SP4 from / NEW ACTION CONTAINED Dear Sirs I am a student of the history of science at Oregon State University, and I am attempting to write a research paper on a very eccentric scientist who died in 1943. His name was Nikola Tesla, a naturalized American of Serbian extraction, and he died in his hotel room in New York City on January 8, 1943. During the years leading up to World War II, Nikola Tesla supposedly invented a "Death Ray" which could destroy several hundred aircraft. Mr. Tesla was a very prolific and creative genius during his early years but gradually became something of a crackpot in his old age. As a student of the history of science, it is important to determine whether or not Tesla had any valid ideas in the plans for his death ray. Tesla invented the fluorescent light and also was one of the first scientists to discover X-Rays--hence there may be some possibility that his death ray might actually have been some crude type of laser. In Tesla's biography, "Prodigal Genius", by John J. O'Neill, the author states on page 277: "Operatives from the F.B.I. came to Tesla's hotel room shortly after his death and opened the safe in his room. They took the papers that it contained in order to examine them for a reported secret invention of possible use in the war..." I am trying to locate Tesla's secret and unpublished writings concerning his death ray. I have searched the literature quite thoroughly and have found nothing. Does the F.B.I. still have these papers or can you tell where I might be able to obtain these writings for examination? Any assistance or information that you may lend me will be very much appreciated. DEC. 49. 67C ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_72_Picture_16.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) LRA; dg allower onted \_\_\_\_\_ \\nelt \_\_\_\_ the \_\_\_\_ APR 1 1 1967 TELETYPE UNIT WIL و بهر Dear Mr. Hoover, CORRESPONDENCE Jederal Bureau of Investigation Washington D. C. # TRUE COPY 11700114T10110011FrebIF25, 1969 Dear Mr. Hoover. DATE 2-3-80 BY St 4 famplete In the year 1943 the F.B.I. confiscated all of the papers and maybe some of the machines of physicist, Nikola Tesla. These papers were his experiments and ideas at the time of his death. According to the books I've read, these papers were confiscated on the grounds of the enemy getting ahold of his ideas and apply them to war machines. I have studied all of the material on this man and have found him to be more intelligent than the great "Brain" of his time, Thomas Edison. Why without Nikola Tesla there would be Westinghouse Company as we know today. This is the man who harnessed Niagara Falls, and was the one and only man who could see the possibilities of Alternating Current when men like Edison said "it would never work." What I am wondering is, maybe these papers could be reclassified from whatever "Top Secret" classification they now have and be made available for study by the people who understand and can gain knowledge from them. I would be willing to pay for reproductions of his experiments if nothing else. He still has a great many ideas that have never been tried. It disturbs me to think that everyone has forgotten about the ideas of this man when he was so advanced for his time. I can say with assurance that no man alive can say that he knows all of Tesla's ideas. And studying other men's ideas is the way to advance in science faster. 100-2237-17 I hope something can be done to get these papers released. Thank You, \_\_\_\_ 67C Fairmount, Indiana 46928 /s ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_77_Figure_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) In response to your inquiry, the effects of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not by the FBI. Since we did not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's belongings, I am unable to furnish the information you desire. Appryf of your communication has been referred to the Department of Justice. Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover MAR 4 - 1969 COMM-FBI er & NOTE: Bufiles contain no record of correspondent. Bufile 100-2237 reflects that Dr. Tesla was a world-famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death, all of his personal papers and effects were believed dangerous to the country's security if they fell into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. O'Neil, alleges that the FBI took over a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his property. Bufiles clearly indicate that it was the Office of Alien Property of the Department which did so, and the above reply is forwarded in answer to related inquiries. Copy of letter referred to Assistant Attorgey General, Civil Division of the Department. Tolson \_\_\_\_ Tolson \_\_\_\_\_\_ DeLoach \_\_\_\_\_ Mohr \_\_\_\_\_ Bishop \_\_\_\_\_ Casper \_\_\_\_ Callahan \_\_\_\_\_ Conrad \_\_\_\_ Felt \_\_\_\_ Gale \_\_\_\_ Rosen \_\_\_\_ Sullivan Sullivan \_\_\_\_\_ Tavel \_\_\_\_ Trotter \_\_\_\_\_ Tele. Room \_\_\_ MAIL ROOM TELETYPE HALT ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_77_Picture_14.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) JE W Federal Bureau of Investigation Director of Central Records Washington, D.C. Dear Sir: Nikola I am doing a research paper on Nickola Tesla and would appreciate it if you could please provide me with the following information. That information being why did your Bureau impound his personal effects immediately after his death on January 7, 1943. Secondly, could you provide a list of those effects, and lastly, when were they released and to whom were they given. Thanking you for the information ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_78_Picture_7.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED 11 INFORMATION CONTAINED REC 44 100-2237-18 APR 15 1970 CONFER HILL **b7**C THEORYATION CONTAINED Harvista 66, Calif. July 8, 1970. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington D. C. Dear Sir Nith - Testa I am writing this to you as I believe that most of the government is infiltrated with foreign agents, and there is a very good chance this could be of extreme importance for the defense of our nation. I met a man a number of years ago that was raised on Long Island in the neighborhood where Mr. Tesla, inventor of the Tesla Coil, had his lab. He told me of Mr. Tesla's notes blowing down the street when the junk men were dismantling his equipment. It would be a wonderful thing is some of these notes were salvaged and could be found. Mr. Tesla was at least a century ahead of his time. He sent radio signals around the world seventeen years prior to Mr. Marconi, who received the credit, and pioneered many fields. He was so far advanced that he had to invent a special math to keep up with his work. He, on several accasions talked before the scientists of the world and became very angry at their inability to understand him, and due to this was violently disliked and didnot receive acknowledgement for his discoveries. One of the notes read by this man told of the radio transmission of electricity being brought to a high degree of efficiency. Now here is the thing that should be investigated throughly. During my High School education, in the winter of either 19-25-26 or 1926-27, I made a currant events report on an article appearing in a small publication of that name that was received weekly at the Troy Highschool, Troy Montana. It stated in this article that Mr. Tesla had made an offer to the Congress of the United States that if they would install radio transmission towers at every 150 miles around the border of this country, that he would install equipment that would broadcast a vertical plane of energy beyond the atmosphere through which no material object could pass as it would shatter or lose it's monecular coohesion. It was refused. There is a good chance that this data is in the files of congress. What a defence, and boy do we need it. EX-117 REC-3 I have had some results along this line with structured vortices of magnetic fields, but do not have the technical equipment or knowledge to carry out further experiments. The theory is quite simple and deals with particle acceleration, and it works to the best of my knowledge. Sincerely **610** July Vinter 1. 1-E ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_82_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 01861 6 DECEMBER 1971 FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.C. Dear Sir: I have recently begun a collection and reading file of all matters pertaining to Nikola Tesla. In so doing I was amazed to find that upon his death; January 7, 1943, in NYC, your bureau confined his papers. May I ask if you still "have them in jail". I am extremely interested in his work(s) and am trying to establish my own "Tesla" library. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. NABNASSET, MASS 01861 REC. 79 100-2237-20 16 DEC 15 1971 DATE 7-3-80 BY My Jon Jaco | MLN:jam (4 | ) | |---|---| | .s | MAILED & | | | . \*\*\* ; | | 1 200 | FBI | | 58 DEC 2 1 1971 | The second | Federal Bureau Of Investigation Ninth Street and Pennsylvania Northeast Washington D. C. 20535 Dear Sirs. Upon rea ding a biography on Nikola Tesla, I found the urge to read more on him and his works. At the end of the book it was stated that the F.B.I. went to his hotel room gathered up his papers and locked them in a vault. The thing I would like to know is the real reason they were locked up and if it would be possible to see some of these records and any other works of his. I can think of only one possible reason at to cause of his records being locked up and that is because he was too far advanced for his time. This seems to be the only logical solution, but, with technology much more advanced now than in his time it would seem likely that scientists take over where he left off. Please let me know If I can look at the records and if you can please answer my question of the real reason his records were locked up. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. REC-48 October 31, 1972 100-2237-21 by Corpus Christi, Texas 78415 Dear INFORMATION CONTAINED WEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-3-80 BY 44 Jung forto Your letter was received on October 26th. In response to your inquiry, the effects of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not by the FBI. Since we did not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's belongings, I am unable to furnish the information you desire. I am forwarding a copy of your communication and of this reply to the Department of Justice. Sincerely yours, L. Patrick Gray III L. Patrick Gray, III Acting Director ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_85_Picture_11.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) (nk) NOTE: Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles. Bufile 100-2237 reflects that Dr. Tesla was a world-famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death, all of his personal papers and effects were believed dangerous to the country's security if they fell into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. O'Neil, alleges that the FBI took over a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his property. Bufiles clearly indicate that it was the Office of Alien Property of the Department which did so, and the above reply is forwarded in answer to related inquiries. Copy of letter referred to Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division of the Department. Room mn: jkm 1372 TELETYPE UNIT federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington, D. C. DATE 2-3-80 BY SP4 Jun frate Gentlemen: I would like to know if any microfilm or other reproductions of Mikola Tesla's notes and papers exist at your office. Tesla was a famous scientist who died in New York City. The Federal Bureau of Investigation entered his safe shortly after this to remove his papers for examination for the war effort. After the war the papers were offered to any group that would start a museum to house them. No one accepted and the papers were finally sent to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, sometime in the early 1950's, possibly just before 1954. Tesla was the inventor of all ac motors and the polyphase system, as well as all flourescent and neon lamps. He was a major pioneer in the early days of radio and discovered many of the early principles of radar. He declined nomination of a Nobel Prize. He was a naturalized citizen of America and said he valued his citizenship papers above all his awards and possessions. Despite this, all his papers were sent to another nation. I would like to examine some of his papers from 1899 and later without having to fly to Yugoslavia. I have only seen a condesnsed copy of his research from Colorado Springs, but am unable to obtain copies. The principles and equipment are rather out-of-date and well-known, but still useful in my research. I would greatly appreciate help in this matter. 67 C Typicerely. REC-26 1/10 - 1 Jun 29 1973 P.S. Tesla died in January of 1943 and shortly after the papers were removed from his safe. The original copies of these papers were sent abroad prior to 1954, as I believe it was in that year the Yugoslavs founded the Tesla Museum (not to be confused with the Tesla Institute). John Comment United States Senate June 26, 1973 Respectfully referred to Congressional Liaison Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20530 Because of the desire of this office to be responsive to all inquiries and communications, your consideration of the attached is requested. Your findings and views, in duplicate form, along with return of the enclosure, will be appreciated by Senator Bob Packwood ATTN: Alan Holmer Form #2 ST-105 DAS 7 JUN 29 1973 CORRESPONDENCE EAP EHCLOSURE JAS, ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_91_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 20 June 1973 Bear Senator Packwood, Though in Alaska temporarily working on a military contract, I still consider myself an Oragon resident, hence it is to you than I write. During by days at Reed College, I became interested in a fascinating Casch physicist, Nicolai Tesla. Proffessor Tesla emmigrated to this country in the twenties, I believe, and did some of his most original here. Tesla had a peculiar bent of mind, in his younger days he was often called a had scientist, and did not publish extensively when he came to the US. Most of the extent primary material is in untranslated Czech. Tesla was however, an extensive note taker. It thought it strange that upon his death, none of his notes from his American period ever appeared. Upon discussing this with a friend, I was informed that all of Mr. Tesla's notes were confiscated by the FBI. I cannot conceive how those notes on physics and electricity can in any way endanger the national safety. It seems that Mr. Hoover in his zeal, had confiscated material whose only sin was a radical approach to science. There is indication that much of Professor Tesla's later work concerned a very novel approach to time theory. Needless to say, it has been radical approaches to physics that have seen our greatest scientific advances in modern times, viz. Einstein. Heisenberg, et al. I was wendering if your office might be able to determine if these papers are still extant, and if so, see to it that the public has access to them, It would be a shame to see all of Nicolai Teslas work to have been in vain. Please excuse my typing, in all the thousands of words I typed trying to get a liberal education, I never did master the typewriter. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_91_Picture_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 100--1:7-24 ST-105 REC-15 100-2207-74 Honorable Bob Packwood United States Senate Washington, D. C. 20510 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 7-8-80 BY SP. Jungste Dear Senator Packwood This is to acknowledge receipt of your communication dated June 26th enclosing a letter from your constituent, Mr who is temporarily employed in Alaska. 67C In response to Mr inquiry, central files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicate that the effects of Dr. Rikola Tesla were impounded after his death by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not by the FBI. Since we did not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's belongings, I am unable to furnish the information you desire. JUL : - 1373 I am returning your enclosure as you requested. Sincerely yours, William D. Ruckelshaus William D. Ruckelshaus Acting Director Enclosure Mr. Felt \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_94_Figure_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Clarence M. Kelley Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington D.C. 20535 Dear Mr. Kelley, ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 7-3-80 BY SP4 June 12 ach 8-2-73 BUSpren ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_96_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_97_Figure_2.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) MLL IMFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-3-80 BY Ser profite Your letter, which was received on July 30th, has been reviewed and I would like to point out that FBI Agents were not involved in removal of papers from the safe of Dr. Nikola Tesla, nor did we at any time have custody of his property. I realize there have been some written accounts that our Agents acquired Dr. Tesla's belongings; however, these accounts are simply not true. You can be assured we were absolutely not responsible and there was no impersonation involved. Sincerely yours C. M. Kelley # Clarence M. Kelley Director NOTE: Correspondent had written in mid-July and asked about the effects of Dr. Tesla and he was advised that the Office of Alien Property had participated in removing his effects from his hotel room. A copy of his communication was referred to the Department of Justice. Bufiles indicate clearly that after Dr. Tesla's death some relatives opened the safe in his hotel room with the help of a locksmith and, thereafter, the Office of Alien Property confiscated all of his belongings. Bufile 100-2237 mentions that the FBI was advised of the existence of this property; however, inasmucl as the Office of Alien Property was handling Dr. Tesla's effects, the Bureau had absolutely no hand in the entire matter. AUG2 - 1973 Comp. Syst. Files & Co. Gen. Inv. \_\_\_\_ Ident. \_\_\_\_ Inspection Intell. \_\_\_\_ Laboratory Plan. & Ev. Spec. Inv. \_\_\_\_\_ Training \_\_\_\_ Legal Coun. \_\_\_\_ Cong. Serv. \_\_\_\_ Research \_\_\_\_\_ Press Off. \_\_\_\_\_ Telephone Rm. \_\_\_ TELETYPE UNIT ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_97_Picture_15.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_97_Picture_16.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) June 9, 1975 rederal Bureau of Investigation U.S. Department of Justice Washington D.C. 20535 Sirs we recently contacted the San Francisco PBI office and a review of their files revealed information concerning the scientist Nikol Diesla impounded. If you could make a thorough investigation of all files and materials available to you, we would greatly appreciate the correspondence of any information that might be discovered. A in T. Winker S. F. almose 21-175 address for progres lin 100-2237-26 X REC.36 175 July 7, 1975 Doer Doer 115530 HSS INCLASSIFIED DATE 2380 BY PARTIE DOOR DOOR California 95117 This will acknowledge your letter of June 9th. In response to your inquiry, the papers of Dr. Mikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice. Sincerely yours, C. M. Kelley Clarence M. Kelley Director 1 - The Deputy Attorney General - Enclosure Attantion: Susan M. Hauser NOTE: Bufile 100-2237 indicates that Dr. Tesla was a world famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death his personal papers and effects were impounded by Office of Alien Property for national security reasons. Since Tesla's death in 1943 the Bureau has received numerous inquiries about the disposition of his technical papers. The above reply is forwarded in answer to these inquiries. Bufiles contain no information identifiable with requesters. Dep. AD Adm. The above reply is forward Bufiles contain no information Asst. Dir.: Admin. Comp. Syst. dbb:cgg. (4) Ext. Affairs Files & Com. Gen. Inv. 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Washington, D.C. 20535 MY INFORMATION CONTAINED VEDENNIS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-3-80 BY SP4 (pm/) Dear Mr. Kelley: In reply to the letter of 10 November from your office: I restate that I was not asking about the existence or non-existence of any investigative information on Nikola Tesla, but on his technical papers seized on his death in 1943 and reported in the papers of that time. The reason given in the reply from your office, the second paragraph, as to why I cannot get any information on Tesla's papers makes no sense in itself or in reply to my inquiry. The third paragraph stating the conditions under which a search will be made is a clear bureaucratic circumvention of the Freedom of Information Act and an excuse on the part of the individual handling my request for doing any work beyond the drafting of a letter. Will it be the decision of your office to let the situation stand like this? As I stated in my first letter, I am following up the Tesla data for a magazine article. I am tempted to have your reply of the 10th printed and run nationally as an example of how bureaucratic manoeuring is used to get around the FOIA. Does the bureau need more of this type of publicity? It is disheartening to see an agency entrusted to uphold the law using its resources to mock the law. a R. 11-26 15 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_100_Picture_12.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) November 26, 1975 67C ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_101_Figure_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) DATE 2-3-CO BY SP4 fin frte This will acknowledge receipt of your letter to the Bureau on November 14th. In response to your inquiry, the papers of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice. Sincerely yours, Clarence M. Kelley Director 1 - The Deputy Attorney General - Enclosure Attention: Susan M. Hauser NOTE: Bufile 100-2237 indicates that Dr. Tesla was a World famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death his personal papers and effects were impounded by Office of Alien Property for National Security reasons. Since Tesla's death in 1943 the Bureau has received numerous inquiries about the disposition of his technical papers. The above reply is forwarded in answer to these inquiries. baf:gjd (5) Plan. & Eval. \_\_\_\_ Spec. 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Hauser | | | | | 2 1 | 45 | | | 21 | ,,, | OPTIONAL FORM 41 c48-16-81594-1 552-10 5041-101 Kensington, Md. 20795 17 October 1975 # Freedom of Information Act Request Deputy Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20535 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_103_Picture_5.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ## Gentlemen: I am writing an article for a magazine on early twentieth century inventors and want to obtain information on some papers of Nikola Tesla that were seized by the FBI on his death in 1943. Tesla invented a number of electrical devices and because of the war and because Tesla was born a Yugoslavian national, it was probably considered a measure of preventitive safety to hold in safekeeping papers that might have any bearing on national security. I would like to find out: 1) if the FBI still has the papers; 2\) if they do have the papers, what must be done to see them; 3\) if they do not have the papers, who does have them or what I would be very grateful for your help with this. REC-ZI 62 11 3 9400 ad 15/0-75 5\_007 241975 67C DATE 2-3-82 BY SP 4 Jampate ROLLA Ast. Mr. Clarence Kelly Director F.B.I. Washington, DC THEORMATION CONTAINED WESTER IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 2-3-80 BY SEL CONTAINED Dear Mr. Kelly: Mr. Allen and Mr. Ruchlehaus, former acting Director of the FBI, contacted me in 1973 regarding the unavailability of American microfilm records of Nikola Tesla's unpublished diary (now in the Belgrade museum, arranged by month per folder). At the time I discounted the possibility that these unpublished discoveries had military significance. But because of experiments now under way at Hill AFB, I now suspect such military applications exist and feel it imperative that you be notified, particularly in view of the fact that the Soviets have primary access to the entire collection. Two photos of each page exist. After Tesla's death, scientists from the Navy and OSS performed a cursory examination of the diary and notes, which if my memory serves me correctly, was one month long, hardly enough time to decipher Tesla's torturous handwriting. Though Tesla wrote in English, his penmanship was small, blurred, and as difficult to translate as a foreign language. According to the museum director (1971), the Soviets had made copies of some portions, but not the Colorado Springs diary, which numbers 500 pages, 20 that directly pertain to ball lightning, and 20 or so relevant to the equipment construction. (We copied the most significant portions, but feel more exists). I have been associated with Project Tesla for four years, have just completed an article for my magazine, EDN (an electrical engineering magazine), but only with the very recent receipt of an unpublished manuscript from John J. O'Neill's book (PRODICAL GENIUS) did I place credence on Tesla's later claim to military applications. Incidentally, some of O'Neill's descriptions were inaccurate and exagerated, as we have exceeded Tesla's results and are familiar with the experiments. At any rate, there are three possible military applications. CF 4/3/19 First, Tesla claimed that the lightning balls (which destroyed his equipment) could be used to destroy aircraft. I have talked to AF personnel --such as the prane in flight--and found AF personnel fear these "rf balls." as they call them. P46 Second, it is a suspicion of mine that ball lightning, if injected with lithium, could produce a cheap fusion bomb. Third--and this may be no more than a suspicion--the propulsion mode of ball lightning involves electro-gravitic interaction, by which means air vehicles of revolutionary configuration may be constructed. There are no presently-known laws of physics that can account for the propulsion (400 mph or so when following an airliner). Other hitherto unsuspected applications may exist None of these applications were the goal of Project Tesla, which centered on producing ball lightning as Tesla did and studying it as a plasma confinement technique for fusion reactors. Incidentally, Tesla's claim to setting up standing waves on the earth's surface (wireless power) was erroneous and involved techniques similar to Project Sanguine, that is, using the earth's atmosphere as a waveguide is aware of our research). **67**C ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_106_Picture_7.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) P.S. By a copy of this letter, along with the enclosures I am notifying the C.I.A. Enclosures: 2 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_107_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # Fusion energy: will experiments in ball lightning provide the key? Paul Snigier, Associate Editor In the vast and empty hangar where the first atomic bomb was assembled, a man-made lightning storm is now being unleashed. The voltages of these lightning bolts—20 million volts—are the highest discharge voltages ever produced by man. Project Tesla, headed by Robert K. Golka and Dr. Robert W. Bass, is an attempt to artificially duplicate one of nature's rarest and most terrifying phenomena—ball lightning. The experiments are based upon the unpublished notes of Nikola Tesla, who, in 1899 at his Colorado Springs laboratory, used a secret magnifying transmitter to produce 1.5-in. lightning balls that floated for 30 sec. # The energy surplus Many physicists, including the eminent Dr. James Tuck, founder of the U.S. fusion program, believe that the lightning ball holds the key to a fantastic, cheap and endless energy source—fusion power, or the energy source used by the stars and sun. The fuel is deuterium, or heavy water, that can be inexpensively extracted from ocean water to provide mankind Highest voltage continuously oscillating damped-wave lightning generator (ever produced by mankind) creates a current of 1100A at 12.5 MV! Subsequent improvements raised this to a peak current of 2200A at 20 MV. Further improvements could conceivably produce bolts that exceed natural lightning (100 MV)! ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_107_Picture_9.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) with millions of years of the years of the years of the Unfortunately, program in fusion research, which has centered on magnetic confinement and laser implosions, has been frustratingly slow and full of unpleasant surprises; and scientists warn that success could be as far off as four decades! But if these promising \_nexpected confinement technique could unleash this energy source. # In search of nature's secrets.. Ball lightning, a glowing sphere of red, orange or yellow plasma, often materializes during lightning storms and floats about, often against a strong wind. The ball may bounce along the floor and, on occasion, the sphere will "slip" through glass without breaking it. (The author recently investigated one such case in a hospital, in which the lights were damaged.) At times it materializes inside or even outside aircraft in flight, seemingly impervious to deformation from the wind force. Witnesses of ball lightnine have included such notables a Niels Bohr and Victor Weiss kopf, the Director of the MIPhysics Department. Anothe witness was Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who reported seeing it cross the breakfastable aboard the presidentia the high voltage supply of the 25 Mev linear accelerator. The ball of blue fire floats down to the floor, rolls around randomly and then rises again to the power-supply area where it dissipates without detectable damage. Despite troubleshooting no explanation can be struck the building—a larg concrete structure with a 60-f ceiling inside—and, simultane ously, an intense sphere of fir the size of a tennis ball forme above the conduit on the wall a arly shoulder level. It moved along the wall for a distance of some 30 ft., floated out and around the neck and shoulders of a person standing near the wall, moved back to the wall and continued along for several feet until lit intercepted a duples outlet on the conduit. At this the ball exploded, causing electrical damage throughout. ## new state of matter? physics can account for the stability and bouncing of fire-balls unless it includes surface tension. This hitherto unobserved state of matter is a new concept, since plasmas have never previously exhibited such strong surface tension. Also, presently known laws cannot account for the propulsion. rigorous mathematical model of the lightning ball's absolute, asymptotic, fluid-dynamical stability. Initial computer studies indicated a density range of 1013-1011 cm-3, with a temperature 105-108 oK—or seven times hotte. me, but since it involved "lightning balls," or "fire balls," I was very curious. Fir . .lls had always fascina \_\_ .e, and I had read everything I could ay my hands on about the: A fire ball is a strange phonomenon associated with lightning. Some of the energy of the lightning stroke appears to become locked into a ball shaped structure which may be of any size from a couple of inches to a foot in diameter. It looks like a perfect sphere, brightly incandescent and floats like a bubble, being easily carried by air currents. They may last for a short time, from a fraction of a second to many seconds. In this interval, during which they stay fairly close to the ground, they may come close to many objects without damaging them or being damaged by them. Suddenly, for no known reason, the ball explodes doing as much damage as a bomb, if close to structures, and no damage if in the open. The fire ball looked to me like a gigantically enlarged model of the tiny electron, one of the building blocks of matter, which acts as if it were just a spherical area of space in which an amount of energy was crystallized to give it structure. I felt that if it were possible to discover how a large amount of energy was stored in this fairy bubble structure of a fire ball a new insight might be gained into the structure of the electron and other fundamental particles of matter. Also this method of storing energy could be applied to a thousand useful purposes. When I approached Tesla with pleas along this line to develop this possible phase of his discovery he would evade direct reply by indulging in a, not always, tolerant lecture on my gullability in believing theories about the complex structure of the atom. While he had in earlier years discussed some of his experiences with fire balls in his laboratory at Colorado Springs and explained his theory of their formation, he would not in the later years permit himself to be drawn into a discussion of them as a possible part of his system. This, of course, made me suspicious that the clue was "hot" but I could be completely wrong in my conclusions. Tesla was very quick in detecting my technique when I sought to narrow down a field by trying to get him to deny statements when he was adamant to direct questions. Tesla became familiar with the destructive characteristics of fire balls in his experiments at Colorado Springs in 1899. He produced them quite by accident and saw them, more than once, explode and shatter his tall mast and also destroy apparatus within his laboratory. The destructive action accompanying the disintegration of a fire ball, he declared, takes place with inconceivabel violence. He studied the process by which they were produced, not because he wanted to produce them but in order to eliminate the conditions in which they were created. It is not pleasant, he related, to have a fire ball explode in your vicinity for they will destroy enything they come in contact with. It will be necessary to reconstruct his statements from very fragmentary notes and a long distance memory. representation of court of court of resistance in the main circuit could result in minor on that circuits between terminals or between two points of resistance and these minor circuits would have a very much higher period of oscillation than the main circuit and could be set into oscillation by the main current of lower frequency. "Even when the principal oscillating circuit was adjusted for the greatest efficiency of operation by the dimination of all sources of losses the fire balls continued to occur but these were due to stray high frequency charges from random earth currents. "From these experiences it became apparent that the fire balls resulted from the interaction of two frequencies, a stray higher frequency wave imposed on the lower frequency free oscillation of the main circuit. "As the free oscillation of the circuit builds up from the zero point to the quarter wave length node it passes through various rates of change. In a current of shorter wavelength the rates of change will be steeper. When the two currents react on each other the resultant complex will contain a wave in which there is an extremely steep rate of change, and for the briefest instant currents may move at a tremendous rate, at the rate of millions of horsepower. "This condition acts as a trigger which may cause the total energy of the powerful longer wave to be discharged in an infinites-mally small interval of time and at a proportionately tremendously great rate of energy movement which cannot confine itself to the metal circuit and is released into surrounding space with inconceivable violence." It is but a step, from learning how a high frequency current can explosively discharge a lower frequency current, to using the principle to design a system in which these explosions can be produced by intent. The following process appears a possible one but no evidence is available that it is the one Tesla evolved: An oscillator, such as he used to send power wirelessly around the earth at Colorado Springs, is set in operation at a frequency to which a given warship is resonant. The complex structure of a ship would provide a great number of spots in which electrical oscillations will be set up of a much higher frequency than those coursing through the ship as a whole. Inese parasiste currents will react on the main current causing the production of fireballs which by their explosions will destroy the ship, even more effectively than the explosion of the magazine which would also take place. A second oscillator may be used to transmit the shorter wavelength current. Somewhat later I learned the reason for Tesla's reticence to discuss details. This came shortly after Stanley Baldwin replaced Neville Chamberlin as Prime Minister of Great Britain. Tesla revealed that he had carried on negotiations with Prime Minister Chamberlin for the sale of his ray system to Great Britain for \\$30,000,000 on the basis of his presentation that the device would provide complete protection for the British Isles against any enemy approaching by sea or air, and would provide an ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_113_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Thank you for your letter of April 20th, with enclosures. It was certainly most thoughtful of you to furnish us this information, and your interest and courtesy are indeed appreciated. MAILED 6 APR 3 01976 FBI Sincerely yours, C. M. Kelley Clarence M. Kelley Director 67C NOTE: Bufiles indicate limited correspondence with last outgoing 6-27-73, in reply to his request concerning papers of Dr. Nikola Tesla. Dr. Tesla was a world-famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death in 1943, all of his personal papers and effects were believed dangerous to the country's security if they fell into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal Genius." by John J. Olyminist. Dep. AD Adm. The book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. O'Neill, alleged that Dep. AD Inv. the FBI took over a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his Asst. Dir.: property. Bufiles indicated the Office of Alien Property of Comp. Syst. the Department of Justice did so. Bufile 100-2237-23. Files & Com. \_CAM: kmh (3 Gen. Inv. Inspect Do Legal Cou Spec. Inv. Telephone Rm. \_ TÉLETYPE UNIT Will make you GPO - 1975 O - 594-19 JUN 16 # United States Senate To ensure proper handling please return all correspondence TO THE ATTENTION OF: Pat. Respectfully referred to: VERMAN FRI Please respond to the attached inquiry in duplicate and return the enclosure. Thank you for your cooperation. Bill warm er u.s.s. 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C. 20510 Dear Senator Proxpire ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_117_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) **67**C This will respond to your communication of June 16th enclosing the letter of Nr. Wisconsin 5326% The effects of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not by the FBI. Since we did not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's belongings, I am unable to furnish the information you desire. A copy of your communication and of this reply are being referred to the Department of Justice and the enclosure to your communication is being returned as requested. Sincerely yours, C. M. Kelley Clarence M. Kelley Director ## Enclosure - 1 Assistant Attorney General Enclosures (2) Civil Division - 1 Milwaukee Enclosures (2) - 1 Office of Congressional Affairs Enclosures (2) NOTE: This response is consistent with past responses to inquiries of a similar nature. Bufile 100-2237 reflects that the Office of Alien Property took possession of Dr. Tesla's papers following his death. Dr. Tesla's papers following his dea DJC:mmd/mjb (7) Lessec. Dir. Dep. AD Adm. Dep. AD Inv. Lesst. Dir.: Adm. Serv. Ext. Affoirs Fin. & Pers. Gen. Inv. Inspection Intell. Laboratory Legal Coun. Legal Coun. Plan A Eval. 67C (vei) Spec. Inv. \_\_\_\_\_ Training \_\_\_\_ Telephone Rm. \_\_ Director Sec'y \_\_ MAIL ROOM THE STEETYPE UNIT FBI/DO b7C Royal Oak, Michigan 48073 NIL INFORMATION CONTAINED PEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 7-3-80 BY 14 Prafe & Your recent letter requesting information concerning Dr. Nikola Tesla has been received. The effects of Dr. Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and not by the FBI. We have no preprinted material available for public distribution regarding Dr. Tesla. However, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (Title 5, United States Code, Section 552), requests have been made in the past regarding your topic and there may be documents available to you under Title 28--Code of Federal Regulations. If you are interested in seeking such documents under the Freedom of Information Act, you should make a separate inquiry, clearly marking the envelope and letter as a Freedom of Information Act request, and direct it to the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20535. In the letter you must request documents regarding the specific topic AUG 6 1979 Sincerely yours EX-137 100 Utill Bailev liam L. Bailey istant Director 2 AUG 7 1970 Assoc. Dir. 1 Mr. Underwood - Enclosure Dep. AD Adm. Room 6958 Asst. Dir.: (This correspondence response may engender a future FOIA in-Adm. Servs. quiry.) Crim. 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The question themefore,\\nis: Does the Tesla material fit the eniteria for michisian\\nin the FIA Resolve Room? I think not. funk ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_123_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_123_Picture_25.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Et. Col. Allas Commanderen, Up an Military Assissant Strategic and Space Systems Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Washington, D. C. 20301 ENDERAL GOVERNMENT Dear Colonel MacLaren: ALL INVERNATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 1.19.12 BY DINCHMYS Your memorandum of February 9 requesting access to the scientific papers of Dr. Nikola Tesla which might be in our files has been referred to my office for reply. A preliminary review of our files indicates that the Pul die not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's belongings following his death in New York City in January, 1943. his papers were examined by representatives of the Office of Alien Property, the Navy Department and the Office of Scientific Research and Development. In Pebruary, 1947, the papers apparently were released to Mr. Sava V. Rosancci Dr. Tesla's nephew and the administrator of his estate. Mr. Posspovic's abbress at that the way like Central Park Louth, New York, New York. A complete search of our indices is being made to determine if we have any information that might be useful to you. You will be notified of the results of this search at the earliest possible date. DE-110/ 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 MAR + 0 1981 Sincerely Z MAR 12 19 Assistant Director in Charge Office of Congressional and Public Affairs - Mr. Young - Enc. 67C NOTE: Reply discussed with FOIPA, RED, who has handled sin lar requests for information in our files concerning Dr. Tesla. In numerous previous responses we have said that the Office of Alien Property the Department of Justine impounded Dr. Tesla's papers after his death. Lowever, the Office of Formula Ditigation, Civil Division, indicated that Dr. Tusla's papers are not in their possession. 8 Insp. \_\_ (2) Ignt. \_\_ Servs. \_\_ (2) MAIL ROOM \[ To Cull $\\mathcal{P}$ Lt. Col. A. J. MacLaren dilitary Assistant Strategic and Space Systems Office of the Under Secretary of Delense Washington, D. C. 20301 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 1-1-1-1-2-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3- Doar Colonel MacLacen: A complete dearch of our retrievable files concerning Dr. Nikola Tosla shows that all notes and material in his immediate possession at the time of his death on January 7, 1841, were placed in the custody of the Alien Property Custodian under seal by the United States Government. Those materials have never been in the care or custody of the FET. On January 26 and 27, 1943, Peleral authorities made a thorough review of the effects of Dr. Teals to determine it any ideas of bignificant value to the United States was affort could be found. His effects were examined at the Hanhattan Marchouse and Storage Company at 52nd and 7th Avenue, New York, New York, where they apparently were taken after his death. Participating in this examination were representatives from the New York and Mashinguen Offices of the Alien Property Custodian, the Office of Scientific Research and Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Office of Haval Intelligence, and United States Naval Research. The FRI did not pervicipate in this examination. (65-47953 section 1) examiners "that there exict among Dr. Tesla's papers and possessions no scientific notes, descriptions of hitherto unrevealed acthods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be of significant value to this country or which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands." There was thought to be no technical or military reason why further custody of the property should be retained. However, our files indicate that certain papers, which were regarded as typical of Mikola Tesla's writings and thoughts in the period of 1925 up 1942, were removed for the purpose of grappy to the Sifice of the Alien Property of the purpose of the Sifice of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Alien Property of the Distance of the Man 25 1921 Exec AD LES \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ - I.r. Young 19 (SEE HOTE PAGE THREE) T . Seeming! V A day to lated betolog 17. 1345, from our sew York "Thich was that at that time br. Tesians effects remained at the Lankettan Storage Marcheouse in some 75 packing boxes and trunks under seal by the New York Department of Taxation. The rental for this storage, approximately \\$15 per month, was being paid by Charlotte Muzar, 134 East 63rd Street, New York, Who was listed as an agent for Sava Kosanovich, Dr. Tesla's nepher and administrator of his estate. (65-47953-14) On October 26, 1945, Private Bloyce Pitzgerald, U. S. Army, a young scientist who had been Tesla's protoge, called in person at our New York Field Office. With him were I was David M. Pratt, Lt. Herbert-O. Schutt and Lt. R. I. houle from a research development unit at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. These hen carried a letter signed by Brigadier General In Cr Craijea, Chief Engineering Division, Wright Field, requesting that the PBI allow the bearers of the latter access to the effects of Nikola Tesla. (65-47953-15) It was emplained to this-military contingent that the FBI had no jurisdiction over Tesla's effects, and they were referred to the Office of the Alien Property Custodian. Bureau files do not indicate whether the men ever examined Tesla's belon,ingo. (65-47953-15) The Tenla effects remained in rooms 53 and 51 of the Sanhattan Storage Company. In the 1950s, PSI Agents were told by company management that the only recorded visit had been made by "Federal authorities" in January, 1943. The-floor supervisor recalled that the men had taken numerous photographs. His description of the equipment used would tend to show that a microfilm reproduction was made of the papers of the deceased. (65-47953-27) Our files do not reflect any pertinent information on the Tesla materials since that date. Their current whereabouts or condition are not reflected in our files. For further information regarding this matter, you may wish to contact the Office of the Alien Property Custodian and the other Federal agencies mentioned above. I hope that we have been of assistance to you. Sincerely Ruger S. Young Assistant Director in Charge Office of Congressional and Public Affairs (CONTINUED - OVER) NOTE: On February 3, 1981, Col. MccLaren whete to us inquiring about the scientific papers of Dr. Nikola Tesla. Im a return letter of March 3, we informed him that a thorough review of our files would be made in search of the information be requested. This was done and he is being informed of the results. Tesla's papers have been the subject of numerous inquiries by various individuals and organizations since his death. FDI received over 20 FOIA requests on this matter during the period 1973-1980. Matter coordinated with FOIA Section, RED. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_128_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) RESEARCH AND WASHINGTON, D.C. 20301 1 APR 1981 ## FEDERAL GOVERNMENT Mr. Roger S. Young Assistant Director in Charge Office of Congressional and Public Affairs Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. 20535 Dear Mr. Young, Thank you very much for your letters of March 10 and March 20, 1981, in response to our request re Dr. Tesla. We very much appreciate the effort that must have gone into this. On behalf of the Deputy Under Secretary (Strategic and Space Systems), Dr. S. L. Zeiberg, I would like to thank you and the people who spent their time searching out the relevant data. SIN CONTAINED alland. Men Laven Allan J MacLaren Wiliam Assis Strategic and Space Systems PerDaD letter dated 3/19/93 With ENClosures / and 2 ALL DOD info da unclassifued. nclossified. V-11 5/PA #5/256,608 and 362,000 67C no returnation of recovery 10 French Z ,001 FBL ALLANFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 4-8-93 BY 9863 161,608 362.001 Off. of Cons. and Pub. Aft. 16 APR 10 TS Director of the FBI Washington, D.C. Dear Sir DATEN 14.82 BISTINGS (STATES) space research, joint international research and deep-sea research to help solve our population problem. I am talking about huge sums of money being released that could speed up the experts present projected times of producing significant gains in these still relatively new fields. 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He immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1880's, worked for Thomas Edison's laboratory for a couple of years, then started his own lab after being paid \\$1 million dollars for rights to his patents on his polyphase systems of alternating current dynamos, which lead to the harnessing of Niagra Falls for producting electricity and then the power system of the whole country. He was naturalized in 1889. He predicted wireless communication (radio). His later experiments in Colorado and elsewhere lead to his producing artificial lightning in the millions of volts. He also had patents on the concept of neon and flourescent lights, but he later made little money on his later inventions, although he continued to do experiments leading to devices of great potential worth, which he never patented. He became more reclusive in his later years, living in various hotels in New York City. In the 1930's he claimed he had developed the concept and method of building a "death ray", which could destroy planes at many miles distant, for defending America. Also, there are reports of resonance machines or devices whereby he could shake one or many large city buildings from some distance away. of his papers (or copies thereof) to the Tesla Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia; set up in the 1930's in his honor by their government. Biographies on Tesla claim that either the custodian of Alien Property and/or the FBI seized his papers and other personal effects, including a safe or safes, and other property immediately after his death in 1943. This is elaborated on in the enclosed copies of certain pages of Margaret Cheney's book, "Tesla: Man Out of Time" said that after World War II Tesla's papers were shipped to the resla Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who had become Tito's Ambassador to the U.S. There were reports that some microfilming of Tesla's papers by government agents while they were still in storage in New York under Kosanovic's custody. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_134_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Also, the Soviet Union has allegedly had access to some of Tesla's papers, possibly in Belgrade and/or else where, which influenced their early research into directed energy weapons, and Butler feels access to much of Tesla's papers on lightning, beam weapons and/or "death rays" would give him more insight into the Soviet beam weapons program. This is Butler's area of expertise and responsibility. He has been unable to locate any Tesla papers or copies of same in the classified or unclassified libraries at WPAFB. However, there are reports that some portions of them were shipped by the Custodian of Alien Property Office in Washington, D.C. to a technical research lab at WPAFB, possibly the "Equipment Lab", now closed for some years or reorganized into another organization. **b7C** and are both desirous of learning the locations of such papers of Tesla as now exist in the U.S., for both intelligence and research purposes. Therefore, Butler would like to examine FBI files relating to Nikola Tesla and possibly any on Sava Kosanovic, his nephew who received the bulk of his papers after Tesla's death, and may possibly have been the subject of FBI investigation. PJ C travels to the Washington, D.C. area on FTD business periodically and can review FBI files at FBIHQ relating to Tesla and Kosanovic. # REQUEST OF THE BUREAU The Bureau is requested to conduct full indices checks on both Nikola Tesla and Sava Kosanovic. 67C Should there be such files at FBIHQ, as well as at New York, it is requested that Bureau consider granting the above to same, in the interest of national security. # LEADS # NEW YORK # AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK Will conduct same indices check as requested of Bureau and advise the Bureau and Cincinnati of results and confirm such files and references still exist there. -3- CI (5) bl SECKET CINCINNATI AT DAYTON, OHIO Will maintain contact with and # "A VISIONARY GENIUS AS FERTILE AS ANY IN THE MODERN HISTORY OF SCIENCE..." Flamboyant, eccentric, almost supernaturally gifted, had he been born today he would still be ahead of his time. Called a madman by some, a genius by others, and an enigma by nearly everyone. Nikola Tesla was perhaps the greatest inventor the world has ever known. He was a trailblazer who created astonishing, worldtransforming devices, often without theoretical precedent. It was Tesla who hamessed the alternating electrical current we use today... Tesla who actually invented radio... Tesla who invented fluorescent lighting and the incredible bladeless turbine. He introduced us to the fundamentals of robotry and computer and missile science, which continue to create and transform the future. This fascinating new biography, acclaimed by American Scientist as "excellent...a significant contribution to the recent history of science," is a riveting journey into the mind of the nineteenth-century wizard who was Edison's enemy, Mark Twain's friend. J. P. Morgan's client, and mentor to many of the twentieth-century's most famous scientists. MARGARE I CHENEY is a science writer and author of two other confiction books. She lives in California. \*The Sunday Times of London ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_136_Picture_6.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_136_Figure_7.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_136_Figure_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_137_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) The ill-fated Wardenclyffe tower built in 1901-03. It was intended for radio broadcasting and wireless transmission of power across the Atlantic. (Courtesy L. Anderson, after photo by Lillian McChesney) An artist's rendering of Tesla's concept of the war of the future. The towerlike structures (based on the intended final form of the Wardenclysse tower) are directing remote-controlled defenses against robot attackers. As Hugo Gernsback wrote in Science and Invention, where this illustration appeared, "Machines only will meet in mortal combat. It will be a veritable war of Science." (Gernsback Publications, Inc.) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_137_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_138_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) A trio of scientific greats: Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and Charles Steinmetz, as they appeared in 1921 in a visit to the RCA transoceanic station at New Brunswick, N.J. At the time Tesla was deeply involved in his patent dispute with Marconi. Only after his death would the U.S. Supreme Court uphold Tesla's claim to be the true father of radio. (RCA) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_138_Picture_2.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 1898. The device shown is an unconnected coil illustrating the action of two resonating circuits of different frequencies—today one of the basic circuits used in computers. The pressure at the end of the coil facing the viewer (illuminated by streamers) is approximately one half nillion volts. (Courtesy ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_138_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) The letterhead of Tesla business stationery recalls some of hi more important inventions. In the center is the Wardenclyffe tower as it was intended to look when finished. (Courtesy L. Anderson) Discharge of several million volts cascading around Tesla in his Colorado Springs laboratory. The roar that accompanied such discharges could be heard ten miles away. (Burndy Library) of low frequency, and would yield sinusoidal and continuous oscillations like those of an alternator. "Taken in the narrowest significance of the term, however," Tesla wrote, "it is a resonant transformer which, besides possessing these qualities, is accurately proportioned to fit the globe and its electrical constants and properties, by virtue of which design it becomes highly efficient and effective in the wireless transmission of energy. Distance is then absolutely eliminated, there being no diminution in the intensity of the transmitted impulses. It is even possible to make the actions increase with the distance from the plant according to an exact mathematical law." Once this powerful equipment was built and the inventor began testing he was able to emulate the electrical fireworks of even the wildest mountain storms. When the transmitter was operating, lightning arresters in a twelve-mile radius from his station were bridged with continuous fiery arcs, stronger and more persistent than those produced by natural lightning. For the first time he kept a careful daily diary in which he recorded every aspect of his research. And because visual effects were useful as well as thrilling, he devoted many hours to photographic experiments. The equipment Tesia was perfecting would, he hoped, one day be adaptable for commercial use. But first, thousands of observations and delicate adjustments had to be made. He no longer trusted his legendary memory to store such a volume of information. His daily notes referred constantly to experiments that had failed to turn out as expected, and he would ask himself why. This process was at sharp variance with the one he claimed to have used throughout his earlier life. Now middle-aged, he may have felt his memory waning slightly Certainly he felt driven by the pressures of his self-imposed deadline. In his Colorado journal his lifelong fascination with visual phenomena is underscored. The flashing lights that he had always experienced on the screen of his mind were dramatically externalized, and his descriptions, among the mass of mathematical formulas, are detailed, loving, almost erotic in their lingering portrayal of the colors and grandeur of his Colorado electrical storms. Nights when experiments were being made with the magnifying transmitter the prairie sky exploded with sound and color. Even the earth seemed alive and the crash of thunder from the spark gap could be heard for miles. Butterflies were sucked into the vortex of the ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_140_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # **Death and Transfiguration** The new government of King Peter, with broad popular support, confronted the Germans and refused to ratify the compromise agreement that had been made with Hitler by Prince Paul. Almost at once reprisals began. On Palm Sunday, 1941, three hundred Luftwaffe bombers swept over the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade. Methodically they crisscrossed the city street by street, strafing everything that breathed. By noon 25,000 civilians were dead, and the wounded lay everywhere. Most public buildings were left in ruins, including the modern laboratory known as the Tesia Institute. The combined armed forces of Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invaded the doorned country. Within only days the Yugoslav Army was crushed, and King Peter was sent to England for safety. His government-in-exile would operate from London for the remainder of World War II. This, however, was only the beginning of the war for Yugoslavs. Accustomed to successive invasions for a thousand years, the people were resilient. The remnants of the Army and Communist factions withdrew into the mountains, from which they launched guerrilla attacks on the invaders. These armed fighters, men and women, were supplied with food grown by the old people and children remaining in undefended villages. Against them the Nazis and Fascists carried out murderous reprisals. In the fishing villages and along the stony slopes of the Adriatic, half the people in every hamlet were systematically shot. Soon, however, it became apparent to military strategists in the United States and England that, not only were Axis forces killing Yugoslavs, but rival guerrilla factions of monarchists and Communists had begun to vie for Allied support and were shooting each other as well as the invaders. Col. Drazha Mihailović, a Serbian army officer, led a faction called Chetniks (the "Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland"), composed mainly of Serbian and Bosnian monarchists. With close ties to King ### DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION -> 259 Peter, they became the first major resistance movement in Europe. The initial British aid to Yugoslavia went to the Chetniks, but it was short-lived. The National Liberation Army or Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito of the Communist Party, was swiftly rising to prominence. Allied strategists knew little of Tito. It was said he had been lef wounded on a battlefield in 1917 and captured by the Russians. 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A Croat, Tito had little reason to love the monarchy, for he was imprisoned after returning to Yugoslavia. On release, he became active in organizing a metal workers' union and helped to build the Yugoslav labor movement. His emergence as head of the Partisans in World War II was that of a natural leader who inspired his fighters and maintained rigorous discipline. He was looking ahead to a time when the Slavs could rebuild a free-rand united country without oppression either by foreigners or kings. Tito's goal was to set up committees of popular liberation after the Russian style, while Mihallović and the Chetniks favored local administrative authorities under the monarchy. Both factions kept on killing Germans and Italians but, unfortunately, they also continued murdering each other.\* Prof. Bogdan Raditsa\*, then director of the information service of the Yugoslav Embassy in Washington, D.C., recalls, "The situation became rather complicated when Yugoslavia collapsed in 1941 and when, at the end of that year, a Royal Yugoslav Mission came to this country." It was composed of members of King Peter's government and the Ban (Governor) of Croatia, Dr. Ivan Subašić. Saya Kosanović. Tesla's nephew, then a member of the Democratic Party also arrived as a minister of the excled government. "As soon as Kosanović came to the States," says Professor Raditsa, "he tried to reorient Tesla from the exclusive Serbian policy, and he succeeded. Tesla, even before, never felt himself a Great Serbian channing. He used to say "I am a Serb but my fetherland is Cenatta '" The conflict between Serbs and Croats in exile intensified as the war went on, paralyzing normal Slav diplomatic activities in London, Washington, and New York "Kosanović, though a Serb," recalls Raditsa, "was leading the struggle for a brotherhood between the Serbs and Croats against Fotić and many other Serb members of various Yugoslav missions. "Raditsa belonged to a family in southern Croatis that had always fevored a union of Croatians and Serbs. Thus he began using Tesla for the policy directed against the Great Serbians. "Testa himself ... was not aware of the deep conflict between the Serbs and Croats, and as basically a scientist and in old age, he was very candid in politics." Raditsa said he seemed happy that he finally had a man of hi own blood near him in New York and noted that Tesla began to rel upon Kosanović's opinion on everything. During this period the inventor was receiving about \\$500 per month from the royal government as an honorarium. Various political messages elicited from Tesla for home consumption, says Raditsa, were actually written by Kosanović.4 Toward the end of 1942 the Yugoslav Information Center was opened in New York in the Royal Mission headquarters on Fifth Awenue. Raditsa and Kosanović worked together at this office, issuing bulletins and other publications. But a crisis broke out when new reached them of the fighting between Mihaliović and Tito. "Kosanović," he said, "joined Tito and began to popularize the National Liberation Movement for a new Yugoslavia. He had a terrible time to convince Tesla that monarchy was losing in Yugoslavia and that a new Yugoslavia was beginning to come out from the fratricidal civil war. As the largest majority of Serbs in Croatia were joining Tito. Kosanović convinced Tesla that he too should join the movement that was largely shared by the masses of the people, Serbs and Croats. So Tesla's message to the Serbs and Croats was written by Kosanović." On the walls of the Tesla Museum in Belgrade one may read a vastly enlarged photocopy of the words allegedly sent by Tesla to his embattled countrymen only months before his own death. American Vice-President Henry A. Wallace also had a hand in its drafting Typewritten, it has many cross-outs and interlinings in Tesla's own handwriting yet the style is that of an ideologue, which the inventor was not: Out of this war... a new world must be born, a world that would justify the sacrifices offered by humanity. This ... must be a world in which there shall be no exploitation of the weak by the strong, of the good by the evil, where there will be no humiliation of the poor by the violence of the rich; where the products of the intellect, science, and art will serve society for the betterment and beautification of life, and not the individuals for achieving wealth. This new world shall not be a ## DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION -> 261 world of the downtrodden and humiliated, but of free men and free nations, equal in dignity and respect for man. The inventor's name also appeared on another message—sent to the Soviet Academy of Sciences on October 12, 1941, urging joint struggle against the Axis powers by Russia, Great Britain, and America, in aid of the revolutionary struggle of the Yugoslav people. This message is not to be seen in the Museum, however, presumably because nostalgia Russian-style has ceased to be politic. Kosanović became chairman of the Yugoslav Economic Mission advocating a New Yugoslav federation versus the centralistic prewar royalist Yugoslavia. This new organization also began working for a new Central East European Federation. Raditsa too became a member of the Tito movement. King Peter was desperately seeking for Mihallović the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as well as that of his own Uncle Bertie, who was King George VI of England. The British, at first sympathetic to the Chetnik cause, began to change as they received reports of the aggressive actions of Tito's Partisans. In 1942, King Peter visited Washington to intercede with FDR. Yugoslav pilots were being trained in Tennessee. FDR told him that America would send airplanes to the Chetriks as soon as they could be spared from the war in the Middle East. The monarch visited New York City, attending a large reception for the American Friends of Yugoslavia at the Colony Club. The Colony, the first female socialities club in America, had been founded at the inspiration of energetic Anne Morgan. She attended the function, as did the King's mother, Queen Marie, and Mrs. Roosevelt. It was the sort of affair Tesla himself would have delighted in had he not been weak and ill. So King Peter went to him. In his diaries (A King's Heritage), under date July 8, 1942, the young Peter II writes: "I visited Dr. Nicola Tesla, the world-famous Yugoslav-American scientist, in his apartment in the Hotel New Yorker. After I had greeted him the aged scientist said: "It is my greatest honor. I am glad you are in your youth, and I am content that you will be a great ruler. I believe I will live until you come back to a free Yugoslavia. From your father you have received his last words: "Guard Yugoslavia." I am proud to be a Serbian and a Yugoslav. Our people cannot perish. Preserve the unity of all Yugoslavs—the Serbs, the Croats, and Slovenea." ## DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION -> 262 The King added that he was deeply touched and that both he and Dr. Tesla had wept. He then visited Columbia University, to be warmly welcomed by President Nicholas Murray Butler and to fine another link with his own country in the Pupin Physics Laboratory. Returning to Washington, he was assured by FDR that food clothing, arms, and ammunition would be dropped over Yugoslavia But he was shocked when, in 1943, the British Mission in Yugoslavia made official contact with Tito. Peter asked to be parachuted into his country, but Churchill demurred Tito openly accused Mihailović obeing a traitor. At the Teheran Conference in November there occurred, largely at Churchill's instance, what the King described as a "fatal change" of Altied policy. It was decided that "the basic force fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia recognized by the Allies was the National Liberation Army, under the command of Tito, and the Partisan force received full recognition as an Allied Army, Mihailović was thus denied and abandoned." Winston Churchill overnight became a hero of modern Yugoslavia. And when the young monarch frantically wrote to FDR for support, the ailing President replied urging him to accept Churchill's advice "as if it was my own." Within months Roosevelt died. Tesla's nephew Kosanović, along with certain other diplomatic representatives of King Peter, had been dismissed by the monarch at the height of the 192 cross. He often told Bogdan Raditsa in those days that he left Tesla had been terribly shocked by his nephewic exclusion from the royal government. In fact, Kosanović believed that the inventor's death was actually precipitated by his own "setback." "He thought," Kosanović repeatedly told Raditsa, "that I wa punished, and that eventually I would be arrested or something of the kind, but I succeeded to convince him that it was inevitable in politics." During this period Kosanović was frank in saying that he tried to keep Tesla from seeing members of the royal government. Ambassador Fotić had become "the enemy" since he still favored a Great Serbian policy as opposed to the changes ahead. Tesla's relationship with this old friend became "hikewarm" "There is no doubt," says Professor Raditsa, "that the whole internecine tragedy of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1943 must have had a rather depressing impact upon Tesla. Very often he would ask me, could I explain to him what was going on among us, and why we cannot agree..." ## DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION - 263 After the war, Mihaflović would be executed by a "People's Court" for alleged collaboration with the enemy, and the Republic of Yugoslavia declared to exist, with Tito as President for life and the Communists firmly in charge. A count of Yugoslavian casualties at the end of World War II disclosed that 2 million persons had died; tragically, many thousands had been killed by fellow Yugoslavs "After the war," recalls Professor Raditsa, "Kosanović became a minister in the Tito Subasić Government, and I was his assistant in the Ministry of Information from 1944 to 1945, when I left the country, for I couldn't become a Communist. Later on in 1946, Sava Kosanović became Tito's ambassador in Washington but I never saw him again after I left Belgrade in October of 1945. Kosanović had accepted totality the Communist system in Yugoslavia and remained loyal until his death." There had not been a time in ten centuries when the Yugoslavs had not been ruled and ransacked by invaders—by Venetians, Romans, Turks, Bulgars, Austrians, Hungarians, Germans, Italians, when they were not living under threat of torture, prison, or violent death. Now a marvelous truth began to dawn upon them: that they were free, in a manner of speaking. Tesia would not live to see this. Whether he could ever have accepted the new government, with its Soviet-type Constitution and a Soviet alliance, whether he could ever have accepted the permanent Unfortunately, however, all this was to have a bearing on how he would be remembered in the West. The fading of his scientific reputation, the forgetfulness of Americans in the postwar period, resulted in large degree from the disappearance of most of his scientific papers behind that new Cold War phenomenon, the Iron Curtain. In 1948 Yugoslavia ceased to be an Iron Curtain country, declaring its independence from the Soviet doctrine of "limited sovereignty." America and her allies then were generous in sending economic and military aid to the Slavs; but the damage had been done. America had not raced to Tito's wartime support with the alacrity that Churchill had shown. In the future it would not be made easy for American scholars to draw on Yugoslav sources to document the achievements of Nikola Tesla. The inventor became very feeble in the winter of 1942. His fear of germs was so obsessive that even his closest friends were required to stand at a distance, like the subjects of a neurotic Tudor. (Pigeon germs did not seem to worry him.) He had heart trouble and suffered occasionally from fainting spells. No longer able to feed his beloved birds, he often relied upon a young man named Charles Hausler, who owned racing pigeons, to take care of them for him. Hausler had worked for Tesla in this capacity from around 1928 onward, his job being to go to the New York Public Library a noon each day with grain and then to walk around the four sides of the building looking for young or injured birds on window sills or behind large statues. He would take them to Tesla's hotel for rest and recuperation. Then, he has recalled, "I would release them at the library for him." He remembered that the cages in Tesla's rooms had been built by a fine carpenter— "as Mr. Tesla was in all his doings in had to be done right." The pigeons also enjoyed a curtained shower bath. Hausler and Tesla spent many hours together, talking mostly of pigeons. Once Tesla confided to him that "Thomas Edison could not be trusted." The boy remembered his employer as "a very kind and considerate human person," and there was one incident that stood out in his mind long afterward. "He had a large box or container in his room near the pigeon cages and he told me to be very careful not to disturb the box," said Hausler, "as it contained something that could destroy an airplane in the sky and he had hopes of presenting it to the world." He believed it probably was stored in the cellar of the hotal later." On a bitter day in early January 1943, Tesla called his other messenger boy, Kerrigan, and gave him a sealed envelope addressed to Mr. Samuel Clemens, 35. South Pitth Avenue, New York City. The boy set forth into the whipping wind and searched fruitlessly for the number. As it turned out, this had been the address of Tesla's first laboratory; but now South Pitth Avenue was West Broadway, and no one by the name of Samuel Clemens lived in the area. Kerrigan made his way back to the Hotel New Yorker and reported to the sick man. In a weak voice, Testa explained that Clemens was the famous Mark Twein and that everyone knew of him. He sent Kerrigan forth once more, and this time asked him also to take care of the pigeons. The perturbed messenger fed the birds and then consulted his supervisor, who told him that Mark Twein had been dead of twenty-five years. Once again Kerrigan trudged through the cold afternoon to Testa's rooms, where he explained and tried to return the envelope. ## DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION - 268 The Inventor was indignant and refused to hear that the humorist was dead. "He was in my room last night," he said. "He sat in that chair and talked to me for an hour. He is having financial difficulties and needs my help. So—don't come back until you have detivered that envelope." Once again the messenger went to his supervisor and together they opened the envelope. It contained a blank sheet of paper wrapped around twenty five-dollar bills—enough to help an old friend through a little fainting spell. On the fourth of January, the inventor, although very weak, went to his office to make an experiment that George Scherff was interested in. Scherff dropped in to help him prepare for it. The work was interrupted, however, when Tesia felt a recurrence of some sharp rains in his chest. Refusing medical aid, he returned to his hotel. Next day a maid came in and cleaned. As she left, he asked her to put the Do Not Disturb sign on his door to keep visitors away, and not to bother deaning. The sign remained there the following day and the one after that. Early on the morning of January 8, Alice Monaghan, a maid, ignored the sign and entered the apertment to find the inventor dead in bed, his sunken, emaciated face composed. Assistant Medical Examiner H. W. Wembly examined the body, placed the time of death as 10:30 P.M. on January 7, 1943, and gave his opinion that the cause of death had been coronary thrombosis. Tesla had died in his sleep, and the examiner noted that he had found "No suspicious circumstances." The inventor was eighty-six years of age. Kenneth Swezey was notified at once; and at ten o'clock that morning he telephoned to Dr. Rado at New York University. King Peter's headquarters, then at 745 Fifth Avenue, was advised by the professor. Tesla's nephew, Kosanović, then wartime president of the Eastern and Central European Planning Board for the Balkan countries, also was notified. Then the FBI was called. Swezey and Kosanović summoned a locksmith and Tesla's safe was opened and the contents examined. The body was removed to the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home at Madison Avenue and 81st Street and a sculptor was engaged by Hugo Gernsback to prepare a death mask of the inventor. Just before Tesla's death, Eleanor Roosevelt had tried to intercede in his behalf with President Roosevelt—perhaps with the idea of conferring some honor upon him. In the Tesla Museum at Belgrade three brief notes on White House stationery may be read. On ## DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION -> 266 January 1, at the request of author Louis Adamić, Mrs. Roosevelt had promised to ask the President to write to Tesla and said that she hersel would call on him on her next trip to New York. The second note in headed, "Memo for Mrs. Roosevelt" and is signed FDR: "I was having this looked into but the papers yesterday carried the story that Dr. Tesla had died. Therefore I am returning the enclosures herewith." A third note of January 11 from Eleanor Roosevelt to Adamić forward the President's message and adds her sorrow at learning of the inventor's death. Adamić wrote a moving eulogy to Tesla that was read by New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia over station WNYC on January 10. "Meanwhile the extreme tensions between Serb and Croat factions in the United States were making the planning of funeral services difficult. The body lay in state but, according to an unpublished letter of O'Netil's, "only twelve people, some of whom were newspaper reporters," came to view it. When state services were held at four o'clock on January 12, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, however, more than two thousand people crowded in. Serbs and Croats were seated on opposing sides of the cathedral, Bishop William T. Manning having exacted from both factions a promise of no political speeches. The service was begun in English by Bishop Manning and concluded in Serbian by the Very Rey, Dusan Sukletović. Among Balkan diplomats present were Ambassador Fotic, the Governor of Croatia, a former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, and the Minister of Food and Reconstruction. In the front row with Kosanović, chief mourner and head of the important new trade mission, sat Swezey. Dr. Rado had been too ill to attend as an honorant palibeater. Figures important in American science and industry who did attend as honorary pallbearers included Professor Edwin H. Armstrong, Dr. E. F. W. Alexanderson of General Electric, Dr. Harvey Rentschler of Westinghouse, engineer Gano Dunn, and W. H. Barton, curator of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, Newbold Morris, president of the New York City Council headed this group. When word of Testa's death spread abroad to war-stricken Europe, telegrams of tribute and sorrow began pouring in from scientists and governmental leaders alike. In the United States three Nobel prizewinners in physics, Millikan, Compton, and James Franck, Joined in a eulogy to the inventor as "one of the outstanding intellects ## DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION -> 26 of the world who paved the way for many of the important technologi- The President and Mrs. Roosevelt expressed their gratitude for Tesla's contributions "to science and industry and to this country." Vice-President Wallace, in the spirit of the new Yugoslavia, declared that, "in Nikola Tesla's death the common man loses one of his best friends." Although Louis Adamić wrongly eulogized Tesla as one who had cared nothing for money, he could not have been more accurate when he said that Tesla was not really dead: "The real, important part of Tesla lives in his achievement, which is great, almost beyond calculation, and an integral part of our civilization, our daily lives, our Among the honors that had come to Tesla in his life were many academic degrees from American and foreign universities; the John Scott Medal, the Edison Medal, and verious awards from European governments. In September 1943 the Liberty ship Nikola Tesla was launched, an honor that would have pleased the scientist. But not until 1975 was he inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Eight months after Tesla's death, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the decision that he had been confident would come eventually—ruling that he was the inventor of radio. His body was taken to Ferncliffe Cemetery at Ardsley-on-the-Hudson in the deep cold of the winter afternoon. In the car that followed the hearse rode Swezey and Kosanović. The inventor's remains were cremated and his ashes later returned to the land of his birth. In almost every nation in the world, the fighting and dying \*Charlotte Muzar, formerly secretary to Sava N. Kosanović, carried Tesla's seles to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade in 1957. Throughout the years Kosanović had spoken of leaving the seles in America and had hoped an appropriate memorial to the inventor would be raised in the United States as their resting place. -Archhes Teele Memorial Society ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_145_Figure_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # The Missing Papers in addition to his acknowledged achievements, Tesia left a legacy of riddles. To pose only three of the most major: Was his unrealized concept for the wireless transmission of energy through the Earth scientifically valid? What actually was he doing in his experimentation with death/disintegrator beam weapons? And what became of his unpatented research papers and other sensitive documents in the day immediately following his death? In the category of subquestions, what turn of affairs relanded the intense interest of the U.S. intelligence establishment in Tesia's work (as something surely did) in the late 1940's? Like Einstein he had been an outsider and, like Edison, a wide-ranging generalist. As he himself had said, he had the "boldnes of ignorance." Where others stopped short, aware of what could not be done, he continued. The survival of such mutants and polymaths a Testa tends to be discouraged by modern scientific guilds. Whethe either he or Edison could have flourished in today's milieu is conjectural. The example set by Tesla has always been particularly inspirting to the lone runner. At the same time, however, his legacy to establishment science is profound for his research, although sometimes esoteric, was almost always sweeping in its potential to transform society. His contribution was major rather than incremental. His turbine failed in part because it would have required fundamental changes by whole industries. Alternating current triumphed only after it had overcome the resistance of an entire industry. But there was an unfortunate corollary to Tesla's lone battles with the scientific-industrial establishment. Since he was part of no group or institution, he had no colleagues with whom to discuss work in progress, no formal, accessible repository for his research notes and papers. He worked not just in private, but—his love of flamboyan announcements to the press notwithstanding—in secret. Thus any inventions which he did not patent or give freely to the world were more or less shrouded in mystery. And, because of the handling of the papers he left behind after his death, the range of his achievement If this has been frustrating to the scientists who have succeeded lesia, it has at least been stimulating. After a period of obscurity, the one hundreth anniversary of his birth in July 1956 brought an international reawakening to the importance of the inventor's life and genius. Interest in his work, fired by a growing awareness of the riddles, jurrounding it, has been escalating ever since, almost as if he had been schorn in his true psychological age. He was honored by centennial celebrations in America and Europe. The American Institute of Electrical Engineers dedicated its fall meeting in Chicago to a review of his life and inventions. Commemorative programs were arranged by the Institute of Radio Engineers, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the Franklin Institute, and various universities, the Tesia Society playing an active role in such secognition. Permanent memorials in the form of scholarships and medals were proposed and exhibits presented by science museums. Special ceremonies were conducted at Niagara Falls, and a statue was later erected in his honor on Goat Island, a gift from the people of Yugoslavia. Chicago, reminded by attorney/author Elmer Gertz that it should be eternally grateful to him for having made the Columbian Exposition of 1893 the "wonder of the globe," dedicated a new public school to Tesla's memory. The inventor's old colleagues of the AIEE journeyed to Europe to attend more celebrations, statue unveilings, and dedications in his honor. The International Electrotechnical Commission in Munich took formal action, making his name an international scientific unit, the testa joining such historic electrical symbols as farad, volt, ampese, and As the exploration of space accelerated, so did interest in Tesla, especially from the standpoint of beam weaponry and microwave work. In America, Russia, Canada, and various other countries, projects in his name or derived from his pioneering, from weather-control to nuclear fusion, began to attract scientific attention. Some were just the shoestring efforts of loners, their laboratories old Quoneet huts. Some were top secret and financed by enormous budgets. Tesia's year of secret experiments at Colorado Springs in 1899 provided the basic impetus for much of this new exploration. His Colorado Springs Notes,\* when they appeared in English in 1978 This book may be ordered from Nolit, Terazije, 27, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (about \\$40). under the imprint of the Tesla Museum at Belgrade, were eagety awaited by many scientists. But even this work left important questions unanswered. The bulk of his papers having vanished from America, reliable information was harder to come by than the recurring rumors of conspiracy, espionage, and patent theft. Scientists thought it strange that some aspects of his Colorado Springs research found in scattered sources did not appear in the Yugoslav-published Notes. Only by piecing together fragmentary information could the magnitude of his experiments be comprehended. Around 1928 O'Neill, by merest chance, had happened to see a legal advertisement in a New York newspaper announcing that suboxes placed in storage by Nikola Tesla would be sold by the storage warehouse for unpaid bills. Feeling that such material should be preserved, he went to the inventor and asked permission to try to obtain funds to reclaim the material. "Tesla hit the ceiling," he recalled. "He assured me he was well able to take care of his own affairs.... He forbid me to buy them or do anything in any way about them." Shortly after the inventor died, O'Neill got in touch with Saw Kosanović, told him about the boxes, and urged him to protect them He was never able to get a positive statement from Kosanović that had obtained the boxes and examined the contents. "He gave evasive assurances that there was no reason for me to worru..." Others too were interested in the papers. A young American engineer engaged in war work consulted Tesla on a ballistics engineering problem because he could not get time on an overworked computer, and Tesla's mind was known to offer the nearest thing to it. Soon he became fascinated with Tesla's scientific papers and was allowed to take batches of them home to his hotel room where he and another American engineer pored over them each night. They were returned the next day, a procedure which continued for about two weeks prior to the inventor's death. Tesla had received offers to work for Germany and Russia. After the inventor died, both engineers became concerned that critical scientific information might fall into foreign hands and alerted United States security agencies and high government officials. The relevant records that I have obtained from federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act reveal strange twistings and inconsistencies in the handling of the inventor's estate. Tesla left tons of papers, barrels and boxes full of them. But he left no will, He was survived by five nieces and nephews, of whom two lived in America at Curiously, the FBI released his estate to the Office of Allem Property, which promotive sealed the contents. Since Testa was an American citizen, the OAP's concern in the matter was hard to justify. After a court hearing, however, the estate was released to Ambassador Kosanović, one of the heirs. Sweet, who also had hoped to write a biography of Tesla (his leath intervened), received the following account in 1963 from a "Back in 1943... when Tesia died, it was a matter of very short time when Mr. K was issued a certificate from or by the Office of Custodian of Alien Property conveying to Mr. K full rights to the Tesia papers... he had them all packed up and sent off to the Manhattan Storage Company where they remained until ready for packing and shipping off to Yugoslavia in 1952. Mr. K paid for storage charges.... All this time the certificate from the Alien Property Office was in my "You will perhaps remember that a number of times at a membered the fact that the custodian at the storage warehouse told him that series soverment guys were in to microllim some of the papers... when we opened the safe in the present museum building (in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) the bunch of keys, which was the last thing Mr. K. flung into the safe at the New Yorker Hotel before the combination was re-set to a new combination, were not found in the safe, but in an entirely different box. Also the gold medal (the Edison Medal) was missing from the safe.... Anyway, for years and years Mr. K was bothered by the fact that Tesla papers had been gone thru and just before his departure from Washington in 1949–50(?) he decided to follow my suggestion to call Edgar J. Hoover \[sic\] and ask him. Mr. Hoover denied categorically that the FBI had gone into the papers..." The aide said Tesla had told his nephew that "he wished to eave his works, property, etc., to his native country." (Not only is this proper borated but the papers were in English.) Immediately after Tesia's death an exchange of telegrams flew between FBI Agent Foxusarth of the field division of the New York Bureau and the director of the New York Bureau of the FBI. The day following discovery of the body. Agent Foxworth reported: "Experiments and research of Nikola Tesia, deceased. Espionage—M. Nikola Tesia, one of the world's outstanding scientists in the electrical field died large an expent processor forth three at the Hotel New Yorker, New York City. During his lifetime, he conducted many experiments in connection with the wireless transmission of electrical power and ... what is commonly called the death ray According to information furnished by X \[name deleted\], New York City, the notes and records of Tesla's experiments and formulae together with designs of machinery ... are among Tesla's personal effects, and no steps have been taken to preserve them or to keep them from falling into hands of people ... unfriendly to the war effort of the United Nations..." (The FBI was, however, advised by the office of Vice-President Henry A. Wallace that the government was "vitally interested" in preserving Tesla's papers.) Bloyce D. Fitzgerald, "an electrical engineer who had been quite close to Tesla during his lifetime," continued Foxworth, "advised the New York office that on January seventh, nineteen forty three, Sava Kosanović, George Clark, who is in charge of the museum and laboratory for RCA, and Kenneth Swezey ... went to Tesla's rooms in the New Yorker (author's note: the correct date would have been January 8\], and with the assistance of a locksmith broke into a sale which Tesla had in his rooms in which he kept some of his valuable papers.... Within the last month, Tesla told Fitzgerald that his experiments in connection with the wireless transmission of electrical power had been completed and nerfocted. "Pitzgerald also knows that Tesla had conceived and designed a revolutionary type of torpedo which is not presently in use by any of the nations. It is Pitzgerald's belief that this design has not been made available to any nation up to the present time. From statements made to Pitzgerald by Tesla, he knows that the complete plans, specifications and explanation of the basic theories of these things are some place in the personal effects of Tesla. He also knows there is a working model of Tesla's, which cost more than ten thousand dollars to build, in a safety deposit box belonging to Tesla at the Governor Clinton Hotel, and Pitzgerald believes this model has to do with the so-called death ray or the wireless transmission of electrical current. Testa has also told Prograted in past conversations that he has some eighty trunks in different places containing transcripts and plans having to do with experiments conducted by him. Bureau is requested to advise immediately what, if any, action should be taken concerning this matter by the New York Field Division." Kosanović later reported to Walter Gorsuch of the Office of Alten Property in New York that he first went to Tesla's rooms with the other men to search for a will. After the safe was opened, Swezsy took from it a book containing the testimonials sent to Tesla on his seventy-fifth birthday, while Kosanović took from the room three pictures of Tesla. According to the manager of the New Yorker Hotel and Kosanović, nothing else was removed. The safe was closed under a new combination, which combination was in Kosanović's exclusive possession. On January 9, Gorsuch of OAP and Fitzgerald went to the New Yorker Hotel and seized all of Tesla's property, consisting of about two truckloads of material, sealed it and transferred it to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Company. It was added to about thirty barrels and bundles that had been there since about 1934, and these too were sealed under orders of the OAP. In addition to the question of the legitimacy of Alien Property's involvement in the case is the question of why Kosanović was allowed to have access to the safe's combination, from which he later claimed the Edison Medal had vanished. Tesla's American naturalization papers, which he so prized that he always kept them in his safe, may now be seen at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade; but it is not known what other papers or objects were in the safe. The Washington Bureau of the FBI went so far as to advise the New York Bureau "to discreetly take the matter up with the State's Attorney in New York City with the view to possibly taking Kosanovich into custody on a burgiary charge and obtaining the various papers which Kosanovich is reported to have taken from Tesla's safe." New York was also told to contact the Surrogate Court so stops could be placed against all of Tesla's effects, so that no one could enter them without an FBI agent being present, and New York was to keep Washington advised of all developments." The idea of arresting the Yugoslav ambassador was quickly dropped. And very soon the Washington headquarters made a curious decision. Edward A. Tamm of the FBI in Washington advised D. M. Ladd of that Bureau that the whole matter was being turned over to the Custodian of Alien Property; and Tamm noted, "There appears to be no need for us to mess around in it." Soon the well-known electrical engineer Dr. John G. Trump, who was serving as a technical aide to the National Defence Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, was asked to participate in an examination of Tesla's scientific papers. Present at the Manhattan Warehouse & Storage Company in addition to Dr. Trump were Willis George, Office of Naval Intelligence, Third Naval District, Edward Palmer, chief yeoman, USNR, and John J. Corbett, chief yeoman, USNR. Dr. Trump reported afterward that ric examination was made of the vast amount of Tesia's property that had been in the basement of the New Yorker Hotel for ten years prior to his death, or of any of his papers except those in his immediate possession at the time of death. It should be remembered that Tesia's scientific reputation had been in eclipse for a number of years and that there had been many efforts to discredit his claims in radio, robotry, and alternating current. Dr. Trump was a busy man, just as the staff of the FBI was stretched thin by its preoccupation with investigating wartime sabotage. "As a result of this examination," wrote Dr. Trump, "it is my considered opinion that there exist among Dr. Tesla's papers and possessions no scientific notes, descriptions of hitherto unrevealed methods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be of significant value to this country or which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands. I can therefore see no technical or military reason why further He added: "For your records, there has been removed to your office a file of various written material by Dr. Tesla which covers typically and fairly completely the ideas with which he was concerned during his later years. These documents are enumerated and briefly abstracted in the attachment to this letter." In closing Dr. Trump said: "It should be no discredit to this distinguished engineer and scientist, whose solid contributions to the electrical art were made at the beginning of the present century, to report that his thoughts and efforts during at least the past fifteen years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional character—often concerned with the production and wireless transmission of power—but did not include new sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results." The file (of which Dr. Trump's notes were only an abstract) consisted apparently of either photostats or microfilm made by the naval officers present, and the original papers apparently remained in storage, later to be transmitted to Yugoslavia. The examination had failed to disclose any alien-owned property subject to the vesting power of the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act. Tesla's papers, and personal effects were released in February of 1943 for disposition by Kosanović, the administrator of his Dr. Trump's abstract included the following: "Art of Telegeodynamics, or Art of Producing Terrestrial Motions at Distance—This document, in the form of a letter dated June 12, 1940, to the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., proposes a method for the transmission of large amounts of power over vast distances by means of mechanical vibrations of the earth's crust. The source of power is a mechanical or electromechanical device bolted to some rocky protuberance and imparting power at a resonance frequency of the earth's crust. The proposed scheme appears to be completely visionary and unworkable. Westinghouse's sply indicates their politic rejection.... "New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy through Natural Medio---This undated document by Tesla describes an electrostatic method of producing very high voltages and capable of very great power. This generator, is used to accelerate charged particles, presumably electrons. Such a beam of high-energy electrons passing through air is the 'concentrated nondispersive' means by which energy is transmitted through natural media. As a component of this apparatus there is described an open-ended vacuum tube within which the electrons are first accelerated. "The proposed scheme bears some relation to present means for producing high-energy cathode rays by the cooperative use of a high-voltage electrostatic generator and an evacuated electron acceleration tube. It is well known, however, that such devices, while of scientific and medical interest, are incapable of the transmission of large amounts of power in nondispersed beams over long distances. Tesla's disclosures in this memorandum would not enable the construction of workable combinations of generator and tube even of limited power, though the general elements of such a combination are succinctly described. "A Method of Producing Powerful Radiations—an undated memorandum in Tesla's handwriting describing 'a new process of generating powerful rays or radiations." This memorandum reviews the works of Lenard and Crookes, describes Tesla's work on the production of high voltages, and finally in the last paragraph gives the only description of the invention contained in the memorandum... "Briefly stated, my new simplified process of generating powerful rays consists in creating through the medium of a high-speed let of suitable fluid a vacuous space around a terminal of a circuit and supplying the same with currents of the required tension and volume." Long afterward in a letter to a colleague. Dr. Trump told what happened when he walled the Hotel Governor Clinton to examine the "device" efored in its vault, presumably the same box remembered by Tests had warned the management that this 'device' was a secret weapon," said Dr. Trump, "and it would detonate if opened by an unauthorized person. Upon opening the vault and indicating the package containing the secret weapon, the hotel manager and employees promptly left the scene." The federal agents who had compalone also pulled back, the better to give him the sole distinction of opening the parcel. It was wrapped in brown paper and tied with a string is remembered hesitating, thinking how beautiful the weather was out He lifted the parcel onto a table and, mustering his courage, snipped the string with his pocket knife. He removed the wrapping inside was a handsome polished wooden chest bound with brass. It required a final effort of courage to raise the hinced lid. Inside stood a multidecade resistance box of the type used for Wheatstone bridge resistance measurements—a common standard term to be found in every electrical laboratory before the turn of the century! Why had Tesla seen fit to terrify the staff and management of the hotel with this harmless object for so many years? Perhaps he had become so accustomed to having his hotel bills paid behind his back foelieving that the hotels, honored to have him living there, had routinely dismissed the billings), that he was insulted when the Governor Clinton brashly demanded its \\$400. Although the FBI closed its Tesla file in 1943, it didn't seem to want to stay closed. It was reopened in 1957 when an informant complained that a New York couple were issuing newsletters containing "information pertaining to flying saucers and interplanetary matters" and exploiting the inventor's name and fame. They allegedly claimed that Tesla's engineers, after his death, had completed a "Tesla Set," a radio device for interplanetary communication, that the device had been placed in operation in 1950 and since then Tesla engineers had been in close touch with alten spaceships. Once again the FBI decided no action was warranted and the file was closed. ## THE MISSING PAPERS 4--- 277 Swezey had never put much credence in the "secret weapon" numors and had written to an inquirer: "Because Tesla was a rectuse, and himself liked to talk in mystifying terms during his later years, it think many legends have been built up about the dozens of ideas he had evolved but which were not permitted by others to see the light of day." He said he had known the inventor well for two decades before his death: "Tesla's greatest genius flamed up during a dozen or so years just before and slightly after the turn of the century. What he did after that may have carried the germs of some of the developments we are witnessing today, but he had not carried any of thern—at least on paper or in any other tangible form—to the point of practicality..." Perhaps, but between 1945 and 1947 an interesting exchange of letters and cables occurred among the Air Technical Service Command at Wright Field, Ohio, in whose Equipment Laboratory much top-secret research was being performed, Military Intelligence in Washington, and the Office of Alien Property—subject, files of the late Nilsola Tesla. On August 21, 1945, the Air Technical Service Command sequested permission from the commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Force in Washington, D.C., for Private Bloyce D. Fitzgerald to go to Washington for a period of seven days "for the purpose of securing property clearance on enemy impounded property." On September 5, 1945, Colonel Holliday of the Equipment Laboratory, Propulsion and Accessories Subdivision, wrote to Lloyd L. Shaulis of the OAP in Washington, confirming a conversation with Pitzgerald and asking for photostatic copies of the exhibits annotated by Trump from the estate of Tesia. It was stated that the material would be used "in connection with projects for National Defense by this department," and that all of it would be seturned in a reasonable length of time. That was the last time that the Office of Alien Property or any other federal agency in the United States admitted to having possession of Tesla's papers on beam weaponry. Shaulis wrote to Colonel Holliday on September 11, 1945, saying, "The materials requested have been forwarded to Air Technical Service Command in care of Lt. Robert E. Houle. These data are made available to the Army Air Force by this office for use in experiments; please return them." They were never returned. These were the full photostatic copies, not merely the abstracts. OAP has no record of how many copies were made by those who examined the files with Dr. Trump. The Navy has no record of Teslai Curlously, four months after the photostats had been sent Wright Field, Col. Ralph Doty, the chief of Military Intelligence Washington wrote James Markham of Alien Property indicating the they had never been received: "This office is in receipt of a communication from Headquarters, Air Technical Service Command, Wrig Field, requesting that we ascertain the whereabouts of the files of the late scientist, Dr. Nichola \[sic\] Tesla, which may contain data of grevalue to the above Headquarters. It has been indicated that your offingight have these files in custody. If this is true, we would like to reque your consent for a representative of the Air Technical Service Command to review them. In view of the extreme importance of these files. "Because of the urgency of this matter, this communication will be delivered to you by a Liaison Officer of this office in the hope of supporting the solicited information." The "other" agency that had the files, or should have hat them, was the Air Technical Service Command itself! Colonel Doty! letter, which was classified under the Espionage Act, was declassified on May 8, 1980. This embarrassing contretemps goes unexplained in the records. Perhaps it was handled orally with the Liaison Officer. attorney general and director of the Office of Alien Property, wrote to the commanding officer of the Air Technical Service Command. Wright Pield, Dauton Office regarding the Tesla photostats that had been sent by registered mail on or about September 11, 1945, to Colonel Holliday, at the latter's request "Our records do not reveal that this material has been re turned," said Bazelon. He sent a description and asked that it be returned. Obviously at least one set of Tesla's papers had reached Wright Field because on November 25, 1947, there was a response to the Office of Alien Property from Colonel Dully, chief of the Electronic Plans Section, Section Section Section Field He replied: "These reports are now in the possession of the Electronic Subdivision and are being evaluated...." He believed that the evaluation should be completed by January 1, ## THE MISSING PAPERS 4-> 279 1948, and "At that time your office will be contacted with respect to final disposition of these papers." There is no written record that OAP ever sought further to have he documents returned and they were not returned For many years there have been rumors that these unpatented inventions or concepts of Tesla's found their way not only to the U.S. Army Air Force but to Russia and to private American defense industries, and ultimately into certain university research laboratories engaged in beam weapouru. The Office of Alien Property experienced a very difficult problem over the years in explaining its role in connection with Tesia's papers. Between 1948 and 1978 it issued the following variations on a been to many incurious: "While this Office participated in an examination of certain material owned by the late Dr. Tesla, our records do not disclose that my such material has been vested or is presently under the jurisdiction of this Office..." "This Office has never had custody ... of any property of Wola Tesla..." "While the Tesla papers were in our custody..." "Photostatic copies of certain documents, made while the papers were under our seal..." "In 1943 this Office placed a seal on the property..." "While the lesta papers were in our custody..." etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., Tesla's original papers, and the remaining models of his inventions—his magnifying transmitter, robot boats, early tube lighting, induction motors, turbine, exhibits shown at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, such as the "Egg of Columbus," and others—left America in 1952 for Yugoslavia. His ashes were sent later. The artifacts may now be seen at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, a dignified-looking building with a broad, well-proportioned facade at No. 51 Proleterskih ## THE MISSING PAPERS +> 280 Brigada, an avenue renamed after the war, but formerly known under the monarchy as Crown Street. The museum bears a plaque on a low wall, printed in the old Cyrillic alphabet. Here Tesla's English writings have been translated into Serbo. Croatian—except, as the archivist admits, for the "unimportant" material, which remains, just as he wrote it, in the language of his adopted country. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_151_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # The Legacy The fact that Tesla's research notes and papers have not been easily available for western scientists has not, of course, meant that Teslam research is dead. On the contrary, the very mystery surrounding some of his unproved claims has served to good numerous scientists into trying to duplicate his experiments. And since his aspirations were virtually limitless, there has always been a chance that the rewards of success would not be inconsiderable. But the single greatest stimulus to try to follow in Tesla's footsteps doubtless remains the example of the man himself—his stunning record of achievement and the enduring fascination of his mind. As one admiring German writer put it. "Tesla went beyond the borders of his exact science to foretell what lies in the future ... a modern Prometheus who dared reach for the stars..." Although a comprehensive summary of the state of Teslainspired research today would be beyond either the scope of this book or the intent of its author, no account of the inventor's life would be complete without at least some indication of what has become of a few of his major preoccupations. The record, as one might expect, is both mixed and incomplete, but it is no less impressive for that. To begin, then, with Tesla's experiments with ball lightning: He had no idea what ball lightning might be useful for when he first encountered it in his Colorado Springs research; to him it was a nuisance, but it demanded an explanation. And so he set about determining the mode of formation of the strange fireballs and learned to produce them artificially. The technical explanation runs like this: In the highly resonantransformer secondary comprising his magnifying transmitter, the entire energy accumulated in the excited circuit, instead of requiring a quarter period for transformation from static to kinetic, could spenditelf in less time, at hundreds of thousands of horsepower. Thus, for example, Tesia produced artificial fireballs by suddenly causing the impressed oscillations to be more rapid than free ones of the second- ary. This shifted the point of maximum electrical pressure below the elevated terminal capacity, and a ball of fire would leap great distance. Yet strangely enough, modern plasma physicists with the bear equipped laboratories, have failed to produce plasmoids with anythin near the stability of the true ball-lightning spheres that he created. Why the fascination with this problem? First, of course because it is there, an unknown. But second because among othe uses, it may hold a vital key in the international race to achieve controlled nuclear fusion—potentially the greatest power source in history. Among those long interested in ball-lightning research as history. Among those long interested in ball-lightning research as colleagues in the radio physics laboratory at SRI International, Dr. Robert W. Bass of Brigham Young University, and Robert Golka, with whom Bass has collaborated on research. Golka, a Massachusetts physicist, Tesla disciple, and lightning experimenter, has pursued the ephemeral fireball with the fervor of a hunter of snarks. Like Tesla in Colorado, he has done his research alone in a remote western laboratory in the Utah salt flats, and like Tesla, he has struggled to win the kind of federal support that usually goes only to enormous institutions or corporations. In the largest hangar at the far end of the ghost base at Wendower, Utah, which was built by the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, big spotlights are often burning as Golka conduct lightning tests. Here, under tightest security in the 1940's, the B-29 Enoka Gay was housed and outfitted for delivering the first atomic bombs to Hiroshima. Golka made two trips to the Tesla Museum to pore over the inventor's then unpublished notes and concentrated on replicating at exactly as he could in the old air base hangar the magnifying transmitter that Tesla had built in 1899 when investigating the lightning storms of Pike's Peak. "He \[Tesla\] was 'way ahead of anything we have today in the equipment he built," Golka says. "Such as the high-powered switches and spark gap switches. The knowledge has been lost; we don't know how he did it. Some of it was in the diaries, but he kept much of this stuff in his head." Golka built a magnifying transmitter at his "Project Tesla" that would discharge 22 million volts, creating almost twice as powerful a chain-lightning storm as the maestro himself had produced at Colorado Springs The relevance of ball lightning to fusion research has to do with the problem of confining plasma. The heart of the most common type of experimental fusion reaction involves taking isotopic hydrogen gas and both accelerating and superheating it until the hydrogen nuclei fuse to make helium nuclei, releasing, in the process, staggering amounts of energy. Along the way, while the hydrogen is being charged with vast amounts of kinetic and thermal energy, it enters an imperfectly understood material state known as plasma. In the penultimate stages of the process, before fusion begins, the besetting problem is to maintain the plasma's coherence, to confine it within some kind of invisible electromagnetic "bottle." † Since the strongest geometric shape is a sphere, Golka believes that ball lightning offers the best potential for containment of the unstable mass. He describes the odd lightning as "a glowing sphere of a vertety of colors, a half-inch in diameter or as big as a grapefruit," and resembling an onion in its "leavers and layers of alternate charged perticles, positive and negative." It may bounce along through buildings, fall into water and set it boiling; and sometimes, as at the Hill Air Force Base in Utah, it may knock out the most sophisticated electronic equipment. In the summer of 1978, with the use of CO-2 laser beams, he finally managed to produce "bead" lightning, which he believes to be a form of ball lightning, and to photograph it in sequential frames. He then sought support from the U.S. Department of Energy for a major program of research for which he proposed to use a device called a pyrosphere, employing five laser beams to create thermonuclear fusion. In a "Fireball Fusion Reactor" only nonradioactive helium is created and, according to Golka, mathematical models indicate it can reach and hold temperatures above a billion degrees. He also proposed to the Air Force another Testian concept, a charged particle beam, but again one designed to employ laser technology. Such beam guns, he believes, would have a range of "Unit recent years plasma had no major industrial importance but was marely a laboratory curiosity. Richard L. Bersin, executive vice president of international Plasma Corp., believes that the first practical application of plasmas came in the 19th century when "the glowing plasma produced by a Tesla coll was used to locate leaks in glass vacuum flasts." Testen ideas are also involved in other aspects of fusion research. Superconducting magnetic code, cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero, are used in magnetic containment devices; and, in a newly developed rival process, hydrogen fuel pellets are being bomberded by high-energy particle beams. ## THE LEGACY -> 284 6,000 miles and could melt and destroy ICBM-type missiles in the alc With a Tesla coil three times the size of his combined coils, Golia believed he could generate 200 million volts of electricity. But he inherited the usual Testian problems of a loner, and at he said, "The walls fail in on me when I work for corporations." His work reached a point where it could no longer progress with improvised equipment, but called for enormous investments. His competitors were large corporations and leading universities engaged in the nuclear-fusion race; and even some of the latter were being cut of from their federal grants. They too were deeply into laser technology although Goldac claims his system is different and unique. By no mean the only scientist to have attempted to carry forward Tesla's work with ball lightning, he undoubtedly has been one of the most stockershinded. Russia's Kapitza, who shared the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics with Amo Penzias and Robert W. Wilson of America for his work is magnetism and the behavior of matter at extremely low temperatures, acknowledges his debt to Tesla. "The efficient generation of superhigh-frequency oscillations and their conversion back to direct-current electrical energy," he writes, "discloses possible solutions to the problem of transmitting electrical energy ... in free space. The transmission setup will, of course, be similar to that already considered but, instead of a wave guide, a highly directional beam must be used, which, as is well-known, only at short wavelengths will diverge little. Such a setup for the transmission of electrical energy, firstly thought by N. Tesla many years ago, has already been discussed... Although ... possible in principle, it is tied up with the solution of a series of complicated engineering problems and therefore it can be implemented in practice only in such special situations in which other methods of energy transmission are inapplicable (for example, when energy must be supplied to a satellite)." In this field of wireless energy transmission, so directly concerned with the space race, there is progress nearer home. Richard Dickinson, who heads the Microwave Power Transmission project for Cal Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the desert near Barston California, traces his inspiration to the early work of Tesla. The concept of bringing electricity to Earth from an orbiting solar-power system via "Lambert Dolphin says of Golka's replica of the Colorado Springs Tesla colt. "It is spectacular indeed, to either scientist or layman. I hope it ends up in a museum sub as the Smithsonian where it can be appreciated." He too is a proponent of further sessanch in ball lighthing. microwaves is darling, costly, somentic, and thoroughly in the style of the maestro. "We bearned power from our transmitter at Goldstone a distance of one mile," Dickinson said of the NASA project initiated in the mid-seventies. "All of the microwave energy that fell within our target (of which we could only collect a portion with our existing apparatus), we converted 82.5 percent to useful direct current. Thirty-four thousand watts of direct current output carried a distance of one mile. We are well pleased. The next step is to look further into the technology and needs of the satellite power system of the future." William C. Brown of the Raytheon Company, who developed the rectenna used in this microwave-power research, also attributes the tide of sending electricity by radio waves to Tesia's pioneering in the indamentals of radio broadcasting and wireless power transmission. Theoretically, a city the size of New York could be supplied with five billion watts on a winter day by enormous satellite structures in the sky that would orbit synchronously with Earth at a height of 22,300 miles. But admittedly, the cost of such floating power stations would be many billions of dollars, and they would be highly vulnerable to enemy killer satellites, in the event of war. Brookhaven National Laboratory, located just to the northeast of Tesla's old Wardenclyffe site at Shoreham, also feels a close link with the inventor through the advanced high-energy work being conducted at the laboratory. In 1976 it paid homage to him in a ceremony, and the Yugoslav government sent a plaque to be placed at the still-standing Wardenclyffe laboratory. Canada, too, has long been a bastion of Tesla Energy System advocates, and because of the country's rich hydroelectric sources, through-the-Earth transmission—if it worked—could be a boon to areas of power shortage. But—will it work? Several projects have been planned, and some partially implemented, in Canada, central Minnesota, and most secently in Southern California—to "pump" hydroelectric power wirelessly through the Earth to an area of need, employing the Tesla system as it is understood. The U.S. Department of Energy has often been asked to fund projects based on Tesla's system. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that the system ever worked for Tesla, and none that it could work for anyone else. One of the inventor's problems was that he improperly extended into the electromagnetic domain fluid and fluid-mechanical analogies. Tesla's patent No. 787,412 provides for the Earth to be excited by a carefully valued wavelength to establish a standing wave condition. Tesh believed the propagation path fell along a diameter. But according to much knowledge developed since 1899, the propagation path would not be along a diameter but, rather, along an ellipsoidal arc somewhere between the diameter and the soherical surface. A fundamental aspect of wave propagation of power is that no power is transmitted if the wave is standing; power is transmitted solely with a traveling component. Boundary layer propagation, i.e., the mode of lossless propagation of waves at the boundary of two differing media (such as earth and sky), is a viable concept. However, the boundary plane must be smooth and the waves must be properly launched. At the frequencies Tesla was using, such launching apparatus would be an enormous structure. In examining the photographs of his experimental station at Colorado Springs, it is apparent to experis that he did not employ apparatus essential to the launching of such waves. Tesla probably was mistaken at Colorado Springs in his interpretation of the lightning storms which he observed traveling away from him (eastwardly) across the plains, producing maxima and minima effects upon his instruments. This he interpreted as standing waves being set up in the Earth by the traveling storm, with the crests of the waves passing through his location as the storms advanced. It is believed he was seeing an interference effect caused by the reradiating surface of the frontal range of mountains to the west of his station. The results would have been the same on his instruments. Dr. Walt, formerly senior scientist at the Environmental Research Laboratories, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in Colorado, describes himself as a "firm skeptic" of the Tesla theory. "The concept that electromagnetic energy penetrates 'through the earth,'" he says, "is valid only if the frequency is sufficiently low and if the distances are small. It's all ted up with 'skin-effect' phenomena; that means that the field is confined to the surface of a good conductor as in metallic wave guide." Dr. Wait even goes so tar as to suggest that lesis never really accepted the fact that electromagnetic waves could transport energy through the air. "Instead he thought of the earth itself as a conveyor and also thought of the possibility of a return conductor at heights of "15 miles above sea level." The parallel of this idea to the earth-ionosphere wave guide at extremely low frequencies is striking (see IEEE Journals of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. OE-2, No. 2, April 1977). Also his proposed resonance of the system might be interpreted as the first disclosure of the earth-ionosphere cavity oscillations that have been associated from the early 1960s with W. O. Schumann, N. Chydrofilos and J. Galeis, among others." With respect to wireless communication, the U.S. Navy's Project Sanguine/Seafarer of recent years has evolved from Tesla's Colorado experiments. In a thermonuclear war, conventional radio communication probably would be disrupted at certain heights and wavelengths. America's atomic submarine fleet might then be without a means of receiving messages. The U.S. Navy, seeing this danger, turned back to Tesla's nineteenth-century suggestion of employing 10 Hz signals (ELF or extra low frequency), to circle the globe and negetiate the deepest waters. One of the headier speculations concerning Teslian science is a suggestion that Russia has been employing his theories on weather modification to interfere with the jet stream, causing droughts and extremes of hot and cold weather. However unlikely the charge, it is true that Tesla did do a good deal of theorizing (but very little emprimentation) on weather control. He wrote, for example, on the possible use of radio-controlled missiles and explosives to break up tornadoes and the use of "lightning of a certain kind" to trigger rainfall. Of the former he said, "It would not be difficult to provide special automata for this purpose, carrying explosive charges, liquid air or other gas, which could be put into action, automatically or otherwise, and which would create a sudden pressure or suction, breaking up the whirl. The missiles themselves might be made of material capable of spontaneous ignition." His proposal included a lengthy mathematical formula. As with much modern scientific exploration inspired by the maestro, the returns are still not in on weather changing. Scientist Frederic Jueneman, "Innovative Notebook" columnist for Industrial Research magazine, calls attention to the fact that Dr. Robert Helliwell and John Katsufrakis of Stanford University's Radio Science Laboratory, demonstrated that very low frequency radio waves can cause oscillations in the magnetosphere. With a 20-km antenna and a 5 kHz transmitter in the Antarctic, they found that the earth's magnetosphere could be modulated to cause high energy particles to cascade into our atmosphere, and by turning the signal on or off they could start or stop the energy flow. "The theoretical implication suggested by their work," says Jueneman, "is that global weather control can be attained by the injection of relatively small 'signals' into the Van Allen belts—something like a super-transistor effect." But Jueneman's speculations go further and are eminently worthy of Tesla: "If Tesla's resonance effects, as shown by the Stanford team, can control enormous energies by miniscule triggering signals, then by an extension of this principle we should be able to affect the field environment of the very stars in the sky...With godlike arrogance, we someday may yet direct the stars in their courses." No biography of Tesla would be complete without mention of his bright following of amateur physicists who build Tesla coils for the personal research, endeavoring to replicate his electrical magic; and the young inventors who pore over his basic patents and still find inspiration from them. Durlin C. Cox, a Wisconsin physicist who has pondered Tesla's published writings, has built two Tesla coils, the second of 10 million volts. The reasons: "My own personal interest in high voltage engineering, especially in the field of high frequency of transformers; to further my studies on the laboratory production of ball lightning; and because the University of Wisconsin at Madison asked me to submit a Tesla coil in their bi-annual Engineering Exposition in the spring of 1981." He and friends built one Tesla coil for a Hollywood studio for lightning affacts, which has been a common use of them. Electrical engineer Leland Anderson has summarized the major points in design that a coil builder might gain from reading lesia's Colorado Springs Notes: - The Q's of the primary and secondary must be as high a practicable. - 2. The O's of the primary and secondary should be equal - The length of the secondary winding should be one-quarter. - The technique of using an "extra coil" tank circuit (or a variation of it) in the secondary to magnify the voltage should be used. "With these criteria in mind," he says, "the builder will find that hundreds of turns are not necessary for the secondary winding to achieve high voltages." Last but not least, what about Tesla's death/disintegrator rays? Were his concepts sound? If they were found useful by the U.S. Army Air Force research team, whose top-secret project was rumored to have had the code name "Project Nick," it may be safely assumed that instead of being "destroyed," as reported, his papers are still highly classified. Dr. Trump's evaluation and Swezey's assessment of Tesla's 'secret weapons' have, however, received updated concurrence by Lambert Dolphin, assistant director of the Radio Physics Laboratory at SRI International, who has studied the inventor's work and his balllightning research for two decades. He points out that the fields of knowledge of both physics and electrical engineering have grown emonentially since about 1930. "Whole libraries are now required just to keep track of all the theory and experience that have unfolded since Tesla's time," he says. "Our mathematical and practical understanding of electricity, magnetism, electromagnetic theory, and radio communications has continued to grow explosively ever since 1950, or should I say 1970!" Tesla, Dolphin believes, "may have had intuitive insight into lasers and high-energy particle beams as well as ultra-high voltage phenomena, but now that we understand all the physics much more, we can easily evaluate many of his extravagant later-life claims." 10 In fact, there is no good evidence to suggest that Tesla anticipated lasers. His "teleforce rays" seem to have been concerned exclusively with high-energy particle bearss. We still do not know precisely how he intended them to work, although, says Dolphin, the available evidence suggests that Tesla may not have paid sufficient attention to how greatly such beams may be absorbed or dispersed by molecules and atoms in the air. In any case, even if we did understand Tesla's intentions more clearly, we should be hard put to compare them to the current state of the art, much of which is hidden under high security classifications. Nevertheless, Tesla's work with high voltages to accelerate charged particles does seem to have been decidedly in what is now the mainstream of physical research. "In this field," says Dolphin, "he anticipated modern linear and circular nuclear accelerators. Such machines today have energy levels of tens of billions of electron volts or at least 1,000 times greater energy levels than Tesla ever attained. "I am sure his magnifying transmitters were spectacular... He probably generated some interesting arcs and sparks that were what we now study as plasmas. The containment of plasmas is a huge area of modern physics. For example... to see if small amounts of matter can be turned into immense amounts of electrical power in carefully contained plasmas." But Tesla's early discoveries and inventions, he concludes, were indeed ingenious and ahead of their time." As this book goes to press, the Pentagon is studying the creation of a new branch of the armed services, to be known as the U.S. Space Command, whose primary arsenal will consist of laser and particle-beam weapons fired from 'space battleships." In prose not unlike Tesla's own, a Department of Defense fact sheet compare particle beams to "directed lightning bolts" —although without explicitly admitting that such a weapon has in fact been developed. It is difficult to assess the current state of the beam-weapons program because virtually everything about it is heavily classified. Apparently the technology involved has proved to be complex and difficult, raising questions about the project's feasibility, but many experts nevertheless seem to be hard at work on the problem. At the same time, the activities of the other nations in this area have been monitored carefully by agencies of the federal government. Indeed the possibility of creating a family of particle-beam weapons has been a subject of serious discussion in this country for at least the past twenty-five years, and it is, in my opinion, of no little significance that as long ago as 1947 the Military Intelligence Service identified the writings about a particle-beam among Tesla's scientific papers as being "of extreme importance." Since he had no laboratory in the later years of his life, Tesla was unable to develop his ideas. But it is undeniable that he described in general terms half a century ago what may prove to be one of the main weapons of the Space Age. And to the end of his days, Tesla the pacifist hoped that such knowledge would be used, not for war among Earthlings, but for interplanetary communication with our neighbors in space, of whose existence he felt certain. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_156_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # Bibliographical Essay Some of Tesla's own writing—lectures, articles, patents, papers, and letters—is now available in the United States. I-fis most important lectures and his brief autobiography, in bound volumes, are listed in the prologue to the reference notes. Citation of biographies of Tesla by O'Neill, Hunt, and Draper, and others may be found in the reference notes. The O'Neill manuscript and the Swezey Collection are to be found at the Smithsonian Institution Dibner Library Serious Tesla scholars will wish to consult the annotated Dr. Nikola Tesla Bibliography by J. T. Ratzlaff, and L. I. Anderson (San Carlos, California, Ragusan Press, 1979), for it contains some 3,000 sources of writings by and about Tesla. "Priority in the invention of Radio, Tesla u Marconi," by Letand Anderson may be obtained through the Antique Wireless Association, Monograph New Series No. 4. A new means of analyzing Tesla's inventions is provided in Dr. Nikola Tesla: Selected Patent Wrappers from The National Archives, by J. T. Ratzlaff (Millbrae, Ca., Tesla Book Co., 1980). These "file wrappers" provide explanations and correspondence between the patentee and the Patent Office, to overcome objections raised by the examiner. Tesla's Colorado Springs Notes, 1899-1900, published in 1978 by the Tesla Museum, is available through Nolit, Terazije, 27, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The Library of Congress Manuscripts Division contains microfilm correspondence between Tesla and George Scherff, Robert Underwood Johnson, Mark Twain, members of the Morgan family, George Westinghouse, and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. 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127 Pages Released - 127 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_161_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Federal Bureau of Investigation Mr. Edgar Hoover, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C. X My dear Mr. Hoover: I do not know whether or not the recent series of air crashes on the west coast has attracted the attention of your department, or whether, if investigation were indicated, the jurisdiction would be your own. An idea as to the cause of these crashes has occurred to me, however, and I thought it might bear a bit of checking up. If you will check newspaper files as far back as 1934, I believe you will find that the earliest of the unexplained (and apparently unexplainable crashes) occurred about that time. As I remember the events, it was during that year that three small planes exploded in the air over Texas and southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma. These crashes were not accounted for, either by subsequent investigation where the plane occupants were killed or by the experience of surviving plane occupants in one case. Following these tragedies there came a lapse of about a year, after which there occurred (likewise without apparent reason) the series of crashes which cost the lives of a senator, of Knute Rockne, and a number of others. All crashes again occurred in the South and Southwest. Again there was a lapse of time, this one not quite a year, and there started the worst series of air disasters the country has yet seen. One plane lost in the Southwest and not yet accounted for. One plane crashes into a mountainside within sight of its airport. And now the most recent incident, the falling of a United liner into San Francisco Bay while circling its airport, preparatory to landing. Now in this most recent incident, the exterience of the radio operator at the airport seems to me to be highly illuminating. This operator reported a soft buzz interrupting his communication with the Piner ... a loud roar such as produced by the worst imaginable static ... then silence. The plane had dropped into the bay like a plummet. lap Crack pilots do not suddenly become rank hams and bungle in handling a ship. Nor do the three motors (or even two) on the large airliners, stop simultaneously without extremely sufficient; reason. These things might happen once or even twice in a lifetime. They do not happen six and eight times a year. It is not logical that they should. To digress for a moment, I recall reading an article in a magazine a year or two ago, written by Nikola Tesla, the inventor. The article dealt with a new invention of Mr. Tesla's ... a giant induction coil which would project power (high voltage) through the atmosphere without the use of transmission wires. Mr. Tesla devoted some space to the possible social benefits that would result to the public should his invention be perfected and become practical. I have not heard of Mr. Tesla now in two or three years. Perhaps he has left the country. Perhaps he is still here. He might still be working on the invention described in the above-mentioned article. It might have been stolen from him. In any case, his views on the ideas presented by these two unconnected subjects, would he well worth while having. And if I had the money and the time, I should certainly make an effort to smoke him out myself. The thing is simply this: if one man can make an instrument that will project power through the air for even so short a distance as 500 yards (the then-practical limitations of Mr. Nikola's device) it is entirely possible for another to project power for several hundreds of miles. And the effect of such uncontrolled power on metallic objects in its path is entirely unpredictable. Please do not think me a "crank" letter writer. I have never before written a letter of this type to anyone. But the idea seems to me so within the bounds of possibility that I most sincerely feel it will bear some practical study. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_163_Picture_7.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FOIPA DELETED PAGE INFORMATION SHEET | 8 | Page(s) explain | withheld this delet | entirely a | at this locati | on in the file | One or more | of the | following statements. | where | indicated | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | --- | -------------------- | ------------------------ | ------------ | ---------------- | ---------------- | ------------- | -------- | ----------------------- | ------- | ----------- | Deletions were made pursuant to the exemptions indicated below with no segregable material available for release to you. | | (b)(1) | □ (b)(7)(A) | (d)(5) | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | | □ (b)(2) | □ (b)(7)(B) | □ (j)(2) | | | | | | □ (b)(3) | □ (b)(7)(C) | □ (k)(1) | | | | | | | □ (b)(7)(D) | $\\Box$ (k)(2) | | | | | | | □ (b)(7)(E) | □ (k)(3) | | | | | | | □ (b)(7)(F) | □ (k)(4) | | | | | | □ (b)(4) | (b)(8) | □ (k)(5) | | | | | | □ (b)(5) | □ (b)(9) | □ (k)(6) | | | | | | □ (b)(6) | | □ (k)(7) | | | | | | Information pertained only to a third party request is listed in the title only. | y with no reference to the | e subject of your request or the subject of your | | | | | | Documents originated with another Gover for review and direct response to you. | mment agency(ies). The | se documents were referred to that agency(ies) | | | | | · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · | Pages contain information furnished by to the releasability of this information for | another Government age ollowing our consultation | ncy(ies). You will be advised by the FBI as with the other agency(ies). | | | | | | Page(s) withheld inasmuch as a final release determination has not been made. You will be advised as to the disposition at a later date. | | | | | | | | Pages were not considered for release as they are duplicative of | | | | | | | | Page(s) withheld for the following reason(s): | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \# | The following number is to be used for re | eference regarding these | naecs. | | | | | \_ | 15-20211 2 | 27 | 16 | | | | XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_165_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Federal Bureau of Investigativ United States Department of Iustice Washington, D. C. 1381 January 11, 1943 MEMORANDUM FOR MR. LADD E: UNKNOW SUBJECT OF SEARCH OF NIKOLY ESSARCH Deceased ESFION 44 - N Mr. E.A. Tamm Mr. Clegg Mr. Glavin Mr. Ladd Mr. Nichols Mr. Rosen Mr. Tracy Mr. Carson Mr. Carson Mr. Carson Mr. Hendon Mr. Hendon Mr. Harbo Mr. Harbo Mr. Quinn Tamm Tele. Room Mr. Nease Miss Beahm In a teletype from the New York Office dated January 9, 1943, the Bureau's advice is requested as to what action should be taken in connection with this matter. It is to be noted that Tesla died January 7, 1948, and resided at the Votel New Yorker. He was one of the world's outstanding scientists in the electrical field and has been conducting many experiments in connection with wireless transmission of electrical power and what is commonly referred to as the "Death Ray". Save Mosanovich, a distant relative intensely disliked by Tesla, is taking steps to get possession of these important documents and plans. Kosenovich on January 7, 1943, with George Clark, in charge of the Museum and Laboratory for RCA, and Kenneth Swezey of Brooklyn, New York, entered Tesla's rooms in the Hotel New Yorker and, with the mid of a looksmith, broke into a safe containing some of Tesla's valuable papers, including important electrical formulae, designs, et cetera. Tesla is reported to have completed and perfected his experiments in the radio transmission of electrical power and to have conceived and designed a revolutionary type of tornedo not presently in use by any nation. It is reported that Kosanovich may possibly make this material available to the enemy. ## ACTION: I called Mr. Donegam of the New York Office at 12:30 P.M. and pointed out the apparent burglary violation on the part of Kosanovich. I told him this matter should be discreetly discussed with the State's Attorney in New York City with a view to locating Kosanovich and apprehending him on a burglary charge in order to determine the nature of the material he took from Tesla's sefe. I pointed out the necessity for the State's Attorney keeping any action most secret in view of the highly confidential nature of the class involved. I also suggested that the New York Office contact the Surrogate Court in order that Tesla's effects as well as the contents of his safety deposit boxes might not be entered without the presence of a Bureau Agent in order that we may endeavor to preserve the secrecy of any plans or items essential to the conduct of the war and national accounts. BUY BONDS STAMPS t. My 1-21-43 NE = 1943 57C FSP:AB January 21, 1943 SAC, New York Re: UHKNOWN SUBJECTS; SAVA KOSANOVICH; EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH OF MIKULA TESIA (Deceased ESPIONAGE (M) Dear Bir Reference is made to a teletype dated January 9, 1943, from the New York Field Office and to a phone conversation between Mr. J. B. Little of the Bureau and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Domegan on January 11, 1943. 9/5 Clark and Kenneth Swesey my have committed a burglary violation by entering Tesla's rooms after his death and particularly by using a locksmith to get into a safe containing some of Tesla's valuable papers. Mr. Donegan was advised this matter should be discreetly discussed with the State's Attorney, New York City, with a view to locating Rosanovich and apprehending him on a burglary charge, in order to ascertain the nature of the material taken from the safe of Nikola Tesla. It was also suggested that the New York Office contact the Surrogate Court, in order that Tesla's effects, as well as the contents of his safety deposit boxes, might not be entered without the presence of an Agent, in order that the secrecy of any plans or items essential to the conduct of the war or national security might be preserved. It was stated that Rosanovich might possibly make certain material available to the enemy. A review of the Bureau files reveals considerable information concerning Wikola Tesla and his inventions and it should be noted that one Wicola Tesla, who might have been identical with Wikola Tesla, made a speech at the Grange Hall, Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 4, 1922, Ender the auspices of the France of Soviet Bussia. | | of the France of Boviet Missia. | |---|---| | • | | | • . | E. A. Tamm. It further eppears that Sava Rosapovich may be identical with an | | • | Cleffedividual of the same name, who is a member of the Tugoulavian Government | | • | Glavin extle. An examination of the files reveals that he says been wich. | | • | Laddescribed as the Minister of Supply, arrived with other Tugoslevian Government | | ٠, | NichelFicials at Norfolk, Wirginiaf on September 4, 1941, on the 53 City of | | | RoseErster a British thip, from Cape Town on route to the United Hingdon wis | | | TracTashington and Canada o ad 200-32820-2) | | | Carson A JAN 22 1343 | | • | Coffey In another instance the name of Sava M. Kosanovich appears on the | | | Hendstationery of the Central and Eastern European Planning Board (Czechoslovakia, | | | aremer | | | 'cGuire Arrange theorem Ach | | | arbo | | | uinn Tamm\_ 14.8 OCT 26 1600 \[\] | | | PAA ( | | | Fig. to the | - 2 - Greece, Poland, Yugoslavia). On this letterhead Kosanovich is described as Chairman of the Board and Minister of State for Yugoslavia. It is stated that this Board is interested in "planning for postume Europe". (100-99042) In still another file it is disclosed that Sava Kossnovich, a Serbian, was a member of one of the Yugoslavian minority parties and when an emergency government to overthrow an alliance with the Axis was formed, he was included as an official. He is alleged to be a Communist and is said to receive \\$1,250 a month salary from the exiled Yugoslavian Covernment. He and other exiled government efficials are stated to use these large salaries to finance every Serbian paper in the United States except "Srbobran" published at Pittsburgh. (97-1340-18) No record of Kenneth Swesey could be located in the Bureau files from the information available. The foregoing information is being furnished for possible future reference in connection with this case and it is desired that the Bureau be kept promptly and currently informed of all developments in this case. Very truly yours, John Edgar Hoover Director | BALTIMORE, MARYLAND | 3-29-43 | PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE 3-0-13 | CHARLES J. FOSTER :MIR | |---|---|---|---| | SAVA M. KOSA Sava M. Coso | NOVICH, with a novitch | lias | INTERNAL SECURITY G. GUSTEDIAL DETENTION | | SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: | Subject SAVA State to Yug Resides Nava have turned of Alien Proper TESIA. ABE- United Nation citizen. | CSANOVICE Tien Gover 1, NYC tents ty batodian, SPANEL advised ns and desires - R U C - | ALL INCOMMATION CONTAINS HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BATE Use 12 - 13 - 166 | | DETAILS: It is to be noted the COSONOVITCH as carrie Mr. ABE SPANEL, President is presented. | at subject's co | AT DOVER, Dorrect name is eletter. | SAVA M. KOSANOVICH and not atex Corporation, advised that | | in exile and that he he had been a very go he believes that the | resides at the ood friend of I subject is a i | Navaro Hotel VICK TESIA who | New York City. He stated that has died recently and that | | APPROVED AND FORWARDED: | SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE | DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES | SF 11 | |---|---|---|---| | COPIES DESTROYED. | Done. | 65-147953 4 | RECORDE | | 148 OCT 26 STONIS R | EPORT 3 | \_ | | | 5 - Bureau 4 - NYC (2 G-2) 2 - Baltimore | AFR 2 2 1943 | 17/13 | | | 58APR 22191- | , , , , | | | 900 inventions and patents. SPANEL stated that at one time TESLA had an invention in which he was able to direct electrical current without the means of a conductor. He felt that this type of an invention would be of invaluable assistance to any country at war and for this reason felt that TESLA's inventions and patents should be put into the hands of proper Government officials, where they might be put to the best advantage for the United States. He does not believe the subject is engaged in any un-American activities and stated that he was more than willing to turn these patents and inventions over to the proper Government agency. He asserted that before TESLA died, he had spoken to the subject regarding his becoming a United States citizen and SPANEL believes that he is now taking the proper steps to achieve that end. SPANEL also stated that the subject had handed all of the effects of the deceased TESLA to the Alien Property Custodian in New York City. SPANEL advised that the day before TESLA died he had tried to get in touch with War Department officials in Washington in order that he might make available to them patents and inventions that he had developed. However, he was not able to get in touch with the proper authorities and he died the following day. SPANEL advised that the Yugoslavian Government had been sending TESLA approximately \\$600.00 per month for sometime prior to his death and this was described as being a sort of pension. SPANEL stated further that he has previously turned over information regarding the subject to Special Agent FRED B. CORNELL of the New York Field Division. He also admised that WALDEMER KEMPFERT, Science Editor, New York Times and BILL LAURENZ, Science Feature Writer, New York Times and the Science Editor of the Herald Tribune would be able to elaborate on some of the accomplishments of NICK TESLA and that the June 1900 issue of the Century Magazine also contained an article relating to the inventions of TESLA. SPANEL also stated that he believed BLOYCE FITZGERALD, Pierport Hotel, Brooklyn, New York, Secretary to TESLA, has been contacted by Special Agent CORNELL and that if the New York Office wishes to contact SPANEL he may be reached at his home \- REFERRED UPON COMPLETION TO THE OFFICE OF ORIGIN - ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_171_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) FLW:lem 2:45 p.m. Leral Bureau of Investigation ted States Department of Instice Mashington A. O July 17, 1943 MEMORANDUM FOR RE: SAVA KOSANOVICH INTERNAL SECURITY (G) Mr. Coffey Mr. Hendon Mr. Kramer Mr. McGuire Mr. Harbo Mr. Quinn Tamm Tele. Room Mr. Nease stating on the previous afternoon telephoned that office through the assistance of the New York office telephoned. Anown lecturer, author and traveler. stated that she would like to be interviewed concerning certain information she possessed relative to your slavian activities and, in particular, data which she has concerning asken by the name of Rosanovich, whom she believes to be an enemy asent. stated she was preparing statements of fact which she intends to turn over to the Stated she was preparing statements of fact which she intends to turn over to the Stated she was preparing statements of fact which she intends to turn over to the Stated she was preparing statements of fact which she intends to turn over to the Stated she was prepared to the preparation of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the service of the ser CULT - DIE Agent Parker stated is mentioned in two teletypes which the New York office forwarded to the Bureau under cutes of January 9 and 12, 1943, in the case entitled UNKNOWN SUBJECTS, FROTPARENT, EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH OF NICOLA TESTA, EMPERABLY, ESPECIABLY, the information contained in these teletypes is that shortly after Nicola Tesla, one of the world's outstanding scientists in the electrical field, died in his hotel room at New York City on January 8, 1943, Sava Kosanovich, a distant relative, and other individuals entered his room and opened a safe, examining certain materials which he mossessed. On January 8, Mr. L. M. C. Smith of the Department advised Mr. Tarm that he was concerned about the possibility of enemy agents confiscating some of the tranks of Tesla and that apparently the Alien Property Custodian was taking some action in this matter. Inashuch as the matter was being handled by the Alien Property Custodian's office, the Bureau did not conduct any individuals into this situation. It is also noted that on July 14, ar. Junes Sharpe of the Special Lar Policies That of the De partners for a section of the Department for a section of the Junes described as the Fa-th ister of the Yuposlav Government in Exile by one This letter, which bharpe underston and it April 7, 1943, was of a threatening nature. COPIES DESTROYED 148 OCT 26 1960 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED OF COMPANY DATE 4-18-52 BYSPLETCOM # 291860 67C 170 BUY STAMPS 57 AUG 4/3 \[543\] . " A newspaper article which hr. Sharpe also exhibited revealed that was arraigned in local court in new York City on charged with sending a threatening letter through the mail to Mosanovich. In connection with this trial, Agent Parker stated that the case has been postponed for six months. In the letter which wrote Mosanovich, he makes reference to and instructs that Mosanovich discontinue his attacks on her. At the time ar. Sharpe called at the bureau, he pointed out the strong animosity and dissension which exists between the various nationalist groups in this country because of their conflicting opinions as to the type of postuar government voice should be set up in the shaller countries in Europe and mentioned that hosanovich and have opposite political theories. He also mentioned that rule is one of the greatest contributors to dissension between the Serbs in this country and has been active in publicizing her views concerning porture, erbia. Forestly the purely instructed the Pitisburg's office to interview bencembing certain statements which are has been making relative to the release and to date, this interview has not been consumpated. # ACT LOE: Introduct as the selection of the land control to the Hew York office the rule octable in the matter she desired to the available the test that the testieves appearable in the expect, it is defined that an interview with the should be had. It is fest that this interview should be covered out as soon as possible by two vell-qualified agents of the Washington Field Office, because of her provinced and positions where There is attached for your approval a letter directed to the hashington Fleid Office requesting that this interview be conducted and also instructing that she be interrogated concerning the other matter referred to above, insulon as the Pittsburgh office has not as yet covered this interview. ) ( , , , , 1. L. VELCA ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_173_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO FILE NO. 65-12290 HER stebts Tederal Bureau of Envestigatio united States Department of Justice New York 7, New York ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_173_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) - ZLE HRIZE SINGG'MI BURNOW STELLEGIS; SAVA~EOSANOVICH; Experiments and research of NIKOLA TESLA (deceased ESPIONACE - M Director, FB Than Sir. Reference is made to the Bureau letter dated January 21, 1943, which bore a caption similar to that mentioned above. The referenced letter dealt with the death, on January 7, 1943, of the famous inventor, NIKOLA TOSLA, who as well as being the inventor of Alternating Current, perfected many electrical devices. He is also credited with having developed the so called Meath ray which would safeguard any country from attack by air. of New York City furnished information of a nonspecific nature indicating that it was his belief that persons sympathetic to Russia were making an effort to secure the effects of NTKOIA TESMA in order to salvage therefrom any models or designs of possible military value. Claimed that he heard that ABRAHAM N. SPANT, President of the MATIONAL LATTER COMPONATION, of Dover, Delaware was the motivating influence behind this attempt to obtain TESLA'S papers which are presently held in storage at the MANUATTAN STORAGE MARRHOUSE in New York City. Oncoined to return to the New York Field Division shortly after his initial visit and furnish further and more specific information to support his claims. WELOSURE ATTACHED (127) He was not heard from again, however, until September 27, 1945, at which time he furnished the following additional information: He said that a boyhood chum of his from Wichita, Kansas, BLOYCA FITZGERAID, had been TESLA'S protege and one of the inventors few confidents. According to FITZGERAID who is now an Army Trivate stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, is a brilliant 29 year old scientist who spent endless hours with TESLA prior to the latters death, during which time TESLA explained to him most secret experiments. met TESLA in November 1942, but he had been corresponding with the latter since 1935. According to the informant, FITZGERAID had developed some sort of anti-tank gun, the details of which he presented to TISLA who made certain corrections in design and specifications to further perfect the weapon. related that sometime in December 1942, when STEPCHALD was attending a meeting of the AUTRICH SOUTHY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, he made the acquaintance os AFRAHAN SPACE who became interested in DITUGERALD'S RETURN TO 0/5 1 1111115 gun. SPANEL offered financial sid to FITZGERALD and the two were in the closest contact with each other for a considerable period of time. said that FITZGERALD had lined up a deal for the purchase of the gun by the REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, but for some reason SPANEL blocked this deal by reaching top men in the REMINGTON COMPANY. SPANEL is then reported as having obtained a job for FITZGERALD with the HIGGENS SUIP BUILDING COMPANY in New Orleans and negotiated a contract with FITZGERALD for the purchase and manufacture of the gun in a manner which would return 80% of the profits derived to SPANEL. stated that in November of 1943, for some unknown reason but which he believes to be attributable to SPANEL, FITZGERALD was fired by the HIGGENS ODMPANY. In September of 1944, FITZGERALD was inducted into the Army and for a considerable period of time was located at an ordinance experimental station at Elgin Field, Florida. Stated that at the present time FITZGERALD is engaged in a highly secret experimental project at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. In spite of his rank of Private, FITZGERALD actually is the director of this research and is working with many top young scientists who were inducted into Army from leading industrial posts. According to FITZGERAID is presently working on the perfection of TESLA'S "death ray" which in FITZGERALD'S opinion is the only possible defense against offensive use by another nation of the Atomic Bomb. In this connection, it is noted that the New York Times of September 22, 1940 in an article entitled SCIENCE IN THE NEWS" by WILLIAM AND LAURENCE, Science Editor states that TESLA devulged to LAURENCE the fact that he had developed a "death ray" or "teleforce" which TESLA claimed would melt airplane motors at a distance of 250 miles, so that actually an invisible Chinese Wall would be built around a country against attack by an enemy air force. According to the article in the TIMES, this electrical device would operate by the generation of power from a plant, a number of which might be located strategically along our coast lines and the beam from which would melt any engine within a radius of 250 miles. stated that during FITZGERALD'S acquaintance with SPANEL, FITZGERALD had told SPANEL of his associations with TESLA and had apparently described to SPANEL, some of TESLA'S most secret work. believes that SPANEL, who he claims is definitely pro-Russian in attitude, is now attempting through legal procedure to secure custody of TESLA'S effects which are now held by TESLA'S only heir, one SAVA KOSANOVICH, who is presently in Yugoslavia occupying some governmental post. It will be recalled that in an article published on March 15, 1945, by the FINO FEATURE SYNDICATE INCORPORATED, WESTBROOK FEGLER charged SPANEL with spreading pro-communist and pro-Russian propaganda through his full page advertisement in the newspapers, which SPANEL characterized as being published for the INTERNATIONAL LATER PROPRATION, as a public service feature. It is also interesting to observe that in the New York Times of October 2, 1945, an article appears which states that SPANEL is suing the KING FTATURE SYMPLOATE INCORPORATED for six million dollars alleging the column by FIGHTR to have been liabelous. | |S 133703 stated that through FITZGERALD he too had met SPANEL and from this personal acquaintance he formed the opinion that SFANEL was definitely a communist and is probably one of the financial supporters of the Communist Party in this country. Stated that SPANEL was born in Russia, but is now an American citizen. He also charged that SPANEL exerted tremendous political influence in Washington, D. C., and said that one of SPANEL'S closest political friends was HENRY WALLACE. advised that two agents from Army Intelligence contacted and stated that in an investigation to determine the qualifications of FITZCERALD for a commission, they had developed information indicating that SPANEL was definitely endeavoring to secure possession of FESLA'S effects. indicated that Army Intelligence was pursuing an investigation along these lines in an attempt to ascertain the complete story in this regard. For the Pureau's information, was born on at is and family resides in the is a graduate of and that seem nad been and was in, charge of the at present is nowever, he appears to have ample funds since he travels all over the country and resides in reputable hotels. Just recently he stated that he had from Washington to the West Coast as He advised that it is his desire to cooperate with PITZGERALD in securing He advised that it is his desire to cooperate with FITZGERALD in securing legal possession of TESLA'S effects in order that a memorial foundation may be established for the protection of TESLA'S experiments and for the preservation of the inventors memory. stated that FTTTGTRALD had interested a group of young Army scientists now working with him at Wright Field in this foundation, and their ultimate goal is to secure the support of a wealthy backer in order that, a foundation might be established and that a sort of "idea factory" might result. He said that they intended to contact HENRY FORD, SR., to solicit his aid in this regard. related that probably the greatest idea of TESLA'S was that involving the wireless transmission of electrical power. He claimed that TESLA had performed a successful experiment many years ago at Pikes Peak, at which time he harnassed local current from the sun's rays which he built up into a huge potential of electrical energy said that according to TITZCTPALD, if this idea could be furthered, all electrical energy to operate the world's machinery might be gotten absolutely free rather than by the costly method with which electrical power is presently generated. He said that his idea was to conduct further experiments along this line in China where the need for electrical power is very great. Inquiry was made at the MANHATTAN STORAGE WAREHOUSE in New York City, and it was determined that the effects of NIKOLA TESLA are contained in some 67C 200003 3. 70 75 packing cases and trunks and are presently under seal by the New York State Department of Taxation. It was learned that the rental for this storage, which approximates \\$15 per month, is being paid by one CHARLOTTE MUZAR, 134 East 63rd Street, New York, New York, who is listed as the agent for SAVA KOSANOVICH. in New York City, concerning an investigation conducted by this office at the time of TECLA'S death, and at which time the latters property was placed under seal by the United States Government. Vr. WALTER CORSUCH, Chief Investigator for the Alien Property Custodian, provided a cover letter and a summary of materials owned by TESLA at the time of his death which was examined by JOHN G. RUMP, of the office of SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH & DEVILOP-MENT. Mr. GORSUCH also stated that his file in this matter reflected that on the night TESLA died his safe was forced open by a representative of the SHORE & WALKER SAFE COMPANY. It was Mr. GORSUCH'S belief that a Mr. SWEEZEY who is believed to be one of the editors of the POPULAR SCIENCE MACAZINE was present in TESLA'S room shortly after the safe was opened. These individual were UTILIS GEORGE, EDWARD PALMER, and JOHN J. ORBETT. There are enclosed herewith two typewritts, copies of the report by Yr. TRUIP of the ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN reflecting the findings of Wr. TRUIP, following his examination of TRSLA'S effects. There is also enclosed herewith a photostatic copy of a list of persons associated with ETKOLA TRSLA. This latter item was furnished by The above information is furnished for the Eureau's information, and no investigation is being conducted by this office. Very truly yours, Address writer at: Nass I Inst. of Tech. Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Walter Gorsuch, Alien Property Custodism, 120 Broadway, New York, New York, Dear Sir: At your request and that of Mr. Joseph T. King of the Washington office of the Alien Property Custodian, I have examined the private papers, writings, and other property of the late Dr. Nikola Tesla with the view to determining both their possible usefulness to this country in its war effort and the possible hazard attendant on their falling into unfriendly hands. This examination was made at the Manhattan Warehouse, 52nd Street, New York City, on January 26-27, and included all of the notes and material in Dr. Tesla's immediate possession at the time of his death and now in the custody of your office. For reasons indicated below, no investigation was made of material in trunks which had remained untouched in the basement of the New Yorker Hotel for ten years prior to Dr. Tesla's death. As a result of this examination, it is my considered ominion that there exist among Dr. Tesla's papers and possessions no cientific notes, descriptions of hitherto unrevealed methods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be of significant value to this country or which would constitute a hasard in unfriendly hands. I can therefore see no technical or military reason why further custody of the property should be retained. For your records, there has been removed to your office a file of various written material by Dr. Tesla which covers typically and fairly completely the ideas with which he was concerned during his later years. These documents are enumerated and briefly abstracted in the attachment to this letter. W It should be no discredit to this distinguished engineer and scientist whose solid contributions to the electrical art were made at the beginning of the present century to report that his thoughts and efforts during at least the past fifteen years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional character—often concerned with the producation and wireless transmission of power—but did not include new sound, workable principles or methods for realising such results. Very truly yours, JOHN G. TRUMP, Technical Aide, Division 14, NDRC. Enclosure, JOT/G # ABSTRACTS OF DR. NIKOLA TESLA'S WRITINGS RETAINED AS EXHIBITS FOR THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN 1 On January 26 and 27, 1943, an examination was made of the technical papers of Dr. Nikola Tesla which, after his decease, had been stored in the Manhattan Warehouse in New York City. This examination was made for the purpose of determining if any ideas of significant value in the present United States war effort could be found among his possessions. Participating in this examination were Mr. John C. Newington, New York Office of the Alien Property Custodian; Mr. Charles J. Hedetniemi, Washington Office of the Alien Property Custodian; Dr. John G. Trump, Office of Scientific Research and Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Willis George, Office of Naval Intelligence, Third Naval District; Edward Palmer, Chief Yeoman, USNR; John J. Corbett, Chief Yeoman, USNR. 2\. The following papers, which are regarded as typical of Nikola Tesla's writings and thoughts in the period of 1925 to 1942, were removed for the purpose of record and are listed below in the random order in which they were found, together with a brief individual abstract. # Exhibit A \*\*Possibilities of Electrostatic Generators\* - an undated article probably written about 1934 discussing the possibilities, as a source of high-voltage D-C power, of the Van de Graaff type of electrostatic belt generator. The article states correctly the electrostatic principles employed in this device and points out that such generators are not suitable for commercial high-power applications, though of undoubted scientific value. Tesla's wireless tower, erected in 1902 on Long Island, is stated in this memorandum to have been charged to 30 million volts. # Exhibit B \*Reactive Forces of Glycerine and Dynamite" - an undated memorandum involving some calculations of the explosive power of certain compounds and then deviating to a discussion of the possibility of transmitting power by mechanical vibrations along the earth's crust. # Exhibit C \*Process of De-Gassifying, Refining, and Purifying Metals\* a 41-page memorandum probably written about 1930 dealing with the above subject and proposing new theories of capillarity and surface tension. This correspondence indicated that this had been submitted to various industrial companies. # Exhibit D wReply to Amtorg re 'the generation of high-voltage and the acceleration of charged particles'" - This document, dated November 8, 1935, snswers questions raised by Soviet engineers and scientists regarding Tesla's proposal of May 16, 1935. From this answer, it is deduced that the proposal concerned the generation of high voltages by electrostatic means. These means consisted of a high-voltage terminal presumably supported on an insulating column and charged by a gaseous charge conveying medium passing between ground and terminal. The ideas contained in this memorandum are fairly similar to the belt-conveyor electrostatic generator methods proposed by Van de Graaff and do not appear to offer any umusual features. # Exhibit E Motions at Distance" - This document, in the form of a letter dated June 12, 1940, to the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, proposes a method for the transmission of large amounts of power over vast distances by means of mechanical vibrations of the earth's crust. The source of power is a mechanical or electromechanical device bolted to some rocky protuberance and imparting power at a resonance frequency of the earth's crust. The proposed scheme appears to be completely visionary and unworkable. Westinghouse's reply indicates their polite rejection of this idea. # Exhibit F \*New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy through Natural Media" - This undated document by Tesla describes an electrostatic method of producing very high voltages and capable of very great power. This generator is used to accelerate charged particles, presumably electrons. Such a beam of high-energy electrons passing through air is the "concentrated non-dispersive" means by which energy is transmitted through natural media. As a component of this apparatus there is described an open-ended vacuum tube within which the electrons are first accelerated. # Exhibit F (cont.) The proposed scheme bears some relation to present means for producing high-energy cathode rays by the cooperative use of a high-woltage electrostatic generator and an evacuated electron acceleration tube. It is well known, however, that such devices, while of scientific and medical interest, are incapable of the transmission of large amounts of power in non-dispersed beams over long distances. Tesla's disclosures in this memorandum would not enable the construction of workable combinations of generator and tube even of limited power, though the general elements of such a combination are succinctly described. # Exhibit G A circular by Carol Bird, dated September 10, 1938, entitled Tremendous New Power Soon to Be Unleashed. This describes in popular style some biographical information concerning Nikola Tesla and some ideas for the transmission of power on which he is stated to be working. It appears that the method of transmission is by the mechanical resonance method outlined in Exhibit F. above. # Exhibit H This exhibit consists of a series of letters to representatives of the British Government dated August 28, 1936; October 26, 1937; December 15, 1937; and April 5, 1938. It includes a reply dated January 7, 1938, from the British Government. These letters offer to the British Government, for a fee, the disclosure of a means for accelerating to high energies minute particles. Such beams would constitute a death ray capable of the protection of Great Britain from air attack. The method proposed is essentially that described in Exhibit F above. Following the initial letter dated August 28, 1936, the subsequent letters attempt to clear up the \*misunder-standings\* of the British representatives and to expedite their acceptance of the Tesla proposal. The British reply dated January 7 is a polite expression of disinterest in the proposal. # Exhibit I An undated memorandum written after Tesla's 79th birthday describing several discoveries which he believed he had made. The first related to a dynamic theory of gravity which is described as not yet completed. The second stated as a physical truth the belief that "there is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment". This second statement, which is discussed at length in this and other writings of Tesla, indicates his disbelief in the existence of atomic or nuclear energy. # Exhibit J MENUTATION OF Producing Powerful Radiations" - an undated memorandum in Tesla's handwriting describing "a new process of generating powerful rays or radiations". The memorandum reviews the works of Lenard and Crookes, describes Tesla's work on the producation of high voltages, and finally in the last paragraph gives the only description of the invention contained in the memorandum. This description is as follows: "Briefly stated, my new simplified process of generating powerful rays consists in creating through the medium of a high-speed jet of suitable fluid a vacuous space around a terminal of a circuit and supplying the same with currents of the required tension and volume" # Exhibit K A letter to prospective licensees on telegeodynamics dated December 27, 1941. This is a single-page letter with the type-written signature of Dr. Nikola Tesla, in which he addresses himself to the prospective licensees of telegeodynamics, states that over a half million dollars was spent on this development with funds contributed by the Morgans, Crawford, J. J. Astor, and Fish, as well as commercial organizations, and states this to be a new art with which "unvelievable wonders can be achieved". # Exhibit L Tesla's New System of Fluid Propulsion". This is an undated memorandum of about 20 typewritten pages describing a system of fluid propulsion in which the conversion from hydraulic to rotary mechanical power is achieved by passing the fluid between flat circular disks, shaft-mounted and enclosed in a casing. This memorandum written about 1925 describes in general terms a kind of hydraulic turbine which seems practical. There is copious evidence among the other of Tesla's papers that this idea was generally disclosed to appropriate individuals and that it received favorable comment and possibly some use. Some of these comments are contained on the last page of the exhibit. # Exhibit M "The Power of the Future" - a memorandum apparently written by Tesla and probably in response to a request from some popular science group for an opinion as to the source of future power. This memorandum reviews the gradual evolution of power sources. It discusses in some detail the possibility of atomic power and states as his opinion that atomic power is not feasible. The discussion of atomic energy is apparently confused to some extent # Exhibit M (cont.) with planetary energy. The article further discusses the subject of wind, tides, lightning, and water power as a source of commercial energy. The last sentence of this memorandum states: "With my wireless system, it is practicable to transmit electrical energy at a distance of twelve thousand miles with a loss not exceeding 5 per cent. I can conceive of no advances which would be more desirable at this time and more beneficial to the further progress of mankind." This memorandum constitutes an interesting generalized discussion of the various sources of power. It is qualitatively correct for the most part except probably in that portion which deals with atomic power. # Exhibit N "The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires" - an article by N. Tesls in the Electric World, March 5, 1904, pages 429-431. A general, somewhat biographical article on Tesla's early work with some speculation on the possibility of long-distance wireless transmission of large amounts of energy. # Exhibit C article by N. Tesla in Telegraph and Telephone Age, October 16, 1927, pages 457 and 460. An article which traces the early work on the production and transmission of electromagnetic radiations, describes Tesla's efforts to increase the amount of power which can be transmitted without wires and concludes with a proposed World System for the wireless transmission of both power and communications. No workable disclosure of a means for accomplishing this is included, and such generalities as suggest the approach which Tesla had in mind do not seem capable of accomplishing the desired result. # Exhibit P "Interview with Dr. Nikola Tesla" by Alden P. Armagnac for opular Science Monthly, May 24, 1928. An Il-page memorandum written in popular conversational style describing an interview with Dr. Tesla and reporting his present work. This report includes statements on a new airplane, on rocket ships, on the wireless transmission of power, on a world system plan for the transmission of speech and television, on the impracticability of harnessing atomic energy, on radio activity, and on the acceleration of charged particles, such as cathode rays, by high voltages. # Exhibit Q An agreement dated April 20, 1935, between Nikola Tesla and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, in which Tesla agreed to supply plans, specifications, and complete information on a method and apparatus for producing high voltages up to fifty million wolts, for producing very small particles in a tube open to air, for increasing the charge of the particles to the full voltage of the high potential terminal, and for projecting the particles to distances of a hundred miles or more. The maximum speed of the particles was specified as not less than 350 miles per second. The receipt of \\$25,000 fee for this disclosure was acknowledged in this agreement, which was signed by Nikola Tesls and by A. Bartanian of the Amtorg Trading Corporation. The method referred to in this agreement is apparently that described in Exhibit F, above. It is probable that Exhibit D, above, is an effort by Tesla to clear up the questions raised by Soviet engineers after the subject disclosure had been made. There is no evidence that the inventions and information referred to in this agreement are other than those described in a number of Tesla's papers and published articles. It should therefore be expected, and it is substantiated by Exhibit D, that this disclosure subsequently proved unworkable. An examination of several items of scientific apparatus among the Tesla efforts at the Manhattan Warehouse and in a deposit box at the Governor Clinton Hotel showed those to be standard electrical measuring instruments in common use several decades ago. > JOHN G. TRUMP, Technical Aide, Division 14, NDRC. Mass. Inst. of Tech.; Cambridge, Mass., Jamary 30, 1943. JOT/G Kerrigan, William - 89 Logan St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Employed as building supt. Washington Market, Brooklyn Kr. Kerrigan was the messenger boy for Postal request, he continued his services as special the week prior to his death and has much valuable data and information concerning Tesla's contacts. I first met Kr. Kerrigan at the Frank Campbell funeral church. Baumgarten, Charles - Room 1203, Municipal Bldg., Eudget Bureau, N.Y.C. Mr. Baumgarten was met at the funeral and had lunch with him. Mr. Baumgarten knew Tesla and his connections with the Queensboro Bridge and many of Skerritt, Miss Dorothy F. - Office, Biddle Purchasing Company, 107 Chambers Street, N.Y.C. - No. 2-5500. Residence: Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey Miss Skerritt was secretary to Doctor Tesla from 1912\\nuntil 1922. She is familiar with the Marconi patent suit, many of Tesla's scientific theories; knows the names of some of his friends; has witnessed M.Y.C. Miss Skerritt also knows that between 1916 Chicago and may have material there. She can give account of many of his deals with various firms. Merrington, Marguerite - 46 W. 97th Street, N.Y.C. - Riverside 9-8186 Niss Merrington has known Doctor Tesla since 1895 and has been a guest of his on several occasions at the old Waldorf Hotel and at his laboratory in 1894 lighting effects without filaments and his radio controlled boat demonstrations. She also recalls means of a small instrument. She has witnessed many laboratory experiments including power transmission and also metallic plate suspension. He had also talked about communication with mars to her. Wrs. Agnes, J - 327 E. 52 St. N.Y.C. - Plaza 3-2341 (doceased) (1936) who was a close friend of Tesla for many years. Mrs. Holden first met Mr. Tesla at her father's home when she was about 12 years old. Which published many articles regarding Tesla. Which appeared in the April, 1895 issue of the Century Magazine and the others appeared in "Poems of 50 years, 1880-1930 by Robert Underwood Johnson. Mrs. Holden has been in close contact with Poctor Tesla and has witnessed many of his demonstrations including that of the oscillator of 1899. She recalls the near destruction of the laboratory. Since "World II", she has talked with Poctor Tesla with regard to instruments of war and he told her in response to her inquiry regarding tanks recently that he could stop them or the war. She recalls his discussions with her and her father regarding transmissions of power and Mars, etc. She says that she knows that Tesla has things for our Government only. Ars. Holden witnessed many of the experiments and was present at the radio-controlled boat demonstration many years ago. Lowenstein, Fritz (Deceased) Erother, Emil Lowenstein - 182 Bennett Ave. N.Y.C. - Wa-7-4519. Business (Artist) 420 Lexington Ave. N.Y.C. - Mu-5-8065. Mr. Fritz Lowenstein was the assistant to Dr. Tesla during his historic laboratory\\nexperiments in Colorado Springs in 1899. He was also to have appeared as a defense witness for Tesla in his Marconi patent suits during 1915, but for some reason failed to testify. The brother, Emil, address above, knows of the relatives of Mr. Fritz Lowenstein who have documents pertaining to the 1898 experiments. (Mr. G.H. Clark provided information re documents and Lowenstein) (Mr. Czito mentioned Lowenstein). Mr. Emil Lowenstein is not on friendly terms with the entire Lowenstein family and a Mr. Massey, 52 Vanderbilt Ave. Can Shirk, A.J. - Inventor's Model Shop, 70 West 100th St. N.Y.C. Ac-2-9466. Fr. Shirk has met Tesla on 3 occasions and appears to know quite a bit about his model work and laboratory developments, particularly within recent years. His exact status can only be determined by another call or exact-status interview. He is attempting to determine the address of a Laboratory that existed at about. Arbus, Furiel, Miss - Res: 600 W. 13th St. Tel: Vanderbilt 4-9816, Bus: WPB, Chanin Ruilding, N.Y.C. Vies Arbus has several photographs of Tesla and was a secretary to him before Miss Dorothy Skerritt, 1.e. before 1912. She has not been\\ninterviewed except by phone. Berg, Seigurd (or Sigmund) - Copenhagen, Denmark. Business: Paris, France. He has not been interviewed. See Mr. E. Fiensen of the International Latex Corp., Dover, Del. for information. Mrs Berg was a close friend of Tesla in Europe and mentioned other members of his family; Mr. Ernest and Mr. Esko Berg are found in correspondence from Mrs. B.A. Phirend Behrend, Bernard, A. Ers. - Rond Point, Liken, S.C. Phone 135. Mr. Behrend and Mrs. Heaviside were very close friends of Dr. Tesla. Mrs. Behrend has many notes and technical data concerning Tesla's work either stored near Boston, Mass or at Aiken, S.C. Mr. Behrend was Chief Engineer for Westinghouse and supervised the construction of a great number of Tesla's motors and generators. He is author of "The Industion Motor" pub. 1921 in which a considerable portion is devoted to Tesla's work Boskan, Slavko, Kr. Engineer and author, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Kr. Boskan published a book in Dresden, Germany entitled "Nikola und Hs Werk" in 1932 (Approx) Kr. Boskan was a close friend of Mr. Tesla and has considerable engineering data in his possession according to Kr. Sweezy. Denton, Clifford, Mr. - Science Reporter. New York Daily News, 220 E. 42nd St. N.Y.C. Mu-2-1234 Ext. 557 Mr. Denton has been present at many of Dr. Tesla's press releases and has many notes regarding the conferences. He said that he gave most of his data to Mr. Wm. Lawrence of Brown Brothers (Ar. Arthur Brown) 220 W. 42 St. Bryant 9-4742. R.y.C. Prown Roothers are photographers and have a large number of photos of Tesla and his laboratory equipment from which may be deduced mechanical construction details. High Frequencies currents" It is important to locate Mr. Curtis because he discussed many of Tesla's problems and appears to have technical data regarding his work. Cramps, Shipbuildin; Co. Philadelphia, P Mr. Crosby, former Sec. of Commerce, and Er. Cramps became interested in the radio controlled boat of Dr. Tesla about 35 year ago. Negotiations were carried on between Dr. Tesla and the above executives. This It may be well to contact Mr. Crosby's relatives or Mr. Cramps. Crito, Julius - 4629 193rd St. Flushing, Long Island. Tel: Plushing 7-4711. Mr. Crito was mentioned to me first by Mr. Kosenovich and later Mr. Spanel had Mr. Crito was mentioned to me first by Mr. Kosenovich and later Mr. Spanel had received his name from Mr. Wm. Lawrence. Mr. Crito is a machinest by trade and worked for Dr. Tesla as such from 1915 to 1929. He was particularly concerned with the construction of a turbin, and a fountal developed for a Mr. Hatmaker. Among other things, he worked on an extractor for sulpher from sea water and mechanical device for measuring the resistance of a ball bearing. He has little data left of Dr. Tesla's work but has a very good memory. He mentioned the Boston gear Zumbach Machinery Co. and Mr. Barney Levi. Mr. Czito's father also worked for Dr. Tesla in 1894 and was with him at his Eouston St. laboratory. Mr. Czito, Sr. accompanied Dr. Tesla to Colorado Springs\\nin 1899. Mr. Czito has a very good memory and can furnish additional information. He has discovered a photograph showing all of the employees of the old Tesla laborator He worked for Dr. Tesla on the development of a speedometer for the Waltham Watch Co. Clark, Mr. Geo. H. - Res: 349 E. 49th St. Tel: E1-5-1603. Bus: RCA -fg. Co (Library) 25 Beaver St. N.Y.C. Room 514 A, Tel: Hanover 2-1829. Ext 123. kr. G.H. Clark was contacted by virtue of a call placed in December to Kr. Oran Dunlap of the RCA Corp. Mr. Clark has a very large collection of personal data pertainin to radio pioneers, particularly Marconi. His business has been to collect such data The has rever net Dr. Tesla but he knows of his work and is interested in collecting historical data for preservation. Mr. Clark Crosby, Former Sec. of Commerce, Washington, D. C. (address unknown See Cranps and Kerr Netzel, Tailors - 2 E. 44th t. Furry Hill 2-6757. N.Y.C. This firm was tailor for Dr. Tesla throughout most of his life and may have \\ninformation with regard to his friends, French, Shriner, and Urner- Shoe Shops. 250 Ladison Ave. Lurry Hill 2-0319. Dr. Tesla purchased most all of his shoes from this firm for the past 50 years and data may be gathered from their records such as mailing Cornels, Fredrick C. F.B.I. Office Federal Court House Eldg. 12th Floor ? Kr. Cornels was informed of the possible value of Dr. Tesla's data immediately following his death. So far as known, no action was taken. Commercial Photostat Company, 11th Floor, Woolworth 5ldg. N.Y.C. Firm which made photostats of Tesla patents for Kerr. Cramm, Ernest R. to contact call Kr. Clark of FCA. Kr. Cramm knows a great deal about Dr. Teslate relations with the RCA Company. Kr. Cramm was a former employee of RCA. Gilder, Rodman - 108 E. 82nd St. N.Y.C. Butterfield 8-7397. Son of Richard Watson Gilder, former Fub. of Century Magazine. Mr. Gilder knows of some old Tesla manuscripts and what has happened to his files of the Century Magazine at its dissolution. This name was received from Denmark, Lt. 1270 6th Ave. Room 811, Circle 6-1484 (restricted number) N.Y.C. U.S. Army Int. G2. Lt. Denmark and his superiors were notified by Mr. Spanel and Washington with regard to Tesla devices. Lt. Denmark was interviewed personally with a group of 4 other officers\\nincluding Mr. Pitchen. Kirsch, Leon - a former draftsman for Tesla - name from Liss Dorothy Skerri This party should be located because he had a lot of confidential data of Tesla's and made many drawings according to Liss Skerritt. to 1912. Her present address is unknown and she was not in good favor with Dr. Tesla, according to Viss Skerritt, the informant. CosPassos, John - Attorney, and very good friend of Dr. Tesla. Address un Wanted Tesla to stop the Spanish American War Formerly lived in New York. The Gentleman was expensively dressed and wore frocked coat similar to Tesla with bright checkered vest. Had office in vicinity of 200 Broadway, as late as 1920. Lr. DosPassos is believed thave engineering data of Tesla's according to Thomas Syrne. Deforrest, Dr. Lee- 6190 Hollywood Blvd. Los Argent, Calif. Dr. DeForrest is a lalive and was a friend of Dr. Tesla in the late 90 and early 1800's. There is a possibility that he may be able to assist in interpreting Tesla's works. preting Tesla's works. preting Tesla's works. publiler, William - President of Cornell Dubilier Co., Vanufacturers of CCondensers. Mr. G.E. Clark Informs that Wr. Dubilier hasin his possession some of the original notes of the 1899 Fradenburg, A.E. A reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle during 1930 who had numerous contacts with Tesla with regard to Power Transmission. His present address is unknown but he formerly resided in Brooklyn until 1934. itzgerald, Francis, A. - Niagara Power Commission, Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Fitzgerald, according to a personal\\ninterview with Dr. Tesla, was affriend of his on the A.C. power proposition for the development of Niagara. He also told me that Mr. Fitzgerald attempted to\\ninfluence the Canadian Power Commission in 1927 for a project to transmit power without wires. There is a possibility that he may have some data. Bus: 25 W. Broadway, Tel: Rector 2-9690. A Friend of tesla for about 35 years. Published many articles about Tesla during 1915 in the "Electrical Experimenter and later in Science and Invention." Has many of Tesla's original manuscripts and photos. Believes in all of Tesla's theories and has a working knowledge of them. 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This party was contacted several weeks prior to Dr. Testla's death. Mr. Gernsback attempte to assist Dr. Tesla personally and appealed to Westinghouse for funds in 1933. Harmond, John Hayes, Jr. Glochester, Mass. Tel. 2080 Mr. Harmond, Sr., financed some of Wr. Hammond, Sr., financed some of Dr. Tesla's boat experiments and only 10 years ago John Rayes Hammond, Jr. operated one of Tesla's original models. The family has one of the boats in their possession now. Much technical data can be gathered from this source. assell, Eugene Ployd - Ress Belport, Long Island From Crity. L.I. Employee Number 5470. Phone Vigilent 4-5400 (Restricted number bxt. 211. Use any New York Phone. Rame from Crito. This party knows of Tesla's laboratory on Long Island through the laundry driver named Tommy Wallen. Hobbs, Octavious - Springfield Gardens, Long Island, (Res not been contacted) Hatmaker, (no initials) party who financed fountain built by Crito. Has not been contacted, but he lived in the Kosonovich, Save - Navarro Hotel, apt. 17B. 112 Central park south, N.Y.C. Tels Circle 7-7900, Office- Regent 7-4662. President of the Central European Powers President of the Central European Powers Association and former Minister of Yugoslavia to the U.S. Mr. K. is one of the two living to the U.S. Mr. K. is one of the two living nephews of Dr. Nikola Tesla (see Nikola Trbjevich Nephews of Dr. Nikola Tesla (see Nikola Trbjevich New Yorker OSANOVICH SAVA on the morning following Dr. Tesla's death. Others present were K.K. Sweezy, G.H. Clark. Others present were K.K. Sweezy, G.H. Clark. Wr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Mr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Mr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Mr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Mr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. 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K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. K. knows of many blue prints that were Nr. Kerr, John Attorney. 233 Broadway, N.Y.C. Cooper Kerr Dunham (att. at) Law Courtland 7-9334 - also associated by Byrna. Courtland 7-9334 - also associated by Byrna. This firm was the patent attorney for 112 of This firm was the patent attorney for 112 of the Tesla patents. They also instituted the proceedings of the infringement suits for the proceedings of the infringement suits for the Westinghouse Company. Mr. herr knew Tesla Westinghouse Company. Mr. herr knew Tesla Very well and can give considerable data. The Cooper now deceased, was however, the Lr. Cooper, now deceased, was however, the Lr. Cooper left this firm some time are and Mr. Tolson\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ June 8, 1949 MEMORANDUM FOR HR. WHITSON 7 E: SAVA N. KOSANOVIC YUGOSLAV AMBASSADOR TO THE US INTERNAL SECURITY - R ureau file 65-47953) PURPOSE EREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BYSING W This memorandum is submitted to incorporate all the pertinent references in the Bureau files concerning the entitled individual who is the Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States. A case was opened on this individual when information was received that Kosanovic had taken possession of the scientific papers of his uncle, Nikola Tesia, the internationally known inventor. Subsequent investigation determined that Kosanovic had turned over the possession of these scientific papers to the Alien Enemy Custodian in New York City. (65-47953-X1 & Serial 3 & 4) bava M. Mosanovic was interviewed in either April or May, 1948, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the Serbian National Federation should be required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Pertinent information concerning this individual has been properly forwarded to the State Department by separate letters. The main file on Kosanovic contains only two reports, one of which was sent to the Attorney General by letter dated December 13, 1943, (other report not pertinent). This case is currently in a pending status. C. J. Myrtle INDEXED 143 65-47 cc - Mr. Laad cc - Mr. Fletcher cc - Whitson cc - Er Wrtle THIS MEMORANDUM IS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES . 7% # RECOULENDATIONS: - 1. That the attached letter explaining that we have never had such a copy as he requests, be sent to Mr. Wos novic. - 2. That the attached memo to the New York Office, instructing them to make further inquiry at the Manhattan Storage Company and advising that firm that we have no coly of Tesla's papers as they allegedly claim, be forwarded. V oh-/'- # DED COPY FILTER TW // / // // // // // // // // // // // # Office. Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Director, FBI DATE: April 17, 1950 FROM SAC. New York SUBIRCT: SAVA N. KOSANOVIC INTERNAL SECURITY-YU (Bufile 65-47953) ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED Rebulet dated April 3 last. On April 7, 1950 agents of this office interviewed Mr. J.V. POTTS, Vice President of the Manhattan Warehouse and Storage Company, 52nd Street & 7th Avenue, New York City, and at that time MR. POTTS advised that the rules of his firm required that all persons gaining access to goods stored by Manhattan first had to fill out an appropriate form setting forth their names, date of visit, and reason for requesting access to the goods. In a review of the file pertaining to the storage of the effects of NIKOLATESLA, MR. POTTS revealed that only one such visit had been made by persons outside of the management of Manhattan Storage itself. This one occasion took place on January 26 and 27, 1943, at which time representatives of the Alien Property Custodian made a thorough review of the entire effects of the TESLA estate. The TESIA effects are stored in rooms 5J and 5L of Manhattan Storage's warehouse at 52nd Street & 7th Avenue, New York City. MR. MICHAEL KING, who stated he had been Floor Supervisor for approximately 10 years on the floor in question, stated that he could recall only the one occassion in early 1943 when an examination was made of the TESIA effects. He stated that at that time numerous photographs were taken by the examiners. His description of the equipment used would tend to show that a microfilm reproduction was made of some of the papers of the deceased scientist. MING added that several of the group making the examination wore U.S. Navy uniforms, and during the two days required to complete the examination the civilian assistants in the group were identified to him only as "FEDERAL AUTHORITIES". According to MING, no other instance of microfilming of the records of the TESIA estate has taken place since that time. It should be noted that the Bureau was informed of the examination mentioned above by New York letter (with attachments) dated October 17, 1945, entitled INKNOWN SUBJECT; SAVA MOSANOVICH; Experiments & Research of NIKOLA TESLA (Deceased), Espionage-M. cc: 65-12290 SECORDED - 38 APR 18 1950 37 الكارا R-435 Letter to Director, FBI NY 105-1391 MR. POTTS stated that no inquiry had been received by Manhattan from SAVA N. KOSANOVICH, nor had Manhattan informed him, in any way, that an examination of the TESLA effects had been made by anyone. In fact, added MR. POTTS, the only correspondence relating to the TESLA estate has been in the form of bills for storage. MR. POTTS stated that any personal inquires regarding the estate would of necessity be directed to him, and to date no such inquiries have been made. Interviewing agents explained to in. POTTS that the examination made, as mentioned above, was not instigated by the Bureau, nor had the Bureau taken part in that examination. Unless advised to the contrary, this investigation is being placed in a closed status, and no further investigative action is contemplated by this office. CIOSH). ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_201_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_202_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # Clerical Employee Duties: General clerical work. Residence: New York City # ACTIVITIES OF CONSULATE EMPLOYEES Unless other sources are accredited, all information appearing in this report was received from Confidential Informant However, it is pointed out that a considerable amount of the information received from this informant is quite old and was not set out in previous reports due to the unavailability of a Serbo-Croatian translator at the 67C 67D 67S On July 23, 1947, was in contact with of and asked to give him a list of the things that were stored at the rugoslav Relief warehouse for the Consulate. The articles had been used in an exhibition. did not know the list inasmuch as they were all packed but stated that would give him a list of the things after the Yugoslav ship left. On July 26, 1947. who was reported to be in New York, contacted the Consulate and cancelled the appointment he had with to go aboard the On July 28, 1947, contacted mentioned that he had just returned from Washington, where he talked with also mentioned that a man, about whom made earlier inquiries, died in the war. remarked that this man had two nephews in America, one and the other (phonetic). then asked to ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_202_Picture_12.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_202_Picture_13.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Delegation Home at 7:30 that evening. meet (phonetic) at 1870 Third Avenue the following kionday after 7:00 p.m. On October 14, 1947, contacted and said "we have things to talk over so that we know how things stand." They made an appointment to see each other the next morning at 11:00 o'clock. On October 16, 1947, an unidentified man asked about a Macedonian, (phonetic). requested that the man be sent over to see him. On October 20, 1947, one advised that he had received a phone call from Pittsburgh, requesting that he contact Ambassador KOSANOVICH. He is to ask KOSANOVICH to prepare a talk on NIKOLA TESLA, the great Yugoslav inventor, which is to be delivered over a Pittsburgh radio station the following Sunday at 2:30 p.m. stated told him to contact about these arrangements. He also requested that appear at the meeting of the Congress. declined, stating that he had too much work to do. on October 22, 1947, a sked asked about a visa for a swered that he would contact the Embassy to see if a passport could be obtained. On October 23, 1947, an unidentified man advised that he had two Bulgarians who needed visas to go to Montreal via the RADNIK. told the man to come over to the Consulate with them. On October 30, 1947, one (phonetic) asked about insuring 140,000 pounds of aircraft and radio accessories, with a PASE TO SECURE OF SECURE ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_203_Picture_10.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 67C ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_205_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Buffalo, New York August 20, 1976 NIKOLA TESLA-MONUMENT / NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK An article appeared in the "Buffalo Evening News," a daily newspaper published in Buffalo, New York, on July 24, 1976, which in part contained the following information: The article was captioned "Dignitaries Unveil Statue of 'Genius' Tesla." The article contained information that NIKOLA TESLA was the inventor of the alternating current and the first man to successfully transmit electric power. The background of TESLA set out in the article revealed that he arrived in New York City in 1884 with four cents in his pocket and plans for an airplane and a book of poetry. In 1888, he invented a system to make the transmission of alternating current practical, at 37 was a millionaire but died at the age of 88 in New York City alone and penniless. The statue, approximately nine feet high, was erected on Goat Island, a site which is located on the property of the New York State Park and Recreation Department. The article revealed that more than a thousand people listened to FRANK G. ZARB, Federal Energy Administration, representing President FORD, and Dr. IVO MARGAN, President of the Socialist Union of Croatia, representing Yugoslavian President TITO, as both pulled the cord unveiling the nine foot high statue of TESLA. 1-17-69 Classified Spinsour. Contacting on ONTR 60267/NLSISALIHO # 390450 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_207_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_208_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # RANSLATED BY: bruary 5, 1953 P -/- Ttem No. 1: This announcement by the American Yugoslav Committee invites all Americans of Yugoslav descent in the Chicage area to attend a commemoration affair to be held at Kordovan Hall, 1802 South Racine Avenua, Chicago, Illinois, on November 16, 1952, at 3 P.M., in observance of the 9th anniversary of the founding of the Yugoslav Republic. Representatives of the FPRY, continues the announcement, will speak at this affair. The Tamburica orchestra "Jadran" (Adriatic) will furnish the music and the Slovene Singing Society "France Preseren" will appear on the program. The following paragraph in the announcement appears in bold face type: "It is our desire to have the friendship between our new homeland and our homeland - Yugoslavia - deepened and strengthened still more, because this will be to the benefit of the peoples of both countries. It is our duty as Americans of Yugoslav descent to help as much as we can in this sense. Our celebration of the Day of the Republic is dedicated precisely to this end." 2-22 44 SPIAC COM GERTRUDE RAJACIC, secretary TTO, president. Item No. 2: This mutilated letter is datelined Chicago, December 10, 1952, and is addressed by Consul YOZE MORAVEC to the Slovene Emigration Society (Slovenska Iseljeniska Matica) in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and reads in substance as follows: MORAVEC advises that he was on a visit to Cleveland several weeks ago and that on this occasion he spoke to several members of the Central Committee for a Slovene Concert Tour (Slovene Octet). Although the preparatory work is going along fine, continues MORAVEC, there are certain difficulties stemming from the (Slovene Emigration) Society which directly hamper this work and which can easily bring about the failure of the octet or even bring into question the octet's arrival in the US. Most of the difficulties MORAVEC attributes to a lack of understanding on the part of the above-named Clovene Society of the "American situation." "In the first place," says MORAVEC, "it is necessary to emphasize that this tour by the octet IS NOT being organized by SANS, but rather by the Central Committee in Cleveland, which is a completely separate body from SANS and works independently. This committee is neutral; it belongs to no political movement and an attempt has been TRANSLATED BY: MIKE OLUTCH: pab February 5, 1953 E. 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In the reports concerning the Consular Service we constantly made reference to this problem and begged the Ministry of Interior to verify the accuracy of documents (at least the crude errors which anyone can detect); the situation has now improved somewhat, but the problem of slowness still remains in sending documents so that in urgent cases we are forced to expedite the matter by telegram. the proposal to the Personnel Section of the Ministry of Interior asking for authorization to hire as a second female clerk at the Consulate (she was born in the U.S. while her parents come from Hercegovina; she is now visiting the In her present position she earned a month for a 5-day week; consequently, she can be authorized a starting salary of at least this much. Before (approaching) who talked to five other female clerks—some because they earned mire money in their present positions than we can give them, some for other reasons, turned down the offer. The present female clerk we shall be able to release only after another one is hired and broken in and after we find another female clerk to replace the present one. We remind you that the Consulate had less work in past years and yet had, in addition to still another male clerk (former while during 1951 it) 5. The problem of purchasing a house for the Consulate control of the from before. We are now paying \\$100 a month for the Consulate control of the residence of the Consul General, a total of 700, which means \\$7200 a year. We took an interest in various houses be altered which were for sale and ascertained that for \\$50, to \\$80,000, would get a building for the Chancery, the residence of the Consul General and one or two small rooms in addition. If the offer for purchasing a house were to be accepted, we would forward concrete proposals for your consideration. We remind you that the present premises of the Consulate are small (we need at least one more room) and consequently this too would be settled by the purchase of a house. Ttem No. 12: A routine memo concerning the personal correspondents of the late MIKOLATESLA and the possibility of purchasing the same from unidentified owner (name illegible). There is also a notation to the effect that PALANDACIC has only receipts of the money which he sent TESLA as aid. Item No. 13: The first page of item no. 13 is insufficiently elegible to render intelligible translation. -7-1 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_214_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) # ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT SOCIETY JUN 27 1983 Please address reply to INITSIDE SOURCE ENGINEER CONSULTANT WASHINGTON, D. C. 20015 Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. 20535 Dear Sir, As a member of the IEEE I receive and read a considerable volume of Institute material. The current issue of our Engineering Management Society Newsletter carries a reprint of an article from another society newsletter entitled: "Nikola Tesla: The Greatest Inventor of all Time?". In my opinion (having some knowledge of electrical engineering history) it is overly lauditory, but worse than that it implies suppression of his electro-technical work by our government. The third from last paragraph states: "At his death, in 1943, what papers he did have were confiscated by the FBI. These papers remain sealed from the general public to this date. Their contents are totally unknown, nor has it been revealed whether the U.S. Government has made use of them." Personally, I do not believe this and I would like to refute the statement. Please let me know whether the statement is true and if so what disposition has been made of the papers. The quotation does not say what type appears were confiscated. I am not concerned here with his ideological views (I don't know what they were), only with those relating to electricity. Thank you. DETO 94-5-9014C Yours very truly Lyre/Senior Member, IEEE **23** JUL 29 1983 PCK-1125/83 PCK-1125/WR PCK-11283 Adenta QUISIDE SOURCE 166 # Engineer Consultant Washington, D. C. 20015 Mr. Ellenberger. 19ese Research Matters Your June 27th letter to the FBI requesting information concerning Dr. Nikola Tesla was referred to me for reply. On January 26 and 27, 1943, Federal authorities made a thorough review of the effects of Dr. Tesla to determine if any ideas of significant value to the United States war effort could be found. His effects were examined at the Manhattan Warehouse and Storage Company at 52nd and 7th Avenue, New York, New York, where they apparently were taken after his death. Participating in this examination were representatives from the New York and Washington Offices of the Alien Property Custodian, the Office of Scientific Research and Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and United States Naval Research. The FBI did not participate in this examination. It was the considered opinion of a spokesman of those examiners "that there exist among Dr. Tesla's papers and possessions no scientific notes, descriptions of hitherto unrevealed methods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be of significant value to this country or which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands." There was thought to be no technical or military reason why further custody of the property should be retained, and in February, 1943, the papers pparently were released to Mr. Sava N. Kosanovic, Dr. Tesla's nephew and the administrator of his estate. Ar. Kosanovic's address at that time was 112 Central Park South, New York, New York. the administrator tack AD LES that time was 112 Adm. Serva. Crim. Inv. BHM: kmf (4) Ident. Insp. Intell. Leb. Legal Coun. Off. Cong. & AUG 11983 Public Affe. Rec. Mgnt. Tach. Serva. Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Training Miles 2 1-7-5 Our files do not reveal any pertinent information on the Tesla materials since the 1940s, and their current whereabouts or condition is unknown. Sincerely, 5 Roger S. Young Assistant Director in Charge Office of Congressional and Public Affairs 66 1 - Mr. Enclosure NOTE: Reply discussed with FOIPA, RMD, who has handled similar requests for information in our files concerning Dr. Tesla. In numerous previous responses, we have said that the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice impounded Dr. Tesla's papers after his death. However, the Office of Foreign Litigation, Civil Division, indicated that Dr. Tesla's papers are not in their possession and may, in fact, have been turned over to Tesla's nephew and the administrator of his estate, Sava N. Kosanovic, in February, 1943. OG 188 WHO'S NEWS AND WHY Vol. 4 No. 2 February 1943 The H. W. Wilson Co. 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W. Wilson Company 950 University Avenue New York ditor: Maxino Block Managing Edite Copyright, 1942, The H. W. Wilson Company. Reasonable quotation from this publication is permitted provided due credit is given to CURRENT BIOGRAPMY Val 4 February 194 No. 2 # Explanations Authorities for forms of names are the Library of Congress and the Wilson Company bibliographical indexes. Exception is made to the authorized form when the shortened form of a name is better known: e.g., Monty Woolley instead of Edgar Montillion Woolley. If the full name is not given in the heading it will be found in the sketch itself. After the name, pronunciation is given if the name is difficult, and then the date of birth as fully as possible. The date of death is given for those who have died. The occupation of the subject follows. Next comes the sketch itself, followed by a list of references for further study. These include magazine and newspaper references (in one alphabet) and books. 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Obituary N Y Times p17 D 12 '42 SYKES, CHARLES H(ENRY) Nov. 12, 1882—Dec. 19, 1942 Nationally known as the newspaper cartoonist, "Bill" Sykes; drew famous war cartoons for the First and Second World Wars: editorial cartoonist of the Evening Public Ledger of Philadelphia from its founding in 1914 until its suspension in January 1942. bituary N Y Times p44 D 20 '42 TESLA, NIKOLA (tes'lā) July 9, 1856— Jan. 7, 1943 One of the world's greatest electrical inventors and designers; American citizen of Greek origin; worked with Edison; credited with many "epic making" inventions since he came to the United States in 1884; in his old age claimed to have invented a "death beam" powerful enough to destroy 10,000 airplanes at a distance of 250 miles and to annihilate an army of 1,000,000 soldiers instantaneously. Obituary N Y Times p19 Ja 8 '43 por Radio commentator Address: b. c/o Mutual Broadcasting System 1440 Broadway, New York City Since August 1941 Cal Tinney's slow Texas drawl and homespum humor, with intimate, folksy interpolations, have been heard over the Mutual network in Sizing up the News each Monday and Wednesday evening from 8:00 to 8:15 p. m. Tinney's colloquialisms, which the folks "back home" chuckle over—his "just-between-you-and-me, ain't it the truth?" "It shore is" method—has captured many a listener bored with the formal, polished, or cut and dried comments of other news-casters. But there has been more to Tinney than his mannerisms. Speaking usually as a representative of what the "common man" thinks about affairs at home and abroad, he has taken more than one direct and shrewd pot shot, left of center, at stuffed shirt policy, the doings of Big Business, politicians who coddle Fascism at the expense of democracy under high-sounding terms of Americanism, etc. It is not surprising that the sandy-haired young man from the West has occasionally found himself in hot water. Objections have at times been made to the FCC on the "character of the broadcaster's utterances." But Tinney has apparently survived the allegations against him, since he currently continues his bi-weekly talks. The outspoken homespun philosopher, who has become a kind of Will Rogers columnist of the air, was born February 2, 1908 on a ranch in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. His family, however, originally came from Texas, where his grandfather, a rugged individualist, and a strange politics for those parts. "My grandfather was a Texas Republican," Tinney says sadly, "and they shot him. Seems he exploited his sentiments one Saturday night in a bar room. Ever since then my Pop has been a Democrat." So has the son and, judging by his broadcasts, a fervent New Deal-support- After attending the Oklahoma public schools Tinney enrolled at the Murray State School of Agriculture in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. There, however, his education lasted only two weeks. "I never did stay there long enough to find out whether it was a high school or college" he says. Young Tinney apparently decided he could get a better schooling by traveling and seeing the world at first hand. For some years he tramped around, often as an ordinary seaman aboard freighters off for foreign ports. He was a newspaperman of sorts, also, and found jobs in Shanghai and Paris. His work in the pre-War French capital was rewriting material found in Englishprinted newspapers. "It was easy," Tinney explains. "All you had to do was change words like lift to elevator, and caretaker to ianitor." After getting his education by travel, Cal Tinney settled down in Oklahoma to edit a country paper, and began to advertise it over Station KVOO at Tulsa. That was in 1932. His humorous, drawling voice soon became more popular than his gazette. So he gave up his job as an editor, but since 1934 he has written a weekly feature, "Man of the Week," for the McNaught Syndicate. He is the author, also, of a book called Is It True What They Say about Landont a Non-Partisan Tree of the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and the Week, and Tinney is married to Mary Maxine Noble The couple have two sons, David N. and It was in 1940 that Tinney hit on the idea of a folksy newscast and tried it out in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Farm listeners chuckled, appreciated a commentator who spoke their own | Cffice Memo | randum - JUNI | TED STATES GOV | ERNMENT | |---|---|---|---| | TO Director, FB | | DATE: March | 12, 1948 | | SUBJECT: #PLAIN TALK | ONCERNITION | 22925 | | | Eureau file # | 94-36511 erewith for the informa | tion of the Bureau is | the | | March 1948 issue of Pl | lies in the | Toppe- | | | CANA. I | A Land | 6511-1 | 18 | | JTM: MTH | RECORDE | 22 MAR 15 1948 | - Liles on | | 2 MAR 2.7.1948 | MDEXED - 138 | - Coping | tile entitles | | EV. 24 | | Max "8lem | . 7 | # \*RED AMBASSADORS # Sava Kosanovich of Yugoslavia By BOGDAN RADITSA This is the first in a series of profiles of the Red Ambassadors who represent the several Soviet satellite governments in Washington. Others will follow shortly. PAMILIAR as they are with the blasts of Vishinsky and Molotov, most Americans are not aware that some of the most fervid tirades against "U.S. imperialism" delivered in this country come from an officially accredited ambassador. Sava Kosanovich, a wiry, reddish-haired man in his early fifties, represents Tito in Washington and in the United Nations. He travels all over this country making speeches in praise of the "new progressive democracy" in the Balkans, denouncing "Anglo-American reaction" and helping to form front groups for Tito. Incidentally, the American ambassador in Yugoslavia cannot even move around Belgrade without special permits and a guard of secret From Kosanovich's speeches at Lake Success and elsewhere, it would appear that everything in Yugoslavia before Tito came to power was reactionary or Fascist. Yet, when he was touring America during the war, he used to introduce himself as a "member of the democratic government of His Majesty Kosanovich is a restless man—his face and hands seem to be always agitated and moving. He is a cultured man with a long background in liberal, democratic movements. But he is a man of strong ambitions, who was willing to betray his own past and his closest In an Embassy which is more of a propaganda bureau than a diplomatic office, Kosanovich is only the front man for the Cominform's schemes in America. The real power in the Embassy is held by members of the Communist Party and the secret police, OZNA, just as its real policy is directed from Moscow through Belgrade. Though Kosanovich repeats the Moscow line, he is I first met Kosanovich in the fall of 1941 in the United States, where he had come with some members of the exiled Royal Yugoslav Government, representing Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. The tragicomic adventures of that royal mission in America centered around the battle between those who wanted Yugoslavia, after its liberation from the Nazis, to become a democratic federal union, and those who demanded a Yugoslavia which would be a Greater Serbia administered on the old prewar pattern. The grim outcome was that Tito succeeded in charming American public opinion with his sweeping promises of democracy and federation, while the exiles were quarreling among them selves—mostly for personal, rather than ideological, reasons. CONNOVICH dreamed for a good many years of becoming Yugoslav ambassador to Washington. His uncle, Nikota-Teala, was an important scientist in America. He himself is descended from a long line of Serbian Orthodox ministers. His friends in politics used to tease him about his shyness toward women, his hatred of smoking and drinking. A strong and dynamic political leader, they said, should be a lady-killer, a hard drinker and a chain smoker. In prewar Yugoslavia, Kosanovich always attached himself to some popular political leader. (It seemed to give him the feeling that he was running things himself.) In the beginning of his career he followed the tide of Svetozar Pribichevich, the leader of the Democratic Party, who sought a highly centralized Yugoslav state and drove the Communists underground through his secret police. That policy helped to reinforce communism for the present job. Next, Kosanovich was attracted by the leaders of the Croatian reasants, Stevan Radich and Dr. Vladimiz Machek, now in exile in Washington. He considered that he was Machek's 'brain." Machek, however, did not always welcome the attentions of his satellite: several times he told me that he was tired of Kosanovich's "old maidish suggestions and tearful interventions." For when he is arguing any involved issue, Kosanovich's voice takes on a querulous tone which makes him sound like an adolescent During the war, Kosanovich defended Mihailovich and a united Yugoslavia. He took an active part in Allied meetings and the affairs of American Yugoslavs. His name often appeared in the "Letters to the Editor" column of The New York Times. He was a chairman of the Southeastern European Planning Board—a movement not popular with Stalin, as it threatened to block his plans for regional agreements and the artificial building up of buffer states. And he was active, with his friends Louis Adamic and the violinist, Zlatko Balo-kovic, in the formation and promotion of the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans, subsequently metamorphosed into an important part of the Kremlin's Pan-Slavic front. PIORBLEO LA GUARDIA was Kosanovich's greatest acquisition. He led the New York Mayor through the same political zig-zag he himself followed first to Mihailovich, then to Tito. The speech of greeting to King Peter that La Guardia read in Serbo-Croatian on July 8, 1942, was written by Kosanovich. The Mayor read: "Drazha Mihailovich and Vladimir Machek are the expression of the Yugoslav spirit of resistance—from Triglav to Vardar. They will go down in his tory...." In his own speeches Kosanovich often compared Mihailovich with MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek and Timoshenko. For example, at a meeting of the anti-Nazi Lesgue in New York, June 8, 1942, he spoke of "the epic struggle which my people are making under the man whose name already symbolizes to mankind indomitable spiritual and physical resistance—Drazha Mihailovich." Mihailovich was killed by a government of which Kosanovich was a member. Machek fled the country to escape the fate of Petkov, Maniu and other peasant leaders. Immediately after he became Tito's ambassador, Kosanovich quoted Count Ciano to prove that Machek had been willing to sell out Croatia for a relatively small amount of money. The former follower of Machek admitted intimately to a friend that he did not believe the accusation, but that Tito had asked him to make it. On July 6, 1942, at a reception held in the Yugoslav delegation's mansion on New York's Fifth Avenue, Kosanovich introduced Milko Markovich, editor of the Serbian Communist newspaper, Slobodna Rec, and now professor at Belgrade University. Markovich offered King Peter a check of one thousand dollars for "the Chetniks and regular army of General Mihailovich." A week later orders arrived from Moscow that Mihailovich should be considered a traitor and Tito accepted as leader of the war for liberation. Markovich and his Serbian equivalent of the Daily Worker suddenly switched to attacking Mihailovich. Kosanovich did not—but his defense of the Chetniks' leader grew weaker. Shortly before he went to London in March, 1944, Kosanovich in a New York Post interview. was quoted as follows: "Minailovich is in the position of a General Lee. Tito is some kind of a Lincoln out to save the Union. Minailovich was an army officer. I think he is sincere but he is surrounded by a very bad political entourage. The entourage was catastrophic. The Government, diplomats abroad, working in his name, are even more catastrophic." Curiously, Kosanovich himself was a member of that same "catastrophic" government. When he joined the Yugoslav government-in-exile in London in the spring of 1944, it had already dismissed Mihailovich and sought an agreement with Tito's National Liberatics Mosement. ING PETER was in London. Heading his government-in-exile was Dr. Ivan Subasich, the viceroy of Croatia. The group was more or less agreed that Yugoslavia should be restored on the basis of a federal union. Kosanovich asked for a government representing all political parties, which would be strong enough to fight the Communists. He was a frequent visitor to King Peter and his mother. And when an agreement was drawn up between Subasich and Tito, Kosanovich was terribly dissatisfied with its terms. (I suspect that was because he had not taken an active part in it; he was inclined to think that everything in Yugo-slav politica needed his miding hand.) Tito was in Belgrade. The Red Army was crossing the Danube in its push toward Vienna. On January 18, 1945, Tito's emissary, General Velebit, visited Kosanovich in Kingston House, London. Kosanovich left the interview pale and nervous. For the first time he realized that dealing with the Communists demanded fortitude. A few days later, on January 23, King Peter dismissed Subasich's cabinet and reappointed its members only after all of them—including Kosanovich—had agreed in writing that, on their return to Yugoslavia, they would defend certain obligations the king had made concerning the Tito-Subasich agreement. The chief obligation was that the new united Yugoslav Government to be formed under Tito should guarantee all fundamental political and civil rights and freedoms to the Yugoslav people. Kosanovich took a prominent part in drafting this public statement announcing the reappointment of the previous cabinet and the obligations its members assumed. As the king's most intimate adviser, he drafted Peter's act of consent to the Regency. Before Kosanovich left London, the young king kissed him, and received his formal promises that he would defend the interests of the monarchy. In the spring of 1945, Yugoslavia was "liberated" and the members of its London government-in-exile came back to join Tito's government with the blessing of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. It was at that time that the Communists characterized Kosanovich as a "useful innocent" (koristna budala). In a meeting held in a swanky Belgrade apartment house—still the headquarters of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia—the ex-schoolteacher, Edward Kardelj, the Montenegrin, Milovan Gjilas, and other top Communist leaders were talking over the political characteristics of their new partners. Gjills said, according to a witness who reported the meeting to me: "The Anglo-Americans dream that they may influence us through someone who is not a Communist. Therefore Ivan Subasich is best fitted for the job of foreign minister. Though he sometimes wavers, he defended the agreement with Tito stubbornly in London and Washington. Milan/Grol (the vice-premier and leader of the Serbian democrats) will serve as a Trojan Horse for the West. He is a reactionary politician who backed Mihailovich. If Grol declares that the Serbian people have to abandon Mihailovich, they will accept the idea. As for Kosanovich—he is not an important personality nor a politician. But he is a useful innocent, who may be of help in the United States where he is considered to be a Western-type democrat." The only member of that London government who still survives politically is the "useful innocent." Subasich, after having been Tito's prime minister and foreign minister, is now a prisoner-in Zagreb. Francy Sooj, after participating in the Communist government of Slovenia, was recently sentenced to seven years of slave labor for "espionage in favor of the Western democracies." The liberal Dr. B. Markovich of Serbia died in New York. I arrived there in time to see him before his death. After I had told him the grim story of what Yugoslavia-looked like under the Communists, he said very sadly: "How is it possible that Savitsa (the diminutive of Kosanovich's first name) could stay in such an outrageous, government?" To soon began to ignore all the Jobigations assumed in his agreement with Subasich. Even before the elections he declared that the king was never to come back. Milan Grol and others immediately left Tito's government. Everybody in Yugoslavia expected Kosanovich to do the same. But he began to wield by the Community. Subasich had Just come back from a trip around Yugoslavia. He had seen that the people did not want communism; they wanted quick action by the democrats. And he had the courage to tell this to Tito. Although he was foreign minister, he was arrested. I was with Kosanovich in his room in Belgrade's Hotel Majestic when Mrs. Subasich telephoned and asked for immediate help. Her husband was arrested and ill. Kosanovich tried to reassure her. He telephoned Lt. General Rankovich, OZNA's chief trigger-man. The Communist hangman answered coldly that nothing would happen to the foreign minister. Precautions were merely being taken to defend him from any attempt of the "Western reactionaries" upon his life. We had just been reading Dante there in the hotel room—the part where Count Ugolino hungrily devours the brain of Archbishop Ruggieri, describing the merciless end of all traitors. The blood and turmoil of ancient fratricidal war rose before us: it seemed very near to our own Yugoslav tragedy. Only a little later Kosanovich entered the new People's Front against the will of the Independent Democratic Party, of which he was Secretary-General. His party issued a clandestine communiqué describing his defection. Soon-after that the chairman of the party, Dr. D. Boshkovich, was terribly beaten for three hours by a Communist youth mob. He was lying in a hospital the same night that Kosanovich was flying in the Lon- don conference of the Big Four, acompanying the Communist Kardelj as a "liberal and democrat." Before he left, Kosanovich had published an article in the Communist official organ, Borba, in which he attacked Subasich and the leadership of the party with whom he had worked closely for twenty years. The Communists wanted a proof of "betrayal." And the price was paid. From London, Kosanovich went to the Paris Peace Conference, and from there to Washington—to attack American democracy, which he had formerly praised. I CANNOT BELIEVE Kosanovich is a happy man, though he has attained his ambition. Those who once opposed fascism and are now serving communism have lost all faith in themselves and in mankind. There are no more miserable people than the intelligentsia who know better—but who have been afraid to resist in the last battle for man's liberty. Kosanovich once asked for a synthesis between political and economic democracy for the good of the people, and he is now defending the complete subjugation—economic, political and moral—of Yugoslavia to the Communists. Kosanovich once wanted Yugoslavia to be free of the influence of any big power, and he is now ambassador of a puppet state in Stalin's empire. ## THE SOLUTION FOR PALESTINE A comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the Hoover Plan (pages 32-33) and of the Lowdermilk Plan (Palestine— Land of Promise), offering an engineering rather than a political solution for the crisis in the Near East, will be presented in the next lane of PLAIN TALK. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_224_Picture_2.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_224_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) | 1 | | | 1 | |---|---|---|---| | Report Made At PITTSBURGH | Date Made 2/20/46 | Period 11/13.19.20, 21,26/45. | Report Made By LOUIS H. BEIGREDER | | Title SLOBODNA REC (FREE EXPRESSION) | | | Character INTERNAL SECURITY - C REGISTRATION ACT | | SYNOPSIS: SLOBODNA R newspaper | EC (Free Expre printed at 191 the generally | ession), Serbis | in communist-line tri-weekly ttsburgh, Pa., steadfastly | Pgh. Field Division 61-118 "ARYOVICH's lack of complete coordination with the Communist Party movement in , the United States may best be indicated by his individual editorial policy in SLOBODNA REC. Unlike other foreign language communist organs, as will be shown in Section III of this report, SLOBODNA REC did not pursue a predominate loyalty to the American Communist Party, but rather concentrated its efforts on foreign news, policy and information. The administration of SLOBODNA REC during the period covered by this report may be seen to pursue a more cautious line or policy regarding the printing of sources of news items and other information in the newspaper. Many items appear in the translations of this newspaper which of necessity must have been derived from a foreign source. One such source may be pointed out in that during the early part of 1945 MARKOVICH had installed in his home a Hamerlin model shortwave radio receiver with a special short-wave antenna and with logging for radio Belgrade. Translations of SLOBODNA REC as contained in this report were made at the Pittsburgh Field Office by Serbo-Croatian translator, and II # ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE # A - OFFICERS In the "Statement Of The Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required By The Acts Of Congress Of August 24, 1912, and March 3, 1933," regarding newspapers utilizing the mails as a means of transmission, furnished the Fittsburgh Office by Foreman, Fittsburgh Fost Office, the following are given as officers of SLOBODNA REC: Publisher Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Owner J. KRSTOVICH CHARLES VUICK None MANE SHUSHNAR JOHN KRSTOVICH This statement was filed at the Pittsburgh Post Office by MANE SHUSHNAR on October 2, 1945. SO - "2. It is true that this year's calendars were printed too late, but we have inspite of this sold a sufficient number of calendars and some of the sollers have not sent in their money. In addition to the excellent success in advertisements for the calendar and besides the fact that the calendar was excellent, the work of the sale of the calendars is not satisfactory. Our activists should have paid more attention to this then than before solling the calendars. - "3. Soon we shall have received several hundred copies of the new book 'Guns For Tito.' We ought to do our best to sell these books as soon as possible. The book was compiled by an American Major who organized a shipment of weapons to TITO's Army and met TITO personally several times. The price of the book is \\$2.75. - "4. We must finish the sale of the book of NIKOLA TESLA. We should particularly interest the American engineers and uniquists in it. - "5. Soon a book of MIRKO MARKOVICH will be off the press: 'That We May Understand Each Other.' Therefore it will be necessary to organize the sale of the same. The book contains 350 pages and the price of the same is \\$2.50. "The working committee decided that by the end of the month of March or in April, MIRKO MARKOVICH should start for the Pacific Coast, to California, to work in the strengthening of our movement and newspaper and in building up of clubs and the apparatus. This will be discussed in detail at the meeting of the Supreme Board in Cleveland. August 14, 1945 "Reorganization Of Leadership Of Serbian Progressive Movement In City Of Akron Carried Out." This article, which is quoted below, indicates the then policy of SLOBODNA REC in its leadership in the Serbian Progressive Movement in the United States "Akron, August 10 - Last week, on Thursday evening, there was here held a special meeting of the Serbian political progressive club, which was attended by the editor-in-chief of SLCGODNA REC, MIRKO MARKOVICH, and the manager of the paper, NAME SHUSHMAR. 0/5 To: Director, FBI IS - C: REGISTRATION ACT Congress when I was elected an honorary president of the Vidovdar Congress I said: "In an extraordinary difficult period of mankind you have with sacrifice and self-denial done your duty also toward your people from whom you sprang and toward America of which you are good citizens, and toward mankind. Since my arrival in America in 1941, in an official capacity, I found among you the best understanding and best cooperation for an ever greater unification of national forces in the struggle against all manifestations of fascism. Together we tried to be as serbs - bearers of Serbo-Croato-Sloveno-Macedonian harmony and unity at a time when the enemy banked his entire hope on disharmony and hatred. Working thus we have contributed to the correct understanding of the national-liberation struggle beset with so many obstacles and bedevilled with so much gossip. Time and events have borne out the truth thereof." And when taking leave of Serbs in America in a letter of July 24, 194, among other things I wrote: "We have here been those who have defended the purity of the Serbian name at a time when it was being most degraded by the ignorant. History will show that we were right and that by our defending the unity of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Macedonians we have best represented the true national Serbian interests and thus represented the interests not only of Yugoslavia but also of America and all United Nations. We have by common sacrifices of a liberation war achieved great successes in the country, but there still are great trials. Enemies will particularly seek to confuse the Serbs and destroy them with false defense of Serbian interests. I ask all my good friends to make every effort to promote harmony and unity. I ask all those who were being deceived in returning to Serbian tradition and enter the great circle of national harmony . . . I ask friends who have had the opportunity and bravery of seeing the right path from the very outset, that they forgive those who haven't seen it because they were deceived by those who thought they must be believed. The true national champion is known by his setting the errant ones on the right path. Responsible culprits who misused their positions and misused the credulity of the ignorant will answer to the people for their misdeeds. The more you will promote harmony, the better it will be for Serbdom, for Yugoslavia, and for America - toward which you have the greatest obligation." To: Director, IS - C: REGISTRATION ACT That was the path to which you were called until his last days by our great countryman NIKOLA TESLA. And you, by your moderation, have contributed to the interest of the democratic struggle of the world. You have contributed to the unification of all national forces in America in the organization of the war effort. And at the same time, as Americans of Serbian descent together with other Yugoslav Americans, you have shown your American fellow-citizens that your brothers in the old homeland are with united efforts resisting fascism and struggling for freedom and the restoration of their independent state, Yugoslavia. In this you were able to be the best spokesmen. You and your predecessors have come to this country in search of freedom and better economic conditions. Most of you and those before you have fled from Hapsburg serfdom because you were being oppressed both nationally and economically. You and your predecessors made valuable contributions to the development of the New World. You with your brother Slovenes and Croatians have sweated, shed blood, worn your bones, expended brains, and whatnot for the progress of this country. Long is the chain of miners, farmers, scientists, and soldiers who gave their best for the general progress and prosperity of the American Union. You have conscientiously been doing your duty and you have become good citizens of this great land. Who of us is not proud of the work, life and nobleness of NIKOLA TESIA without whose work and mind electricity would not be what it now is in the world; whose motor has harnessed the Niagara and the Dnieper, turning the wheels of industry wherever there is electricity? In every spark of electricity, shines his name. America is the greatest beneficiary of TESIA's genius. He asked for no riches. And so, brothers and sisters, when during the war you have raised your voice for your brethren in the Balkans struggling not only for their life but also for a better and more secure existence of mankind, your voice thus had significance and importance. You were able to be the authorized spokesmen of the struggle which was going on over there. # FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION | FORM NO. 1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT PITS | SBURGH, PROUS | ILVANIA | 14 T | LE NO. 100- | 2325 | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | REPORT MADE AT WISCONSIN | BATE WHEN MADE | PERIOD FOR WHIGH MADE | MINER A | MADSON, JR. | aw/n | | WARDINI GLASNI | K (The Nations | il Hereld) | INTERNAL. | SECURITY - | 6 | | | | | | | | | SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: | The 37th Anni | versary Cole | ration of the | existence | | | | Known CPA mes | pers and sym | othizers prese | nt at | | | | meeting. | | CPA sympathis | er, | | | | | | all mo | wn Party | | | | members, pre | ent. | in charge | of genera | | | | MENJAC of Chi | caro. Ill | officer of the | Sunreme | | | | Committee of | Croatian Frat | ernal Union, | Work of | | | • | NARODNI GLASN | IK in connect | ion with prese | nt War effo | ort | | · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · | and particula | rly in suppor | t of Marshal T | ITO set for | rth • | | | oh Astrage sh | ORKELES. | ANT THE | DENATION C | ONTAINED | | | | 7. 9. 11 | ALL INF | IS UNCLASE | IFIED # | | | *.* | | DATE | ->>-64 | BAShi L. a. | | DEFENDENCE | | | | 4 3-91 | 860 | | AREACE: | Perret ILOW L | ittsburgh to | WII MENTESS COLO | T T\\T0\\40 | | | | Report of Spe | cial Agent HA | RRY MORRISON d | ated | • \* | | • | 4/28/41 at Pi | ttsburgh, Pa. | . gris s | · | | | | | | | and the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second of the second o | | | DETAILS: | Confidential | Informant | edvised that | ander date | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | | · | of February 1 | 8, 1945, he w | as in attendan | ce at the | | | Oer 45 | 37th Amivers | ary Celebrati | or of NAROINI | ALASNIK (Th | | | 74 71/2°C2 | Mational Here | ld), a Uroati | an language no | repener, | The second | | (1, 2) | at 979 South | Sixth Street. | Milvankee. Wi | consin | | | | 1 1 111 | • | | | • 1 | | **-** / / . | | | | | | | APPROVED AND FORWARDED | SPECIAL AGENT | | DO NOT WRITE IN THE | SE SPACES | 1 | | | | 100-1 | 0/2341 | 24 | 201 | | COPIES DESCRIPTION FOR | 1139216 | 7000 | | first first | TA | | 5 | • | | 1 | alm | 100 s) | | 4 - Pittaburah | FILE | | . L | 1 | 610 | | 1 - Chicago (inf | (a) 7 12 /5 (J | | A | | EX - 23 | | 2 - Milwaukee | OB 11 26 | | | | | | | The last | i | 10 | 7 ; | | The next speaker introduced by Chairman JUHOVICH was a ME. CHRIST MIKALACHI who spoke on the need of funds for the centinued support of the paper NAROINI GLASNIK. Following this, was a speech by Mr. FRANK PETRAK, who elso preised the HAROINI GLASHIK for its wonderful work. At the conclusion of these various speeches, JUROVICH acting as Chairman, again discussed the need of funds for MAROINI GLASNIK and requested a collection from the audience. He told them that the amount sollected was \\$586,10. According to the celebration closed at approximately 9:15 p.m. said that during the course of the afternoon he was contacted by known CPA member, who gave him a pamphlet entitled "The Bulletin of the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans" dated November, 1944. I made reference to an article in this pamphlet which was written by LOUIS ADMIC, formerly President of the AMERICAN SLAV CONCRESS and President of the UNITED COMMITTEE OF SOUTH-SLAVIC AMERICANS. Then attempted to sell a book entitled "The Prodigal Genius", which was the life story of NIKOLETESLA written by JOHN J. O'KEIL. He also showed a calendar with a picture of Marshal TITO and the inscription "Death to Fascism, Freedom for the People". He explained that these calendars were being printed\\nin Canada and he was taking orders for them. Confidential Informent advised that he had previously made arrangements with the second for announcing the proposed banquet and celebration over Radio Station 1-2-3-5 on the Croatian Radio Hour. was also present at the 37th Anniversary Celebration and confirmed the information set forth by Confidential Information The following individuals were listed by as being present at this meeting: ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_231_Picture_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) етиройно голи NO, 64 # Office Memorandum · United States Government то Director, FBI DATE: 5/8/45 FROM SAC, Pittsburgh SUBJECT INTERNAL SECURITY - R Pittsburgh, E. S., Pa., would-be radio repair man, advised this office that on April 29, 1945 he installed at the home of captioned subject, # 120X". \*\*stated that since this type receiving set is of a kind which is generally used by amateur radio\\nexperts or professionals and since the radio set itself was\\nin such condition as to indicate that it had been purchased under a very high priority, he inquired of the subject how he happened to be in possession of such a radio set. \*\*according\*\* to was vague as to where he got it, saying that it had before the war in New York City. \*\*according\*\* the subject and at that time get the serial number. Fursuant to request by the subject, the set was installed and a short wave agrial was put up. After the set had been tuned by he was requested to locate the radio station at beigrade, Yugoslavia. get direct reports from Beigrade in order that they might be **b1C** Instruct as investigation may subsequently develop a censorship violation on the part of the newspaper, NOBCDNA PEC, Serbian Communist line tri-weekly newspaper, printed at Pittsburgh, and in order that the Eureau might be immediately advised on the developments in this case, the above information has been set forth. Translations of SLOBODNA REC at the Pittsburgh Field Office made currently by Slavonic Translator, are at this time and continue to be reviewed for any releases which appear to emanate from a foreign rather than from any source approved by the Office of War Information or like agencies RD 100 34.59 It should be noted that during this week since the rearrough been installed at the home of several articles have appeared which appear to have emanated from foreign COPIES DESTROPED broadcasts ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 4-76 BY SILVER Committee T JUL 1 : Des Confidential Informant whose identity is known to Bureau, learned on July 23, 1966, that conferred with Ambassador KOSANOVIC and told him that LOUIS ADALIC had contacted her in order to find out definitely when KOSANOVIC was coming to New York City. It appears that ADA IC planned to be in New York himself on the following Thursday and expressed a desire to have KOSANOVIC be there on Thursday night. KOSANOVIC told her he was leaving for Paris the following Sunday morning at 11:00 AM. He was told that ADALIC would like to have dinner with him on Thursday night and on Friday morning for him to meet "this fellow that he has been talking about." KOSANOVIC said he knew it was something about publicity. KOSANOVIC stated he was not very happy about having to go to Paris. He said he hadn't "finished ending" and that it was very complicated. He indicated that would accompany him to Paris. They expressed amusement over the "Star's" account of KOSANOVIC's press conference the previous day. The article in the "Evening Star" which was referred to above appeared July 23, 1946, and was entitled "New Envoy Disclaims Any Yugoslav Plans for Coup at Trieste." This article was written by NEWBOLD NOYES, JR. The article quotes the Ambassador as saying that Yugoslavia would not be "provoked into compromising the peace." The article stated that the Ambassador had indicated his country would boycott Trieste if they did not get it. The article stated that KOSANOVIC is a nephew of NICOLA TESLA, the Yugoslav-American inventor. learned on July 23, 1946, that conferred with relative to the newspaper coverage of the Ambassador's press conference the previous day. said there was a little on the first page of the "New York Herald Tribune" and said there was quite a bit in the "New York Times" also. told her that he expected more in the "Evening Star" than had appeared in the "mashington Post" because he had "one of their good people, who was very favorably impressed and said he would say so." Senator TAYLOR's office and advised that the Ambassador would like to have lunch with Senator TAYLOR at the Senate dining room on Thursday at 1:00 P.M. along with some other members of the Senate. Informant learned on the following day that made arrangements for Ambassador KOSALOVIC to have lunch with Senator PIPPER and probably Senator MAGNUSON in the Senate dining room. 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Call | A. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. S. | Manhar Like | 67C ° | 75 | ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_237_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) WFO 100-11980 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_237_Figure_2.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) SAVA N KOSANOVIC, KOSANOVIC came as Yugoslav Ambassador in approximately July of 1946, presenting his credentials to the President on July 18, 1946. KOSANOVIC is generally considered not a Communist but an opportunist. He is a member of the Independent Democratic Party and previously served as a Minister under the Royal Government. 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Includes permanent committes | · / · } | | 81 | set-up and a | partial list o | f delegates to the | 0/5= | | A. 111 | American Slav | Congress. Al | so set forth is a | L2 % | | J. A 10 / | written by | Informa | tion-received that | DZ | | 3/11,1 | | | and | ba 67C | | 1 que | Communists. a | of Gary, India ttended the Al | na, and reported to 1 Slav Congress. | 6707 | | 4,1 | attend | ed All Slav Co | ngress. | | | 13/21 | | \_ P | - ALL INFORMATI | ON CONTAINE | | ~ 7 2 | | | HEREIN IS UNCL | ASSIFIED | | Reference | | | DATE 1-17-83 | RYSPERIE | | A FI PER SACTION | Report of Soe | cial Agent CHA | RLES M. SOLOMON, | - promoti | | Carried States | dated May 12, | 1942, at Detr | oit, Michigan. | • ; | | Details: At Hammo | nd. Indiana | | | 1.2 | | Cho o | Ton Confiden | tiel Informant | has been obtei | ned ba | | ADDROVED BOD AAAA | cial Agent in | Do 1 | Not Write in These | Spaces | | Forwarded: My | Charge | 100+5 | 6711 - 4 | 2/ | | Bureau | (7-6-) | 100131 | 014 | RECORDER | | l Pittsburg | h (Inf.) | | | DADEXED | | l Newark (I 1 Milwaukee | nfinfi) | 115 NEV 2 | 1 1942) | Win | | FORVICTORY 1 Chicago | n Field (Inf. Inf.) | 1 | 高版一人 | | | 1 Philadelph 1 Cleveland | hia (Inf.) (Inf.) | | | | | 3 Detroit | lis 2. | 4 | 5 1 | 17-17 | | All Sections | 50 | 1 | | 1 | | L Mistall | MI | | | | a copy of a bulletin entitled "Rows Flashes from Czechoslovakia" under Nazi Domination", published by the Czechoslovak National Council of America, 4049 West Twenty-sixth Street, Chicago, Illinois, release no. 132, dated May 11, 1942: This bulletin contains news concerning the American Slav Congress held at Detroit, Michigan, April 25 and 26, 1942. The article contains the permanent committee set-up of the Congress and a list of men of eminence among the delegates to the Congress. This article is being quoted below: "AMERICAN STAY CONGRESS FOR GREATER WAR EFFORT" The coordination activities of all groups of Slavic extraction in America for an intensified war effort moved a long step closer to reality as a result of the American Slav Congrecs held in Detroit April 25 and 26 and attended by more than 2300 delegates representing church, fraternal, labor, social and cultural groups from all parts of the country. Every substantial American Slav organization in the country was represented. # Permanent Committee Set Up A permanent committee was elected with LEO KRZYCKI, Vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers for President; Prof. J. J. MRHAL, of the Czechoslovak National Council, Vice-president; STEPHEN ZEMAN, JR., of the Slovak Evangelical Union, Secretary; VINKO ZUK, of the Croatin Fraternal Union, Treasurer; and BLAIR F. GUNTHER, member of the Educational Committee of the Polish National Alliance, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Participating Slavic nationality groups elected vicepresidents to the Board of Directors. Vice-presidents for the respective nationality groups elected were: EDMUND POINC, Polish; W. J. MUZIK, Czech; V. S. PLATEK, Slovek; VASIL DICOFF, Bulgarian; SAMUEL WERLINICH, Serbian; JOHN BUTKOVICH, Croatian; VINCENT CAINKAR, Slovene; PETER RATICA, Carpatho-Russian; GEORGE TRINSKY, Macedonien; HARRY MUBESHKOFF, Russian; MICHAEL TKATCH, Ukrainian The various nationality groups also elected members to the nationality committees of the Board of Directors. The National Committee of the congress held its first plenary session in Pittsburgh, May 10, to plan steps to translate the decisions of the congress into action. # Anti-Hitler Measures Adopted Main decisions embodied in the resolutions of the congress were: - 1. To make a direct appeal to American Slavs comprising more than half the workers in the war essential industries of the nation to intensify their production efforts to outproduce Hitler and the Axis. - To intensify vigilance against fifth-columnists operating within the various Slavic groups in this country aiming to sow division and disunity in the war\\neffort. - 3. To chart a plan to recruit 50,000 American Slav volunteers for a house-to-house campaign among American Slav families for raising the amount of war bond subscriptions to 10 per cent of income. - 4. To take all measures to strengthen the bonds of solidarity among American Slav groups and between them and the Slav peoples of Europe for a concerted effort against HITLER. - 5. To increase support of all war relief agencies, particularly the Russian, Yugoslavian, Polish, Czecho-slovakian, British, Greek and Chinese. - 6. To take steps to counteract the appeasers. - 7. To set up a permanent organization to coordinate and assist in carrying out the decisions adopted by the Congress. # Response Exceeds Anticipations The response to the first american Slav Congress ever held in America exceeded all anticipations. It revealed the depth of anti-Axis feeling that has seized hold of the Americans of Slav descent who came expressing desires to do their utmost to the end that the power of Hitlerism, arch-foe of the Slav peoples as of freedom-loving peoples everywhere shall be decisively smashed. The delegates were mostly brawny men from coal mines, steel mills, machine shops—the men on whom the nation is counting for much of its war essential goods production and wholesome—looking women whose faces showed hardening lines of determination beneath war smiles. Mon of Eminence Among Delegates Among the delegates were men and women of distinction in many fields of activity—scholars, writers and clergymen, among them Rev. VINCENT BORKOVIOZ, who represented the Very Rev. Bishop STEFAN S, WOZNICKI at the Congress and delivered the opening invocation; Mctropolitan Bishop Benjamin, of the Russian Orthodox Church; Most Rev. JOHN FAJNOVICH of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Rev. ELWLOWSKI, of Buffalo, New York. RAYMOND TRAVNIK, Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota; Rev. M. F. BENKO, Cleveland; W. MUZIK, President of the Czechoslovak Society of america; and Mrs. MARIE KRAL of the Nat'l Alliance of Czech Catholics. From the serious and restrained mood of the delegates it was visible they had come for the one purpose of agreeing on a common line of action to be taken to guarantee a speedy end of HITLER and the Axis. There was a notable absence of the usual convention hilarity and abandon. ## An International Event It was a wartime meeting dominated by a wartime grimness. That the deliberations of the congress would have international repercussions was evidenced in the more than thousand telegrams from all parts of the world that reached the congress during the sessions. One of the wires greeting it was from a Czech group in Teheran, Persia; there were many from Slavic groups in Chile, Argentina, Canada, and throughout America. Soviet writers and scientists and members of the Yugl-slav government in Kuibyshev wired the congress messages of greetings and good wishes. The Congress was not only an event significant in the history of america's 15 million Slav-descended citizens but fraught with meaning for the destiny of the more than 200 millions of Slav peoples across the seas engaged in a life-and-death struggle against Nazi enslavers. For the first time the peoples of the diverse Slavic groups in America were reaching a common understanding on a world-wide issue—a matter that gave delegates a feeling of considerable satisfaction. Far beyond the brilliantly delivered keynote speeches and the iron note of resolve sounded in the resolutions—all of which raised the assembly to wild cheers of enthusiash—was the vibrant sense of unity which, given expression by the congress carried to the Slav peoples oß throughout the world its ressage of redoubled efforts to crush HITLER and guarantee a democratic victory for the world. # Keynote--Production for Victory Production and sacrifice were the keynote motifs of the main address of the congress delivered by LEO KRZYCKI. Reminding listeners that American Slavs occupy a key position in America's war industrial pattern, he called for greater efforts this year to turn the scales of victory in favor of the democracies. How to safeguard American war production and American morale took up the following sessions which were addressed by Prof. J. J. ZMRHAL, President of the Czechoslovak National Council of America, on fifth-column activities and measures to be taken against them; FRANK N. ISBEY, chairman of the Michigan Defense Savings Program on national morale; ELI OLIVER, of the Labor Division of the War Production Board and GEORGE ADDES, Secretary-Treasurer of the Auto Workers Union on problems facing labor in the war industries. These subjects were treated in further detail in special panel discussions later. # 10,000 Hear Hon. Paul V. McNutt Two thousand plates were served at the banquet tendered the delegates and guests by the Michigan Committee of the American Slav Congress in the Masonic Temple on April 25. But the climax of the congress was a victory rally in the Michigan State Fair Coliseum where 10,000 persons assembled to hear the Hon. PAUL V. McNUTT, Federal Security Administrator and U. S. Government representative to the Congress who greeted the delegates and drew thunderclaps of applause by his appeal for "more tanks for TIMOSHENKO". "In this first Slav Congress you have shown the world the miracle of American unity," he declared. A message from President RUOSEVELT was received wishing the Congress success in its work." # INDEX TO INFORMANTS The following is the Index to Informents mentioned in the report of Special agent CLARENCE E. CLAY, dated November 18, 1942, at Indianapolis, Indiana, in the matter entitled, "AMERICAN SLAY CONGRESS (All-Sley Congress) INTERNAL SECURITY - C", Indianapolis file 100-4006: b2 b7C b7D 0/S PENDING # PEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_246_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_247_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) started calling him down for connecting his name with that of Communism. advised that he knew that was running the labor end of his campaign, and that if he didn't want his name linked with Communists he shouldn't associate with them. advised that during the ensuing conversation admitted that was running the labor end of his campaign, and that he had given support to on the occasion of his announcing his candidacy. Confidential Informant was questioned regarding the infiltration of un-American elements into the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS, and corroborated the information furnished by It should be noted that Confidential Informant advised that the national organization of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS has no control with the various state organizations, such as the New York State and the Michigan State groups of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS. the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS. The national officers, and the national vicepresidents are not being set out here, inasmuch as the correct list is set out in referenced report of Special Agent A. ROBERT SWANSON, dated 3-16-43 at New York City. The following are the names and addresses and organizational connections of the National Board of Directors of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS: Chicago, Ill. Phone Monessen, Pa., Detroit, Mich. Detroit, Mich. Hamtramack, Mich. Detroit, Mich. Cleveland, Ohio Auttenberg, N. J. New York, N. Y. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_247_Picture_13.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) -LUNTI ENTIAL Whiting, Indiana Cleveland, Uhio Rev. KRAJNOVICH, (Deceased), Johnst NOKOLA TESLA, New York City, N. Y. Detroit, Mich. Chicago, Ill. Detroit. Mich. address not known Chicago, Ill. St. Louis, Mo. N. S. Pittsburgh. Pa. Etna, Pa. Dearborn, Mich. Euclid. Ohio Euclid, Ohio Detroit, Mich. Brooklyn, N. Y. Astoria Long Island, N. Detroit. Mich. New York City, N. Y. Cleveland. Ohio Pittsburgh, Pa. address not known Scranton, Pa- Confidential Informant made available to the writer a listing of those persons from the Pittsburgh Field Division who attended the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS in Detroit on April 25 and 26, 1942. It is noted that this list totaled 198 names of persons who were representing 91 different organizations. The Croatian Fraternal Union with 35 representatives attending the Detroit Congress had the largest representation. Next in number of PG #100-3674 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_249_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_249_Picture_2.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) The Newark Field Division will make a preliminary investigation of these officers by checking its indices, and interrogating Communist informants. If such preliminary check indicates Communist activity on the part of such officers, their activities as affects the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS, should be thoroughly investigated and reported herein. THE NEW HAVEN FIELD DIVISION # \* AT BRIDGEPORT, COMMECTICUT Will ascertain the activities held on "All-Slav Sunday", June 21, 1942. Will ascertain the extent of Communist control of the local offices of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS, if such have been established, and in the organizations of which it is composed. ## THE MEW YORK FIELD DIVISION Will check the names of the delegates from New York to the Detroit Congress of April 25, 1942, with the indices, to ascertain if any of the delegates have previously been reported as Communists or as having been affiliated with Communist organizations. Will keep in touch with confidential informants to ascertain further activities of Subject organization. The following individuals are officers of the National Organization of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS, residing in the New York Field Division: ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_249_Picture_12.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) FOUNDAME. 67C ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_250_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) The New York Office will make a preliminary investigation as to such officers by checking the indices and interrogating Communist informants. If such preliminary check indicates Communist activity on the part of such officers, their activities as affects the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS should be thoroughly investigated and reported herein. THE PHILADELPHIA FIELD DIVISION # \* \* AT PHILADELPHIA, PA. Will ascertain the extent of Communist control in local offices of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS and in organizations sending delegates to the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS. THE SAN FRANCISCO FIELD DIVISION # \* AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Through appropriate sources of information, will continue its contact with those All-Slav organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area which are known to subscribe to the platform of the Detroit Congress. Through discreet investigation will endeavor to ascertain the activities of the All-Slavic Second Front Committee which was established in July of 1942. Will continue its survey of organized Communist infiltration into the Slav community of Northern California. THE WASHINGTON FIFTH DIVISION # AT WASHINGTON, D. C. tions mentioned in the with a view to determining Communist control thereof, and particularly to establish relation of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS to the Russian government inspired ALL SLAV CONGRESS held in Moscow. Will ascertain the extent of Communist control of the local offices of the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS, if such have been established, and in the organizations of which it is composed. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_250_Picture_15.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_251_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ## - CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS - is loyalty whose identity is set out in instant report is ## located at It is noted that all persons interviewed in instant report advised that there is no question that might be unloyal, and that he was not in any way a Communist sympathizer. It is also noted that prior to being interviewed in instant matter; was interviewed regarding another case, at which time he voluntarily gave the name of an individual whom he considered to be a Communist. is whose identity is known to the Bureau, although not in connection with any symbol. is previously been used by this office as a informant, and who is known to be reliable. is the report of SA entitled 19 CONTINUE. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_252_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) SUBJECT: AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS CASE: INTERNAL SECURITY - C S. A.: JOHN E. KEANE DATE: 11/5/43 ## TABLE OF CONTENTS | AMERICAN-CARPATHIAN-RUSSIAN COUNCIL AMERICAN SEPBIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY AMERICAN YUGOSIAV NATIONAL LEAGUE ARIA SINGING SOCIETY | | 2 12 3 10 10 | |---|---|---| | | 9 | 6 10 6 6 9 9 6 9 2 9 0 9 10 9 0 4 2, 4 | | CARPATHO-MISSIAN SECTION | · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · | 6, 7 10 7, 8 10 | | CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT CROATIAN FRATERNAL UNION CROATIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS | 13, 10, 11, 12, 10, 11, 12, 10, 11, 12, 10, 11, 12, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15 | 10 , 14 , 13 21 12 , 14 14 14 | | | , · | 14. | -(1) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_253_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) | TEFLA, NCKOLA TESLA, NCKCLA TRI-STATE SLAV CONGRESS | 9, 20 12 19 6 22 8, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 20 9, 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It will serve the dual purpose of keeping you informed of American Slav Congress doings around the country, and of supplying local ASC committees with helpful material for monthly meetings and general activities." The six page ASC Bulletin itself, attached to the above mentioned letter, was dated January-February, 1948, and its contents merolisted as follows: 41860 NY 100-26200 ENCLOSURES (5) TO BUREAU ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_258_Picture_3.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) One copy of scating list of Tastimonial Dinner in honor of Schator CLAUDE PEPPER, Pennsylvania Motel, October 12, 1947; sponsored by American Slav Congress. One copy of press release dated October 12, 1947, intitled, "Excerpts from address of Senator CLLUDE PEPPER (D-Fla.) at Testimenial Dinner for him given by the American Slaw Congress, New York City, October 12, 1947." "Keep Imerica Free! Help Prevent a New Ar! Executes from Report by GEORGE PIRINSKY. Executive Secretary of the American Slav Congress, delivered before the National Committee Leeting, October 11, 1947, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. 1. Truman Doctrine; 2. Larshall Plan; 3. Loyalty Order; 4. Food Crisis; Inflation." Two copies of quarterly magazine "The Slavic American", Winter 1947 issue. PENDING - ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_258_Picture_9.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) NY 100-26200 # CONTIDENTIAL INFORMANTS CON- ANT The Confidential Informants mentioned in the report of SA ELMER L. ROTH dated June 23,1948 at New York are as follows Confidential mailbox maintained by the New York Office: Confidential Informant whose identity is known to the Bureau Confidential Ir cormant whose identit (Treated conficential at request) Confidential Informant whose who arranged to monitor the proceedings at the Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, 10/12/47. SA ELHER L. NOTH, who, with SA LITTLE above, arranged to monitor the proceedings at the hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, 10/12/47. Confidential Informant Confidential Informant hose identity is known to the Bureau. 67C 67D THE # SIAN ENGIN 50¢ Louis Adamic Thomas Bell S. Garbuzov Abner Green E. Konecky Alvena Seckar Marie Seton Lyla Y. Slocum M. Vladimirova Ilene Vlahov Ella Winter ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_260_Picture_4.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) NIKOLA TESLA - Poet in Electricity HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BY SPIECE - 391860 **WINTER 1947** # Nikola TESLA ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_261_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Whose daring imagination and concrete accomplishments are among the wonders of our age. # By PAULINE KLOPACKA January of 1943 in comparative seclusion in a New York hotel, he owned no more than the few personal possessions that had become dear to him during the 86 years of his life. Yet his estate was so fabulous that its value can never be truly assessed. And his heirs were the men and women of all the world. What price can be put on the work of a man who brought into being the electric power era? The industrial giant that the U. S. is today rests on the series of brilliant discoveries and inventions in the harnessing and transmission of electricity conceived by Nikola Tesla, who came to this country from the land of the South Slavs when he was 28 years of age. It was at midnight between July 9 and 10 in 1856 that a son, Nikola was born to the Rev. Milutin Tesla and Djouka, his wife, in the little Serbian village of Smiljan, in the province of Lika. Now a part of Yugoslavia, it was at that time under Austro-Hungarian rule. Tesla's father, a Serb, was a pries of the Greek Church, and his mother of a distinguished Serbian family came from a long line of inventors Both father and mother gave to the child a valuable heritage and culture developed and passed on by ancestral families that had been community leaders for many generations. It was at first planned that the son prepare for the priesthood but Nikola would have none of this. Physics and mathematics fascinated him. He would be a teacher of these favorite subjects. But then he switched to electrical engineering and at the age of 25 a graduate of Prague University—earlier training had been obtained at the Graz Polytechnic in Austria—he was set for his first job. At that time the American Telephone System was brought to Europe and an installation set up in Budapest, where Tesla was a successful applicant for a position. THREE years later, in 1884, he was U. S. bound. There were 4 cents in the young immigrant's pocket when he arrived in New York, but that did not disturb him. He had the names of friends. He would soon get to work. His confidence was well founded, since within a few years he was counted among the ranking scientists of the country, his discoveries bringing in handsome royalties. It is interesting to note the description of Tesla at this time by his biographer, J. J. O'Neill in the book, "Prodigal Genius": "Tesla was a ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_261_Picture_15.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Drawings by Alvena Secka spectacular figure in New rk in 1891. A tall, dark, handst well-built individual with a flare for wearing clothes that gave him an air of magnificence, who spoke perfect English but carried an atmosphere of European culture. He was an outstanding personality to all who beheld him." One of his colleagues described him as "immaculately groomed, and of delightful courtesy and charm." A review of Tesla's work is nothing short of amazing. To quote from J. J. O'Neill's book: "It was Tesla's invention of the polyphase alternating current system that was directly responsible for harnessing Niagara Falls and opening the modern electric superpower era in which electricity is transported for hundreds of miles to operate the tens of thousands of mass production factories of our industrial system. "Every one of the tall, Martian transmission lines that stalks across the earth and whose wires carry electricity to distant cities is a monument to Tesla, every dynamo and every motor that drives every machine in the country is a monument to him. "He discovered the secret of transmitting electric power to the utmost ends of the earth without wires and demonstrated his system by which power could be drawn from the earth anywhere by making a connection to the ground; he set the entire earth in electrical vibration with a generator which sprouted lightning that rivaled the fiery artillery of the heavens. It was a minor portion of this discovery that he created the modern radio system. He planned our broadcasting methods of today 40 years ago when others saw in the wireless only the dot and dash message that might save ships in distress. Tesla was an inventor but he was much more than a producer of devices. He was a discoverer of new principles opening many new empires of knowledge which even today have been only partly explored. In a single burst of invention he created the world of power of today. "He brought into being our electric power era, the rock bottom foundation on which the industrial system of the entire world is builded. He gave us our mass production system for without his motors and currents it could not exist. "He gave us every essential of current radio. He invented radar 40 years before its use in World War II. He gave us our modern neon and other forms of gaseous tube lighting. He gave us fluorescent lighting. He gave us the high frequency currents which are performing their electronic wonders throughout the industrial and medical world. He gave us remote control by wireless." Always proud of his national origin, Tesla spoke as follows during his visit to Belgrade in 1892 in answer to a speech of welcome by the city's mayor: "There is something in which is only perhaps illusory...! I ut if I were to be sufficiently fortunate to bring about at least some of my ideas it would be for the benefit of all humanity. If these hopes become one day a reality, my greatest joy would spring from the fact that this work would be the work of a Serb." Tesla dedicated his life to peace, to lightening the burden of toil from the shoulders of his fellow man. As every scientist who so interprets his function in society, he was stricken when he saw the coming of World War II and his inventions being prepared for destructive purposes. He sought desperately to prevent the war and made available a device which he offered to the world, maintaining that it would make any country, no matter how small, safe within its boundaries. His offer was rejected. But once the war was an accomplished fact, and when the people's armies rose in defense of their nations in what appeared to be an unequal fight, he did all he could to rally his countrymen to work to the limit in the war effort. Shortly before his death he wrote as follows to his nephew, M. Sava Kosanovic, now Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.S.: "President Roosevelt and Donald Nelson, Director of our War Production have repeatedly urged the American people, workers and employers, to meet as fully as possible the goals established for the production of war materials. . . . For that reason, my dear brothers and sisters, as the oldest Serb, Yugoslav and American in the U. S., I am addressing this letter to you, asking you to answer the call of President Roosevelt. "The achievements of our brothers in the old country are worthy of the spirit which permeates our folklore ... the fate of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is inseparable." Tesla was not satisfied with his achievements in releasing the earth's energies so that men could work with less backbreaking effort and live more comfortably. The man who could draw up a design for a perfect motor was also concerned with drawing up a plan for a better world. When Tesla read the address of the then Vice-President, Henry A. Wallace, on The Future of the Common Man, he was fired with enthusiasm. The Yugoslav edition of the speech included a preface by Nikola Tesla written in October, 1942: "Out of this war, the greatest since the beginning of history, a new world must be born, a world that would justify the sacrifices offered by humanity. This new world must be a world in which there shall be no exploitation of the weak by the strong, of the good by the evil; where there will be no humiliation of the poor by the violence of the rich; where the products of intellect, science and art will serve society for the betterment and beautification of life, and not individuals for the amassing of wealth. This new world shall not be a world of the downtrodden and humiliated, but of free men and free nations, equal in dignity and respect for man..." This man, whose work was so advanced of his time that much of it still remains unexplored could have amassed millions, but he was so little interested in personal gain that to save his friend, Mr. Westinghouse, from bankruptcy he tore up a contract which would have brought him \\$12 millions in royalties. Pressed for funds during the latter part of his life, many of his inventions are lost to the world. But though he was often short of money he would walk over to Herald Square and feed the pigeons. It was almost a sacred trust, feeding the pigeons twice a day. They had been his personal responsibility through the years, and if he could not be there to do the feeding, a Western Union messenger boy would be hired to do the job in his stead. Often he would forget an important engagement so that he might keep his "date" on Herald Square. The pigeons were a way to relaxation, a note of warmth in an otherwise rigidly disciplined life. He had few friends and never married, since he felt a scientist must keep himself free of personal relationships that would be unduly demanding. Restless and earer to unravel every possible unknown to the very end of (Continued on page 49) # - GEO MILEV describes only from the standpo' of his art. . . In his attitude to d various events in the life around him, which impress him strongly, he does not take sides. He does not praise one and hurt the other; he merely describes everything he sees, describes it with the delicate, sweet colors of poetry...." Geo was fined 20,000 leva and sentenced to one year in prison. He could not believe that the court could make such a decision. With joking reference to the dullness of "their Honors," he left the courtroom believing that the decision would never be carried out. He was right. Unable to enforce their decision legally, the government resorted to illegal means. Next day, May 15, 1925, Geo was kidnapped from his home and killed by underlings of Prime Minister Alexander Tzankoff. The cultural world of Europe protested Geo's death. Henri Barbusse, of France, visited Bulgaria to investigate the case. In his book "The Murderers" he made reference to the circumstances of Geo's death. Max Reinhardt protested and "regretted the loss of a very gifted theater director." Oskar Kokoshka, in Vienna, recognized the loss of "a precious critic and learned connoisseur of modern art" Many Bulgarian writers were silent. Fearing for their lives, they did not dare to speak a word for Geo Milev or express regret for his death. The more courageous of them stated that "talent such as Geo's is born only once in a hundred years," that "He was the most cultured Bulgarian," "The most honest and courageous." THE youth and the common people deeply mourned for Geo. They knew they had lost a sincere friend and inspirer. Unable to use the Bulgarian printing presses, they copied his poem by hand and learned it by heart. Bulgarian students abroad printed it in Paris, and in Belgrade. In Prague it was translated into # TESLA (Continued from page 4 his life, he read a paper on the occasion of his 80th birthday on the perfection of a tube for atom smashing. As if that were not enough, he also presented a system of interplanetary communication. Thus the fragmentary story of the life and work of a Yugoslav immigrant who, like so many tens of thousands of his fellow countrymen, left their homeland rather than live as subjects within the Austro-Hungarian empire. He made a unique contribution to his adopted land, so ideally suited to the full scope of his genius, "the like of which in all history could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand." It is to be hoped that just as he brought electrification to the U. S. in the short span of ten years, his adopted country might assist in the full electrification of the Balkans, reversing its present policy toward New Yugoslavia. Czech and in Russia into Russian A few courageous young people in Bulgaria printed pamphlets about Geo. They were promptly tortured and imprisoned. We, his family, searched for him for months, but we never learned exactly where and how he was killed. There were rumors that he had been shot in the mountains, that he had been burned in the furnace of "Public Safety." These measures were used by Bulgarian Fascists long before the world knew of Hitler. Both stories, however, avowed that his spirit was not crushed. Geo's voice was silenced forever. The murderers triumphed, but they forgot that he who speaks for the freedom of a tormented and deprived people does not die. In today's New Bulgaria, Geo Milev is honored as one of her most cherished sons. Geo's poems are celebrated especially by the youth of today, the heirs of the September Revolution of 1944, which fulfilled his prediction of a decade before that "September will be May." # THE AMERICAN SLAV of Canton, Ohio welcomes the new magazine # THE SLAVIC AMERICAN and projects best wishes for its success. This organ, we know, will be a great contribution to the enlightenment of the homes of American Slavs. Greetings to the Second Issue 0 # THE SLAVIC AMERICAN and Best Wishes for Continued Success in the Coming Year # ALL SLAVIC COUNCIL OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 739 Page Street, San Francisco, Calif # GREETINGS FROM Greetings from Lodge 3052 American-Russian Fraternal Society, IWO 1010 East Foss Avenue Flint, Mich. Greetings from CLUB "YUGO-FORWARD" Detroit, Mich. # THE STANLEY THEATRE The Best Films from the U.S.S.R. NOW! "THE GREAT GLINKA" 7th Ave. & 42nd St. New York City Best Wishes for Success to THE SLAVIC AMERICAN American Russian Fraternal Society Lodge 3069 120 Glenmore Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. 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Civil liberties are being destroyed. Millions cry out for relief from unbearably high prices. The American Way of Life is in danger." The American Way of Life has been the issue in any American election ever since 1776. Every voter who goes to the polls, votes—intelligently or mistakenly: independently or under the spell of inveterate partisanship—for one or another concept of Of course, various people, living in various circumstances, have various ideas of what constitutes the American Way of Life. I propose to state my ideas of it: also I shall presume to fit those ideas within the frame of the new Progressive Party which must continue to grow from its As I see the American Way of Life its principles were born of the American Revolution. They were won in struggle; nothing as fundamenta and deep-reaching comes easy. They are stated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Our job now is to perceive what policies and measures will safeguard the Way against decay and corruption. and will further its growth and evolution to meet successfully the problem of changing times and new conditions. The principles of 1776 are as valid as ever, but life is different today from what it was then. Fortunately growth and change are of the very essence of the American Way The first principle of the American Way of Life is the right to life itself: and this must be safeguarded against war on the one hand, and on the other against poverty, which in recent decades has taken a far heavier toll than any war in which this nation has ever so far been involved—though the "next war," if we permit it to be drummed up, will reverse the "Why Go to War to Keep Others From Having Their Way of Life," asks Adamic The second principle of the American Way is *liberty*... it has always been our slogan and our pride. But we have long been cautioned that its price is eternal vigilance, and we know how to recognize those who have designs on it. The third principle of our Way is abundance. When migrants from Europe first began to settle here, this was a land rich in the gifts of nature; and for all that those gifts have been abused by ignorance and irresponsibility, and particularly by exploiters and monopolists. Our resources are still great enough—if deforestation and erosion are checked in time, and if our mineral resources are properly conserved—to afford abundance, the good life, to all the inhabitants of These States. And a fourth principle of the American Way is opportunity. THE Progressive Party promises to safeguard the right to life by avoiding war—always the saddest failure of morality and now the potenial destroyer of human society and the globe itself Whether or not we can avoid World War III, I don't know; but I do know this—that if we don't try to avoid it, nothing else is worth try- OUR ADAMIC ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_266_Picture_14.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Slovenian American author and lecturer, a foremost authority on national groups, he is a prolific writer. Among his works are My Native Land. Dinner at the White House, Nation of Nations. My America. He lishes a current affairs bulletin, Trends and Tides, issued from his home in Milford, New Jersey. ing to do nowadays. It is futile to wonder about the kind of curtains you'll hang up in your living-room ... futile to write or read books, to go to lectures or to school . . . silly to worry about being called a Red or a Communist, or whatever, or about being hauled up before the fantastic Un-American Activities Committee ... futile to work at your job, whatever it may be . . . silly to worry about keeping on the good side of whoever can take that job away from you. War or peace? I don't know; but if we want any sort of future for this country, for the rest of the world, for ourselves and the Russians, for you and me personally, then we'd better work for peace... stand up for peace... stand up with our new political vehicle, the Progressive Party. The Progressive Party further proposes to safeguard the right to life by abolishing poverty. Cynics, presstitutes, and generally people without hope and vision say this can't be done. They say Henry Wallace is a starry-eyed visionary. We say it can be done if we will jealously maintain freedom, bear in mind the limitless capabilities of Americans, and keep the grip of monopoly from arrogating the resources that should serve all. and if we will insist upon the application of the ever more marvelous discoveries and techniques of science for the common good. The Progressive Party proposes to safeguard liberty — not with more lip service, but by adhering fully to the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and all subsequent amendments, in all their vitality and integrity, and by reviving and enhancing the programs and formulations of Roosevelt's New Deal. 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And note how all these things are inter-related. Liberty is imperiled by poverty, by monopoly, by war. Every measure which the new party proposes is a measure the segment liberty. By abundance, the new party means that our rich land—and our skills, brought here by immigrants from the Old World in the last 300 years—shall produce all that is needed to make the good life available to every law-abiding and industrious man and woman here, and their children, regardless of color, race or religion; and that these fruits of enterprise and labor shall not be so ill-divided that a few are glutted with a surfeit of luxuries while many who toil and sweat must for reasons beyond their control still go "ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed." The pioneers who first possessed the Atlantic seaboard and later pressed westward through the forests and the prairies, could win abundance by strength and industry, by the wide swing of the axe, the true aim of the flintlock, and the firm hand on the plow. There was opportunity galore. Almost any man could get land for the asking or for a few dollars an acre, and become (Continued on page 29) | AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS 205 East 42nd Street New York 17, N. Y. | |---| | \\$4 for album of 4 records | | I enclosefor \[\] album(s) | | Name | | A.1.1 | (Make checks and money orders payable to AMERICAN SLAY CONGRESS an independent farmer. Any man could set up a little store in a new community and become a prosperous merchant as the town grew. Almost any man could start a paper, establish a factory or mill, or open a mine, and become an industrialist. This is no longer true. Millions of square miles have been rendered useless for human use and habitation by irresponsible deforestation and by erosion. The number of family farms dwindles yearly; every day hundreds of independent merchants and small mining, milling and manufacturing companies are forced out of business by the power of monopoly, centered in Wall Street. The relentless limitation of opportunity, the shrinking of abundance for millions, the violences done to liberty in defiance of the Constitution and in contempt of the tradition that began in 1776, the further threat against freedom in the ominous form of military rule, the denial of life itself to unnumbered victims of poverty, and the grave threat to all our lives in the probability of a war waged with atom bombs and bacteria—these developments, conditions and prospects now imperil the American Way of Life. The Progressive Party proposes to restore and safeguard and extend that Way—the emphasis is on the word "extend." Nothing in nature stands still, and no more can human economic and social and political institutions. Change is the key principle of the American Way—growth, adaptation, progress. Had it not been for that principle, the USA would not exist—we would not now be debating the decisions made in an election: we would still be colonial subjects, or we wouldn't be here at all. If we remembered more vividly what daring it took in 1776 to reject monarchy and form a republic, we would have less hesitation in rejecting the National Association of Manufacturers' notions of "free enterprise." and adopting measures more in keeping with today's facts of life. We would not hesitate to defy the greatest power on earth—that of monopoly corporations and cartels, whose agents have lately seized control of the U.S. Government Under Henry Wallace's leadership, the Progressive Party offers itself as a medium through which those who love their country and are also in favor of their own rightful individual interests can express themselves politically . . . in 1949 . . . 1950 . . . in 1952, assuming that the "next war." now being drummed up, won't destroy us all before then. We know now that we have established a firm foundation for the new party under the leadership of Henry Wallace and Glen Taylor. Personally, I was not in this campaign only in reference to this year's election or because I think, as I do think, that Henry Wallace is a great American who should be in the White House in this crucial period. In the main, I was in this campaign because, like Wallace and Taylor, like many other Americans. I became convinced that neither of the old parties is fit to deal with the profound crisis which is coming to a climax in these middle years of the 20th century. I am in this movement because I want to thelp build a new people's party that will be capable of coping with the crisis now converging upon us and the rest of the world. Like many Americans, I am foreign-born; and every once in a while I hear or read some remark to the effect that I have no right to be doing what I am doing—helping the growth of a new party which hopes to save the peace. Such remarks amuse me. It so happens that I have read rather extensively in American history, not as taught in most schools. but as it really happened; and I am impressed by this fact—that in all crucial or climactic periods in the career of this country, the so-called foreigners played important roles. The Irish and German elements, for instance, were the big "foreign" groups around 1776, and it was they who became the backbone of General Washington's revolutionary army. The Irish and German elements also furnished the mass support to Thomas Jefferson when he started a new party 150 years ago. Jefferson did not triumph immediately (as Wallace didn't); his supporters stood it with him until he did (as I hope we will Continued on page 30) MARY ANTONIC BOZO BARANIC MILO BARANIC JOHN BEZELJ PAUL BIAZEVICH KAY BEGOVICH FLORENCE FERKICH GEORGE GELSOVICH STEVE HROSTI FRANK KURSOC LJUBICA LOVRICH ANTON PESUSICH ERICA PETRAS NICK PETRICH A. PUJATCKY LUCY LJUBENKO Lodge 3172, A.R.F.S., Sioux City, Iowa PETER ZAKUTONSKY LOUIS KLYM MARY KLYM HELEN WONSOWIC PAUL ROMANOV MARY ROMANOV BRANCH No. 14 LEMKO ASS'N, GARY, IND. BRANCH No. 3295, IWO, CARPATHO-RUSSIANS, GARY, IND. MILLIE KLYM MICHAEL KLYM ANNA SAMOZKA WALTER IVANZOWICZ A.S.C. of Newark, N. J. JOHN J. KASKEVICH, M.D. 530 Summer Ave., Newark JOHN BENKO JOHN DOLINAJEC MICHAEL DROBAN STEVEN DZUROSKA STEPHEN HRUSKA TILLY JANOVITZ MICHAEL KOLARIK STEFAN LACKO JOSEPH MATEJKA MICHAEL MATEJKA JOSEPH MEDVECKY IMRO RIBAR SHEPERO SHOE STORE MATEJ STROMKO STEFA TAL JOSEPH TURZA FRANK ZAVARTKAJ JOSEPH ZILINEK ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_269_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Delegates join in singing the National Anthem. # The American Way (Continued from page 29) with Wallace). The same was true again in the period of Andrew Jackson, when American democracy took another long step forward. When Lincoln came along and started a new party, his most steadfast backing came from the numerous new-immigrant groups—Germans, Finns, Poles. Scandinavians and others. This was quite natural. As new-comers who came here seeking liberty, abundance and opportunity, they had a more acute sense of what America professed, and they took American principles more seriously than many of the old-line Americans who had begun to be matter-of-fact, if not smug, about the country. As newcomers, they were somewhat outside the mainstream of American life. By going behind the cause of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln, they became part of the mainstream. They promoted themselves from second-class citizens to first-class. It was Americanization at its very best. It made history, it enriched the traditions, it integrated the new Americans into the country as a whole. And it is quite natural, and very fortunate, that many of us in the new-immigrant groups have joined with many old-line Negro Americans, with many white Americans of the earlier immigration waves, with Henry Wallace, in this movement to form a new party and make it competent to deal with the complex problems looming before us. Many of us Slavic Americans already in 1946 and early in 1947, sensed that Henry Wallace was right, and we became part of the growing impulse to form a new party. Regardless of what some of our opponents have said, this fact is strictly and wonderfully in the American tradition. It is part of the Americanization process. It is according to the American Way. We are promoting ourselves from second-class to first-class citizenship. This is resented by some of the Americans of the older strains, the self-styled standard Americans; but don't let that worry you too much. They, too, are being Americanized or re-Americanized as you assume your full rights and duties of citizenship. Americanism has its standards, to be sure; very high standards; but it is not anything rigid or dead; it is alive, vital, open to change and enrichment. Slavic Americans are part of the whole immense American dynamic which is as yet little understood, and is full of promises and dangers. By coming here, we of the new immigration greatly complicated the American civilization as it was, say, 90 or 100 years ago. Most Slavic immigrants became workers in the great industries, and now their energy is integral with the American scene as a whole. Most immigrants in the last 100 years or so worked hard, many of them too hard at too little pay, and helped to create a complex industrial machine which, lest it overwhelm us, now needs intelligent handling and control. It is our duty to take an active interest in finding an approach to the immense industrial, economic and social problems facing us: for, let me repeat, our coming here and our labors in the last several decades have helped to create these problems. Most of us who came over were ordinary people. But in the new immigration waves were also some extraordinary human beings. There was, for instance, a man of genius, Nikola Tesla. His numerous inventions now are one of the most important factors in the immense American industrial scheme which throbs with the high promises that pulsated through Tesla's brain, but which are also full of dangers. Personally, as one who happens to be proud of being of the same background as was Tesla. I feel it is my special duty to help do what is necessary to insure that Tesla's work, as well as the work of ordinary men and women, will go into the fulfillment of promises in our American Way of Life, rather than contribute to the catastrophe now threatening. IN 1942, Henry Wallace made his famous speech on "The Century of the Common Man." Nikola Tesla, who was a very uncommon man, publicly endorsed that speech in glowing terms. And I think that I speak not only for myself, but also for Tesla, when I assert that the American Way of Life is not the way of incredibly greedy monopoly profits and prohibitive prices for the necessities of life. Look at this picture: Millions of men in their best years who fought and suffered, many of whom will carry greater or lesser disabilities to their graves—veterans to whom we said "Nothing is too good for you"—are unable to secure homes of minimum decency and convenience. Their families cannot be adequately fed with meat at 70¢ to \\$1.20 a pound. Whatever wage increases they may secure (Continued on page 32) # comments # from our readers ## Dear Editor: Our small club of eight members, from a small mining community in Pennsylvania, until recently was known as the Rural Ridge Busy Knitters Club. We are now a chapter of the Congress of American Women. We have only fifteen dollars in our treasury and out of this we are sending you \\$10, because of our desire to contribute to the work you are doing. May it help in some way towards The Slavic American's fight for freedom and democracy. > Anna Tominac, Pres. Anne Kondrick, Sec'y Julia Pukavina, Treas Rural Ridge, Pa. ## Dear Editor: I send you post haste my renewal subscription for The Slavic American. In all sincerity—keep up the good work for you are doing an excellent job in the struggle against fascism. I never miss an issue. Rev. Eliot White New York, N. Y. ## Dear Editor: How about more profiles on Slavic American writers and scientists like Nikola Tesla? The field for this type of material is virtually endless. Anton Markulic Los Angeles, Calif. (See page 13-Ed.) # The American Way Continued from page 30) through their unions, increased living costs still stay one jump ahead of them. We of the Progressive Party say this is not the American Way of Life. And "we" includes great numbers of ex-GIs and young workers, old-stock Americans and immigrants: Americans of all breeds and backgrounds. If all Americans are employed at better than mere-existence wages or are engaged in business or professional activities at a reasonable compensation; if all Americans are well clothed and fed; if all Americans are secure instead of uncertain and worried, as the majority are today, there will be no war. The Hearsts, Peglers, Forrestals and Bullitts won't get to first base in trying to propagandize us into fear and hate of other countries which are emerging out of backwardness and, because of their different historic experiences, are attempting a different system for providing benefits and opportunities for their citizens. Why go to war to keep others from having their way of life? We in the Wallace movement, in the Progressive Party, insist on peace in order to keep the American Way of Life. If our approach prevails in time, there will be no war and Russia will be no danger to America, to the American Way of Life. The chief danger to this country and to our institutions under the Constitution lies in our present highlevel politicians and wire-pullers who have raised the cry of Communism and of the Russian menace as a smokescreen to neutralize any possible militancy on the part of labor, to scare us in the new-immigrant groups, to frighten the Negroes, and to confuse the people generally so they won't be able to figure out who or what is responsible for high living costs. Henry Wallace clearly means what he says; so he and his active supporters were smeared, lest too many voters vote for him and in their own interest. The old-line politicians and wire- pullers and their propagandists are not afraid of Communism, but of American democracy and of the American people; of the people getting wise to themselves and demanding a return to the American Way of Life—the Way defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. That's what they are afraid of . . . . that's what we Progressives stand for . . . and that's what will prevail if you and I, all of us and all of our neighbors wherever we come from, do everything in our power to build the new party that has come into being around the personality and political philosophy of Henry Wallace. We, all of us, will have to do all we can in this post-election period to make of the Progressive Party a party capable of saving the country and helping to bring about a world in which the American Way of Life will include not warlike antagonism, but constructive interest in the ways of life in other countries. # FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_272_Picture_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) NY 100-27583 reference report that indices of the New York office be checked against the names of the persons discovered to be corresponding with the subject in Cincinnatia SAVA KOSANOVICH first came to the attention of the Bureau in January, 1943, after the death of NIKOLA TESLA, one of the world's outstanding scientists in the electrical field. During his lifetime, TESLA conducted many experiments in connection with the wireless transmission of electrical power and just prior to his death, was interested in what is commonly called the "death-ray". The notes and records of TESIA's experiments and formulae, together with designs of machinery necessary for their operation, were reported to be among TESIA's personal effects, after his death. It was reported that KOSANOVICH claimed to be a nephew of TESLA, and he attempted to secure possession of TESLA's personal effects, and hired a private locksmith to gain access to TESLA's possessions. The Bureau was interested because of the supposedly vital importance of TESLA's inventions and the desire to keep them out of enemy hands, as one informant maintains that KOSANOVICH was pro-Axis in his sympathies. The matter was later handled as an alien enemy, custodial detention matter and no further investigation conducted by this office. The Bureau advised by letter of January 21, 1943, that its files revealed confidential information concerning NIKOLA TESLA and his inventions and advised that one NICOLA TESLA, who might be identical with NIKOLA TESLA, made a speech in Springfield, Massachusetts on July 4, 1922 under the auspices of the Friends of Soviet Russia. The was further advised that one SAVA KOSANOVICH, described as the Minister of Supply, arrived with other Yugoslavian Government Officials at Norfolk, Virginia on September 4, 1941. In another instance, the name of SAVA NV KOSANOVICH appeared on the stationery of the CEMTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN PLANNING BOARD (Csechoslovakia, Greece, Poland, Yugoslavia). In this letterhead, KOSANOVICH was described as chairman of the board and inister of State for Yugoslavia. It was stated that this board was interested in planning for post-war Europe. In still another Bureau file, it was disclosed that SAVA KOSANOVICH, a Serbian, was a member of one of the Yugoslavian minority parties and when an emergency government to overthrow an illiance with the Axis was formed, he was included as an official of the # Office Memorandum • United States Government ro : WR. TOLSON DATE: Jan. 30, 195. FROM . L. B. NICHOLS SUBJECT: WESTBROOK PEGLER ALL IN CHARTION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BY PLACE Westbrook Pegler called yesterday and said he would be in town for the next two or three days and wanted to see me. I told him I would be glad to see him late yesterday or today at his convenience. He is coming in today at 2:30 p.m. I asked him if there was anything special which would require my doing any checking. He stated there were two things he wanted to discuss. 1. The case of Nicola Tesla and Abraham N. Spanel, President of International Latex Corporation, that he Pegleragove some information to Rogers of the Senate Investigating Committee three or four years ago and Rogers brushed it off stating the witness Pegler wanted to present was unreliable. Our files reflect that Nicola Tesla was one of the world's outstanding scientists and in fact designed the generators installed at Niagara Falls. He died in New York on January 7, 1943, and is supposed to have left details and plans for a 80-called death ray. Spanel and Henry Wallace, according to Pegler, tried to get hold of it. Our files also reflect that Colonel Erskine of Wilitary Intelligence called us on January 9, 1943, advising that Tesla had died, that A. Spanel had communicated with the War Department regarding this death, that Tesla had a nephew named Sava Kosanovich who had taken possession of Tesla's papers and Spanel thought the papers might be used against our Government. We made an immediate inquiry in New York and the first report was that Kosanovich and others entered Tesla's room with the aid of a locksmith, broke into a safe containing some of Tesla's valuable papers including formula. Coincident with this, on January 8, L. M. C. Smith called Mr. Tamm regarding the death of Tesla and Smith stated he was talking to the Alien Property Custodian about seizing these items. We interviewed Spanel who expressed concern over Tesla's effects and Spanel stated that Kosanovich had turned over the effects of Tesla to the Alien Property Custodian. Spanel further stated the day before Tesla died, he tried to get in touch with the War Department to make available certain patents 346936 5 Galliani 1 4 195 RECORDED - 18 INDEXED - 18 COPIES DESTROYED FX - 8 894 Jul 07 1002 0/5 It turned out that Kosanovich at this time was secretary of state to the Yugoslav Government in exile in New York. He later became Ambassador and returned to Yugoslavia Tast year. We investigated him on various occasions as a possible espionage agent. However, there were no overt acts ever developed. In 1945, we talked to a Private Bloyce Fitzgerald, who stated he had been associated with Tesla, and that the Army believed that Tesla's "death ray" is the only defense against atom bombs. It was very clear we had no responsibility for Tesla's effects, that the Alien Property Custodian seized them and we learned later that Naval authorities made microfilms of all his papers. Kosanovich communicated with the Bureau on March 29, 1950, and under date of April 3, 1950, in response to his request for the microfilms of the papers of Tesla, who was a relative of Kosanovich, we advised Kosanovich that this Bureau had never been in possession of Tesla's papers. I see in the file there are conflicting reports on Kosanovich: some people say he is a Communist; others say he is not a Communist but is a Tito opportunist. On one occasion, on December 11, 1946, we observed Nathan Gregory Stivermaster and in a meeting with Kosanovich in New York City. Senator VcCarthy furnished the Bureau five communication received from a which pertained primarily to Abraham Spanel. This individual mentioned the FBI at length in these communications, pointing out that Ur. Forworth had been called in on the Tesla case but was killed shortly thereafter. He further stated that he was associated with Fitzgerald and as such came in touch with Tesla. He stated the FBI investigated this matter but their hands were tied, that there was nothing the FBI could do as they had been stopped from a higher level, that Harvey Rath. the FBI Agent he dealt with, resigned and requested never to discuss the matter with him again, that he had a wife and family to consider and that the last hope was Congress. These communications were furnished to the Department on September 19, 1950. The checks we have made on Spanel reflect allegations he is pro-Soviet and others that he is a patriotic American. It is significant that Spanel filed suit against King Features in 1945 for \\$6,000,000, alleging libel on the part of Pegler. We did have an Agent, Harvey E. Rath, who entered on duty February 16, 1942, resigned April 5, 1946. At the time he restaned, he stated he was going into the toy business with Avenue, and his residence was Street, East Urange, New Jersey. The file does not indicate that we have ever interviewed Rath on the basis of allegations. I think we should see what specifics Pegler wants. I think we can tell him on the Tesla papers that when they were reported to us, the Department stated that the Alien Property Custodian was going to seize the papers and that we learned Spanel had called the War Department about the papers falling into the wrong hands. I think the less we can give Pegler the better as the libel suit might still be pending. Again, he may be looking for information to públicize Spanel and International Latex. 2. Pegler stated that he wanted to find out something about who was ordered deported. He referred to the information he jumished to me last Fall about being in Houston. We made a check on that and found had some oil wells. I will limit anything I furnish him on to public record material and will go only as far as needed to protect the Bureau's interest. Paque. ( intermed? he ew York (65-14842)(Info) ashington Field (100-19816) PROPERTY Of the This confidential report and its contents are labeled to you by the FBI and are not to be distributed outside of agency to which loaded. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_278_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 62 670 671 who was directly responsible for was a known Titoist Communist and was certain that although he never admitted it, was also a Communist, however, could not advise whether he was a Titoist Communist, because he had not seen since the TITO-STALIN break. did not see or hear of after his until the said are not heard from a mutual acquaintance that the employment of as part of a concerted effort to eliminate United States croizens from with regard to the subject who recently of known reliability of known reliability of known reliability of known reliability of known reliability departed on where they expected to were destined for the residence of described as feet, inches, talk # INTERVIEW OF THE SUBJECT 67C 0/S office by SA and the reporting Agent, on May 9, 10, and 13, 1952, and by on May 26, 1952. # History Prior to Entering United States 67C where he spent his early youth. About the age of he began attending the and was at this school for years. He said the curriculum was comparable to that of a high school in the United States, or a trade school, with an emphasis upon fundamental The subject said that while in attendance, he took years instruction in the English language. Following graduation, he went to ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_278_Picture_12.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_279_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Subject said he may have attempted to distribute some but that it was not Communist Party literature. Which ensued, nor # Acquaintanceship with Officials in the Yugoslav Government New York City with representatives of the Hovalist government who came as ministers for the Government in exile. Admitted at this time he was interested in Yugoslav matters, Yugoslav progress in engineering, and their advances in equipment. He said he was also desirous of making the acquaintance of NIKOLATESLA, who was an outstanding Yugoslav scientist and one of the founders of Westinghouse. He said he first learned of the London group (Yugoslav government in exile) in the newspapers and, when visiting in New York City, he visited them in the office which was on Park Avenue, as he recalled. By this means he first became acquainted with SAVA KOSANOVIC. KOSANOVIC eventually became an important official with the Tito government (being Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States), and subject was friendly with him despite the fact he saw him infrequently Their friendship resulted from a mutual knowledge of persons saw KOSANOVIC a couple of times Was in the originally met at the held and vasu Trivanovic, deceased, economist and writer, and was described by the subject as when he saw him in where both were staying at that time. KOSANOVIC was Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States from 1946 to 1950, and subject saw him upon occasion despite the fact he has had little contact with the political representatives of that government since He said KOSANOVIC was not a great ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_279_Picture_11.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_280_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) administrator, but he has considerable respect for him in many ways. He believes that KOSANOVIC emphasized to the Yugoslav government that he (KOSANOVIC), would be especially effective as Ambassador because he was a nephew of TESLA (mentioned above) and a friend of Mayor LA GUARDIA. and other influential persons in this country. According to KOSANOVIC is believed to be in disfavor in Yugoslavia now because of an article he wrote in defense of the Yugoslav-Nazi Pact some years previous. He has been under attack by theoreticians of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia for this article. In opinion, KOSANOVIC is not a Communist, and he believes that KOSANOVIC is against Marxism. With regard to who was eventually said he may have met him, and shaken hands with him in New York City, but he can recall no other occasion when he may have met him. He said was on a higher political level than KOSANOVIC, and had been He explained that under the Royalist government, and he is uncertain how has resolved this philosophic conflict, in view of his high position in the Tito government. # Acquaintanceship with LOUIS ADAMIC said he first corresponded with ADAMIC after the publication of ADAMIC's book, "Native's Return," which was published a number of years ago. As a Yugoslav National in this country, was interested in ADAMIC's work and initiated correspondence with mim. At a subsequent date, possibly in late 1941 or early 1942, ADAMIC was publishing a bulletin for distribution to persons in the United States who were of Yugoslav descent. and shortly thereafter ADAMIC got in touch with the subject. He estimated it to be in the fall or winter of 1942 when he first met ADAMIC. In the spring of 1943, a rally was to be held in the Slovene Hall on St. Clair Avenue, in Cleveland, Ohio, in an effort to obtain funds for Yugoslav relief, and ADAMIC at that time requested the subject to participate. He said he thereafter saw him four or five times before in New York a couple of times, and also at Yugoslav Embassy receptions held in Washington, D. C. 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In applicant went to not and thereafter her 67C should indicate that ELIZABETH T. BENTLEY is incorrect when she accuses him of furnishing information from the files of because the Russians had highly-placed officials in so any information could furnish concerning that Agency would have been of little value compared to what the Russians who were more highly placed would have been able to furnish. admitted he had been in He said he was employed in at that time. attempted to distribute some labor literature but it was not Communist Party literature. he was not nor was ship in while in ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_284_Picture_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) WFO 138-4085 EDT:mjr made contact in New York City with representatives of the Royalist government who came as ministers for the Government in exile. Admitted at this time he was interested in Yugoslav matters, Yugoslav progress in engineering, and their advances in equipment. He said he was also desirous of making the acquaintance of NIKOLA TESLA, who was an outstanding Yugoslav scientist and one of the founders of Westinghouse. He said he first learned of the London group (Yugoslav government in exile) in the newspapers and, when visiting in New York City, he visited them in the office which was on Park Avenue, as he recalled. By this means he first became acquainted with SAVA WOSANOVIC. KOSANOVIC eventually became an important official with the Tito government (being Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States), and the applicant KOSANOVIC a couple of times in concerning matters of Yugoslav relief which was sponsored by LOUIS ADAMIC, and the last time he saw KOSANOVIC was in the when he was t the held in was LOUIS ADAMIC and VASO TRIVANOVIC described by the applicant as a rugostav National who made a fortune as an he was in when he saw him in where both were staying at that time. KOSANOVIC was Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States from 1946 to 1950, and applicant saw him upon occasion despite the fact he has had little contact with the political representatives of that government since the said KOSANOVIC was not a great administrator, but he has considerable respect for him in many ways. He believes that KOSANOVIC emphasized to the Yugoslav government that he (KOSANOVIC), would be especially effective as Ambassador because he was a newphew of TESLA (mentioned above) and a friend of Mayor LA GUARDIA, and other influential persons in this country. According to KOSANOVIC is believed to be in disfavor in Yugoslavia now because of an article he wrote in defense of the Yugoslav-Nazi Pact some X My- 67C 67A WFO 138-4085 EDT:mjr ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_286_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) years previously. He has been under attack by theoreticians of the Communist Party in Yugoslavia for this article. In opinion, KOSANOVIC is not a Communist, and he believes that KOSANOVIC is against Marxism. who was eventually in Yugoslavia, said he may have met him, and shaken hands with him in New York City, but he can recall no other occasion when he may have met him. He said was on a higher political level than KOSANOVIC and He explained that under the Royalist government; was an important and he is uncertain how has resolved this philosophic conflict, in view of his high position in the Tito government. after the publication of ADAMIC's book, "Native's Return," which was published a number of years ago. As a Yugoslav National in this country, was interested in ADAMIC's work and initiated correspondence with him. At a subsequent date, possibly in late 1941 or early 1942, ADAMIC got in touch with the estimated it to be in the fall or winter of 1942 when he first met ADAMIC. In the spring of 1943, a rally was to be held in the Slovene Hall on St. Clair Avenue, in Cleveland, Ohio, in an effort to obtain fundssfor Yugoslav relief, and ADAMIC at that time requested the applicant to participate. He said he thereafter saw him four or five times before of times, and also at Yugoslav Embassy receptions held in Washington, D. C. In the opinion of ADAMIC was too much an artist and "free spirit," and also too good a businessman to be a Communist. Went to where he spent approximately was important as then ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_286_Picture_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 0/5 610 1 ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_287_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ) - U)-1667U- 7:37 NYORK | 1 | Die | 1.0 | | |---|---|---|---| | H | etts 4 | ndices 1-22-0125 | | | - | 1/23 | TNEORMATION CONTAINED | • | | | • | HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED WAS DIVEN INTO 65-12490-1AME | ſ | | ; | | FILE NUMBER65 AVA Late 'ccrived7/3 From. PITCE SAVA By-name of Ex. AN. MASTROVICH TO Be Returned. Yes () No () Description: 2 PACC PLAYSTARY PE INTERPLATE NEW SLLTTER' | | | | ξ | | | # LUTERPLANETARY SESSIONS NEWSLETTER Dear Friends: # INTERPLANETARY SESSION NEWSLETTER. We have not issued a Newsletter since May 1, 1956 because we had no Space news which we could consider authentic. However, now we have some good news to pass along to you. LECTURE - by George Van Tassel and Dan Fry, in Ballroom of Hotel Diplomat, 110 West 43rd Street, New York City, 8 p.m. Thursday, June 20, 1957. Donation \\$1.25. George Van Tassel operates the Giant Rock (California) Spaceport and Airport and has been host at four annual Spacecraft Conventions. He is the author of two books: I Rode A Flying Saucer, and Into This World and Out Again. He is also the publisher of Proceedings magazine, usually issued monthly. Back issues of Proceedings have been reprinted in one volume. Address George Van Tassel, P. O. Box 419, Yucca Valley, California. Dan Fry is the author of The White Sands Incident. In this book he tells the story of a trip which he made in a flying saucer from a desert spot on the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to New York City and return, in 32 minutes. Dan Fry and another gentleman are now enroute to New York by automobile. George Van Tassel and Art Aho will arrive in Mr. Aho's plane. They all plan to be in New York City at Hotel Diplomat on June 17. They will probably be heard next week on Long John's program on Radio Station WOR, from 12 midnight to 5:30 in the morning, nightly except Sunday. This letter will not reach you in time to sight flying saucers over New York on the night of June 13, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. But there will again be full scale operations of flying saucers over all American areas on July 1. This will be in three phases, as follows: New York areas, July 1, 9 a.m.; Washington, D.C. areas at 9:25 a.m.; general North American areas, after 9:25 a.m.; Gentral American areas, 9:30 a.m.; South American areas, 9:35 a.m. 'Second phase: Same areas as above, beginning at 12 o'clock mid-day, July 1. Third phase: Full scale operations over all American areas beginning at 7 o'clock on the evening of July 1. The above information has been supplied by George King, editor of Cosmic Voice, 88 The Drive Mansions, Fulham Road, London S.W. 6. Also, please note that theorge King has also published back issues of Cosmic Voice in one volume? price \\$1.00 plus postage. This is beyond doubt the finest "buy" of saucer messages that we know of. George King is considered the best telepathic contact which the space people have, although George Van Tassel is the finest we have in America. Margaret Storm has been assigned to certain work with the Space People, as follows: She is writing a book - Return of the Dove - a story of the life of Nikola Tesla, scientist, and the part his inventions will play in the New Age. Much of the data for this book has been supplied to Mrs. Storm through transcripts received on the Tesla set, a radio-type machine invented by Tesla in 1938 for Interplanetary Communication. Tesla died in 1943 and his engineers did not build the Tesla set until after his death. It was placed in operation in 1950 and since that time the Tesla engineers have been in close touch with space ships. The Space People have visited the Tesla engineers many times, and have told us that Tesla was a Venusian, brought to this planet as a baby, in 1856, and left with Mr. and Mrs. Tesla in a remote mountain province in what is now Yogoslavia. A biography of Tesla was published in 1944. It can probably to be from your local library or bookstore. It is entitled Prodice believed John J. O'Neill, then science editor of the New York Herald Production Mr. O'Neill has since died. This book gives no information at the Tesla's connection with the Space People, a fact which was not reveated until 1950. The book also gives many wrong impressions of Tesla, because Mr. O'Neill's occult knowledge was limited. However, it is well worth reading because it gives much technical information about electrical engineering which Mrs. Storm will be obliged to omit in her book because she has such an abundance of material to present. It had not been intended to mention Mrs. Storm's work at this time, but the public will be offered a "sneak preview" in a small mimeographed resume of the book, according to publication arrangements now being made. This development came about unexpectedly because of the extremely critical condition of world affairs, engendered by the continuance of nuclear tests, and the fact that Mrs. Storm could not possibly have the finished book ready for the publishers before July 30, even with the aid of a small miracle. This material is now being presented as a paper before certain California groups where the announcement of the Tesla news was received with tremendous enthusiasm. Mrs. Storm will present the material to certain small groups in the New York area within the next few weeks, and probably Space Groups in other sections will also co-operate by offering it to their members. Our world situation is not hopeless by any means, although the Space People bluntly inform us that as a race we are too "lazy"; spiritually we must become more potent if we are to hold this planet together against the efforts of the dark forces to blow it to bits. So let us look for the good news. Look for good news from England where the messages of George King have at last reached the scientists, the press, and the Queen. Look for good news from Calvin Girvin of California, who is one of the pest space contacts in this country. And look for more good news at the Van Tassel-Dan Fry lecture on June 20. We hope to see all of you there. The ballroom seats about 1200, and we must put forward every effort to get behind these speakers and support them. Then on July 1 let us keep our eyes on the skies! The Space People are going to make every effort; to give all of us a chance to see the ships. However, if the military uses jets in large numbers to chase the Space Ships, we may not see them. As citizens you can urge the government to be more cordial to our visitors. Now for some unpleasant news. This has been transmitted from Mars Sector 8, through George King in London. We have to begin paying off our karmic debts in the form of disease, which cannot be abated unless we discontinue the nuclear experiments. However, to help all of us through the coming period of epidemics the Space People have placed four space stations in orbit around the earth. They will start magnetizing the earth at midnight on July 21. Through meditation we can absorb these healing rays. The Martians have clearly indicated that they are just about "fed up" with our depravity on this planet; apparently even Space People can become impatient! 51 West 81 Street New York 24, N.Y. TRafalger 7-2000 COLONIAL HOTEL Sincerely. Margaret and John Storm SPINEL advised that he is engaged in some kind of governmental work connected with the war effort which causes him to spend about five days of each week in the Nation's capitol; and because of the connections he has made in this capacity he has seen fit to telephonically notify G-2 headquarters in Washington, D. C., as well as Mr. BORKIN of the Department of Justice in Washington. SPANEL stated that Mr. BORKIN advised him that he, BORKIN, would immediately make the information available to the Director of the FBI and advised SPANEL to lose no time in taking steps to see to it that TEISA's personal possessions were not disturbed. A few minutes after this conversation Mr. SPANEL again telephonically contacted the writer and advised that he had been in telephone communication with Dr. D. IOZADO, one of the advisers to Vice President WALLACE. After talking with IOZADO he, IOZADO, called back to SPANEL and told him that the government was vitally interested in the effects of PESIE, I. particularly those dealing with the wireless transmission of electrical energy and the "death ray" and for SPANEL to lose no time in doing all he JANEL to lose no time in doing all he JANEL to lose no time in doing all he could to preserve them. In the last conversation with the writer SPANEL 65-12290- a young man by the name of BLOYCE FITZGEARID, an electrical engineer, had been quite close to TEISA during his lifetime and in fact was the protegy of TEISA. SPANEL said that FITZGEARLD was in New York City and would be in contact with him shortly, at which time he would have FITZGEARLD call the writer. At 10:30 p. m., 1/8/43 Mr. FITZGEARLD telephoned the writer and stated that he had a great deal of information about TELSA and his personal effects and would like to call at the office and give the writer the benefit of his knowledge. At midnight, 1/8/43 FITZGEARLD came to the office and in a personal interview with the writer gave the following information: Nikola Tesla, a native of Serbia, came to the United States late in the nineteenth century. While here he became famous for his electrical innovations, inventions and advanced ideas in the engineering field. Tesla was the designer of the generators in the Niagra Falls power plant, and in fact has his name inscribed on the generators in recognition of the fact. To substantuate this FITZGEARLD displayed a great number of old newspaper clippings and an album of letters written congratulating Telsa on his 75th anniversary; the letters were from world renowned people, principally those in the scientific field. Telsa, by reason of his wizardy became a consultant to Marconi, Charles Edison, and many others. Telsa's induction electrical motor was sold by him to Westinghouse for \\$2,500,000. of TELSA and knew that TELSA had and was carrying on extensive experiments for transmitting electrical power by wireless and with propelling electrical rays possessing sufficient power to destroy implements of warfare, such as airplanes and submarines. Within the past month TELSA told FITZGEARLD that his experiments in this connection had been completed and perfected. FITZGEARLD also knows that TELSA has conceived and designed a revolutionary type of torpedo which is not presently in use by any of the nations; it is FITZGEARLD's belief that this design has not been made available to any nation up to the present time. From statements made to FITZGEARLD by TELSA he knows that the complete plans, specifications and explanation of the basic theories of these things are some place in the personal effects of TELSA. FITZGEARLD stated that he knows that there is a working model of TELSA's which cost more than \\$19,000 to build in a safety deposit box of TELSA's at the Governor Clinton Hotel; and from statements made by TELSA FITZGEARLD believes it has to do with the so called "death ray" or the wireless transmission of electrical current. In past conversations TEISA has told FITZGEARLD that he has some 80 trunks in different places containing manuscripts and plans having to do with experiments conducted by him. FITZGEARLD knows that TEISA has for several years stored some of his possessions in a warehouse some Of recent years TELSA became more or less destitute, and for the past three or four years the government of Czechoslovakia has been paying him a subsistance of \\$500 per month, a part of which was used to pay the rental for the warehouse accommodations. TEISA residences in New York have been the Pennsylvannia Hotel, Governor Clinton Hotel, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the New Yorker where he led a secluded existence. So far as FITZGEARLD knows TEISA had no real intimates, nor does he know of any attorney in whom he confided. On January 7, 1942, SAVA KOSANOVICH, GEORGE CLARK, who is in charge of the Museum and Laboratory for RCA, and KENNETH SWEZETY of 163 Milton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y, went to TELSA's rooms in the New Yorker and with the assistance of a lock smith broke into a safe which TELSA had in his rooms and in which he kept some of his valuable papers, including important electrical formulae, designs, etc. These papers were taken from the safe. FITZGEARLD knows of but two relatives of TELSA, both newphews. One is SAVA KOSANOVICH and the other is a man by the name of TRBJEVICH, who is presently in a hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The name of the hospital was unknown to FITZGEARLD. KOSANOVICH's address is the Navarro Hotel, New York City. When asked if FITZGEARLD was primarily interested in getting possession of TEISA's papers, he stated that he was not; what he wanted tas for them to be made available to the government of the United States for use in the present war. Because, he stated, the so'called Death Ray would be a deadly weapon in the hands of any power, and the use of the wireless transmission of electrical power would make possible the most efficient airplanes conceivable. FITZGEARLD's concern was aroused, he stated, over the presence of the two nephews in whom he has no confidence as to their loyalty and patriotism to the Allied Nations, and also because of the pension TESIA received from Czechoslovakia he feels that that government may feel that it is entitled to any revolutionary ideas TEISA may have had and indited on paper. FITZGEARID stated that until three months ago he was working with the government in a research capacity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and that presently he is working as a designing engineer with the Ordinance Departyment of the U. S. Army, both in Washington, D. C. and New York City. FITZGEARID promised to relay to this office any further information he is able to obtain; but insisted that something must be done immediately, because he feels that it may mean a great deal in the war effort of the United States. 0 FITZGEARLD indicated that it was his intention to contact KOSANOVICH on January 9th, 1942, and suggest to him that he make available to representatives of the U. S. Government for inspection all of the personal and private papers and apparatus of TEISA. FITZGEARID expressed particular concern over the model now in the safety deposit box at the Governor Cleveland Hotel, and insisted that steps be taken by the Government that not only it, but the other technical papers and designs of TESIA, be safeguarded so that they cannot be removed from the country or made available to the use of other nations. FITZGEARID was advised that this matter would receive the appropriate attention of the New York Field Division. Respectfully submitted Fred B. Cornels. Special Agent. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_296_Figure_0.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) ML HUDE MIND CONTAINED HATEOURS IN THE DESCRIPTION CONTAINED DATE O - 12 - 42 EYPOLOSH MAX N. Y. C. Oacher ope FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AEO:HH NEW YORK, NEW YORK JANUARY P, 1903case 1 A Transmit the following Teletype message to: BUREAU /00-0-1217 UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; EQUIPMENT, EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA, DECEASED; ESPIONACE - M. NIKOLA TESLA, ONE OF THE WORLD'S OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD, DIED JANUARY SEVENTH, NINETEEN FORTY— THREE AT THE HOTEL NEW YORKER, NEW YORK CITY. DURING HIS LIFETIME, HE CON DUCTED MANY EXPERIMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF ELECTRICAL POWER AND WHAT IS COMMONLY CALLED THE "DEATH RAY". ACCORDING TO INFORMATION FURNISHED BY A. N. SPANEL, ONE ONE THREE SIX FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY, THE NOTES AND RECORDS OF TESLA'S EXPERIMENTS AND FORMULAE TOGETHER WITH DESIGNS OF MACHINERY NECESSARY TO VITALIZE THEM ARE AMONG TESLA'S PERSONAL EFFECTS, AND NO STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO PRESERVE THEM OR THE THEM FROM FALLING INTO HANDS OF PEOPLE UNFRIENDLY TO THE WAR EFFORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS. ACCORDING TO SPANEL, A DISTANT RELATIVE OF TESLA, NAMED SAVA KOSANOVICH, WHO WAS INTENSELY DISLIKED BY TESLA, IS TAKING STEPS TO GET POSSESSION OF THESE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS AND PLANS. SPANEL BELIEVES THAT THERE IS A STRONG LIKELIHOOD THAT KOSANOVICH WILL MAKE THIS MATERIAL AVAILABLE TO THE ENEMY. SPANEL ADVISED G TWO HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, AS WELL AS MR. BORKIN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN WASHINGTON, CONCERNING THE ABOVE. SPANEL WAS ALSO IN TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION WITH DOCTOR D. LOZADONE OF THE ADVISORS TO VICE PRESIDENT WALLACE CONCERNING THIS MATTER, AND OF TESIA AND REQUESTED SPANEL TO LOSE NO TIME IN DOING ALL HE COULD TO PRESERVE THEM. BLOYCE FITZGEARLD, AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER WHO HAD BEEN QUITE CLOSE TO TESIA DURING HIS LIFETIME, ADVISED THE NEW YORK OFFICE TO TAXMADE CONTINUE ADDRESS OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY OF THE PROPERTY JANUARY SEVENTH, NINETEEN FORTY-THREE, SAVA KOSANOVICH, GEORGE CLAR Special Agent in Chargo 15-12290-418 # STEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ## INITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AEO:HH 65~ # NEW YORK, NEW YORK JANUARY 9, 1943 P.2 Transmit the following Teletype message to: BUREAU | + | | LOVIO | IIII. | | |---|---|---|---|---| | (Dictated 2:15 p.m.; Completed 2:45 p.m.) Approved: Special Agent in Charge | Sent | м | Per\_ | - | p # QDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION # UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NEW YORK, NEW YORK JANUARY 🗫 12, 1943 Transmit the following Teletype message to: BUREAU | Approved: | Sent | \_M | Per | |---|---|---|---| | ai. least in Charga | | | | # Queral Bureau of investigation # INITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NEW\_YORK NEW YORK JANUARY 12.194 Transmit the following Teletype message to: BUREAU PLANNING BOARD REPRESENTING YUGOSLAVIA, CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND AND GREECE.UNQUES WEEZEY IS A WRITER FOR POPULAR MECHANICS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS WHO IS DESIROUS OF PUBLISHING A BIOGRAPHY OF TESLA AND THEREFORE WOULD LIKE TO OBTAIN CONTROL OF HIS NOTES FOR THIS WORK. CLARK IS EMPLOYED BY RCA AND WOULD ALSO PROVIDE STORAGE ROOM FOR TESLA'S EFFECTS IN ORDER TO USE THEM IN WRITING A BIOGRAPHY. TESLA AT ONE TIME REPORTED TO BE WORKING ON EXPERIMENTS FOR YUGOSLAVIAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE. IT IS DESIRED THAT BUREAU ADVISE IMMEDIATELY WHETHER IT IS INTERESTED FURTHER IN THIS PROPERTY FOR PURPOSES OF TAKING CONTROL OF IT. SUGGEST THAT, IN VIEW OF FACT THAT THE NOTES AND OTHER MATERIAL WOULD BE HIGHLY TECHNICAL IN CHARACTER AND FOR THAT. REASON COULD NOT BE REVIEWED EXCEPT BY A TRAINED PERSON THE OFFICE OF SCHIENTIFIC REAFABCH DEVELOPMENT MIGHT BE INTERESTED. FOXWORTI Approved: Special Agent in Charge | Sent | М | Per | |---|---|---| | ------ | --- | ----- | Hederal Buteau of Investigation Miller States Assessment of Tarit TJD:CG New York New York MEMORANDIM FOR THE FILE DD. NITYOTA MI Mr. LITTLE, of the Bureau, called me on January Clerk 13, 1943 and advised that the above matter was now being handled as an alien enemy custodian matter and therefore we should take no further action on it. out a teletype to the Bureau in this case on January 13, in which the Bureau advised that this office was contemplating no further action. T. J. DONEGAN Special Agent-in-Gharg F. B. L. cc - Mr. KIMBALL TH 13 UNCLASSIFIED JOHN EDGAR HOOVER ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_304_Picture_1.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Instic January 21, 1943 165-12290 165-12290 ale DRO, Ren Tork Dear Sir: e: Unknown subjects; sava kosaņovicij; Experiments and research of nikola ESPIONAGE (H) Reference is made to a teletype dated January 9, 1943, from the profit Clerk New York Field Office and to a phone conversation between Mr. J. B. Little of the Bureau and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Donegan on January 11; 1943. It was pointed out to Mr. Donegan that Sava Kosanovich, George Clark and Kenneth Swezey may have committed a burglary violation by entering Tesla's rooms after his death and particularly by using a locksmith to get into a safe containing some of Tesla's valuable papers. Mr. Donegan was advised this matter should be discreetly discussed with the State's Attorney, New York City, with a view to locating Kosanovich and apprehending him on a burglary charge, in order to ascertain the nature of the material taken from the safe of Nikola Tesla. It was also suggested that the New York Office contact the Surrogate Court, in order that Tesla's effects, as well as the contents of his safety deposit boxes, might not be entered without the presence of an Agent, in order that the secrecy of any plans or items essential to the conduct of the war or national security might be preserved. It was stated that Kosanovich might possibly make certain material available to the enemy. A review of the Bureau files reveals considerable information concerning Nikola Tesla and his inventions and it should be noted that one Nicola Tesla, who might have been identical with Nikola Tesla, made a speech at the Grange Hall, Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 4, 1922, under the auspices of the Frends of Soviet Russia. It further appears that Sava Kosanovich may be identical with an individual of the same name, who is a member of the Yugoslavian Government in exile. An examination of the files reveals that one Sava Kosanovich, described as the Minister of Supply, arrived with other Yugoslavian Government officials at Norfolk, Virginia, on September 4, 1941, on the SS City of Exeter, a British ship, from Cape Town en route to the United Kingdom via Washington and Canada. In another instance the name of Sava N. Kosanovich appears on the stationery of the Central and Eastern European Planning Board FCzechdslovakia ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED LATE 1.13.82 BY 2014841 JAN 2 3 : 7.3 N. X C. 15/2/V Greece, Poland, Yugoslavia). On this letterhead Kosanovich is described as Chairman of the Board and Minister of State for Yugoslavia. It is stated that this Board is interested in "planning for postwar Europe". In still another file it is disclosed that Sava Kosanovich, a Serbian, was a member of one of the Yugoslavian minority parties and when an emergency government to overthrow an alliance with the Axis was formed, he was included as an official. He is alleged to be a Communist and is said to receive \\$1,250 a month salary from the exiled Yugoslavian Government. He and other exiled government officials are stated to use these large salaries to finance every Serbian paper in the United States except "Srbobran" published at Pittsburgh. No record of Kenneth Swezey could be located in the Bureau files from the information available. The foregoing information is being furnished for possible future reference in connection with this case and it is desired that the Bureau be kept promptly and currently informed of all developments in this case. Very truly yours, John Edgar Hoover Director # NKôla Tesla Dies At 95 Alone in His Hotel Suite Celebrated Inventor. Born in Yugoslavia Nikola Tesla, 85, inventor on the Tesla coil, the induction motor and hundreds of other electrics. and hundreds of other electrical devices died last night in his suite at the Hotel New Yorker. According to hotel officials, he had years. The world-famous inventor, w The world-famous found dead in lived alone, was found dead in bed by a maid. She called botel physician. a scarch, for friends or relatives. It was believed a nephew is liv-\\ning in the city but his where- abouts are not known abouts are not known in Smil-Nikola Tesla was born in Smiljan Yugoslavia in July 1859. His father, a Greek Orthodox Church father, a Greek milster, was a noted writer, oramilster, was a noted writer, orato - linguist and mathematician His mother, Georgina Mandic, was ar inventor. Tesla studied at Gratz Polytechnic Institute and the University of Prague, after preparators work at the Realschules of Lika and Carlstadt. He came to the United States in 1894, and be came a natural In 1886 he designed the arclighting system. Two years later he invented the resis motor and designed a plan for the transmission of alternating current. The following year he presented plans for electrical conversion and discharges development of the transformin coll bearing his name occurre from 1890 to 1891. 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He was a great humanilarian, a pure scientist, a genius. He did amazing things, simply to serve mankind" This, in part, was the tribute paid to Nikola Tesla ploneer in the field of radio and the modern electrical transmission systems, who died Thursday at 87. Written by Louis Adamic, the author, it was read by Mayor La-Guardia yesterday over WNYC in a half hour program dedicated to the memory of the scientist. The Mayor stated "Funeral services will be held for him Tuesday afternoon People will come from all walks of life. But he is not dead. The real Tesla lives in his achievements as an | Odamic 1 may be Commy | | | integral; part of our daily lives 17 | R 6 1943 | | h.y.) | umal-am Routed | "91 056 | | 4 | | (-1) 100 | | | ( ) | 5-12273-10 | | | • | \* . ) | | | ALL INFORMATION CON- | PAINED TED | O a # neveral pureau or knoopryation Inited States Department of Instire New York, New York No Record for Tiles N. Y. Office Open Gase No Case Make File JJK: LE November 23, 1940 LIEMORANDUM FOR THE SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE INDEXED On September 22, 1940, Mr. ROBIN VAN ROSEN, 33 West 8th Street, New York City, telephone Grammercy 5-0277, telephoned the New York Office and informed the writer that he wished to call his attention to an article which was printed in the Sunday "New York Times" of September 22, 1940 on Page D 7,\\nunder the section "Science and Patents - Education News," the\\nexticle being "Science in the News" by WILLIAM A. TAURENCE. Mr. VAN ROSEN stated that he particularly wished to call the attention of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau or Investigation to that phase of the article relating to death ray for planes which refers to an interview of the inventor NIKOIA TESIA. He further advised that he believed that some government agents should interview NIKOLA TESLA relative to his death ray invention as no doubt some agents of foreign government would nontact Mr. TESLA. The clipping referred to by Mr. VAN ROSEN is attached hereto. The indices of the New York Office were searched with negative results. Respectfully submitted, INDEXED J. J. KEATING N. Y L INFORMATION CONTAINED TO UNCLASSIFIED BY SDINGLASSIFIED N. Y. C. # Tederal Bureau of Investigation United States Department of Instice N. Y. FILE #65-12291 DATE: 3/16/43 HELORANDUM FOR THE FILE Re: UnSub-Nikola) Lesla Reference is made to Bureau communication dated January 29, 1943 to all Special Agents in Charge, No. 33, Series 1943, which instructs that every case under the Espionage character be reviewed for the purpose of determining whether the case should be continued to be carried under the Espionage character, and if there is not sufficient justification for this, case should be carried under another character. In the reviewing of these cases, the Bureau desires that the following ideas be kept in mind: (1) What are the allegations that the individual subject is an Espionage Agent? (2) What investigative steps have been taken to prove or disprove these allegati (3) What evidence has been obtained to substantiate the allegations? (4) Do the facts warrant that the case be continued under the Espionage characte; and if so, what investigative steps are contemplated to properly develop the case? In the reviewing of these cases, consideration should be given to the closing of those cases which appear to justify such action. The instant case has been reviewed by the writer and I wish to state that it is in proper condition, such as to the removal of stop notices, proper serialization, etc., etc. It is the conclusion of the writer that: (1) The character of this case should be changed (or remain Espionage) from to because ALL TIPOPHATION CONTAINED LELLIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 1 2 2 2 EYROLUSELING In the next report, the character in this case should be so changed. ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_311_Picture_17.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) 65-12-90 F. B. I. (6 MAR 271943 N. Y. C. ROUTED TO P3C 65 | and/or | | | | | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | , | (2) | This | case | should | be | closed | because | | Do | the | facts | rec | mire | an | immedia | te.a | ssignm | ent of | this | case: | | | | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | īf- | cha | racter | is | being | c | hanged. | are | there | leads | outst | anding | in | other | | If a closing report has been dictated as of this review, by what Agens was it dictated: C. D. Calder. Date of dictation: 3/9/43. Respectfully submitted, Eugene B. Caldery WTM: SvB | | FORM NO. 1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT | hia acur' nua ; | YCRK - | WY FILE NO. 9-1019 KB | | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | | REPORT MADE AT | DATE WHEN MADE | PERIOD FOR- WHICH MADE | REPORT MADE BY | 34. | | | REN YORK, HEY YORK | 1943 | 7/15,19/24/43 | Mics p. 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SATA KCCANOVICH, MINISTER OF STATE IT DISPOSAL OF THE COMPRESS OF JUGGELAVIA AS TO THE PACES IN COUNTERLION WITH THE APPRINT WHICH HE HAS CAUGED TO THE HAME OF PHILIP MAREOVICH, PRESIDENT OF THE STREIAN MARIOWAL INTERIOR COUNTERED The policy of every sember of the United Nations, without a doubt, first sust to internal unity and unity among the Allies. The Jugoslave have to promote unity among the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who constitute Jugoslavia, and to unde that any internal and personal differences be buried in favor of a concentrated strong and united action scainst the Axis. Here in America where there are more than one million persons of Jugoslav extraction, this unity is their first duty towards America for the war effort and for repulsing enemy propaganda which is working for disunity. The most ordinary means of Axis propaganda is the breaking of unity and exploiting national, religious and racial differences. The great majority of Americans of Jugoslav extraction are good and conscientious American citimus. Cae small group of Serbs, calling itself the Serbian Mational Defense, of Chicago, and the SRIPPAN paper, of Pittsburgh, began a campaign against unity, a campaign of hate towards Jugosleviz, towards the Creats and Slovense, etc. At their convention recently, this group passed a resolution in which they proclaimed themselves, even though they are Americans, representatives of Serbdow and broke all relations with the Jugoslav Covernment in Exile, appealed to King Peter to proclaim himself king of Serbia, and accepting Mitler and Mussolini terminology, they called Jugoslavia sa nyth and a mistake of the Versailles Poace Treaty. It is not necessary to remark how contrary this is to the interest of unity among Americans, to the wishes of the Serbs, Croats and Slovens who are so bravely fighting against the Axis, and contrary to the official stand of the United States, Creat Britain, Eussia and all the Allies. Kiss Ruth Mitchell is honorary chairman of this organization and the most active spokesman of its ideas. It is my duty as a Serb, as a Jugoslav, as a member of the Jugoslav Covernment which overthrew the appearament government in Jugoslavia, as an anti-fascist, as the leader of one of the most democratic parties in Jugoslavia, to act against this kind of propaganda. As to what the United Stass thinks of the situation. I hereby quote Elmer Pavis, Director of the Office of War Information, as to his opinion of SREDEAN, which is the mouthpiece for the Serbian National Defense Committee; Mr. Davis specifically accuses SREDEAN of siding the Mazi propaganda program and damaging the war effort, and the Department of Justice, the State Department and the Office of Mar Information have all been watching this with concern. Following is a direct quotation from a letter written by Elmer Pavis on June 10th to Samuel Verlinich President of the York National Federations for some time, several branches of the United States Covernment including the Office of Mar Information, the Department of Justice, and the Department of State, have watched with concern the policies of the 'American Srbobran'. Its violent attacks upon all peoples of Croatian extraction and their clergy, its strong anti-Catholic articles, and its violed efforts to defend the Quisling Medich who supports the Mari regime in Serbia often have the effect of aiding the Mari carpaigns of intolerance and race hate, and are damaging to the American war effort. American unity is imperative for the successful prosecution of the war. The Masis have toasted that they would set Americans against Americans and they are striving to do so. They have sought for years to set people of Sarbian, Groatian and Slovenien extraction against each other. It is the old game of divide and conquert, . The United Mations are striving for the strongest possible unity and all those who are opposed to the Axis. In Jugoslavia, and in the United States, we seek to unite all people of Ferbian, Groatian and Slovenian heritage. When Miss Mitchell tegan writing articles and letters to the Aperican ress whichwere against the policy just described by Almer Davis as a United States policy, and which were also against the policy of the Jugoslav Government for unity, I wrote a letter to the Herald Tribune on April 6th in reply to a particularly damaging article which she had previouslywritten to the Tribune on April End. Following the appearance of my letter in the Herald Tribune, I received a filthy and threatening letter from Philip Markovich, who is the President of the New York branch of the Serbian Mational Referse Committee, which is engineering these anti-Jugoslav and anti-American activities. In this letter Markovich sought, by Gestapo terrorist tactics, to prevent me from writing or ansaking to offset the damaging effects of the Serbian Mational Defense Committee's policies and activities. I therefore caused the arrest of Philip Harkvick and I will not be intimited by him or ear other member of any group at othe canaciously or excellent the Real line and attempting to promote any one section or any one group at the anegae of the war effort as a whole. Mr. ACCAMOVICH also furnished a photostatic copy of the letter and envelope in which it was received, together with a translation of the letter. These are being retained in the New York file of this case. He advised that it was necessary to retain the original letter because he had had the subject arrested by the New York City Police Department and that he would have to produce the original letter in the City fourt. The envelope bears the printed return midress of the Serbian Mational Defense Committee of New York, 400 West 23rd Birset, New York City, and was postmarked at 4:00 P.W. April (date obliterated) 1943 at New York City. It is addressed in handwriting to Kr. SAVA KOJANOVICH of 812 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The letter is dated at New York City, April 7, 1943, and it handwritten and signed by PHILIP HARKOVICH. Kr. KODAKOVICH furnished the following translation of this New York City April 7, 1943. Sava Kosanovichi German battard, if I see in the newspapers any more attacks on our Serbian Enightly Chetnik Ruth Witchell, or if somethe brings to as some written or oral attacks which I might have overlooked. I will break all your bones, which the Cormanic Croats put into your body. You rotten dirt who claims to have been a Serb and a Minister - we now see what kind of traitors ruled dugoslavia and where they have brought her. I am here in New York and we will meet easily if you speak again on tehalf of our people. Who gave you the right to speak for the people? You are a dirty bitch assembling crumbs for the benefit of the Germanic Croats. You are agents of Hitler and Muscolini who disclose secret information from that House of Prostitutes, but wait the R.B.I. Weill take care of you soon. So much for your knowledge, I am warning you to cease attacking the Sational Defence and Miss Mitchell. Do you, you pissed on sour, expect to undermine Jugoslavia as before? You are the conspirators who killed the King, but you, soun, will pay for it. I am watching your steps and what you do and with whom you cooperate, you comman, you traitor worse than a coward. You, your commany and your satellites atink. # Philip Karkovich by his own hand." Hr. KCHANOVICH advised that there was no doubt but that it was MARKCVICH who had written the letter as during his arraignment in the New York City Registrates Court on July 12, 1943. MARKOVICH had acted as though he were proud of baying written the letter. Detective JANIS E. MIDIT, assigned to the Special Squad No. 1 of the May York City Police Department, advised that he had arrested PHILIP MARKSYICH, who resides at 103 East 101st Street, New York City, on July 12, 1943, charging him with violating Section No. 151 of the New York Penal Law, which prohibit the sending of thesatoning letters. Petective KNOTT stated that subject was arraigned before Magistrate Anna Kross in Yorkville Court on July 12, 1943 and that Esgistrate Kross perolled MARKOVICH in custody of his lavyer, HYMAN JCORPHS, and adjourned the arraignment until Friday, July 16, 1943. These facts were presented to Assistant United States Attorney Thomas F. Hurphy of the Southern District of New York, who advised that he would decline presecution, pending the results of the action taken in the New York City Court. CHARLES LIBERRIES, Court Officer of the Yorkville Court, 153 East 57th Street, New York City, advised that on July 16, 1943 Hagistrate Anna Kross adjourned the case against the subject until January 10, 1944. 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Dear Sire At your request and that of ir. Joseph T. King of the Washington office of the Alien Property Custodian, I have ex-\\nemined the private papers, writings, and other property of the late br. Nicola Tesla with the view to determining both their possible usef laces to this country in its wer effort and the possible heavid attendent on their falling into unfriencly hands. This examination was made at the Manhatten Ferencuse, 52nd Street, New York City, on January 20-27, and included all of the notes and autorial in Dr. Tesla's immediate prosession at the time of his death and now in the custody of your office. For reasons indicated below, no investigation was made of material in trunks which had remained untouched in the basement of the New Yorker Rotal for ten years prior to Dr. Tosla's death. As a result of this exceination, it is my considered opinion that there exist enong in. Teplata papers and possessions no scientific notes, descriptions of hitherto unrevealed methods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be of significant value to this country or which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands. I can therefore see no technical or military reason my further custody of the property should be retained. a file of various written material by Dr. Tesla which covers typically and fairly completely the ideas with which he was concerned during his later years. These documents are enumerated and briefly obstracted in the attachment to this letter. F B L C1 PATE N. Y. C 15-13010-17 It should be no discredit to this distinguished engineer and scientist whose solid contributions to the electrical art were made at the beginning of the present century to report that his thoughts and efforts during at least the past fifteen years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional character—often concerned with the producation and wireless transmission of power—but did not include new sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results. Very truly yours, JOHN G. TRUMP, Technical Aide, Division 14, NIRG. Enclosure. # ADSTRACTS OF DR. NIKOLA TESLA'S WRITINGS RETAINED AS EXHIBITS FOR THE MILEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN r. On January 26 and 27, 1943, an examination was made of the technical papers of Dr. Nikola Teals which, after his decease, had been stored in the Manhattan Warehouse in New York City. This examination was made for the purpose of determining if any ideas of significant value in the present United States war affort could be found among his possessions. Participating in this examination were iff. John C. Newington, New York Office of the Alien Property Gustodian; Mr. Charles J. Hedetniemi, Washington Office of the Alien Property Custodian; Dr. John G. Trump, Office of Scientific Research and Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Willis George, Office of Naval Intelligence, Third Naval District; Edward Palmer, Chief Yeoman, USNR; John J. Corbett, Chief Yeoman, USNR. 2\. The following papers, which are regarded as typical of Nikola Tesla's writings and thoughts in the period of 1925 to 1942, were removed for the purpose of record and are listed below in the random order in which they were found, together with a brief individual abstract. # Exhibit A "Possibilities of Flectrostatic Generators" - an undated article probably written about 1934 discussing the possibilities, as a source of high-voltage D-C power, of the Van de Graaff type of electrostatic belt generator. The article states correctly the electrostatic principles employed in this device and points out that such generators are not suitable for commercial high-power applications, though of undoubted scientific value. Tesla's wireless tower, erected in 1902 on long Island, is stated in this memorandum to have been charged to 30 million volts. # Exhibit B "Recetive Forces of Glycerine and Dyncmite" - an undated memorandum involving some calculations of the explosive power of certain compounds and then deviating to a discussion of the possibility of transmitting power by mechanical vibrations along the earth's crust. # Exhibit C "Process of De-Gassifying, Refining, and Purifying Fetals" - a 41-page memorandum probably written about 1930 dealing with the above subject and proposing new theories of capillarity and surface tension. This correspondence indicated that this had been submitted to various industrial companies. # Ixhibit I "Reply to Intorg re the generation of high-voltage and the acceleration of charged particles!" - This document, dated November 8, 1935, answers questions raised by Soviet engineers and scientists regarding Teslats proposal of the 16, 1935. From this answer, it is deduced that the proposal concerned the generation of high voltages by electrostatic means. These means consisted of a high-voltage terminal presumably supported on an insulating column and charged by a passeous charge conveying medium passing between ground and terminal. The ideas contained in this memorandum are fairly similar to the belt-conveyor electrostatic generator methods proposed by Van de Graaff and do not appear to offer any unusual features. # Exhibit E Firt of Telegeodynemics, or art of Producing Terrestrial Notices at Distance - This document, in the form of a letter dated June 12, 1940, to the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, proposes a method for the transmission of large amounts of power over vast distances by means of mechanical vibrations of the earth's crust. The source of power is a mechanical or electromechanical device bolted to some rocky protuberance and importing power at a resonance frequency of the earth's crust. The proposed scheme appears to be completely visionary and unworkable. Westinghouse's reply indicates their polite rejection of this ides. # Exhibit F "New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-Dispersive Energy through Natural Media" - This undated document by Tesla describes an electrostatic method of producing very high voltages and capable of very great power. This generator is used to accelerate charged particles, presumably electrons. Such a beam of high-energy electrons passing through air is the "concentrated non-dispersive" means by which energy is transmitted through natural media. As a component of this a paratus there is described an open-ended vacuum tube within which the electrons are first accelerated. # Fxhibit F (cont.) The proposed scheme bears some relation to present means for producing high-energy cathode rays by the cooperative use of a high-voltage electrostatic generator and an evacuated electron ecceleration tube. It is well known, however, that such devices, while of scientific and medical interest, are incepable of the transmission of large amounts of power in non-dispersed beams over long distances. Tesla's disclosures in this memorandum would not enable the construction of workable combinations of generator and tube even of limited power, though the general elements of such a combination are succinctly described. # Txhibit 0 A circular by Carol fird, dated September 10, 1938, entitled "fremendous New Power Soon to Be Unlosshed". This isscribes in popular style some biographical information concerning Mikola Tesla and some ideas for the transmission of power on which he is stated to be working. It appears that the method of transmission is by the mechanical resonance method outlined in Exhibit F, above. # Ishibit H This exhibit consists of a series of letters to representatives of the Pritish Government dated August 28, 1936; Cctober 26, 1937; December 15, 1937; and April 5, 1933. It includes a reply dated Januar, 7, 1933, from the British Government. These letters effer to the Pritish Government, for a fee, the disclosure of a mount for accelerating to high energies minute particles. Euch beams would constitute a death ray capable of the protection of Great Britain from air attack. The method proposed is essentially that described in Exhibit Pabove. Following the initial letter dated August 23, 1936, the subsecuent letters attempt to clear up the "misunderstendings" of the Eritish representatives and to expedite their acceptance of the Tesla proposal. The British reply dated January 7 is a polite expression of disinterest in the proposal. # Fxhibit.I In undated memorandum written after Tesla's 79th birthday describing several discoveries which he believed he had made. The first related to a dynamic theory of gravity which is described as not yet completed. The second stated as a physical truth the belief that "there is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment". This second statement, which is discussed at length in this and other writings of Tesla indicates his disbelief in the existence of atomic or nuclear energy. # Fxhibit J "A lethod of Producing Powerful Radiations" - an undated memorandum in Tesla's handwriting describing "a new process of generating powerful rays or radiations". The memorandum reviews the works of Lenard and Grookes, describes Tesla's work on the producation of high voltages, and finally in the last paragraph gives the only description of the invention contained in the memorandum. This description is as follows: "Driefly stated, my new simplified process of generating powerful rays consists in creating through the medium of a high-speed jet of suitable fluid a vacuous space around a terminal of a circuit and supplying the same with currents of the required tension and volume". # Exhibit K A letter to prospective licensees on telegeodynamics dated becember 27, 1941. This is a single-page letter with the type-written signature of Dr. Nikola Tesla, in which he addresses himself to the prospective licensees of telegeodynamics, states that over a half million dollars was spent on this development with funds contributed by the Morgans, Crawford, J. J. Astor, and Fish, as well as commercial organizations, and states this to be a new art with which "univeligizable wonders can be achieved". # Exhibit L Tesla's New System of kluid Propulsion. This is an undated memorandum of about 20 typewritten pages describing a system of fluid propulsion in which the conversion from hydraulic to rotary mechanical power is achieved by passing the fluid between flat circular disks, shaft-mounted and enclosed in a desing. This momerandum written about 1925 describes in general terms a kind of hydraulic turbine which seems practical. There is copious evidence among the other of Tesla's papers that this idea was generally disclosed to appropriate individuals and that it received favorable comment and possibly some use. Some of these comments are contained on the last page of the exhibit. # Exhibit M "The Power of the Future" - a memorandum apparently written by Tesla and probably in response to a request from some popular science group for an opinion as to the source of future power. This memorandum reviews the gradual evolution of power sources. It discusses in some detail the possibility of atomic power and states as his opinion that atomic power is not feasible. The discussion of atomic energy is apparently confused to some extent # Fxhibit i (cont.) with planetary energy. The article further discusses the subject of wind, tides, lightning, and water power as a source of commercial energy. The last sentence of this memorandum states: With my wireless system, it is practicable to transmit electrical energy at a distance of twelve thousand miles with a loss not exceeding 5 per cent. I can conceive of no advences which would be more desirable at this time and more beneficial to the further progress of mankind." This memorandum constitutes an interesting generalized discussion of the various sources of power. It is qualitatively correct for the most part except probably in that portion which deals with atomic power. # Exhibit N article by N. Tesla in the Flectric Forld, March 5, 1904, pages 429-431. A general, somewhat biographical article on Tesla's early work with some speculation on the possibility of long-distance wireless transmission of large amounts of energy. # Exhibit 0 World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy" - an article by N. Tesla in Telegraph and Telephone Age, October 16, 1927, pages 457 and 460. An article which traces the early work on the production and transmission of electromagnetic radiations, describes Tesla's efforts to increase the amount of power which can be transmitted without wires and concludes with a proposed World System for the wireless transmission of both power and communications. No workable disclosure of a means for accomplishing this is included, and such generalities as suggest the approach which Tesla had in mind do not seem capable of accomplishing the desired result. # Exhibit P "Interview with Dr. Nikola Tesla" by Alden P. Arragnac for Popular Science Konthly, May 24, 1928. An Il-page memorandum written in popular conversational style describing an interview with Dr. Tesla and reporting his present work. This report includes statements on a new airplane, on rocket ships, on the wireless transmission of power, on a world system plan for the transmission of speech and tolevision, on the impracticability of harnessing stomic energy, on radio activity, and on the acceleration of charged particles, such as cathode rays, by high voltages. An agreement dated spril 20, 1935, between Nikola Tesla and the intorg Trading Corporation, in which Tesla agreed to supply plens, specifications, and complete information on a method and apparatus for producing high voltages up to fifty million volts, for preducing very small particles in a tube open to air, for increasing the charge of the particles to the full voltage of the high potential terminal, and for projecting the particles to distances of a hundred miles or more. The maximum speed of the particles was specified as not less than 350 miles per second. The receipt of \\$25,000 fee for this disclosure was acknowledged in this agreement, which was signed by Nikola Tesla and by A. Bartanian of the intorg Trading Corporation. The method referred to in this agreement is apparently that described in Exhibit F, above. It is probable that Exhibit D. above, is an effort by Tesla to clear up the questions raised by Soviet engineers after the subject disclosure had been made. There is no evidence that the inventions and information referred to in this agreement are other than those described in a number of Tesla's papers and published articles. It should therefore be expected, and it is substantiated by Exhibit D, that this disclosure subsequently proved unworkable. An examination of several items of scientific apparatus among the Tesla efforts at the Kinhattan Warehouse and in a deposit box at the Governor Clinton Notel showed those to be standard electrical measuring instruments in common use several decades ago. JOHN G. TRUMP, Technical Aide, Division 14. NDRC. Mass. Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, Mass., Jamory 30, 1943. 65-12290 HER:mhm CONFIDENTIAL October 17, 1945 Director, FBI 281925AWK5 13.85 Re: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; SAVA KOSANOVICH; experiments and research of NIKOLA T ESPIONAGE - N Reference is made to the Burdau letter dated January 21, 1943, which bore a caption similar to that mentioned above. The referenced letter dealt with the death, on January 7, 1943, of the famous inventor, NIKOLA TESLA, who as well as being the inventor of Alternating Current, perfected many electrical devices. He is also credited with having developed the so called "death ray" which would safeguard any country from attack by air. On June 9, 1945, a RALPH BERGSTRESSER of New York City furnished information of a nonspecific nature indicating that it was his belief that persons sympathetic to Russia were making an effort to secure the effects of NIKOLA TESLA in order to salvage therefrom any models or designs of possible military value. Mr. BERGSTRESSER claimed that he heard that ABRAHAM N. SPANIL, President of the NATIONAL LATEX CORPORATION, of Dover, Delaware was the motivating influence behind this attempt to obtain TESLA'S papers which are presently held in storage at the MANHATTAN STORAGE WARFHOUSE in New York City. BERGSTRESSER promised to return to the New York Field Division shortly after his initial visit and furnish further and more specific information to support his claims. He was not heard from again, however, until September 27, 1945, at which time he furnished the following additional information: He said that a boyhood chum of his from Wichita, Kansas, BLOYCE FITZGERALD, had been TESLA'S protege and one of the inventors few confidents. According to EERGSTRESSER, FITZGERALD who is now an Army Private stationed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, is a brilliant 29 year old scientist who spent endless hours with TESLA prior to the latters death, during which time TESLA explained to him most secret experiments. BERGSTRESSER stated that FITZGERALD met TESLA in November 1942, but he had been corresponding with the latter since 1935. According to the informant, FITZGERALD had developed some sort of anti-tank gun, the details of which he presented to TESLA who made certain corrections in design and specifications to further perfect the weapon. EIRCGTRESSER related that sometime in December 1942, when FITZGIRALD was attending a meeting of the AVERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL FRONKERS, he made the acquaintance os ARRAHAN SPANZL who became interested in FITZGIRALD'S 65-12290-18cm Letter, director, ful NY 65-12290 gun. STANEL offered financial aid to FITZGERALD and the two were in the closest contact with each other for a considerable period of time. BERGCERESSER said that FITZGERALD had lined up a deal for the purchase of the gun by the FEMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, but for some reason SPANEL blocked this deal by reaching top men in the REMINGTON COMPANY. SPANEL is then reported as having obtained a job for FITZGERALD with the HIGGENS STIP BUILDING COMPANY in New Orleans and negotiated a contract with FITZGERALD for the purchase and manufacture of the gun in a manner which would return LOS of the profits derived to SPANEL. BIRCHTRESSER stated that in Kovember of 1943, for some unknown reason but which he believes to be attributable to SPANEL, FITZGERALD was fired by the HIGGINS CMPANY. In September of 1944, FITZGERALD was inducted into the Army and for a considerable period of time was located at an ordinance experimental station at Elgin Field, Florida. BIRGSTRESSER stated that at the present time FITZGERALD is engaged in a highly secret experimental project at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. In spite of his rank of Private, FITZGERALD actually is the director of this research and is working with many top young scientists who were inducted into Army from leading industrial posts. According to BERGSTRESSER, FITZGERALD is presently working on the perfection of TESLA'S "death ray" which in FITZGERALD'S opinion is the only possible defence against offensive use by another nation of the Atomic Bomb. In this connection, it is noted that the New York Times of September 22, 1940 in an article entitled "SCIENCS IN THE NEWS" by WILLIAM A. LAURENCE, Science Editor states that TESLA'devulged to LAURENCE the fact that he had developed a "death ray" or "teleforce" which TESLA claimed would melt airplane motors at a distance of 250 miles, so that actually an invisible Chinese Wall would be built around a country against attack by an enemy air force. According to the article in the TIMES, this electrical device would operate by the generation of power from a plant, a number of which might be located strategically along our coast lines and the beam from which would melt any engine within a radius of 250 miles. BIROSTRESER stated that during FITZOERALD'S acquaintance with SPANEL, FITZOERALD had told SPANEL of his associations with TESLA and had apparently described to SPANEL some of TESLA'S most secret work. BIROSTRESSER believes that SPANEL, who he claims is definitely pro-Russian in attitude, is now attempting through legal procedure to secure custody of TESLA'S effects which are now held by TESLA'S only heir, one SAVA KOSANOVICH, who is presently in Yugoslavia occupying some governmental post. It will be recalled that in an article published on March 15, 1945, by the KINO FEATURE SYNDICATE THOORPOTATED, WESTEROOK PEGLER, charged SPANEL with spreading pro-communist and pro-Eussian propaganda through his full page advertisement in the newspapers, which SPANEL characterized as being published for the INTERNATIONAL LATEX COMPORATION, as a public service feature. It is also interesting to observe that in the New York Times of October 2, 1945, an article appears which states that SPANEL is suing the KING FEATURE SYNDICATE INCORPORATED for six million dollars alleging the column by PEGLER to have been liabelous. -2-; ETRISTRESSER stated that through FITZGERALD he too had met SPANEL and from this personal acquaintance he formed the opinion that SPANEL was definitely a communist and is probably one of the financial supporters of the Communist Party in this country. ESERSTRESSER stated that SPANEL was born in Russia, but is now an American citizen. He also charged that SPANEL exerted transcribed influence in Washington, D. C., and said that one of SPANEL'S closest political friends was HENRY WALLACE. EMPOTRESSER advised that two agents from Army Intelligence contacted and stated that in an investigation to determine the qualifications of FITZCTPALD for a commission, they had developed information indicating that SPANEL was definitely endeavoring to secure possession of TESLA'S effects. ETROCTRESSER indicated that Army Intelligence was pursuing an investigation along these lines in an attempt to ascertain the complete story in this regard. For the Bureau's information, ECRGSTRESSER was born on July 3, 1912 at Pueblo, Colorado, he is unmarried, and his family resides in Wichita, Kansas He is a graduate of Northwestern University and until July 1945 had been a employee of the MI, overseas branch, from March 1943 until January 1945. He had been stationed in China, attached to General Stillwell's Headquarters, and was in charge of the physiological Marfare Department of the OWI. BERCSTRESSER at present is not employed, however, he appears to have ample funds since he travels all over the country and resides in reputable hotels. Just recently he stated that he had driven General Stillwell's car from Mashington to the Mest Coast as a personal favor to the General's wife. He advised that it is his desire to cooperate with MITZGERALD in securing legal possession of TESLA'S effects in order that a memorial foundation may be established for the protection of TESLA'S experiments and for the preservation of the inventors memory. EXPOSTRESSER stated that FITZCERALD had interested a group of young Army scientists now working with him at Wright Field in this foundation, and their ultimate goal is to secure the support of a wealthy backer in order that a foundation might be established and that a sort of "idea factory" might result. Its said that they intended to contact HENRY FORD, SR., to solicit his aid in this regard. that involving the wireless transmission of electrical power. He claimed that TESLA had performed a successful experiment many years ago at Pikes Peak, at which time he harpassed local current from the sun's rays which he built up into a huge potential of electrical energy. ECRESTRESSER said that according to FITZCEPALD, if this idea could be furthered, all electrical energy to operate the world's machinery might be gotten absolutely free rather than by the costly method with which electrical power is presently generated. He said that his idea was to conduct further experiments along this line in China where the need for electrical power is very great. Inquiry was made at the MANHATTAN STORAGE WAREHOUSE in New York City, and it was determined that the effects of NIKOLA TESLA are contained in some 75 packing cooss and trunks and are presently under seal by the New York State Department of Taxation. It was learned that the rental for this storage, which approximates \\$15 per month, is being paid by one CYARLOTTE MUZAR, 134 East 63rd Street, New York, New York, who is listed as the agent for SAVA KOSAYOVICH. Inquiry was also made at the office of the Alien Property Custodian in Yew York City, concerning an investigation conducted by this office at the time of TYNA'S death, and at which time the latters property was placed under seal by the United States Government. Mr. WALTER CORSTON, Chief Investigator for the Alien Property Qustodian, provided a cover letter and a summary of materials owned by TESLA at the time of his death which was excurined by JOTH G. TRMP, of the office of SCIENTIFIC RESPARCH & DIVILORS WIT. Mr. CORSULT also stated that his file in this matter reflected that on the night TESLA died his safe was forced open by a representative of the SHOR? & MALKER SAFE COMPANY. It was Mr. CORSUCH'S belief that a Mr. SUCCESY who is believed to be one of the editors of the POPULAR SILECE MAGAZINE was present in TESLA'S from shortly after the safe was opened. These individuals were WILLIS CORSE, EDMARD PALMER, and JOTH J. CORSETT. There are enclosed herewith two typewritten copies of the report by Mr. TRUP of the AMEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN reflecting the findings of Mr. TRUP, following his examination of TESLA'S effects. There is also enclosed herewith a photostatic copy of a list of persons associated with NIKOLA TESLA. This latter item was furnished by Mr. BERGSTRESSER. The above information is furnished for the Eureau's information, and no investigation is being conducted by this office. Very truly yours, e. B. Conroy, Sac Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal Court House Building New York, New York Attention: Kr. Hervey Roth Gentlemen: It is requested that in the interest of National Defense, access be given to the effects of Dr. Nicola Fesla held in Manhattan Warehouse at 57th Street. New York City. New York. We are desirous of obtaining pertinent information concerning projects under consideration by the Control Equipment Branch of the Equipment Laboratory, Engineering Division, Air Technical Service It is understood that Dr. Tesla was well versed in the particular field of investigation under study by the Army Air Forces, and it is believed that the data from his estate may assist us further Respectfully yours. L. C. CRAIGIE, Brigadier General, U. S. A. Chief, Engineering Division DATE 1-13 82 BY DDIASH WA ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_335_Picture_11.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) HER: EM 65-12290 October 31, 1945 CONFIGNITIAL Director, FBI RB: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; SAVA KOSAKOVICH; Experiments and research of NIKOLA TESLA (deceased) ESPIONAGE - M Dear Sir Reference is made to a letter dated October 17, 1945, captioned as above, which contains a summary of recent information received by this office relative to the effects of NIKOLA TESLA, deceased inventor. On October 26, 1945, Private BLOYCE FITZGERALD, ASN 36916980, who is mentioned in the reference letter, called in person at the New York office together with Private DAVID M. PRATT, ASN 39293663; It. HENDERT O. SCHUTT, and It. R.B. HOULE, all of a research development unit at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. These men carried a letter signed by BRIGADIER CHERAL L.C. CRAIGER, Chief Engineering Division, Wright Field, requesting the assistance of this office in allowing the bearers of the letter access to the effects of HIKOLA TESIA. It was explained to Private FITZOTRAID and his associates that this office had no jurisdiction over TESLA's effects, and FITZOTRAID was referred to the office of the Alien Property Custodian, which made a very thorough investigation of TESLA's belongings following the inventors death. For the Bureau's information, Private FITZGERALD, and his associated stated that the Army believes TESLA's "Death Ray" to be the only possible defense against the atomic bomb, and they feel that possibly the secret of the "Death Ray" lies among TESLA's effects, which occupy several trunks at the Manhattan Storage Warehouse, New York City. It will be recalled that prior to TESLA's death, FITZGERALD, who is reported to be a brilliant young scientist, was taken by TESLA as his protege. This office is conducting no investigation on this matter. SDINSKIMA 1.13.92 Very truly yours, F. E. CONFOY, SAC Director, FBI April 17, 1950 SAC, New York Sava n. kosanovic Internal security—Yu (Dufile 65—47953) Rebulet dated April 3 last. On April 7, 1950 agents of this office interviewed kr. J.V. POTTS, Vice President of the Kanhattan Warehouse and Storage Company, 52nd Street & 7th Avenue, New York City, and at that time Mr. POTTS advised that the rules of his firm required that all persons gaining access to goods stored by Wanhattan first had to fill out an appropriate form setting forth their names, date of visit, and reason for requesting access to the mods. In a review of the file pertaining to the storage of the effects of NIKCLA TESLA, Mr. POTTS revealed that only one such visit had been made by persons putside of the management of Manhattan Storage itself. This one occassion took place on January 26 and 27, 1943, at which time representatives of the Alien Property Custodian made a thorough review of the entire effects of the TESLA estate. The TESIA effects are stored in rooms 5J and 5L of Manhattan Storage's warehouse at 52nd Street & 7th Avenue, New Nork City. MR. MICHAEL KING, who stated he had been Ploor Supervisor for approximately 10 years on the floor in question, stated that he could recall only the one occassion in early 1943 when an examination was made of the TESIA effects. He stated that at that time numerous photographs were taken by the examiners. His description of the equipment used would tend to show that a microfilm reproduction was made of some of the papers of the deceased scientist. II. KING added that several of the group making the examination were U.S. Navy uniforms, and during the two days required to complete the examination the civilian assistants in the group were identified to him only as "TEDETAL AUTHORITIES". According to MR. KING, no other instance of microfilming of the records of the TEDIA estate has taken place since that time. It should be noted that the fureau was informed of the examination mentioned above by New York letter (with attachments) dated October 17, 1945, entitled UNIXON SUBJECT; SAVA KOSMICVICH; Experiments & Research of NIXOLA ECIA (Deceased), Espionage-M. co: 65-12290 V L. 1-3-80 Drsenfem/Cis EPH: JJC 105-1391 13-12-70-22 Letter to Director, FBI NY 105-1391 MR. POTTS stated that no inquiry had been received by Manhattan from SAVA N. MOSANOVICH, nor had Manhattan informed him, in any way, that an examination of the TESLA effects had been made by anyone. In fact, added MR. POTTS, the only correspondence relating to the TESLA estate has seen in the form of bills for storage. IR. POTTS stated that any personal inquires regarding the estate would of necessity be directed to him, and to date no such inquiries have been made. Interviewing agents explained to MR. POTTS that the examination made, as mentioned above, was not instigated by the Bureau, nor had the Bureau taken part in that examination. Unless advised to the contrary, this investigation is being placed in a closed status, and no further investigative action is contemplated by this office. CIOSED. Now, BERGSTRESSER, the early part of last year, wrote to Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Senator turned his letters over to the Bureau. One of the letters to Senator McCarthy was regarding SPANEL. In that letter he advised McCarthy that he had taken two days in about April, 1945, to explain the entire story to the FBI in New York City. He said they started an investigation against SPANEL and after a few weeks indicated that their hands were tied that there was nothing the FBI could do as they had been stop from a higher level. They did not say yes or no in reference to SPANEL; in other words, they would not commit themselves too much However, they later indicated that apparently my suspicions were true. HARVEY RATH, the FBI agent who I dealt with most, resigned his job and requested that I never discuss this matter with him again; that he had a wife and family to consider. I asked him if there wasn't some hope left and he stated that the "Left hope was Congress." I have never seen or contacted him again as per his request. Mr. Hennrich said Senator McCatthy turned this material over to the Bureau last June or July, but nothing was done about it. The other day Westbrook Pegler was in town and stopped in to see Asst. Dir. L. B. Nichols, at which time he spoke alot about SPANEL. Sometime ago SPANEL sued Pegler for libel and now it appears PEGLER is out to get him. One of Pegler's contacts is BERG-STRESSER. When Mr. Nichols reviewed the Bureau files in this matter, he inquired about the reason why former SA Harvey Rath had not been interviewed in this matter. Mr. Hennrich requested that former SA Harvey Rath be interviewed and that we find out what he has to say in addition to the information reported by him in NY letter to the Bureau 10/17/45 mentioned above. MEMO Re: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; SAVA KOSANOVICH; Experiments and Research of NIKOLA KESLA (deceased) At 10:40 A. M., 2/5/51, Mr. Carl Hennrich, Bureau, called relative to the following individuals: -- APRAHAM SPANEL; RALPH BERGSTRESSER; Mr. Henrich said NIKOLA KESLA had died some years back; that he had been quite a scientist; and was supposed to have been, prior to his death, working on death rays. After he died there were allegations made that among his papers were material from which a death ray could be developed, as a result of which the Alien Enemy Custodian seized all his documents. AERAHAM SPANEL used to be with International Latex Corp. During the years, there have been a number of nonspecific complaints received re SPANEL's alleged CP sympathies. One of these complaints came from RALPH BERGSTRESSER. RAIPH BERGSTRESSER, in 1945, visited the NYO and talked with SA Harvey Rath. Mr. Rath reported this to the Bureau in memo dated 10/17/45 under the title, UNKNOWN SUJJECTS; SAVA KOSANOVICH, EXPERIMENT AND RESEARCH OF NIKOLA KESLA (Deceased); ESPIONAGE - M. That memo reflects an interview with RAIPH BERGSTRESSER in which BERGSTRESSER furnished information regarding SPANEL and also regarding KESLA papers. The inference was SPANEL was trying to get hold of KESLA papers for some sinister purpose. As a result of that contact, NYO contacted the Alien Enemy Custodian and found they had submitted the KESLA papers in 1933 to M.I.T. and a representative of M.I.T. had furnished them with information that they found no information that would be helpful of to an unfriendly nation. WMH: MFB ![](https://samisdat.in/user/pages/03.books/2003%20-%20Nikola%20Tesla%20-%20FBI/read/_page_342_Picture_8.jpeg?g-1351ebf7) Sonator Joseph McCarthy and the Senator turned his letters over to the Bureau. One of the letters to Senator McCarthy was regarding SPANEL. In that letter he advised McCarthy that he had taken two days in about April, 1945, to explain the entire story to the FBL in-New York City. He said they started an investigation against SPANEL and after a few weeks indicated that their hands were tied, but that there was nothing the FBI could do as they had been stopped from a higher level. They did not say yes or no in reference to SPANEL; in other words, they would not commit themselves too much. However, they later indicated that apparently my suspicions were true. HARVEY HATH, the FBI agent who I dealt with most, resigned his job and requested that I never discuss this matter with him again; that he had a wife and family to consider. I asked him if there wasn't some hope left and he stated that the "fort hope was Congress." I have never seen or contacted him again as per his request. Mr. Eenmrich said Senator McCabthy turned this material over to the Bureau last June or July, but nothing was done about it. The other day Westbrook Pegler was in town and stopped in to see Asst. Dir. L. B. Nichols, at which time he spoke alot about SPANEL. Sometime ago SPANEL sued Pegler for libel and now it appears PEGLER is out to get him. One of Pegler's contacts is BERG-STRESSER, When Mr. Michols reviewed the Bureau files in this matter, he inquired about the reason why former SA Harvey Rath had not been interviewed in this matter. Mr. Henmich requested that former SA Hervey Rath be interviewed and that we find out what he has to gay in addition to the information reported by him in NY letter to the Eureau 10/17/45 mentioned above. WILDIAM II. WHĖLAN, ASAC Sic. Lew York UNKNOWN EUBJECTS; SAVA KOSÁNOVICH; Experiments and Research of NIKOLA TESLA (Decease Reference is made to telephone call from Inspector Carl Equarich Eureau, to ASAC W. M. Whelan, 2/5/51. The Eureau pointed out they were in receipt of a letter written by RALPH BENGCINESSER to Senator Joseph McCarthy relative to one AERAHAM SPANEL in which he makes certain allegations about conversations which he had with former SA Harvey E. Rath. On 2/8/51, Mr. Rath case to this office and furnished the following information: tated by RATH, he recalled that on 6/9/45 BENGSTRESSER came to the New Yor Office and furnished some nonspecific information and he again appeared at the New York Office and spoke to Nr. Rath 9/27/45. All of the information furnished by DENGSTRESSER was reported in the above referenced letter. These are the only two visits Mr. Rath recalls EMGSTRESSER ever having made to this office. For the Eureau's information, a search of NY files reflect EUNGSTRESSER came to this office on another matter and furnished a complaint 8/10/42, which matter has no relation whatsoever to the above captioned matter. It should be pointed out also that the information furnished by EUNGSTRESSER in 1942 was also of a nonspecific nature. This information was set forth in report of SA John T. Kurphy, NY, 10/22/43, in the case entitled JOSEPH THEODORE WALDECK, was., ESP. G. enter private industry; that sometime after his resignation EMECTRECOM contacted him telephonically at his place of business. He could offer no explanation as to how EMECTRECOM knew where he was employed. EMECTRECOM, at that time, asked him if the FBI was doing anything about the natter he had previously reported and Mr. Eath recalls having told him that that was something about which he could offer no information since he had officially resigned his connection with that agency. Mr. Eath remembers specifically informing EMECTRECOM that, if he had any further information to provide, he should take same to the New York Office where someone fully qualified would be cognizant of all facts previously furnished. Mr. Rath has not heard from EMECTRECOM since that phone call. He has M:173 \[ 7-13.92 SAIDSKIMY2. further that just after he left the Eureau, he received calls from several persons, particularly confidential sources he had developed, with whom he had left his home phone to make inquiries of him or to give him information and he, in all instances, made it a practice to refer them to the New York Office just as he did BENGSTRESSER. The files of the New York Office definitely indicate that BERGSTRESSER did not furnish any information to this office in April, 1945, as he has alleged, but that he came to this office on two separate occasions, namely 6/9/45 and 9/27/45. With regard to BERGSTRESSER's allegation that the FBI started an investigation against SPANEL and after a few weeks indicated their hands were tied, the Bureau is advised that there is no record in this office of our ever starting an investigation of SPANEL and, as a matter of fact SPANEL resides in Delaware and such an investigation would not be undertaken by this office. RATH advised that he at no time advised BERGSTRESSER that the Bureau was undertaking any investigation of SPANEL and neither did he ever indicate that the Eureau was not investigating him because its hands were tied. He never indicated to BERGSTRESSER that his (BERGSTRESSER'S) suspicions relative to SPANEL were either true or false. Relative to BERGSTRESSER's knowledge that RATH was married and had a family, Mr. Rath advised this knowledge may have been given to BERGSTRESSER in the following way. The interviews between RATH and BERGSTRESSER had been friendly. When BERGSTRESSER called RATH after he had left the Bureau, sometime in 1946, RATH believes BERG-STRESSER asked him why he left the Bureau and RATH says he may have replied that he had a wife and family and had recently purchased a home in New Jersey and found the needs of FBI service to travel around difficult for him under the circumstances. Mr. Rath said he definitely did not ask EERGSTRESSER not to call him or ever discuss this matter with him because he had a wife and family. Ee did request BERGSTRESSER not to call him in this matter any more since he was no longer connected with the FBI and such matters should be discussed with a representative of that organization. Mr. Rath Further states that he did not discuss the merits of this case in any way during his last telephone conversation with BERGSTRESSET and, hence, he is positive that he never made any statement that there was no hope left or that, "the last hope was Congress". Since the one phone call referred to above Mr. Bath has had no contact whatsoever with EERGSTRESSER and he has never heard anything from him or about him. TESLA's only military invention was a method to which he once eluded but new fully described. This invention was a means whereby an impenetrable "wall of force" can be creeted around the United States' borders which would render helpless any military attack. TISLA disclosed the existence of his plan in 1934 and stated he intended to present it to the Geneva Conference but seldom referred to it afterward. carried an article setting forth NICOLA TESLA's plan for "Death Ray". This article included information to the effect that TESLA, on his 84th birthday, July 10, 19 advised New York Times reporter WILLIAM A. LAWRENCE that he was ready to divulge to the United States Government the secret of his "teleforce", with which he said airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles so that an invisible Chinese wall of defense would be built around the country against any attempted attack by an enemy airforce no matter how large. According to TESLA, this "teleforce" was based on an entirely new principle of Physics that "no one has ever dreamed about" and was different from the principle embodied in his inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which he received a number of basic patents. oferate through a beam one hundredth millionth of a square a centimeter in diameter and could be generated from a special plant that yould cost no more than two million dollars and would take only about three months to costruct. TESLA stated that a dzen such plants located at strategic points along the coast, according to TESLA, would be enough to defend the United States against all possible aerial attacks. TESLA stated that this beam would melt any engine and would also ignite explosives aboard any bomber. TESLA stated that no possible defence against it could be devised and he asserted that the beam would be all penetrating. TESTA stated to Mr. LAWRENCE that he makes one important stipulation before he would divulge this scoret to the United States Government and that was that should the United States Government decide to take up his offer, he would go to work at once but that the United States Government would have to trust him. TESTA stated that he would suffer "no interference from experts." In this "Now York Times" article Mr. LAWRENCE to mented that with conditions as they were in 1940; and with the United States getting ready to spend millions of dollars for National Defense, Mr. TESLA's great reputation as an inventor, who always was many years ahead of his time, should be given careful consideration. Mr. LAWRENCE stated, in his opinion, the United States dovernment should take Mr. TESLA at his word and commission him to go ahead with the construction of his "teleforce" plant. The New York file of Mr. TESIA beard no indication that any additional developments were carried on in connection with TESA'S invention and whether or not TESIA fully divulged his new plan to the United States Government. TESLA died at the age of 85 on January 7, 1943. Im. SAVO provided a two page copy of the above mentioned negaletter which Hr. and Hrs. STORM have been distributing in connection with the alleged invention by TESLA, which, according to Mr. and Hrs. STORM, consists of a radio type machine known as the Tesla Set which was invented by Hr. TESLA in 1938 for interplanetary commication. Mr. and Hrs. STORM claim that TESLA's engineers did not complete the Tesla Set until after TESLA's death in 1943. Mr. and Mrs. STORM claim that this Set was placed in operation in 1950 and since that time TESLA engineers have been in close touch with space ships. etc. The novaletter furnished by fir. SAVO included the following names: MARGATE STOTI JOHN SWOOT -GEORG'S VAN TYSSEL, Yugea Valley, California DAN FAX GEORG'S KING, London, England The files of the New Yerk Office contained no pertinent information regarding any of the above mentioned individuals. Two photostatic copies of this newsletter are being sent to the Europu for purposes of information while one copy is being submitted to the Los Angeles office for information purposes. --- ## Navigation - Parent: [Nikola Tesla FBI File (2003) by FBI](https://samisdat.in/books/nikola-tesla-fbi-2003.md)