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Freedo1n of Information Release
On
Subject: Nikola Tesla
File#: 100-2237
Pages Reviewed- 160
Pages Released- 160
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Department ot Ju•tice,
A.tten. J.Cr. a. li:dgar Hoover,
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DMr Jlr. Hoovers
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OlN IS UNCLASSIFIE~
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22, ).9_40 and ir ba.aN on prOT en !acta , ahould be ot rl tal importance to our
Yar Department aa well. a.a to that of other nations a.ow eontrolleo. oy insane dictators.
It ,aa the aathcr ata.tea,the teletor~e ~ oeen per.reetod by Nikola~,~t
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UNSUBS ---EQUIPMENT, EXPERIMENTS AND)QESEARCH OF
CEASED, III Ill ESPIONAGE - M. RETELjUNDER ABOVE HEADING TO BUREAU .
FROM THIS OFFICt DATED JAN NINE LAST. INQUIRY DEVELOPS THAT TESLA DIED
JAN EIGHT, RATHER THA~ THUR'SDAY, JAN SEVEN, AS !I I Sib( STATED IN
REFERENCE TELETYPE. ON THE NIGHT OF JAN EIGHT, SAV~OSANOVICH, GEORGE
*t:LARK 1 AND KENNETH~WEEZEY VISITED TESLA-S HOTEL Wl'rlt A-REPRESENTATIVE
OF SHAW WALKER.CO. IN ORDER TO OPEN THE SAFE IN THE ROOM OF TESLA.
KOSANOVICH LATER REPORTED TO WALTER GORSUeH, OFFICE OF ALIEN PROPERTY
CUSTODIAN, NYC, THAT HI VENT INTO THE ROOM.IN ORDER TO SEARCH FOR A
WILL OF TESLA. KOSANOVICH. AND THE OTHERS MADE THE SEARCH OF THE SA~£
IN THE PRESENCE OF THREE ASST MANAGERS OF HOTEL NEW YORKER AS WELL AS
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN CONSULATE, IDENTITIES.OF LATTER NOT
YET KNOWN. AFTER THE SAFE WAS OPENED, SWEEZEY, TOOK FROM THE SAFE A
BOOK CONTAINING TESTIMONIALS SENT TO TESLA ON THE OCCASION Of HIS SEVEN­
TY FIFTH BIRTHDAY •. THIS BOOK WAS ~RRANGED FOR TESLA BY SWEEZEY.
KOSANOVICH TOOK FROM THE ROOM THREE PICTURES OF TESLA, TWO BEING EN­
LARGED NEWSPAPER PICTUREX. ACCORDING TO MANAGERS OF HOTEL AND KOSANO­
VICH HIMSELF, NOTHING ELSE WAS REMOVED FROM THE ROOM OR SAFE. TH~
SAFE WAS THEN CLOSED UNDER A NEW COMBINATION, WHICH COMBINATION IS
NOW I~ POSSESSION 0 __ K KOSANOVICH. ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JAN
NINE~ORSUCH AND IE I K FTIZGERALD OF ALIEN PROPERTY CONTROL WENT TO
HOTEL\AND SEIZED ALL THE PROPERTY OF TESLA, CONSISTING OF ABOUT TWO
TRUCKLOANDS OF MATERIAL, SEALED ALL ARTICLES AND TRANSFERRED.TH!M TO
THE MANHATTAN STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE CO. NY, WHERE THEY ARE NOW LOCATED.
AT THAT 1 K TIME THERE WERE ALSO IN THIS WAREHOUSE APPROXIMATELY
THIRTY BARRELS AND BUNDLES BELONGING TO TESLA WHICH HAD BEEN THERE SINCL
ABOUT NINETEEN THIRTY FOUR. THESE HA~ ALSO 7 IIIIX BEEN SEALED AND
ARE NOW UNDER ORDERS OF ALIEN PROPERT USTODIAN. IN VIEW OF FACT TESLA
IS A US NATURALIZED CITIZEN, ALIEN PR PERTY CUSTODIAN FEELS THAT ITS
JURISDICTION OVER PROPERTY IS DOUBTFU BUT P h:C FEELS THAT NO OTHER -;
AGENCY WILL BE ~ijLE1 JD GET ~ TO THIS PROPERTY FOR AT LEAST TWO DAYS/
COPIES DESTROYED.QID,g;YJ:t-Lf~~L ~-lJF02NATJl,'QNG~I-i,.~.~· ,_.,.., \
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AFTER THAT TIME IT IS P-ossiBLE THAT A PUBLic ADHINIHRATOR WILL s; ,
APPOINTED FOR THE PROPERTY WHO HAY TAKE THE PROPERT NTO HIS CUS­
TODY. TESLA ALSO HAD SOME PROPERTY, lbl II I X AL EGED BY INFORMANT
FITZGERALD IN THIS CASE, TO BE A WORKING MODEL OF AN INVENTION IN
A SAFE DEPOSIT BOX IN GOVERNOR CLINTON HOTEL IN NY. INQUIRY SHOWS
THAT THIS WAS PLACED HERE BY TESLA IN NINETEEN THIRTY TWO AS SECURITY -­
FO~ FOUR HUNDRED. DOLLARS OWED HOTEL. THIS BILL IS STILL OWED AND HOTEL
APPEARS UNWILLING TO RELEASE THIS PROPERTY TO ANYONE AT LEAST UNTIL.
i rx DEBT IS PAID, BUT THIS OFFICE WILL BE ADVISED If ANYONE ATTE·MPTS
TO PAY BILL AND OBTAIN'RSOPERTY. CONCERNING TESLA HOTEL MANAGERS RE­
PORT HE WAS "JLllHX VERY ·rcCENTRIC IF NOT lall( MENTALLY DERANGED DURING
PAST TEN YEARS AND IT IS DOUBTFUL If HE HAS CREATED ANYTHING OF VALUE
DURING THAT TIME, ALTHOPRIOR TO THAT HE PROBABLY WAS A VERY BRILLIANT
INVENTOR •. THEREFORE, ANY NOTES OF VALUE WERE PROBABLY THOSE MADE
PRIOR TO THAT TIME. KOSANOVICH IS A NEPHEW OF TESLA WHO DESCRIBED
HIMSELf AS FORMERLY QUOTE YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF STATE UNQUOTE AND NOW
QUOTE ~II IT '• PRESIDENT OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL PLANNING BOARD REP­
RESENTING YUGOSLOVIA,· CZECHOSLOVAKIA, POLAND AND ~REECE, UNQUOTE.
SWEEZEY IS A WRITER FOR POPULAR MECHANICS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS WHO
IS t X DESIROUS OF PUBLISHING A BIOGRAPHY OF TESLA AND THERFORE WOULv
LIKE TO OBTAIN CONTR9b OF HIS NOTES FOR THIS WORK. CLARK IS EMPLOYED
BY RCA AND WOULD ALSgfROVIDE STORAGE ROOM FOR TESLAS.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 TECH­
NICAL IN CHARACTER AND FOR THAT REASON ~ COULD NOT BE REVIEWED ~
IlK EXCEPT BY A TRAINED PERSON THE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RES~ARCH DEVEL-
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LJ!~KNOWi~ St.;EJECTS. E .• EXPERIMENTS AN
TZSLA, DE:EASED. ESPIONAGE- M. NIKOLA T~SLA,·o~
STANDI~~ SCIE~TISTS IN THE ELECTRICAL FIELD, DIED
T::::.::-~ F OrtTY Tf!RZE AT THE HOTEL NZ~: '.'~RKE;~, ~.;~;,.,r YC~~~
. LIFETii·::::, ;-:: co;:JUCTE:D t~A:·~y z::FZ.~Ii;E:::rs I;~ .:o:~:~~C7
T~.~.:~s:·:ISSIO:·~ Oi E:L~CTi~!CAL !"~~;z:.; A~·~:J ~:ill .... ~;;-~AT
THE D~P.TH ~AY. ACCOrtDI;·~~ TO I~~FCR:1ATION FUri~~ISHED
T~RZE SIX FIFTH AVENUE, NE~ YO~K CITY, THE NOTES A
EXPERIMENTS AND FORMULAE TOGETHER WITH DES1GNS OF
VITAl.J?F THEN ARE ANOi-.JG TESLAS PERSONAL EFFECTS, A,-.. ·1l·-... ll
TAKEN TO PRESERVE THE~'1 OK TO KEE:P THE~~ FRCM FALLIN~:..:;-lra.To~~:tiil
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I:"JG TO SPAI~:C:L, A DISTANT .RELATIV~ OF TESLA, NA~l£D
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~AS 1NT2~SELY t!SLIKED BY TESLA, IS TAKING STEPS T
THESE IMPORTANT DOCUMNTS AND PLANS. SPANEL BELlEY
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·.::::LL AS :-;R ~iORKil·~ OF THS DEPARTI·:£!.jT OF JUSTICI I~ ~·JASl-:I:~CTO\, CO:·iCt:.L:I!·~G
TE~ A'E.C•V"£.. SPA:j£L HAS ALSC I!·;Tt:LEPt-:cr;IC CO:·li'iui·HCATIC!' :;rr:-: ·: 1:):{ D
t 0· 7 '·"0 !"\'r\'t"' OF -1Ht"' AD'rls"r}c- .,..C \,'Ir:- !)!:.~::--sr":-"·lT t.rttt L"',..t"' ,... ..... ~.J,...r.onr~'~,.. 'T'tl·:rc.
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~ATT~H, AND LOZADO TOLD SPA~EL 1 ·v ThAT THE GOVERNMENT ~AS VITALLY
I::TE:R~ST~J I:~ ii!E EFF~CTS OF T~SLA A?-;D R!::·J.U~STED SPAr~E:L TC LOSE :·JO TI:·:E:
E··J ~0! ::: ALL HE COULD TO PRZSE?\VE + .: THEM. BLOYCE: F IT2 ~Z:(.t.LD, .;:·:
:LECT~ICAL E~GINZER WHO HAD EEE!~ QUITE CLOSE TO TESLA DU~ING HIS l!FE
Tli·!E, ADVISED THE NEvJ YOR!{ OFFICE THAT C~·l JANUARY SEVEi,!TH, NINETEE::~ ·~
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A REVCLUTION-
1RY TYPE OF TORPEDO WHICH IS NOT PRESENTLY IN USE
THE NATIC~S.
IT IS FIT2GERALDS BELIEF THAT THIS DESIGN HAS NOT
AVAILABLE
TO ANY NATION UP TO THE PRESENT TIME. FROM STATEM TO FITZ-
GEARLD BY TESLA , HE KNOW~ THAT THE COMPLETE PLANS CATIONS
AND EXPLANATION OF THE BASIC THEORIES OF THESE THI. O~E PLACE IN
THE PERSONAL EFFECTS OF TESLA. HE ALSO KNOWS THAT A WOR~ING
MODEL OF TESLAS WHICH COST MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND
0 BUILD IN
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BOX EEt~;~G~~J~z~~A~~~
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HAS TO DO WITH THE SO CALLED£ DEATH RAY OR THE WIR ;sMISSION OF -
ELECTRICAL CURRENT. TESLA HAS ALSO TOLD FITZGEARL CO!·JVERSATIO~~::J
THAT HE HAS SO~~E ~X EIGHTY TRUNKS INDIFFE'"'rW!I*;~ S CONTAir-JI;~r_;
TRA:'-:SCRIPTS AND PLA~JS HAVING TO DO t·JITH EXPERIMENTS Uf811~~fD 8Y HI!·1.
EUREAU IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE IMMEDIATELY WHAT, IF . ON SHOULD
EE TAKEN CONCERNING THIS MATTER BY THE NEW YORK FIEL
FOXWORTH
CORRECTION- THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TELETYPE THE NAME THAT SHOULD APPEAR
IS ~IIZGfQ3 1 P u NOT FITZGERALD ...... AS IT SONETIMES IS
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f.> R_r>ecl.. _l ca. ,,_ons, eY.~ P-!1~ 1o:ns o _ 'l"'! l:l.Sl~.._~~ ... ec,
of Tesla' s scienti£'ic enden.vorE a-e rerori:ed to bf" h~~~- efJ".ects.
Mr. Tolson __ _
Mr. E.A. Tainro
Mr. Clegg __ _
Mr. Glavin __ _
Mr. ,Ladd ___ _
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen __ _
Mr. Tracy ___ _
Mr. Carson __ _
Mr. Co! fey __ _
Mr. Hendo01 __ _
Mr. Kramer __ _
~r. McGuire __ _
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Mr. Nease ____
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!""e~-:0r-:ed to ra~le SO:rt-=:- 80 trt.m:~s in difi:'P.r-3::+, ~l~C"eS ·"containi1!2; ~ransc!"i:")7S ~~C
")~-~~~s h::.-;2.~·- +_;~, 'i0 v:i_th ris f!X?t:>ri·1nr.ts "~ w~ll P.S a worki"'l.":. r:~n:iel 0~ 0-r:."\ 0£'
::~. s d~ve lo_n:!J"'P ts i. "': :.~ .~ .sa fP-t~r de~:osj t box a-t t~e '3-ov.,rno!" Cl:i.r."to!l ~0-'-:P-1 •
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~· 1-1l1v. Yo:rk 0 ff'ic-e t) :.. . ~r l. S:n•.nel7"44~c. Bloyc:\ !"i_ t zg~ro.l~~. -~}:c ·~~ t~E;: e..n eJ ~ctrical
-1fot:J 1"!~.:.:..::-t~&?-:;r w·· o had t'l~en ~;\1 te ~lcs~ to Te~la. Eot·1 of t:--ese 1nd1v1.~1.19l.s '1~Ve
~ in·iicate(l t~~e.t !".o ste,F-s ?1L-ve bee~ to.~e::1 to prez~rve T~sla'e records e.nd r.:1odels
or t:o keep t·1A;o i"ro:a ,... ~llins irto t.l:e hands of il"'.d.i.viduuls s:nnpatne";ic to th~
.. Axis pov:er~.
\ )- Te s l" h•.s a c!i • """""" ~ e 1 -,.th·e by the na.'lle of S !'-'" l f.os enovi oh, wi.o!!l he
~f.;J irte:-sel:J dis}ikeCl.. f.OSl,;:').,._rid'. is r~vort.ed to be takiPG s\e:ps -i:o !;P.t ~")OSSPSS~On
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of ~!1ese iuqr•rtant d.ocwnerrts aptj _oJ a.ns, a"'l.ij Sp9.nel beJ_ieve~ t~1-:'~rzetla:rk. in chF.rt:;e of -t;.rf; '
:.:'.lseUiil !l!,d Le..i.H·,ra7ory for RCA. a_··r! KennE:th -~weze:,r of' .:rl")oklyn, 1~'3W "'.:.'l")rt:,. e~ter~cl­
Tesla' s roo=-: 9.t ~::P ~~o-':el Nr:.-w Yorr:er \'ir·~!'f', with ttte- E:.~.d of a locksl"'";i ~"~-:, t~Sl'"H
broke ir-~c- a safE, in w~~-~h ?esla kept some of n~·le nape.!.s• i'"'~.(!ir.~- -
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inyoi:·tant ele~tri~el fo:rmt!l.ae, d.esir;ns, et cet€r. ~.& bld /· .
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hes tl.lso ad"~ .... if:ed the heF!.·~C~ 1 lerters of tr.e 1~~ilitary Intelli:;P .ce Di~rision. P.. :.:r.
:.-o:ki:l o 1' t~:.e D•:'p~r-f:t.~f:nt of J•1stice in !:-c-;s~i nr;ton, e .dfDr. JAN !.-~16.ol943t=- .
o -~~ uaYl~or_s o .• lee rP_,s1. .. e~ .:~. F.c_ e-. ..Jcz~·JO '"'· v_1sea .. _pJ1'1C ..,,_,a _, ,•:e-
G:ne:rru:'lLnt 1."!6-f: vitE.ll'r iL-+::'?:r··st~~- in t!--"" efl'f'ct~ of es1~ !::.'1C !"e:.r1 t!iut :
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with the S-tate's A~.torr..e~{ in 1·:ew ':,...·:-1c City wi.-+::b th~
t-'ose.""lo ...rid··. iTrt,o cus~ody "!"' a bur:1 u~y c'~-1e.rge a!;d o:,t·i!l~f· ~arions IJe':}erz
whic~ 'Kosanovich is reported -!;o ha ... re t.e.ken fror.. Tesra~'!lill:i It was p~;5.nt~ti
out that. any ac.tivities t?Ursued b~,. the State's Atto
be har:=led i~
f'. !Tlost SPCrt~t fas!'lion in order to avoid en~r p:Jblici
i!l-;e:ltions. The New Ynrk Of'fir;~ was a] so instruct~
Cour-+: in orrler thRt stops ~ry~ld be ~lac~i &gai~st t
hi~ hotel and any other poir..t:::., i':'l pnrticul'tr 1 tr.P. boxes that he may
r'av~ ir.. order thR~ no o~~ ney P.nter t'_.,.D •ri t,1out a ~m&t21P~.-nte.ti '7f": bP.i.ng
present anri every preca·.lt i0r. taken to -preserve the secre 1.' 6 i:J~~P.nt ions.
T~c Pew York Cffic':' is to keer t:•e• Bu:ea'..l advised of all nts.

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Jlnitrb §tntrs ilrpartntent of Bustier
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EAT:DS January 12, 1943
MEMORANDUM FOR J!R. LADD
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Mr. Ladd
Mr. Nichols
Mr. Rosen
.Mr. Tracy
Mr. Carson
Mr. Coffey
~Ir. Hendon
Mr. Kramer
Mr. McGuire
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Mr. Quinn· Tamrn_
Tel e. Room
On Friday, January 8th, Mr. L. M. c. ~th called me
in connection with the death of Nikola~esla. He ad
vised me that h·e was concerned about the possibili~~~::::::::.:::::..::::::::::~:..
of enemy agents confiscating some of the trun~s o
Tesla, who had died on January 7th. He understood
the War Department was interested in this matter and
that apparently tne Alien Property Custodian's office
was t4kina 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 sei2e possession of the trunks. Mr. Smith
indicated that he was ~alkinq to ~he 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 shouA4 take.
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I.'R. POTTS stated t.bat no inquiry had been reoeived b7 llanhattan from
SA'/ A N. J'DSA.)lY/ICH 1 mr had Manhattan into Imed hia, in any way 1 that an examination
or the ~Ll e!fecta l:ad been made 1Jr ~· In !act., added MR.
FOTI'S, the o~ corrupondcnce relat~ to tM BSL&. .. tate hal ·~en 1n the
f'o l"ll 0 r bS.l.h !or ato rage •
E. POns atated that ~ penonal inquire• reaarding tJ. ••tate woul4
o! neoeeait7 be direc~d to h1A, and to date 110 auch inqu11'1e1 baw been aade.
Interviewing agentl explained to MR. POTl'S that tbe ·ex•m1nat1Qn aade 1
u mentioned above, 1I1LS mt instigated by tt. Bureau, mer had tbl Bureau ta.ken
part 1n that enm1 nation.
Unleas advised to the contrar.r, th18 1m'eat1gation ~ being placed 1n
a c~ed •tatua 1 and no further 1mestigat1ve action 1a contemplated by thil
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Gentlemen:
In a manner of introduction, I wish to state that I am working
toward a degree in Electrical Engineering at the Inst1 tute of
Technology of the University of Minnesota.
For sevEral years, I have been engaged in a study of extensive
co~pass and detail concerning the researches a~d writings of
the late, l'>'orld renowned scientiet, Dr. Nikola..·T_es~a. At considerable
expense, I have acquired o.n ex'tens-iv·e collection of
rr.o..terials relating to Dr. Tesla and his 1.:orl~s which include:
l) Personal letters written by ~esla to his close friend.
2) Numerous periodicals, sor.1e of l-:hich are to be found in
only a few libraries throughout the United States.
3) A few rare bool(S which have now become "collector•a
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4) A collection of issued patents.
Although the items listed are considerable in number, the specific
information desired is lacking.
A~ I understand it, because of the nature of Dr. Tesla 1 s role
in scientific developments, all research papers, patent
applications, etc., were secured by the Feaeral Bureau of
Investigation at the time of Dr. Tesla's death in January or
19~3.
The purpose of this seizure, as described in numerous articles,
wa.s to determine ,.,hether these naper·s contained suggestions
leading tot,·ard advancenen te in ~; ~ fi~ ~d~- -~f /ioienoe.. '
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Now it seems that sufficient time has elapsed for an investigation
of this kind. If Dr. Tesla's Estate has been released
by the dep£~tment in charge, any records that can be made
available for examination will be welcomed.
A letter from Harold I. Baynton, Assistant Attorney General,
Director, O:fice of Allen Property, informed me that the Library
of Congress listed Certain works, writings and research studies
prep&red oy the late Dr. Tesla. However, a letter addressed
to the Library fa!led to bring results as the Library 11 has no
files on the researches of Tesla 11 •
A sir!lila.r result was obtained from tl-.Le Bureau of Naval Research
and the Department of Commerce.
I am. especially interested in the research work 1n which Tesla
~·!as engaged in his lc:.. ter years. There are various un!)ublished
works, such as a 10-page typewritten statem~nt 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 anc_cosm1c ray research, etc. Also, Tesla prepared
varicus papers, one of wh!ch was in effort to secure the Pierre
Gutz:no.n Pr·ize from the Institute of France. My inquiry is in
effort to determine whether any of these docunents, as well as
others, are at this time available.
I will greatly appreciate any information in regard to any
~ecords which you may ha~e.

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book that Bureau J,r:ents went to Tesla 's room o owing his death
on Janw: ru 7, 1942 J o_r:ened .1; is .exai:i ined hi~ _na_;:. ers J and
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power eng1.nee g, beinr responsible for the invention of the
A. C. generator_, ~otor transmission, and other electrical engineering
.tea.-ts. T:'e inq•:ircc (1) i.f the _r·c_:_-crs cn.c t~'Jrl;s of Tcslc were in
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which he possessed. On Jc.r.ucr]/ B, 1943_, lfr. L. 11. c. Smith of
the DeDartr.:ent advised JJr. Tcanrr:. that he was concerned about the
possib.ility of ener.!y agents confiscating soiTi.~ of the trunks of /
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tal:ing some action regarding these effects. Since the matter ~s- :·..s . - .
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ar1. ied in Belg."':'ade (where Tes ..... 1 s property was to be
installed in a special Tesla Museum) and vms there opened
by h!r. Kosanovic. 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
v:as never found.
·I learned of the disappearance of the medal only by
accident. Mr. Kosanovic had asked his former secretary
to get permission from the American Institute of Electricc:~l
Engineers (who gave Tesla the 11edal) 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 v.rorld. At the time he died, his gold Edison lledal
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 countryl:!len
overseas for whom he had done nothing---seems a tragic
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the FBI broke· into Tesla 1 s safe on the day he died, and
~ ~rticle in the current (June) Coronet repeats this. l
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
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might remember the conditions under which the search VTas
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 v;rong 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 C()J1. give,
Sincerely,
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P.S.: I am enclosing an editorial from last oonth' s POVr.CR
mag:;.zine which outlines ·r~sla' s contribut:i.on to the electric
povt·er industry.
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ASK 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 contributi-on, 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, de 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 Amer·
ican 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 Nik-ola Tesla, the system ·he described
was destined to sweep the field.
With characteristic vision, George W estinghou.se 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·gen·
erators, a variety of de equipment.
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But it remained for the Niagara Falls power project to
demonstrate in the most dramatic way possible that poly·
phase ac was the system of the future. Since 1886 when
a charter to develop its p-ower had been granted, the eyes
of the world had been on Niagara. An internati~nal commission,
headed by Lord Kelvin, had reviewed 17 pro·
posals, found none acceptable. Later, just five years aher
Tesla's AlEE paper, it was officially decided to u!e the
polyphase system.
In August, 1895, Niagara power was delivered to the
firM 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-reachin~ inventions were
but a beginning. Still to come was.brilliant work in high
frequencies, thinkin~ 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 en-ormous 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 pr-ojects became
more grandiose, his ways more mysterious, his pronouncements
more Olympian. And working alone, as he did,
he formed none 9£ the institutional ties that help to perpetuate
a record of accomplishment.
Next year-July 10, 1956-will be the lOOth anniversary
of Nikola Tesla's birth. It would be fitting for our
engineerin~ societies to commemorate this occasion, to
acknowledge our debt to this strange and lonely genius
who ohanged our world for the better.
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, RECOGNITION FOR TESLA ~
Largely thru a young American. engineer· s efforts, the I
world today is r~-scannin?..the record and achievements of our
inventive genius, Nikola ·· T esla. Of. late, even the big-time
magazines have devoted space to the amazing career and fascinating
character of the pioneering electrical wizard.
Mr"D
"' .Th~ rna~ behind this belated rec~g~ition for ~he one-time \ON CO N\1\\ \'i C.
· Serb1an 1mmtgr.·ant boy who made mtlhons but dted almost a ·Lr·-S~\f ED~
pauper is Leland nudersqp. head of the Tesla Society, ·~ 'd
which has h'eiaqu-ar-ters at the University of Minnesota. ~-B ·- 1- ""·
Thru travels, correspondence and detailed research, Mr.
Anderson has dug up many friends of the late genius and induced
them to join in his noble work. A good many of these
are American-Serbians. They serve Mr. Anderson and he
serves them, with information issued thru his TESLIAN publication.
This is. at present, a m.imeogr~phed publication issued
monthly which casts new light on the known life and record
of the Ia te Dr. T esla.
The latest issue (March-june) informs of prog,ress plans
to honor Dr. Tesla even mpre. It also presents an account of a.
fascinating editorial, .. Strange Ceniu·s··, by the POWER magazine
of the powerful_ McGraw-liill publishing line. This edi-
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torial traces the introduction of Dr. Teslc~'s polyphase systeml/ .- . , J 7 -;; i ..:
described by Mr. Anderson, fiS the "most tremendous event int- C. OR~ED ,.
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answers the perp exing q stion why, in view ~-f Tesla's
portant discoveries, he fell short of the compa~ative popularity
won by Edison and Bell. Then in closing," he suggests: '.'It
wou]d be fitting for our engineering societies. in commemora-
tion of the I OOth anniversary of J'likola T esla's birth (july 10, , 1 g~ i~~
t9 5.6), tho achknowdledge ourlddefbt tho tbhis. st~?nge
genms w o c ange our wor or t e etter ..
This appears to be just what Mr. Anderson was waiting
for. For now, in the same issue of his TESLIAN, he has prepare~
a for~ to petition Postmaster

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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 le~ter to Bureau dated 6-25-55 Kenneth M. Swezey,
Brooklyn, New Tork, advises-he is gathering aaterial to help in a
nation-wide coamemoration of Tesla 1 s hundredth birth anniuersary in
1958. 8zoezey·-relates he was present when Tesla 's safe roas opened by
Jti.ends after_ 1
his death and advises the contents were thereafter
replaced and~rhen iapounded by the United States Alien Property
Custodian. Lcter the safe was removed to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to be
installed in~a ~esla Museum. Missing from Tesla's effects is a gold
Edison meda~he had been awarded. Swezey ts seeking to locate the
medal and has been advised by the Office of Alien Property (OAP) that
OAP held none of Tesla's property. ~we2ey states he has heard.the
FBI assisted OAF in handling Tesla's effects while in storage, and
accordingly, he asks whether Bureau could aasist 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 en6my·handsj. ~wezey 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.
\I Bufii.'~S not ·pertinent re ~wezey. Bureau did not enter into Tesla
·\ R safe 111atter upon Departaent 's advice it roas being handled by O.AP •
..!;) Bureau previously aaoar1 of COJUJ1ent in O'Neill's book. Per p,.~#ile8
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RECOJIJIENDATION:
That the attached letter be sent to S~zey advising Bureau
dtd not partiaipate tn the handling of Tesla's effects and that the
matter was handled by OAP. Therefore, Bureau unable to be of
) assistance; that no aation ·be taken relative to Sinks' comment in
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1955, our 1'1•• d'acloae t~• •ll•cta of X'kelo~eala
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of A.l~crn Prop41rt11 and ~tot bJI thie •urcrou.
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•andl,ng of Mr. re•la'• •lf•c~a,
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Bufiles contain no derogatory data· ..·r,e co~es­
, pendent; reflect only that he was clos~ ..r~!etY-cP ~¢ ..
... .· ):Bd.J:nirer of Tesla. ·;.- :..- ·l~v. ~ ~-.
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In his bool-:, "Prodigal Genius~~, The Life of :iTikola 1'_~_?la.J .i. • .!.r •. ;·ohn
-~· 0 ':-~eil says, on pc.ge ?-77, thc:·.t the F.B.I. went to Tesla' s hotel
room, opened his steel safe anC. reooved frora it, the papers it
contained.
~7as tnere ever any publication of ,.!hat these papers contained? If
so, could y :::-u ir:form me Vihere I might obtain a copy of such
publicatio!1'?
If thGre v.·as no publicatiol-J. of the Safe's content, af"~er
1'-· ~-·e-ars, ·;:ould it be imp-:--ops~-- to publish them?
more thC1.n
If t~~s~s ·:lc.s ::o publicc.t:.on of ths safe's co~te:nt, but tnei'e YJe:-c
no particula.:."' sec:-ets found the!'e in, couJ_d you inform ne v:he:re I
might lec.rr;, ~"!he. t the safe contaLl1ed?
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De a:·
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t~- ~~;)"\u;zust 11th., re1eti ve to the matte:. .. of the papers of !.1::-.
~;i~\:ola~esla.
On Au8ust 26, I ~rote th9 office of Alien P~oper~J regarding this
matteJ:>, indicating that I had :-eceiveCi the inform~tion from you
that it was thei!' clepa~tment r!hich had taken the lesla .Property
into custody - npt yours ••
I have a letter from Hr. J::en!Jr G. F~ll~en - that Department - File
:~umbe~ HGI-I:=~ SI:: elk Ol7-35SS, in ·:;hich I am told. thc:.t office
nneve:::- had custo~:", no~ has vested., a11:,. prope::c·ty of Hil~o1c. Tes1an.
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~. you •ere odoiaed b~ •v lett•r D/ Auguat 11,
1955, this Bureau ~cs not con~~cted i~ anu respect ~jth
the acqui$\tton or custody of t~e effect• of §i~ola Tesla,
and it ia th~refore not poa•ible to furniah you anu
additional tnforaation. -
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoouer
Director
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~COGNITION FOR TESLA--
~ At- long last Serbiaris-American and Canadian-lve
. ~~t~d to ho~or the memory and achievements of one of erbta
s greatest sons.
FprJ the ~orld-wide Centennial celebration of D .
Niko~esla~~ biarih next year, Serbs on this Continent
plan to erect a bust statue of the electrical genius to stand
before· the entrance of the Monastery at Libertyville, Ill.
Steps lopking towards that end were taken at the recent
SNF; nvention following the reading of r by President
M' adakovich from Hi~ Grace, Bish ' icolai. As the uoi-1·
ersa y-renowped churchman stat 1 ereCQoft ·of ac auitai>Je
monument, by. Serbians, would forever remind other Serbs 1
of the honor and glory of Dr. Nikola T esla . • • And that he I
.was a SERBIAN. son of a SERBIAN ORTHODOX. clergy·
man, born in the SERBIAN SELO of Smiljan in Lika.
F ur.ther, His Grace urged that the undertaking be a joint 1
one and representative of ALL the Serbian 01-ganizati~. in
the United States and Canada~ He naturally looked to th~ . _' F:
for leadership, and the greatest monetary contribution. Bu . e ~
also besought the help of the Serbian Nat'l Defense and e 1
jedinstvo beneficial society. .
The Convention voted $1000 for the project and a
hand collection was ta.~n
among the delegates- and
guests, kinsmen Milo y~!ll~'!!~~ .. of. Joliet; Ill, ·giving
$200. It is probali e at the balance of the .needed $3~~
will be raised thru public good-will. ·offerings aud vf,.
cash gifts of the other two organizations mentioned. · /
And after a suitable bust has been erected fo~ Dr. t esla,'
Bishop Nicolai suggest~ imila"r-like monument hor/or the j
memory of Dr. Mi · upin, also a world-renowned scientist,!
j!Uthor and e ucator.
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PITISBURGH. PA. --· Tht" Serb .sary monies >and complete the llrb.t in it &J!d the mach desired
Nat'l Federation Executive Board \)ruject jn time ·for tbe world- North exposure was missinr.
ha$ acted quickly to implement a wide CentenniaJ 1
~elebration fO'r · " 'At the suggestion of Mr. TeSla,
Convention decision to honor the ·the ~tenius next year. ' 1 cluster of powerful incandescents
me_pr6yy of the illustrious Dr.-~ ·. Spe:trhcading. t~c mo\'£':ncnt for was put up in the corner of the
~Ia. re::ogn!tion, ('Specially a~ o n ~ 1partment and the rays, filtered
j At it. fir.'st meetinr of Octo- American element!'. i;; the · . E?_LA .~hru blue glass, were just the right
1 SOCI~TY. foul\dllars. Parl2gh\' is misslno side of the ease.t.
more. . , Re\'iewin~ den•lopment!:, Mr. "'Among those .who attended the
: Kinsman ~mos Konjcvich of: Anderso:~ wrote: . 1 !'ec-:-ption were Mrs. C. B. Alex-
Joliet, Ill., gave S20 . l "On March. 1. ~916, the Prmce~~ ander. Henry P. Davison. the
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Pittaburgh, Pa.-Half of th~3000 fund goa) for a statue/
m~morial of the late Dr. Nikola '1" esla has been realized, the
S~ F announced today. --·----·
. ~ : In fact, total contributiona counted 10 far come to
$1580.
The Fund is an outgrowth of a plea by Biahop Nicolai
for Serbian• to do honor for the•
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memory of the noted electrical hiat~ writen, educ:.aton,
wizard during the world-wide. aeientiata, etc., would DOt be
Centennial celebration planned mi.led, Biahop Nicolai beJieye..
for the genius next year. I Be that as it may, the SNr a
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_._ f tb I 1 goal ia to amaas the needed mon•
n e w-e o e p ea., . . . d ded'
Yoiced at the reced. 7th Con- 1e. 1n hme ~o erect an tcatc
• N. F n. ,..__ the memonal before the T eala
ven ti on at aa&'&ra aua, \..o4Ul" C entenn1a · 1 ce 1 e b rat1on · en d s.
a d a, th e d e 1 eca t ea approv ed a I
$1000 cift from the SNF and Donora and the amounts of
decided to raise, by public their donationa are aa follows:
anat, the balance of $2000. SNF
s 1000.00
A hand collection among the Delegate M. Konjevich 200.00
122 grasa-roota leadeu of the So- •• 1
Todor Dr~c:h 50.00
ciel raised another $450. Then,' •• Petar Borovieh 25.00
at i first m~ting Octobn 5, the SNF Coarwel N. Stone M.OO
ne y-elected Executive. Board of Delegate N. Stepanovie~ 20.00
the SNF appealed to the Rlem· · •• Muim Jakovae 20.00
benhip at large to falfill the bal-; •• llija Janjanin · 20.00
,anee required. ~ •• Lou Balta 10.0~ ../
j rant Conltribution $100 .lo.van V~keevl~?
· . M•lan Ka,ganovaeh
10.00/"
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A scant 24 boura after t)re ap- •• Stevan Rogulia 10.00
peal was published in the Society's Boe-dan Dra!rilieh · 5.00
"'Srbobran·· organ last Wednes-. Milan Tomich S.OO
day. Sime Zelich of Cadiz. 0., •• Todor Vuideh 5.00
gave $100. · . i. Ojuro Lukich 5.00
The proposed memorial, a' C. gtoiaavljevieh 5.00
•tatue image, would be- placed be-. R. Vuhclinovieh 5.00
fore the entrance of the St. Sava! fanko Mrmich • 5.00
Seibian Monastery in Libertyville,! P~hlf M"ravich 5.00
111. · I Mirko B"ranin 5.00
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000 ~ from the SN£. and I Donora d t .... ·anaount. of
cided to raiM, J. public . their donat. ·•• are .,. follows: j
•nt, tbe halance c. :000. SNF . $ I 000.00 -~ r
\ ha~d collection among the De!.egato M. Konj~ ' 2()0 .. 00 I .~r
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graSJ-roota leaders of the Sa. . Todor Dr&~~ek · SO.OO , J
raised another t4SO. Then.! -·~ Petar Bora~~. 2s-.~ ·
first meetins OctoS'eor S, the SNF' Coaned N. 5~ . M.OC . ......~
·lv-~lected Executive. Board of Delegate. N. Stepanovld~ %0.00
'SNF appealed to the mem-: · "' Maxim Jakovac: 20.00
1hip at lar~e to fulfill the bal-1 llija Janjanln . 20.00 _,:
e required. . N Lou Balta 10.0~ · _/:
. . . Jovan Vu"cevleh 10.00..,.....-
Fant Con'tribution $100 Milan Kajganovieh iO,OO ..-
\ acant 24 hours after ttr'- ap· Stevan RogulJa I 0.00
,J was published in the Society' • Bor.dan Dnsricich 5.00
bobran" organ last Wednea·, Milan Tomi~ 5.00
'· Sime Zelich of Cadiz. 0., : T odor Vuicich 5.00·
·e $100. I_ Djuro Lukich 5.00
fhe proposed memorial. a! C. Stoiaavljevich 5.00
:ue image, would he placed he-j R. Vukadin~vlch 5.00
e the entrance of the St. Sava · lllnlto Mrmtch • 5.00
·bian Monastery in Libertyville, P~tllT M"TBvich 5.00
.,There i't would proclaim to
na of thousanda of Serbian
siton annuallv that Nikola
es'a wu elf Serbi•tn immilt'l'ant
ock an·d son of a ~f'Thian
rthodox clersrvman," Bishop
;colai declared.
Mirko Bllranin 5.00
Stanko Jelich 5.00
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P';.of. Anthonv Tomovich
fEdmonton, Alberta,
\.an.) 10.00
T eta AncHa Mamula
fPittshur~h) 5.00
For half a century and more. Mlllrtha Mamula Bjeloah
• general American public has lPittshurqh) 10.00 ·
~n misled anent th~ nationality ~im~ Zelich (Cadiz. 0.) 100.0'
the man who foretold the com- 1\f;linko'-Aiexich, war invalid
: of atomic energy poweT. j (Omaha. Nebr.)
Onlv recently, a orominent I
"merican magazine listed him,
\correctly, as of Cr~tian . _
tock. The milltake was subseuentlv
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Washington 25, D.C.
Gentlemen:
DUring my senior year at Georgetown UniversltY.2 read J.J.0 1 Niel 1 s
Biography of Nlkoli Tesla; the book, entitled rod1gal GeniUs~
described quite a few ot Tesla 1 s experiments, most or which I tried
myself in the physics lab. I am interested in reviewing Tesla 1 s
experiments in wireless electric power transmission.
Unfortunately, Tesla died in 1945 jUst at the time he supposedly
had developed a system ot wireless power transmission. Since World
War 11 was then in progress his papers were seized and a.ealed by the
F.B.I. I suppose that by now Tesla 1 s papers have been released for
pUblication, bUt a aall to the Library ot Congress produeed no
results. Therefore, I have two questions: ··
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1) Does the F.B.I. now have Tesla's sc1ent1tio papers?
2) If so, are they available tor pUblic inspection?
It they were released, who has them?
I will certainly appreciate any help you can give me aloag 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 1t nearly impossible for me to find anything
on the sUbject.
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extraction, •ho on occasion~ voluntarily rurn1shes .
. the New York Office with :information he considers to b 7C.
be in the 1nteres~of the Security-of tpe United ·
States Government, turnished Special ~~nt .
NICHOLAS J .MASTROVICH the following 1nfo~t1on on .· ..
July 3, 1957: )! /_ ..j P.L£ I ::W,-f/-?ffi7-z!~.,Jj
-s±a ted· that a certain woman· named b 7 J)
Mrs. MARG~RM who lives with her husband~
JOHN~ at the 1 Cillon1al Hotal,. 51 We.st 8lst Street, New b 7 C
York 24, New Y"ork,-n.aa··been issuing newsletters which
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tated that in his opinion Mr. and
Mrs.
loiting the reputation and genius
of NIKOLA TESLA, deceased,inventor of Yugoslav
extraction who ahieved world wide fame as a result of ..., ~
his ~ventions in the United States •
TESLA was born 1n Sm1ljan, Yugoslavia in
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July, 1859 and came to the United States in 1894
and became a naturalized United States citizen. In
1886 TESLA designed the arc-lighting system and two
;tears later he invented the Tesla motor and designed ./
a plan fbr the transmission of alternating current. ~-· ~j
In subsequent years, TESLA's discoveries and inv~ntiQDs~· . -
1ncllded such fields and appli~c;es as wireless. ·.... .
conmrunication, ele()ftri~alJ oecA-i~tion, radiant·" power and
radio active matter. A:fter 1900, conununications b 1 ......-.
and wireless power tran~m.J,s~on
occup~Et~l fPOSt or7 _ ~~·;\~~ ·· .
his research. ,. , . . :- : LJ ..... ~ .. ,. ~)J .~E.C·(: 'b
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·.. . TESLA' s only ~~ tary inven,~~on was ~.a. ~thod
to wbl.ch he once· el~ded but,·ne"B' .fully ~escribe_d·~ ." · ·
Th1s"invent1on was a means whereby an inpenetrable
"wall of force" can be erected arou:nd the United : · ·
States' borders 11hich would render helpless ~Y ·
m111tary.attack. T.ESLA disclosed 'the existence .
of his plan in 1934 and stated he intended to present
it to the Geneva Conference but seldom.referred to it
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carried an article setting .roz:th ll8-X- . .. .,~'a plan for a
"Death Ray". This article Include 1ni'onDation to
the effect that TESLA, on his 84th birth , July 10, 1940,
advised New York Times reporter WILLIAM
CE
that he WaS-rea:dy to divulge to the ·unite 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 1nv15ible Chinese wall of
defense would be bu11 t around the country against any
attempted attack by an enemy airforce no matter how
large. ·According to TESLA, this 11 teleforce" was
based on an entirely new prin~iple of Physics that
"no one has ever dreamed about" and was different from
tbl;]rinc1ple embodied in his inventions relating to
the transmission~ electrical power from·a distance,
for which be received a number or basic patents.
TESLA stated that this new type ot force would
operate through a beam one hundredth millionth or a
square C7~:teft'"1meter in diameter and c~uld be .
. generated from a special plant that woUld cost no more
than two million dollars and would 'take only about three
months to castruct. TESLA stated that a dzen auch
plants located at strategic po1nts·&long tbe 6bast 1
according to TESLA, would"..,be enough to de:f'and the
United States against all possible aerial ·attacks.
TESLA atated 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.
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TESLA stated to Mr. LAWRENCE that he
'makes one important stipulation betore he •ould
divulge thi.s secret to ~e United .. States Gove~ent
and that ltfas that should the United Stae Govermnent
. ·11e-c1de to take up his otfer, he_ ·WOuld go to werk- at .
·once but that the Un1 ted States Government would ·have
to trust him. 'l'ESLA stated that he would .sutter .< -
,"no interference from experts." ;,.. , , :~;_:
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·In this ""Hew York Times" article Mr. LAWRENCE
commented that ~l~h conditions as they •ere in 1940~
and with the United States getting ready to spend . -
~lliona or dollars ~or National Defense~ ·Mr. TESLA 1 s
great reputation as an 1nventor 1 who always· ·was ma.nYyears
ahead of his time, should be gi v~n · careful ·· ·· ·- ·
consideration. Mr. LAWRENCE silted, 1n hie opinion,
the United States Government should take Mr. 'l'ESLA
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 tully divulged his new plan
to the United States Government.
TESLA died at the age of 85 on January 7, 1943.
Mr.tllllaprovided a two p~e copy of the
above mentione~letter which Mr. -and Mrs. STORM
have been di.stributing in connection w~th the alleged
invention by TESLA, which~ according to Mr. an
Mrs. STORM, consists or a radio type machine lmown as
the Tesla set which was invented by Mr. TESLA in 1938
tor interplanetary communication. Mr. and Mrs·. STORM·
claim that TESLA's engineers did not complete the
Tesla Set Wltil._after TESLA 1 s death in 1943. Mr. a.Pd
·Mrs. STORM claim that this Set was placed invopeztion
in 1950 and since that time TESLA engj.naers: have been
in close touch with space ships. etc.
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UNITED STATES G0v'ERNMENT
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Department of Information
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Dear Sir:
on Nikola~esla.
I
am a college student who is doing a research paper
As I was collecting the material for my
oaner, I discove~ed that at the time of Tesla's death, the
deoartment of the F.B.I. confiscated the data and papers
that Tesla had cr:ll~cted
from his research in the field of
electricity. This c0nfisca tit"'n of hj;; rna te9a1 w~s stated
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in the P RODIG-\L G.t.!'\I us by J. J/0 'Ne~_l, published· in 1944 at
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York city by tashburn Inc.
I have rleveloped an interest in the discoveries and
accomjlishments of Tesla that is presently limited by the
shortage of factual material. If in your files, you have
any information concerning Nikola Tesla that you are perrnitted
to release, I
will sincerly aporeciate your cooperation
in helping me give the proper recognition ~·
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if these papers are availRblP. for perusnl?
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10 March 1964.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington 25, D. C.
Dear Sirs,
For some time, have beee, 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. ·
Sincerely,

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In response to yoar Inquiry, I would 1lke to pomt out
that the effects of Dr. NJknla Tesla were lmpolmded, after Ids death,
by the Office of Allen Property of the Department of JusUce and DOt
the FBI. Since we did not participate In the handling of Dr. Tesla' s
effects, I am unable to supply the information you desire. . ..
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MAR 18 1964
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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 wtauthorized hands. The
book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. 0 Neil, alleges that the FBI took over a
,~A .. certain safe and opened it, appropriating his property. Bufil~s clearly indicate
· ar1 that it was the Office of Alien Property of the Department whfa~did so, and the
. ..!'__.- above reply is forwarded in answer to related inquiries.
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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?
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that the effects of Dr. Nikolt"'Tesla were impounded, after his death,
by the Office of Allen Property of the Department of Justice and not
by the FBI. Since we d.ld not participate in the handling of Dr. Tesla's
effects, I am· unable to furnish the information you desire.
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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 hand~
The book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. 0' Neil, alleges that tbe FBI took ove1
a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his property. Bufiles clearly
indicate that it was the Office of Alien Property of the Depa.rtment which did sc
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Reply to:
CORVAlliS, OREGON 97331
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
Dear Sirs:
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I am a student of the history of science at Oregon State University, and
I am attempting to write a researcp pa8er on a very eccentric scientist
who died in 1943. His name was Nikola Tesla, a naturalized American of
Serbian extraction, and he died in h1s hof~l 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-Ra~s--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.
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In response to your lnqnlry, 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.
Sincerely yours,
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all of his personal ~ij~!s and effects were believed dangerous to :.. "'
~:~~; .."__ the country's securitY, if ~tl\er-. fell into unauthoriz~d '\ands, ..·.The
book, "Prodigal ?enit1s,-_? qy ~John J .. O'Neil, aije~~ t~at. the FBI
~::~:: took over a ceft§-m safe and opened 1t, appropr~tmg h1s pr~rty.
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In the year 19 43 the F. B. I. confiscate.A all of the papers
and maybe some of the machines of physicist, NJ~Qtt"~§la. 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 know ledge 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
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In response to your inquiry, the effects of Dr. N ikola
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. Testa's belongings, I am unable
to furnish the information you desire. CA:pSJp)'f of your·.eommimication
has been referred to the Department of Justice.
Sincerely yours,
MAILED 1o
J. Edgar Hoover
MAR4 -1969
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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 PropceLooch
__ erty of the Department which did so, and the above reply is forwarded
Tolson __
~~=~c. in answer to related inquiries. Copy of letter referred to Assistant
?~~to:.~,.,__ Attor9ey General, Civil Divis~_J>f the Department.
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appreciate it if you could please provide me with the
following information.
That information being vrhy did your Bureau impounct his
personal effects immediately after his death on
January 7, 1943. SecondlyJ could you provide a list
of those effects, and lastly, when were they rele~sed
and to whom were they given.
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the FBI. Since we dld not participate ln the handling ot Dr. Tesla' s
belongings, I am unable to furnish the information you desire.
A copy of your communication has been referred to the Department
of Justice. for any help it may be able to offer.
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sullivan-- ~i;;of Alien Property of the Department which did so, and the above
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Mr. J. Edgar Ho~ver,
Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,
I am writing this to you as I believe that most or the govern.IW!nt is infiltrated
with foreign agents, ~1d. there is a very good chance this could be of extreme
importance fbr the defense of our nation.
I met a man a number of years ago that was raised on Long Island in th~
neighborhood where Mr. Tesla, inventor of the Tesla Coil, had his lab. He told ~e
or Mr. Tesla' s notes blowing dcwn 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 t~e. _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 adTanced that he had to invent a special math
t~ keep up wjth his work.
He, on several accasions talked before the scientists of the wnrld and
became very angry at their inability to understand hi.a, and due to this was TiolenZl""
disliked and diru1ot receive acknowledgement for his discoveries. One of the notes
read by this rran told of the rarlic· transmission of electricity being brought to a
high degree of effiency.
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Mow 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 srrall publication of that n~me
that was received weekly at the Troy Highschool, Troy Montana. It stated in t•1is
article that Mr. Tesla had made an offer to the Cor~ress of the United States that
if tDeY would install radio transmission towers at every 150 miles around the border
of this country, that he would install equip~ent that would broadcast a verticil
plane of energy beyond the atmosphere through which no material object could pass
as it would shatter ~r lose it's monecular coohesion. It was refused.
There is a good chance that this data is in the files of congress. What
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I have had some results along this line with structured vortice OJ magnetic
fields, but do not have the technicAl equipme!1t or .. k;l~ledge. to carry out
further experiments. The theory is quite simple and deals Wlth part~accele:::·at.­
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Slneerely yours,
J. Edgar Hoover
- J'ohn Edgar Hoover
Director
~T • no record of correspondent. Bufile 100-2237
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Bishop believed dangerous to the country's security if they fell into unauthorized
~:~~~:'en__ hands. Bufiles indicate that the Office of Alien Property of the Department
~~f~od ./~_appopriated his p~ope_r~y and replies similar to the above have been used ·
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FEDERAL BUREAU OP lllVESTIGATION
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Dear Sir:
I have reoentl~ begun a collection and reading rile ot all
matters pertaining to Nikol.(:/Teala. In so doing I waa amazed to tind
that upon hi a death; Januarr 7, 19•3, 1n NYC, your bureau confined
his papers. Ma.y I ask 1t J'OU still "have them 1n Jail"• I am extremely
interested in his work( a) and am trying. to establish my own "Tesla"
libr9.17• Your assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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In response to your inquiry, the effects of
Dr. Nikola Tesla \1\.~re ilnponnded,. after his death, by the
Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice and
not by the FBI. We die not participate in the handling
of Dr. Tesla' s belonqings in any vay. Copies of your
ooMmunicatlon and ~ reply have been referred to the
/beparl.ment of Justice.
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Sincerely yours,
J. Edgar Hoover
John Edqar Hoover
Director
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was world-famous electrical inventor, and at death, his
effects believed dangerous to country's security. "Prodigal
Genius,." by John J. O'Neil, alleges FBI took safe and appropriated
his property. Above reply previously given to same
inquiries. (100-2237) Material sent to the Assistant
Attorney, Civil Division, of the Department.
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Your letter was received on October 26th.
In response to your in~~iry, 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. ~atriok Gray III '
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Mr. Conrad­
Mr. Gebhardt­
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Mr. Marshall­
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. In response to your IDquiry, the effects of Dr. Nltola
Tesla 'were lmpotmded, after his death, by the Off lee of Allen Property
of the Department of Justice and not by the FBL Since we did not
participate 1n the handling of Dr. Tesla's beloDglngs, I am unable to
furnish the IDformaUon you desire. A eopy of your communicatJon and
of this reply have been referred to tbe Department of Jutlce.
Sincerely yours,
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Acting Direetor
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
~ountry' s security if they fell into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal
Genius," by John J. O'Neill, alleged 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, an~ the above reply
is forwarded in answer to related inquiries.f Copy of_ ~e~e~ ~~~~11\r~d to the
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division pt the-DtipartnH~nt.)
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I would like to kno~f any microfilm or other
re;roductio~s of Uikola Tesla's notes and papers exist at
your office. Tesla was a faoous scie!ltist who died in
~!ew ~:"ork City. The Federal Burea•.1 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 a~y gro~p th~t would st~rt a muse~m to
house t'heti. No one accepted and the p3.pers were finally
se~t to the Tesla MJse~m in Belgrade, Yusoslavia, sometime
in the e~rly 1950's, possibly j'.JSt before 1954.' Tesla was
the inventor of all ac motors and the polyphase syste~, as
well as all flo:1rescent a!"ld neon lar:.ps. He was a major
~.:ioneer in the early days of radio and discovered many
of the earl; principles of radar. He declined nocination
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Your letter was received on June 25tll.
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 w~ did not participate in the
handling of Dr. Tesla's belongin~s, I am unable to furnish
the infornation you desire. ~ copy of your communication
ar.d of this reply have been referred to the Department
of Justice.
Sincerely yours,
William D. Ruckelshaus
William D. Ruckelshaus
Acting Director
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roject Blue Book and UFosight~~·~ufile 100-22~7 reflects
-------that Dr. Tesla was a world-famous electrical inventor, and
at the ti~e of his death, all of his personal papers and effects
were believed dangerous to the country's security i~ they fell
into unauthorized hands. The book, "Prodigal Genius," by
~~ John J. O'Neill, alleged 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
k~l-- Department that did so, and the above reply is forwarded in
ans_
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Respectfully referred to:
Congressional Liaison
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20530
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Mz. Baker
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Mr. CJev-e«md _
Mr. Con:cd _
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;t:~ ~2i.resiaont 1 henc~ it is t.o you ti~h~.~:;ics ~hat have oeen ou!· groatnst sci[~~~l.ifLc ~vi~:an~cs ir· r:odern timns,
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be a. shcu-:1~ to see all of Nicola:L Teslc.s 1-1ork to hnv0 been in va.:L'1..
?1-Jase axcuce my typi~g: in all the thou~C!.n:i,3 of 1wrds I typed tryinr, to r-et a
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Washington, D. c. 20510
De3r Senator Pac~:
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In response to'
acknowledge receipt of your comMunication
9 a letter from your constituent,
who is temporarily employed in Alaska,
iry, central files
c: t'1c F'c,!eral Burec:n1 of ·tnves.. indicate that the
ef~ects o~ :'r. :~iY.ola Tcsla were inpounc!ed after his death
by· the •)ffic~ of Alien Property of the Departt:ent of Justice
and not by the F~I. Since ve did not participate in the
hanaling of Dr. Tesla's belongings, I am unable to furnish
the infor~ation you desire.
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Property of the Department of Justice anCr not by the FBI.
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Since we ..iil.i ttat:. partici!-=ate ,_ir~
the handling of Dr. :resla' s
belongings, I ~a unable to furnish the information you
desire. A copy of your communication and of this reply have
been referred to the Department of Justice.
Sincerely yours,
C.. M. KelleY..
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Your letter, whlch 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. Nlkola
Tesla, nor did we at any time have custody of his pro~rty.
I realize there have been some written accounts
that our Agents acquired Dr. Tesla's belongings; however, these
accowtts are simply not true. You can be assured we were absolutely
not responsible and there was no impersonation involved.
Sincerely yours,
Ca _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. ~ufiles 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 ~1
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.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
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We recently contacted the San Francisco ~31
office and a review of their files revealed ~-­
information concerning the scientist Nikol.~esla _;_­
or his papers which we understand to have ~=en
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.
Thank you,
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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 1 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.
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Dear Mr. Kelley:
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In reply to the letter ot 10 November from your office:
I restate that I waa not ask1n! about the existenae or
. non-existence or any investigative information on Nikpla __
c .. Jeel&, but on hla technical paper• ae1zei on hla d.eath
1n 1943 and reported 1n the paper• er that time.
The reaaon given in the reply from your office, the
aecond para~raph, aa to why I cannot get any 1nteraat1on
on Teala'a papera •akea no aenae 1n itaelr er
in reply to my inquiry. The tht~4 paragraph atating
the conditions under which a aeareh will be made
1a a cle:ir bureaucratic ~1rcumvention ot the Freedom
or Information Act and an excuse on the part or the
individual han411ng my request for:aoing any work beyond
the drafting or a letter. Will it be the decision
of your office to let the situation stand like thie?
As I stated in my first letter, I ~m following up the
Tesla data for a magazine article. I am tempted to have
your reply or the leth printed and run nationally aa
an ex~mple of how bureaucratic manoe~lng is ueed to
get around the FOIA. Does the bureau need more or thia
type of publicity?
It ie d1ahearten1ng to aee an agency entrusted to uphold
the law ueing ita resources to mock the law.
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%D rupon.. to JOUr iDquiry, the pa~ of
Dr. Nikola Teala were impounded, after his death, by
the Office of A1ien Property of the Department of
Justice.
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Director
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Attention: susan K. Hauser
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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.
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I am writing an article for a magazine on early twentieth
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Tesla invented a number of ele · rical 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
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This is to acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of
Information-Privacy Ac~s (FOIPA) request forwarded to the FBI
by the Department of Justice on October £2nd. c,J~
In response to your request for files pertaining
to Nikola Teala, please be advised that in order to preserve
the privacy of an individual who aay be the •ubject of a
similar inquiry, it has been necessary for the FEI to.rnaintain
the practice of not indicating whether we do or do not have
such information in our files.
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If you can provide notarized auth.oJ:i.zation:~rom
Mr. Tesla's next of kin directing us to release to you any
information our files may contain concerning him, we shall
thereafter aearch our files and advise you accordingly.
Since ve have not conducted a search of our files,
please do not infer that we do or do not have the information
you requested.
Sincerely yours,
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First, Tesla claimed that the lightning balls (which destroyed
his equipment) could be used to-es · craft. I hav.e ·
talked to AF personnel --such as
n~ineer a_t
Micro Networks, who saw one insi e
in flight--and
found AF personnel fear these "rf balls," as they call them.
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--thepropulsion
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 ~or 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 San~
is, using the earth's atmosphere as a waveguide,..........is
aware of our research).
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Fusion energy: will experiments
in ball lightning provide the key?
Paul Snigier, Associ.1te Editor
In the vast and empty hangar
where the first at0P1ic bomb \\:as
assembled, a man-made lightning
storm is now being unleashed.
The voltages of these
lightning bolts-20 million
volts-arc the highest discharge
voltages ever produced by man.
Project T,cs[a, headed by
Robert K. Golka and Dr. Robert
\V. Bass, is an attempt to
artificially duplicate one of
nature's rarcc;t .1nu 111ost terrifying
phenomena-ball lightning.
ThC' experiments arc based upon
the unpubli~hcd notes of Nikola
Tesla, who, in 1899 at his
Colorado Springs laboratory,
used a secret magnil)'ing tr.Jn.f;­
mitter to producC' 1.)-in. lightning
b.tlfs tlMt floated for 30 sec.
The encrby surplus
Many physicic;ts, including tht·
('m incnt Dr. J,'llllt'S Tuck. iound­

wi:h rni!lion~; ·J' yt·.;r~ c/ · ·y.
· Un{ortunal~·ly, pr01;· _·. in
. { u ~ i 0 n res(' J r dl . \\' h j c h h cl s
n~ntcrcd on magnetic confinement
and laser imploc;ionc;, has
been frustr.llingly . Despite troubleshooting,
no explanation can be
fuund for this occurrence.
On one occa~ion, lightning
s\rulk the bllilding-a large
concrete structure with a 60-it.
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and let b13 er.1ot1ons rule his thout;ht::~, he found exceptions in · .,~ \''
which he felt some \'lnrs end situations were justifiable. As a · .c~j); ... t,lo~t·
ncientist he Ylo.s un\·tilling to have tho discoveries of scienti~ts • ..... ~ .• ~~.~ , ....
applied to the pruposc .s of \·:e.r ·makers, but when. the emotional phnse c-. .... v
of his nature took the rulint; position he VJU3 then willir.g to npply~·.-;-~·.-.·'·.
his £Cnlus to devising measures tba t would ,t>rovent wars by supplying.::-!'~ (
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which he pre pure~ in the t\\·enties bu~ did not publish: 0\f! ~y ~If,
uAt present many of tho ablest minds are trying to devise
expedients for preventing a repetition of the ~wful conflict which is
only thooretico.lly ended-. am the qu1•ation and znaln issue~ of y,·bich I
correctly predicted in an article printed in the Sun of December 20,
1914. The League in ·not n remedy but, on the contrary, in the opinion
of. a.·numbcr of competent men, may bring about results.Just.the opposite.
It in particulm-ly ret;rett~blc th.o.t a punitive policy was ·
adoptod in framing the terms of peaco because a few years hence it
will bo possiblo for nations to ·ri£)lt without n.r~ies, sbips Ol'' gun:J,
by we~pon.s ful' more terrible, to the destructive l}-Ct~on and ro.n~o of
which there· is virtuall-y no limit. l1ny city nt any distance \':h~t~ocver
frorJ the oncmy ca~1 be dc~troycd by hiLl end no ;:o.,·;cr on earth c~n
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should pu~h the development o~·· flyillg machines and v:il'oloss trun.!Jl•i.is~lon
of. encrey without nn 'instant'~ delay and with all the pov;er nnd rc-
..nourccs of the nation. 11 ·
·· Tesla saw· prevcnta t1vc possibilities· in his new invention
which OILbodied "death ray" clwracteristics and \7hich was made several
yf)ars ufter the ·foregoing statement was written. He saw it·providing
a' curtain of protection which any count;y, no r-4l.tter how small, could
uso a.s n protection agn.ioot invnsion. "hile he I.U.iE;ht offer it as a
defen31 ve ·\'leapon,:. ho·;1ever, there Vlould be nothing to stop military
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While I did not know the ~~turo of Tesla's plan I was convinced
that it did embody many discoveries that would be of 6o~erc1al
value, and these were the angles he should sock to deyel.op. I
felt tht..t tf he could be induced to devolop sor.1e minor phase of his
work that would have i~edinte co:nme!•clnl use be could derive an income
from it which would enable him.to.proceed with b1s more elnoorate
plnr13. To this end I sou£,ht to rain ~o~e insight into his thoughts,
thnt would en~ble r:.e to get n pro.cticnl plan in opcr~tion. 'rhi:! we.~
no secret :to Te3~n _and ha succes~fu~ly parried every thrust I J.i.ladc.
Tho clcure st conception I got, nnd that was lnl·goly from
Dent tered rer.nrk!l 1 una bJ· t:aking dcduction3 fro;n tbc1n, concerned n
possiblo l!lX1r.acr in which ono ph3se of his curta~n of protcctio~l
might opc:-r.tc. i'hls was a "\'it.:l 111 o.nt:"la and a3 such 1
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vcTy cu.rious. Fil ... llD ~d alvJoys fa:3clna
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·A ·.r11·o bail i.s a strange pbonomenon ossocia tGd v:i th 11ght-
.n1ng. ~omo of tho energy of th..c lightning strol!e appears to become
loc}{Cd into a b~ll shaped structure wbicb may be of any size from a
couple of inches to a foot in diameter. It looks 11.ke n. perfect
sphere, bri[.htly incundescent end floats like n bubble, being easily
carried by air currc;nts. They" may last for n short tir.e, from a
traction of' a· scconci to ll&ailY seconds. J;n this interval~ during .
·which tb.oy stuy fairly cloBe to thE: ground, tney nw.y cow9 clo.ee to
tr.nny object!:l vtithout damngin6 them or being damaged by them. Suddenly,
for no kno:;n reason, the ball explodes doing ns much da!:lagc
e~ a bomb, if·close to structures, and
. . no dama£C if in the . open.
:The fire ball looked to mc.like a gigantically enlarged
.model of the tiny electron, one .of the buildinr; block~ o~ matter,
t"Jbich act::; as if it \:ere just .a· -~pborical e.rca of space in \~hich !!.!1
runount of energy wns crystallized .. to _give it structure. I .i"el t thut
·ir it werc·po~siblo·to aiscovcr·hmt ..-a·:large amo1mt .. o£.energy·\'"le.s · .···
· .storc·d in this fairy bubble structure of a fire b&ll a ner: insight
might be g~incd into the structure of the electron ana other· fundamental
particles. of matter. lllso th~s method· of stqring enerGY
.could bo np})lied to a thous&nd useful purposes. · ·
V/hen I npproo.ched 'l'esla r;i th plcns along this line -to develop
this pos!:lible phsse of his disc_C"n;cry he would evade direct reply
by indu1glng·in a, riot always, tolerant lcctu""'e on my gullabiJ.it-y
in bclicvins thco~i'cs ~bout the co:=plcx st~uctu~·c of the ato::t. r~~i:!.c
he had in earliEr ~eers dincussed so~~ of hi2 cxperi'~ces with f!rc
balls in his la.bor~tory ut Colorado Springs and explz.!.ncd i.a.is thco:-y
of their formation, he \!.'Ould not in tho later· ~·co.rs pe.::-n1it hi!nscli
to be drawn irito n discussion of them as n possible part of his sys~
tom. This, of course_, made me suspic·i.ous that the clue was crhot" but
I could bo co::1pletcly \7rong in my .conclusions.. Te~la \"tas yery quick
in detecting my tcchniquo r.hen I sought to narro\7 dcm'n a field by
·trying to get him to deny .statements Ythcri·: he _was o.damant to direct·
questions.
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Tcsla became familiar ·-r~1. th the destructive characteristics · .
of fire balls in his c.xucrir.ents at. -Colorado· Snrinp-s i·n 1899. Ho
. produced thcr.t quite by accident and saw them,. more -'than once, explode
and shatter his tall Dl3.st and also destroy apoaratus Ylithin his
11lboro.tory. 'l'he destructive action accot:!panylll.[; the disintegration
of a. .fire ball, he decl~:red, takc3 place with 1nconce1vnbel violence.
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"He studied the process by v.:h1ch· they \::e~o pr.oduced, not
because he \7antcd to produce them but in oroer to elimino.tc the conditions
in which they were created. It is not plensnnt, be relrttod,
to have a fire ball cxplcdo in :,'our vicinity ~o-r they \7111 dcst.rcJ·
e..nything they como in contact ?lith.
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ln tho runin circuit could result in minor 03. ~lating circuits betwebn
t·orminn.ls or between two po1nts:.-o1' resi!lta.ncc and tbe~c minor
circuits ~vuld havo a very much hichcr period of oscillation than
the main c1rcu1 t nnd could be set into osc1llo.t ion by· the runin current
of lover frequency.
"Even when the principal oscillating circuit was adjusted
for the greatest efficiency of oper~tion by the dimination of all
sources of losses the lire balls continued :;o occur but these \','ere
due to stray high frequency charges from random earth currents.
ttprom . the ·se e xpe r1e nee s 1 t be came appnre nt thn. t the fire
balls resulted from tho interaction of two rroquencies, a stray
higher frequency wuve imposed ·on the lower frequency free oscillation
or tho main circuit.
"As the free oscillation of the circuit builds up from
the zero point to the quarte1~ \7avo lensth node it passes throllgh
various rates of change.·. In a current of shorter v.·avelength the
rates of change V!ill be steeper. · Yihen the two currents roo.ct on
eo.ch other the resultant complex will contain a. wave in which there
is nn extremely steep rate of change, and for the briefest instant
currentn rr~y move ut a tremendous rate, at the rate of millions of
·horsepower.
"This condition acts as a trigge~ which may causo"the totnl
energy of the f-9\'.'crful longer vtnve to be diachart;ed in an infin5.tostn&lly
small .. inter\'al of tina and nt a proportionately tl'emendously
great rate of enertjy mC'-"C:!,ient v:hich cunt1ot confin,~ itself to. tho
meta.::. circni t a.nd is released into st·.rr ound ing space \'1 i th inconccivublo
vlolence. 11
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· · It 1·s but a step; from learnine; bow a high frequency current
can explosively discharge a lower frequency current, to using
tho principle to design n system in which the~e e~plo~ions c~n be
produced by intent. The follo~ing process appears a possible one
but no ev1aonce is available that it is th~ ono ~eala evolved:
. An os~illa tor, such as be· used to send power w1rele ssly around the
corth at Colorado Springs, is det in operation at a frequency to which
a g1 vcn warship is resonant. The .. complex· structure of a ship would
provlcc a gre&t ntL"':lber of spots ·in·which electrical oscillu.tions \';5.11
be set up of a. ~ch higher frequency than tho3e coursing through the
· ship as a v,hole. ~·.oesc po.rc-..s1ste:currents will react on the main
. current causing the production or £1reballs y,•nich by thoir explosions
will destroy the ship, even more effectively than the explosion of tho
magazine which ~1ould also take place. A second oscillator may be·:used
to transmit the shorter wavelength current.
Somev1ha. t l..o. ter I lenrncd the reason for Te3ln 's reticence
fo discuss .d~t~ils. This crune shortly after Stanley Bald\·tln replaced
Neville Chamberlin ns Prime 111n1s ter of Gren t Britain.
Tesln revealed that bo had carried on negotiations with
Prio.o 1~in:i.ster Cbut11bcrl1n for tho nnle of his ray ey!ltc~ to Great
Britain for $30~000,000 on the basis of his presentation thnt the
device would provide complete protection for tho Briti:th Islus
o.gn1nst any enemy approaching by scu or uir, and would provide nn

cLfcnsi vc v.·oupon to · 'u c.h--fiiC ro r:~;.::. n.u dt...d·~ n~!C:, lie \'.'ll!l conv lncod, · .
lio decJ'.:.J.~cc~·,· of ti ~ .nct:>::.·l tv of J.:r. Chnm'i1c1'' ·L c1nd his intont to
adtipt.thc dcvico L tt would.have pro~entcd ~ outbreak of the
them threotc~1ng \'.'l 1 and would have mado po~ .... ole the cont1nuat1onundor
tho duress v;hich this weapon v:ould mako ponsiblo.- of the
·Ylorking ogrccment involving .F'rnnce, Germany and Britn1n to maintain
the stCJ.tus quo in Lurope. ¥ihon Chrunbcrlin .fo.ilcd, o.t the Munich
con1·cronce, to r~tuJn this state of European equilibrium it was . . .
noccs~nry to cct rid of Chamberlin and !nstnll n ne\1 Pr1~e J,!1n1ster
v.·ho could r...,nl-:e tho effort to shift ono corner of the triangle from
Gerrnuny to Russia. Baldwin found no vlr~ d in Tc~la's plan and
procmptorially ended the necotintions.
Tesla was greatly disup!Jointcd by the collnpse o1' h13 negotintion~f
with the British Government.. \"ilth it there collapsed his
hopes of pro7id1ng n demonstration of his n!ost recent, and, v1hat he
considered, his mo~t i1nport~nt discoveries. He did not, howovor,
dr:oll on the jubject; beyond the single conversation ho did not mention
tbo r.l!!. ttcr ngo.in. lie did not. cct anothe:l' chance to .finance the
demonstration of the~e discoveries.
· DurinG the period in ··which the uegotia. t ions we rc be 1 ng
-carried on, Tesla declared, efforts had been r:;.ade to steal the invention.
His room had been entered ri.nd his p.~1.rcrs exl!Ininod but tht:
thieves, or spies, lE:ft empty handed. There \-:~s no danger, he said,
tho.t his invention could·_be stolen foi• he had c.:t no .time committed
nny part of it to pnpcr. Be could trust his n~o~o1,~ to prcservo cvccy
fino detail of his investigations: This'w&a true, he said~ of all
of his late! major discoveries.
Tbe nature of his sys-'l:em r'.':ke~ little diffcrt-nco now; he
b.3.:; gone and. bas tal~cn it y;it·r .. him. Pcrho.ps, if there is any comrnuni.cation
from beyond the veil that separates this life from \'ihatevcr
exists hereafter, Tesla mny look down upon earth's struggling
mortals nnd find sorr~o v:u.y of dropping a hint concerning V!ho. t be
·accomplished; but, if the .situation is su.ch thut this cannot take
pleco 1 then we must awa1 t unt!l the human ra.cc produces ano~bcr
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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
courLesy are indeed appreciaLed.
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NOTE-: Bufiles indicate limited correspondence with
lasi outgoing 6-27-73r in repl~ to his request- conc~r
papers of ~r. Nikola Tesla~5 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.
Anoc. o; •. ----i'he book, "Prodigal Genius," by John J. 0' Neill, alleged that
~::~~~~~~·l:.he FBI t9ok over a certain safe and opened it, appropriating his
Au•. Dir.: property. Bufiles indicated the Office of Alien Property of
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Dear Senator P~-~:
'rhe ·effect• of Dr. Kikola 'le•la wen iDipCQDded, after
his death, 1w the Office of Alien Property of the DeP&rt=ent
of J'u.tice ani! not by the PBI. Since we did uot participate
in the handlinq of Dr. 'l'esla'• balmgi.Dqs, I aa 'tlftabla to
furnish the info~tion you dea.ire.
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'l'he effects of Dr. Teala were ilapounded, 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 reqardir.g Dr. Tesla. How- ~
ever, under the provisions of the Freedom of Information .1\ct ~~-\\ 1
(Title 5, United Stat~s Coce, Section 552), requests have been/; ·. :
aade in the past reqardinq your topic and there may be docu- ~ . ;'
aents available to you under 'l'i tle 28--Code of Federal :
Regulations.
If you are interested in seeking •uch do~nts
under the Freedom of Information l.ct, you should make a
aeparate inquiry, clearly marking the. envelope and letter aa a
Preedom of Information Act request, and direct it to the
Director, Pederal Bureau of %nvestiqation, 9th Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20535.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
SUBJECT:
Papers Recovered on the neath of Nicola Tesla (U)
(U) We understand that the FBI may have possession of a number of pa~ers
found after the death of Nicola Tesla in 1943. NicolilTesla was a br1lliant
electrical engineer (i.e. the Tesla Coil) who was a p1oneer in various
aspects of electrical transmission phenomena.
(C) We believe that certain of Tesla's papers may contain basic principles
which would be of considerable value to certain ongoing research within the
DoD. It would be very helpful to have access to his oapers.
(U) Since we have really no idea of the possible volume of these papers,
we would be happy to provide a researcher who could assist you in reducing
the magnitude of the search. If there are further questions, I am the .....----,
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Mr. Roger S. Young
Assistant Director in Charge
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genius with such peers as EDISON and WESTINGHOUSE.
Tesla
designed the basic generator and was the first man to introduce
alternating current to the people.
The article, written in an
underground SanFrancisco newspaper, stated that Tesla also
worked with electromagnetic waves and supposedly built a plant
that could harness the electromagnetic waves out of the earth's
atmosphere sufficiently enough to use them as a source of electricity.
The article stated that Tesla built such a plant and
lit up a city street 150 miles away by sending the electromagnetism
via radio waves.
electronic warfare.
This method is presently being used in
After that, the article stated that the·
FBI confiscated his plans and buried them in your archives.
Their reasoning was that such a free form of energy would knock\ .--·
out a big chunk of the oil, coal, and nuclear forms of energy
and their contributions to the economy(money for research and
employment).
All I want to know is if there is any truth to
this story and if so what was the FBI's reasons and when are the
archives opened again so that Tesla's work could come to light
again. Now bear in mind that this man was ~~~~~r~~a~~g!_:~i~~
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space research, joint international research and deep-sea
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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 proaucing significant
gains in these still relatively new fields.
You could at least take the time to check out what I am
saying and judge for yourself whether or not the·archives
should be opened now to put the world back on a more secure
heading.
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'feala'a effecta were impouDded aft:er hi• c!ea~ by the Office
of Alien Property of the Depart:Jaent of J\ultioe and DOt by
the FBI. While your intere•t ia in4eed appreciated, the PBI
is unable to answer your questions as we did not participate
in the handling or have anything to do vith the storage of
Dr. Tosla's belongings.
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involvement in the se1z1ng of Nikola Tesla's research papers
and other documents and scientific instruments after his death
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They bothj"'"explarne·d that Tesla was a scientific
genius and experim~ter who was born in Y~goslavia o~ Serbian
parents on 7/10 56· went to school later in Gratz, Austria~
Prague, C~e~ ___ Q~. ov~l.Qa _and Paris, Franc.e. He immigrated to
the U.S. iif. the·-·early 1880's, worked for Thomas Edison • s laboratory
for a couple of years, then started his own lab after being paid
$1 mill~on dolla~s for rights to his patents on his polyphase
systems· of alternating current dynamos, which 1~ to the t • Jl , 'tJ
harnessing of Niagra Falls for produc~il).g 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 elsewhe~e l~~,to his producing
artificial ligntn1ng 1n the millions ·of volts. He also had
patents on the concept of neon and flourescent lights, but he
later made lit~le 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
re~l~sive tn his later years, living in various hotels in New York
City. In the 1930 1 s he cla~ed 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 s~me distance away .
Both~and-said that Tesla donated "some"
of his papers ~s t~to the Tesla Institute in .
Belgrade, Yugoslavia; set up ~ the 1930'~ 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 iQ 1943. This is elaborated on in
the enclosed copies of certain pages of Margaret-Cheney's book,
"Tesla: Man Out of Time". -
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said that after World War II ·resla's papers were
Jl shipped sla Instit~te in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by his
ne~hew, , who_ had become Tit~~Amlbassador to the .1/;.
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papers by government agents while they were still in storage
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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 htm 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 Washin§ton, D.C. to
a technical research lab at WPAFB, possibly the Equipment
Lab", now cloaed,for some years or reorganized into another
organization.
lllllllltandllllllllllllare both desirous of learning
the locat~such~esla 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 o~ his papers after Tesla's death, and may possibly
have been the subject of FBI investigation.
lllllllltravels to the Washington, D.C. area on
FTD busin~odica~ly 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 Kosa~ovic.
Should there be such files at FBIHQ, as well as at
New Y ... sted that Bureau consider granting the
above
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intere
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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 ther;EC~
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The towerlike structures (based on the intended final form of
the Wardenclytfe tower) are directins remote-controlled
defenses against robot attackers. As Hugo Gernsback wrote in
Sci~nc~ and l11v~ntion, where this illustration appeared,
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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)
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The letterhead of Tesla business stationery recalls some of his
more important inventions. In the center is the Wardcnclyflc
tower as it was intended to look when finished. (Courtesy
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Colorado Springs laboratory. The roar that accompanied such
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-ra~cen "' the narrowest slgnlftcanc:e a the ~erm.· however. ..
Tesla wrote. "It Is a 1850nant transformer which. besides po•es:dng
these qualltiea, Is accurately PIOPOI11oned to ftt the globe and Its
eledJical c:onstants and propet1les. by virtue d which destgn tt
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make the acuons fncreose with the distoncc jrom the plord aa:ordlng
to an exact I1V.Ithernatk:a1Jaw"•
Once this powerful equipment was built and the lnwntar
began testing he was able eo emulate the electrtcal &n!wodcs of ewn
the wildest mountain storms. When the tranlmitter was operating.
lightning anesters In a twelve-mOe radius from his station wewv bridged
with continuous 8ery arcs. stronger and mol8 persistent than thole
produced by natural lightning. -~ . :
For the ftnt time he kept a cateful.daily diary ln ·which he
n!COrded eW!ry aspect af ._ aearch. And beca&se visual effects wena
useful as well as thrilling. tle. de\IOted many houn to pllocogr8phk
experiments.. . .
The eqUipment Tala '- perfec:ang would. he hoped. one
day be adaptable for comrnerdal use. But ftisl. thoulllnCJa of observations
and delicate adjustments had to be made. He no longer trusted
his legendary memory to storv such a volume of Information~ HJs dolly
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expected. and he would ask himself why. This pocess was at lharp
. variance with the one he claimed to have used thloughout his earlier
life. Now middle-aged. he may haw felt his memory waning ~
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In his Colorado journal his lifelong fatclnation wlth visual
phenomena is underscofed. The flashing lights that he had always
experienced on the saeen d his mind wera drametk:ally extemalized.
and his desalptions. among the mass d rnathernedk:lll formulas. aN
detailed. loving. almost erotic In thelr lingering ~ d the colon
and· !Pildeur d his Colorado electrtcalstonns.. .
Nights when expedments weN being made With the magnify­
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earth seemed alive and the crash d thunder f1001 ~ spark gap could
be heard for miles. Butterflies we.e RICked into the vortex of the
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The King added that he wu deeply touched and that both he
and Dr. Tala had wept He then visited Columbia Unlwrsl~ to be
warmly wek:omed by Pnasldent Nicholas Murray Butler and to ftnd
anolh.-lnk with his own counby In the Pupln Physics Laboratory.
- Ratuming to Washington, he was assunid by FOR that food.
clothing. arms. and 8mmunJtion would be dropped over Yugoslavia.
But he was lbocked when. In 1943. the British Mission In Yugoslavia
made ofklal contact wtth nto. Peter asked to be parachuted Into h6s
~ but Churchill demwmd Tbo openly 'accused MJhaOovJf d
, being a traitor.. ' '
At the Teheran Confenmce In Nowmber theN occurred, -
largely at CtnuchlU'a Instance,- what the King desatbed as a •fatal
change" d Allied ~ It was decided that •the bask foree fighting
the Gcmens tn Yugoslavia mcognized by dwt Allies was the National
lJberaUon Army. under the command of llto. and the Parasan force
NCelw!d fuD NCOgnldon u an AUied Arms,& Mihallovlt was thus denied
and abarxb1ed. .. , ' .
Winston Churchm overnight became a hem d modem
Yugollavla. And when the young monarch frantically wrote to FOR for
' . support. the ailing President replied W9ng hlm to accept Churchi'l
advke ... If It was my own. • Wlthln months Roo&evelt died. ·
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. he fttr"TeSre had been ten1bly shocbd by his Mphew't
exdullon from the royal gouemmenl In fact. KosancMt believed that
lhl lnwntor's death was actuaRy precipitated by his own .. setback."
•He thought," Kosanc:MC repeatedly told Radltsa, "that I was
punished. and that eventually I would be anested or something d the
ldnd. but I aiCCNded to c:onvtrice him that It was Inevitable In
poUtlcl."' .
Dw1ng this pertod KosancMC was frank In saying that he tried
to keep Tesla fJOm seeing members c:l the royal gowmment Ambalsador
fait had become "the enemy" IInce t)e stJII fa\IOR!d a Great
Serbian policy as opposed tQ. the changes ahead Tesla's rvJatlonshlp
with thts old friend became "lukewann."
'"There ~ no doubt," says Professor Radltsa. "'that the whole
lntemedne tragedy of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1943 must have had a
rather depn!SSing 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. .•. •
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Altar the war. Mlhdc:Nit would bi 8X8CUted by a .People..
Court" tor alegecl c:ollabondlon with the ~ and the Republic d
YugoU.4a dedmed to ex1st. with 1llo • ~ far tie and the
Communists ftnnJy In charge. .
A count of Yugoslavian casualda at .the end of World War D
ck:losed that 2 mllion persona had dlect tnigk;aly. rnarPJ thowand:s
had been killed by feDow Vugoslaw. -
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a . . . . ~and I wa illllltant In
. b I couldn't become a CommunlsL Later on In 1946. SM KosancMt
became llto'a ambassador In Washington ~ I never saw him again
after I left Belgrade In Odobercl1945. KosancMt had acapt8d ~
the Communlat ays~ern In Yugoslavia and NmalrMMi ~ until hit
death.. . . '
· 1'tKn had net been a time tn ten aHul1a when the Yugoslavs
had not been Nled. and ransacked by irMiders-by Venetians. ..
fbMris. Turks. ~ Austrians, Hungartans. Germani, ltallant,
when they Will nat INing under thNat d 1Drtunt. prtaon. Ot \lloln
death. Now a marvelous 1luth began to daiNn upon them: that they
wae flee. In a manner cl apealdng. ,_ · .
Tesla would nct INa to see this. Wh8lher hi could ewr hiMI
ea:epted the new government. with hiSoutet-type Constitution and a
Soviet aiDance. whether he could ever haw accepted the permanent .
lldle ol his beloved monarch, ana unanswerable QU8StJons.
Unfortu~ however, aD this was to haw a beadng o.n how
he would be mmembered In the West. The fading d his tdenCUic­
NPUfatlon. the. forgetfulnea of Americans In the pqstwar' pertod.
aulted In large degree from the disappearance d moM c:l his ldentlftc
paper~ behind that new Cold War phenomenon. the bon Curtain.
In 1948 Yugoslavia ceased to be an bon Curtain coun~
declaring Its Independence from the ScMet doctrine of "1mlted
ICM!n!lgnty.• America end her allies then wme generous In sending
economic and mllitary aid to the SliM; but the damage had been
done. America had not raced to nto's warUmi IUpport with the
alaaHy that ehurthdl hDd shown. In the tutu .. lt would not be madl
easy for Amer1can scholars to draw on Yugoslav IOC.IKeS to document
the achlewments -d Nlkola Tesla. . . . '
The lnwnlOr became wry feeble In the wlntar d 1942. His
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danuary 1. at the raquest d authot: Louis AdamiC. Mra. Roosevelt had
pmmised to ask the PJesldent to wrtte to Tala and said that she._,.
would call on him on her next b1p lo New York. The second nettheeled.
•Memo for Mn. Roosevelt• and Is signed FOR: •r was I1IMng
this look8d ·lnlo but the papers ~ canted the ltory that Dr.
Tesla had died. Thennc:n I ~m retum1ng the enc:lo5ures herewith." A
third note of January 11 from Eleanor Roosevelt to AdamiC fOI'\\Wda
the ~fa 1'1M1S159 and adds her sorrow at learning d lhe
Inventor's death.
AdamiC wrote a moulng eulogy to Tala that was read by New
York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia over station WNVC on JetUry
10. • MeanwhUe the exb8me tensions between Serb and Croatfactlcn
In the United States werv making the planning d funeral serv1cea
dlfftcult. The body lay In state but. ac:cordlng to an unpublished leaer
of O'Neill's. ... only twelve people. some of whom weN newspapar
. l8pOrt8rS," came to VIew it. ·
When state services wera held at four o'clock on January 12.1n
the Cathedml of St John the Divine, howewr, mon11 than two
thousand people crowded ln. Serbs and Croals were ,seated on
opposing sides of the cathedral. Bishop Wlllfam T. Manning having
exacted from both factions a promise d no political speeches. The
ten11a1 was begun In English by Bishop Mannblg and c:onduded In
Serbian by the Very Ret.L Ousan SukletoviC. · ·
Among ~ diplomats present weN Ambessador FaiC.
the Gouemor .of Croatia, a former Prime Minister d Yugoslavta,
and the Minister d Food. and Reconstruction. In the front row with
Kosanoult,- chief mourner and head of the Important new tmde
· mission, sat 5~ Dt Rad!l had been too II lO attend as an
honorary pallbemet .
Agwes Important In American scienCe and Industry who did
attend as honorary pallbearers Included ·professor Edwin H.
Annsbong. Dt E F. W. Alexanderson of General Electrk:; Dr. HaM'/
RentschJer of Westinghouse. engineer Gano Dunn, and W. H. Barton,
cumtor d the Hayden Planetarlurri of the American MU!eUm d
Natural History. Newbold ~ pcesident d the New York City
Council. headed this QIOUP. . •
When word of Tesla's death spread abroad to war·stricbn
Europe, telegrams of tribute and sorrow began pouring In hom
scientists and goyernmenmlleaders alike. In the United States duet
Nobel prtzewlnners in physics. Millikan, Compton, and James Frandc.
joined In a eulogy to the Inventor as "one of the outstanding lntelleds
DEATH AND 1'RANSFIGlJRAI1 +-+ 'J:67
d lhe world who paued the way for many d the Important Mldund.
Clll dlwlopments of modam lima..
The PJaident and Mrs. Rooleutlt ape I 1 tMir SJIIIItude for'
Tala's contribudons •to ICienc:e and Industry anc:l' to this C:ountzv,"
\llat-Pnllklent WaDace. In the spbtt oflhe new Yugoslallla, c:ladalad
that. "'n Nilcola Tesla's death the cunmon "*' Ioiii one ol his belt
&kndL. ·. . -. ! •
Although Louis AdamiC .~ eulogad Tesla as one who
had cal8d nothing for ~ hi could not blue been maar accurata
when he said thai Tesla was not laDy dead: 'The Nal.lmportant part
d Tesla IIvas In his achievement, whk:h_ II pet. lllmolt ~ ..
caladetion, and an lnte!Pl pert of our c:lvillralon, our~ 1Mt_ our
cumant war effort. ... His life II a titumph. ••• ••
Among the honors that had come to Tetla In hlslfe W8l8 ~
academic degrees from American and fonllgrl ~ th.e John
Scatl Medal, the Edison Medal, and VIllous award~ fmm ~
grMII'IIments. 1n September 1943 the ~ lhlp NllcDio Taa -..
llunched, an honor that would hiNe ~the ldentllt. But not urd
1975 WDS he Inducted Into the NaaoMllnventDII Hal of feml.
Eight months after Tala's daalh. the U.S. Supmrne Court
handed down the dedston that he had been c:onftdlnt would ClOIJl8
MlltLiaiJy-.-ru tha! he was the 1nv1ntar ol raclo. ·
His body wes taken to femc:llffe Cemetery at~­
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·."l ' ' ,·:: ·i ri i awaited by many ldentlsts. ~ IN8n this work left Important ques1ona
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:'t• .. :j~ ,-~ii ;I i · The bulk d his papers having vanished from Amalea. ldable
~;:• ·~: ··~i!jli lnfonnallon was held« to come by than the RICUl1lng rumDII a
~ f i 1 ::: :I: consplrac:14 e.plonDge, and patent theft. SdenllsG thought It strang~
': :~-\: : i:i: ir Chat tome aspedl of his ColoracbSprtnga raearch found In scatfald
v.- ~·~'·.· ,::·( IQUI't.8l did nat appear In th.a Vugosllw-published Nota Only tJ,
·. KouncMt. IDid him about the boxes. and urged hbn to protect them.
:;'.:";;'1~· · · ~!!; I He was newr able to get a positlw statement from Kosanovlt that he
;;'~r;· · ~:~:~i ! . had obmlned the boxes and examined~ contencs. •He gave eve3M
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.: ·.'U!; 1.! : Soon he b,M:ame fascinated with Tesla's ·scientific pepers and was
;,:·:1!! ahued to take batches d them home to his hdel room Whele he and
'/'!!: another Amerlean engineer poNd CAler them each night They well
,:.'i:!! l8tumed the next day. a proc.eduna ~ continued for about two
· : : ·: n;!;li weeb prior to the Inventor's death. · . .
· . , .. ~;;.~~~~ Tala had rec:eiYed offers to work for Germany and Rua
: : ·· f!' . After the lnwntor died. both engtneas became conc:emed that attlall
· · ·': :: ldentlflc Information might fall Into fondgn hands and alerted United
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' ·::-: The relevant n!ICOf'ds that I have obtained from federal agencieS
~·.· _> under the ~ d Information M NU88I strange lWistingl and
hacousistenCiaitl handling Olih81nwntor's estate. Tesla left tons d
papers. banels and boxes fuU · d them. But he left no wiD. He waa
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to Dr: Trump were \WIIs George, Offtce d Naval Intelligence, Thlnt
Naval 01str1ct, Edward Pa- chief yeoman. USNR. and John J.
Corbett. chief yeoman, USNR
'Dt Trump JIP()Ited afterward that r.t examination was made
d the vast amount d Tesla's property that had been In the basement a
the ~ew Yorker Hotel for ten years pl1or to his death, or of any d hit
papers except those ln his Immediate possession at the time c:l death. II
should be remembered that Tesla's sdentiflc reputation had been In
eclipse for a number d yean and that there had been many efforts to
discredit his claims In radio, ~ and altemallng cumml Dr. Trump
was a busy man, just as the staff of the FBI was sbetched thin by Ill
preoccupation with Investigating wartime sabotage.
"'As a result d this examination," wrote Dr. Trump. "It Is nPJ
considered opinion that there exist among Dr. Tesla's papers and
pcsnsslons no ldentlflc notes, desatpClonl Of hitherto unnMaled
methods or devices, or actual apparatus which could be•of slgnlftcanC
value to this country or which would consUtute a hazard ln unfriendy
hands. I can therefcn see no technical or military ~ why further
custody of the property should be mtalned. •
He added: "'for your records. there has been removed to your
offtc:e a ftle Of various written mDtertal by Dr. Tesla which covers
typically and fairly completely the Ideas with which he was c:oncemed
dwtng his later years. These documents are enumerated and briefly
abltracted In the attachment to thts letter. •
In dosing Dr. Trump said: "'It should be no dtsciadlt to this
distinguished engineer and scientist, whose solid conb1butlons to the
electrtc:al art were made at the beginning d the present century. to
1aport that his thoughts and efforts durtng at least the past ftfteen yeera
went prtmartly 01 a speculative, philosophical. ·and somewhat promotional
character-Often concerned with the Production and wlrelesl
transmission d power-but did not Include new souncL workable
J1dndples or methods·for realizing such results."
The file (d which Dr. Trump's notes were only an abstract)
c:onststed apparently d either photostats or microfilm made by the
naval olftcers present, and the original papers appantntly remained In
~~Drage, later·to be transmitted to Yugoslavia. The examination had
failed to disclose any· allen-owned property subject to the vesttng
power Of the Aben Property' Custodian under the Trading with the
Enemy Aa. T~ personal effects were releNed In
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8rtgada. an avenue nuwned after the war. but formerty known under
the monarchy as Caown StJeet. The museum bean a ploque on a low
wall. printed In the old Cyrillic alphabet.
'HeN Tesla's English writings haw been translated Into Serbo.
CIOBISan-cxcept. as the erchlvlst edmltt.· for the '"untmpor~an~•
material. which mnatns. just as tie wrote It, In the language -a. his
adopted coumr,
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The fact that Teste's aearch notes and paper~ haw not been easily ·
Mllable for western sdentls1s hes nd, cl course, meant that Tesllan
IIM8Ith Is dead On the contra~\\ the wry mystery surrounding some
d his· unproued claims has served to goad numerous scientists Into
trying to dupllcete hi\ experiments. And since his aspirations went
\llnUeiJv limitless. thent has always been a chance that the rewards cl
IUCC8SIS would not be Inconsiderable. But the single greatest stimulus
k> try to follow In Tesle's footstep doubtless nnnalns the example cl
the man himself-his stunning NCOid d«hhevement and the endur­
~ fasdnadon d hll mind. A5 one admiring German writer put 1t.
"Teela went~ the borders d his eract ldlnce to fonltell what 1181
In the futln . . . a modem PwomedWIUI who deled nrach for the •
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Although a cornprehenslua summary ol the ltate. ol Teslalnspln!d
nasearch todey would be beyond either the ICOp8 d this book
or the Intent of Its author. no ea:ount cl the lfMmtor's life would be
complete without at least some lndk:adon of what has become cl a few
a hls meJor pi80ClCUpBtions The mcord, 81 one might expect. Is both
mixed and Incomplete, but It ls no las lmplallve lor that.
To begin. .then. with Tala's expedmenls with bllllghtnlng: He
had no Idea what bal lightning might be useful for when he ftnt
enc:ountald It In his Colorado Spdngs aearch: to him It was a
IIIIAnce, but It demanded an aplanBion. And so he set about
det.ennlnlng the mode cl formation cl the stranQe 8rebell and leamfc
m pmduce them ~
The l8dmlcal explanation runs Ike thiE In the highly monan.
transformer -=ondary compllllug his II*.Jdlylng lral~ the
tntlnl energy accumulated In the exdted c:bcult, Instead ci Nqulrtng a
quarter period for tmnsformadon from ltatk: to ldnedc. could sperM'
IIIII In ... lime, at hundreds cl thousand~ d horsepowa Thul. for
example, T .. peoduced artlftdal fiNbells by suddenly causing the
nc e ~ r«ttlettons to be 111018 mpd than flee ones ci the second-
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worthy o1 Tala: ·u Teslai aonanc:e effects. as shown by the Stanbd
team. can CXWlbollnormoul anergieS by mlnllc:ule blggediiQ slgMt.
then ~ an axtens1on a this prtnctpae we should be able to affect the
tleld envirOnment of the very stars In the sky .•• WIIh godlike •
mgance, we tomeday may vet direct the stan In their courses."'
No biography c:l Tala would be complete without mention t1
· his bright folbMng of amatalr physidstl who build Tala c:odl for thlk
. penona1185881Ch, endeiMxtng to raplk:ate his electrk:al magic; llld
the young._lnvantors who pen. CNer his bulc: -~ and d 8nd
lnsplrdon ian them. ,
Durlln C. Cox., a Msc:onlln phyJidst who hal pondened Ta\
published wrttlngs. has bu8t two Tesla coils. the MCOnd d 10 milllon
. volts. The reaaons: •My own penonaltnt8nlst In high uoltage engm.
lng. especially In the field ol high fNquency rf transformers; to further
my studies on the loboratory production of baD lghtnlng; and becalM
the Unhlerslty d 'Msconsln at Madison asked me to submit a Tesla cd
In their. bi-annual Engineering &position In the spring of 198t• He
and friends built one Tesla cod for a Hollywood studio for lightning
4ffects. which has been a mmmon use of them.
Eledrtcal engineer Leland Anderson has surnmartzed the
ma)or points In design that a cod budder might gain from ._..
fesla'l Colorado Springs Nolet:
1. The Q's of the primary aoo IICOI1dary must be as high •
praclcable.
2. The Q's of the primary and secondary should be equal
3. The length of the aecondary winding should be OfWHiuatW.
of the effediua operating wavelength. ..
4. The technique of using an •extra colr tank dn:ult (Clf a
varlation alit) In the secondary to magnify the voltage should be used.
"WWth these atterla In mind. • he says. ~budder will ftnd thai
hundteds 'of turns ma I'd ~ for the secondaly winding '»
echieul high voltages." I
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Wenl his concepts sound? U they were found useful by the U.S. ArmJ
AJr force taean:h team. whose tqHeaet prolect was lllJ1'IOied ID
h8w had the code ·name ~Project Nick, • lt may be safely aseumed ltW
Instead of being .. deltmyed. • as reported. his ~ ana ldll ~
claPJfted
Dr. Trump's evaluation and Swezey's assessment of Tesla\
•aeawt ~ NNe.- howewr. I8C8lved updated conc:ummca bv
ntE LEGACY +-+ 289
Lambert Dolphin. assistant dhvctor d the Radio Physics Laboratory at
SRJintemDllonal. who hal studied the lnwnton work and his bal.
~tnmg aaearch for two decades. He points out that the Wds of
llnowledge of both physics and electrtcal ·~ hiM FJW11
ccponentlally Since about 1930.
. "Whole bbrartes al8 now requbed )ult 110 keep track of aB the
theory and experience that have unfolded since Tala 'slime." he says.
"'ur rnathernatlcal and practical understanding m ~ rni9KI'"
11sm. electromDgnetlc theory. and radio communlcatiOnl has continUed
to QIOW expkJstwly ewr llnc81950, or should I say t970f"'
Tesla, Dolphin belleuel. ~ haw had Intuitive Insight ._,
lasers and high-energy particle beams as well as ultra-high voltage
phenomena. but now that we understand a8 the physlcl much more.
M can eeslly evalua&e many d his extnwagant later-life dalml.~ 10
In fact, there II no good. evidence to suggest that Tesla
anticipated laseiL ·His "'1eleforte rr¥' seem 110. haw t.n c:oncemed
txduslvely wllh ~ particle beatas. We still do I'd know
pn1dsely how he lnbmded them to work. although, says Dolphin. the
available evidence .qgasts that T& may nat hiM peld IUfftdent
ltt8ntlon to how greatly ada beams may be absorbed or dispersed by
molecules and atoms In the • In any case. even If we did undeastand
TelLs• Intentions I'RO!IV deady, we should be ~-.put eo c:ompm'l
them to the cunent stata of the art. much of which II ~*~den undlr
high security doaslftcaaons.
Nevertheless. Tesla'l work .with high wltaga to acxelerate
charged particles does seem to haw bean decidedly In what II now the
rna~nst~Um of physk:al J8leerCh. . oom this field.· says Dolphin, ·he
anticipated modem linear and c:tradBr ·.nuclear aocelaaton. Such
machines aoday hale energy lewis of tens of blllons of electran uoltl or
at last 1,000 t1me1 gntater energy ..- than Tala ever atlalned.
"I am SUN his magnifying lransmlttm ~ spectaculat ••• He
pmbobly generated lOme lnteNstlng arts and sparks that went what
we now study as plcurilas. The containment of plasmas II a huge IIR!fl
a modem physics. Fer example ... to .. If ana11 amcunta of matter
can be turned Into Immense amounts of alectdall power In c:andullt}
contalned piasmas." But Tesla'l early dklccMriel and lnwnllonl, he
an:ludes, weN Indeed lngenioul and aheed of their arne. ll
As this book goes to PftiSit the PentagOn II studying the
aaatton a a new branch of the anned servla1l, 1D be known at the
U.S. Space Command. whose prtmary anenal will con111t d laller and
pertlcta-beam w.pons ftNd flom 1 1!pBCB batdahlpa.. In proM nat
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unlike Tala's own. a Department d Defense fad sheet cornJ)aiiS
particle beams to 11 diNcted lightning bolts" -although without G•
pliddy admitting that such a weapon has ln fact been dewloped.
~t Is ctiftcult to assess the a.mmt state d the beam-weapons
program becaJse vlrtually 4Mf'Yihlng about It Is heavily daaified.
Appmendy the technology Involved has pnMd to be complex and
dlfflcult. raising questions ~~ the project's ~ but l'nBIPI
experts nevertheless Mem to be hard al work on the poblem. At the
tame tltne. the activities d the other nallonlln ..... haw been
moalkftd caNfully by agenda d the federal gcwemrnent Indeed the
~ d aeatlng a family d particle-beam weepona has been 1
IUbtect d lleltoul diSCUIIlon In this c:ountly for at least the past twenty.
8ve yems. and It II, In my opinion. d no Bttle signl8cance that es long
ago • 1947 the Mllitaly Intelligence Service ldentlfted the wrttingl
about a pardde-bearn among Tala's ldenttftc popen as being •a
extnlme Importance."
Since he had no laboratory In the later yean d his Bfe, Ta
u. unable to develop his Ideas. But It Is ~ndenlable that he desabd
In general terms half a century ago what ~ pmue to be one of the
main weapons of the Space Age. And to the end d his d¥, Tesla the
padftst hoped that such knowledge would be used. nat for war among
Earthlings. but for interplanetary communlaation with our nelghbon In
IPK8. of whose 8JCISteltcP he felt certain.
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Some d Tala's own wrtllng-lec:tua, artk:les. petanta. papen, and
lealas II now available In the United States. till moat lmpartant
lectuNa and hll brief au~ In bound va1urr-. • a...d In
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. Citation of blographla d Tesla by O'Neill. Hunt. and Draper.
and dhera may be found In the aefe•enc:a nota. The O'Ndl manusatpt
and the Swezey Collection ant to be found .. ttw·Smlthtanlan . ,..
Institution. Dlbner lJbrar}t
Sertous Tala ICholm will wish to CCiftiUII the annoblead Dr
Mlcolo Tala BlbiJogruphv by J. T. ~ and L L ~ (Sen .
Carlos. California. Ragusan Pia. 19,79). for It contalniiOIM 3,000
· ~ of wrtt1ngs by and about Tala. -Frlcrlty ln the lnven1lon of
Radio, Tala u Marconi, • by Leland Anderlon . mil¥ . be obtained
~the Antique ~Asoddon. MonoaraDh New Sada No:
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A new mans d analyzing Tala'slnvenllonlll provided ln. Dr.
Nikola TaiG: Seleded fbtent ~ /roin The NallontJ/ Ardtlua.
by J. T. Ratzlaff (Millbrae, Ca., T- Book Co.. 1980l These •m.
wrappers" pn:Mde explanations and conaspondence between the
p81entee and the Patent Offtce. to CMI'tOIM objedlons railed by the
examlnet
, Tala's Cobudo Sprfn9l Note.. l899-1900, published In
1978 by the Tala MuNwn, II avedable through Nallte Teraztle, Zl,
Belgrade, Yugoslavia. .
The Ubnuy d Congress Manusatpll DMslan contains rnlclOftlm
conespondence between TaLa and Geolge Sc:herlf, Rot;ert
" Underwood Johnson, Mark Twain, members of the Morgan ~
George Wesaingtlouse. and lhe Westinghouse Electdc: and Manufac.
turing Compa~ .
In addition original oonespondenc:e and phocographs may btl
found at the Butler L1brary. RaN Books and ManUICdptl. Columba
University. Including letters between r-. and Johrwon. SCherff, and
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MY dear· Mr. Hoover:
I do not Y~ow 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 ju.isdiction 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 re.member the events, it was during that year
that three small planes exploded in the air over
Texas and southwestern. Kansas c. and Oklahoma. These
craspes were not accounted for, either by subsequent
inv6stigat1ou 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
11ves 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 tiine, this one not qqite
a year~ and there started the worst series of air
disasters the country has yet seen. One plane lost
in the Southw·est 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 airpo~~,. ~~~pa:.~tortfr/l~Irding. .
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radio operator at the airport Fseems ·to me to ;be!·~··.. ··:;
highly illuminating. This operator r~pQ~ted ~ft~or~ '!
buzz interrupting his COmmWliCat~on w~'R1~El ~.lne:t · ··: .
••• a loud roar such as produced by the worst. iro.agin~
able s~atic •• : then silence. The _pl_ane )i~i~~o'p_p~e!~
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bungle in handling a ship. Nor do the three motors
(or even two) on the large airliners, stop simul­
. taneously without extremely smffictent~ 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
KTesla, the inventor. The article dealt with a new
t~ention of Mr. Tesla's ••• a giant induction coil
which would project power (high vo1tage) through the
atmosphere without the use of transmission wires.
Mr. Tesla· devoted some space to the possible social
benefits that would ~esult to the public should his
invention. be perfected and become practical.
·I have not heard of llr. 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 be well worth while
having. And if I had the money and the time, I should
certainly make an effort to s~oke him out myself.
The thing is simply this: if. one man can make an instrument
thc.t will project power throu~h the air for
even so short a· distance as 500 yards (the thenpractical
limitations of !!r. !'!ikola'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.
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feala•a rocu after h11 d..tla .S .-rUn11w~ b7 abc a lockaith to get
tnt,o a aa.fe oonta1n1ni ... t1 'feala•e •l•ble ,_para. Jrr. Donegan was
lldrl~ th1a •'ter aho&W 1ae -41~d1•ouaMCI111th \hit State•• Attorney",
119W York 01\7 1 with a n.. w looati.Qa loeanorl.ch &a! apprehencling h1JI on a
burblarY charge, in ordc- to asoerta!.D the nature et the ~~aterial t.aken trom
the aat'e ot !lilcola resla. It was al.ao nue•ted \hat the leY York O!!iee
contact the Surrogate Court, in arder tba\ Teal.ata ~ttteta 1 as well aa the
contents o! hie Mfety depoai t 'box.ea, Jd.ght DO~ be au\ered without tbe pre sen~
ot an ~t;ent, 1D ardr. that the 8eoreC7 et atfT p1au or 1teu eaeent.ial. to
tha ooJJi~\ ol the war or •tional. .. ouri\7 ai&bt. 'be preMM'ed. It wu •tated
tba t loa&QO'rlch ai.ght poaaibl.T ...a oerta1A •Wr1al nallable to tu •Del\f.
j. renew ar the Bureau tll.e• nnw OOilaidc-a~ 1nton&at1on ooncemin&
lilcola Teela aid h1a illYent.iona aDd 1\ abou1d be DOW t bat ona neola
feela, 1lbo ai~t, ha'Yit been 1d.entJ.oa11d.\h likola !ella, ade a 8peech at. the
- · Ottap~ Spr1ngt'J.el4, Ma••chu..~\• 1 oa hM 4, l$22, ibitr \be ausploe•
' o! t.he • ot Scrrie\ Jtuada. · cr. ~ :z: .
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-lr.·. E. A. Tamm_ I\ turtbar eppean t,bllt !aft IOMbOrieh _;:-bi,sB~ticAl with an
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Qreeoo, Poland, Tucoslavia). On tb1a lettrerbead Ioaanovich 1• described as
Chl·lraan ot the Board and Mini•ter oJ: State tor IuaoalaTia. It 1a .tated
that \h1a JkNird ia iDt;eNI\ed b •plaDni.D& tor poatwar auropetr. (100-99042)
Ill' nUl anot.hc tile 1t 1• c!ieolORd tlat San lounodoh, •
s.rbw, as a aoaber :4 ~ at \he I\lloalaTS.u ainori\7 partJ.•• ud wbeA &Q
••rpnq &OYerniMzrt. \o "•rthrolr u &lli.aDoe wl'Ul \he Ald.• wu tar..cl, ~
M ••• 1Dcludecl •• an a.~t1c1al..
Be 11 allepct \o be a eo.aw1ia\ and t. •-.14
to J".oe1n 11,2.)0 a I&O!lth •lary trc:a t.t exiled Yucochrlan OOYwrawnt. Be ·
am ot.ber m'ed IOTar,..a\ o.t!'1o1al• are ft.ll«t4d ~ ue t.beee l&ri• •lariea
to tiDuoe rterr Serb~ paper J.n t.be thd.W State• exoept -srbobraut' puhll•hed
at P1ttabur&b• (97-134D-18) , '
1o reoord ot ~tmneth a-.q eould be located 1n \be Bureau t1le•
trc. t.bl 1D!C' !:WI. tJ.on an ·j lab~. · ·
!b8 taregoiq btoratlon la bei.Qe t\z.miahed tor potaaible tuan
nterenoe in OO!lMOtiou with t.h11 caw. aft! lt 1JI desired that. the Bureau be
apt proa:p\17 aud currentlJ" 1ntor.ct or all dnal.op.ent.a iA tbia oa•.
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March 19, '1943
Director. FBI
Re:
UN1Q;1)ft'N SUBJECTS; SAVAtifos.ANOVICH:L,
:&XP.DUMENTS .AliD RESEARCH OF UIKOLA: ~SLA
(Deceased) •
ESPIONAGE, MISCELLANEOUS
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to the Eureau letter 1n the above-captione~
matter dated January 21, 1943, in which it is stated that it is desired that
the l3ureau be kept promptly &nd currently informed of all developments in this
case.
In view of a telephone call froc Y.r. Little of the Bureau
to Mr. T. J. Donegen, Assistant Special -~ent in Charge of the New York
Office, dated January 14, 1943, in which Mr. Little stated th&t the abovecaptioned
matter vas now being handled as en Alien Enem~ Custodicl Detention ).
matter and therefore no further action should be taken in the matter by the
New York Field Division, this case is beiug considered closed in this Office,
~less advised to the contrary by the Bureau at some future time.
COPIES DESTROYED
148 OCT 26 1960
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THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT NEW YORK CITY' N. I.
FILE NO.
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REPORT MADE AT
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DATE WHEN MADE
lW.TlllORE, llARILlND 3-29-43
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SA.VA Jl;. KOSANOVICH, with alias
Sav& 1.:. ~Cosonoti tch
PERIOD FOR
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REPORT MAO£ 8Y
CHARLES J •.. FOOTER
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D!TERNAL SECURITY G.
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It is ~~be noted tha:t subject 1 s correct name is SA. VA 11. KOOJ.NOVICH anc~.
COSONOVITCH as carried in reference letter.
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Mr. 1BE SPANEL, President of the International Latex Corporation, advised that
the subject is presently the Secretary or state to the Yugoslavian Government
in exile and that he re&ides at the Navaro Hotel 1 New York City. He stated that
he had been a very good triend or NIC~ who has died recently and that.
he believes that the subject i.s a third or fourth cousin or TESLA and that .
when TESLA died, the aubject was his o~y close relative in this country and
TESLl's'effects came into his possession.
SPANEL related that the subject had recently turned over to the government
the majority o! the patents of ..NICK TESLl. SPANEL described "TESLA as b9:f.ng
one of the greatest iiiventora that has ever lived. He stated he .had more than
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900 inventions and patentao SPANEL stated that at one time TESLA. had
an invention in which be was able to direct electrical current without,
the means of a conductor. lis telt that tbia tn>e or an invention would
be or invaluable assistance to &111' co111lt17 at 'Rl" aDd for tl:d.a'reuon
!elt that TESLl 1 s 1nvent1ooa and patents should be put into the banda
of proper Qoveraosnt otticiala• whare the7 might be put to tbe beat
advantage tor the United States. HI doea not belltrre the amje~ ia
engaged in a:JX1' Wl-Amer1can actirlUea and a~ted that. .he •as ·~-re
than
willing to turn these patents aDd imentiona O'ler to the proper Qovern­
•nt agen07• He userted that before TESLl died, be bad apoken to the
subject rega.rd:l.l:l.g hie beoca' ng a t7n1 ted States ci t1an aDd SPAIEL
believe~ that be is DOW t&k1ng the proper steps to acbien that end. ~
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SPAHEL also atatecl tbat the- aubje ct. bad b&Dded all or tbe effects ot
the deceased TESLl to tlwl Al.ie~ Propert7 Cuatodian in lin York C1~7 • .j
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SPAHEL advised t.hat the day before TESLA died he had tried to get 1n ·\
touch with War Department o.f'.t'iciala in liaab:f..ngton in order t.ba.t he might
make available to t.ba patents and inveDtiona that he bad developed. -
However, be was not able to get in touch with tbe proper authorities
and he died the following .da7•
SPANEL advised that the Yugoslavian Government had been 8ending TESLA
approximately $600.00 per month tor aometi.llle prior to bis death and
tbis was described u being a aort. or pension.
SPANEL stated further that he baa prerlousl)r turned over in.t'on:Jation
regarding the subject to Spealal Agent :mBD B. CORNELL ot tbe New York
Field Dirlsion. He also ad-teed that WALDEJIER KEMPFER'!', Science Editor,
!iew York Times &Del BILL LllJiENZ, Scl.enoe Feature Writer 1 Hew York Times
and the Science Editor o! tbe Herald Trib1m11 would be able to elaborate
on acme ot the ac0011plieb:aents o! HICK 1'ESLA. and that the June 1900
iasue o! tba Century Kagui.De &lao contained an a.rt,j.cle relating to
the inventions of TESLl. ·
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SPANEL also atated that be beliend BLOICE FITZGERALD, Pierpont Hotel,
Brookl111 1 New Yoric, SecretU7 to TBSU, baa been contacted b7 Special
~nt CORNELL &Dd tbat it' tbe
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mnsl,ington, D. Gr.
July 17, 1943
MEMORANDUM FOR
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}i:].: SAVA KOSAAOVICH
L~?Fl-~H-.l, SlCur~IT~ (u)
CUSTODIAL DETEtiTI:.):i .
. CC-28'1 Mr • Tolson
Mr. E. A. Tamm
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Mr. Clegg
Mr. Glav~n
Mr . Ladd
Mr. Nicholl
Mr. Ro1en
Mr. Tracy
Mr. Car~oo
Mr. Coffey
!r!.r. Hendon
Mr .... Kramer
Mr. Mc:Guire -
l.tr. Harbo
Mr. Quinn Tamm
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~tr.tcd !:~le •·•as ~re?c.rL~ stc:.te:ne::t~ oi fact \\:;ic:• sile inte.:.H.i~ t'"J t~J.r:1 over t.:>. ~·~
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case e'1tit.led U~·ii~.·~:)~ .. : StiEJ! CT~, fi;.vr~ ...:~·.-r, :-.x.-'J·:.I •.F....-.rs iu·.·D :t:t.~}.....;.Cri ()!· .·.:Lv._.~0:t ~1~~:
1:-lened a safe, ex.:-.·~iui:1-: cert~i:1 :n~tc~ials '\·;.:i:fi i··e .}oss-:--ssn~.
On Je;,~uary 6, •.h·. L. :.i. C. S"Tlitn of tne De:,art .• iEmt cH.tvi~ed .-:.r. 'L:2.~::::! t:'t!;.'L :·•E rcc..f
c·.x·.cer~cd abo~lt the .:;oe~ibility of en em:.:- ;;•;:f'nt s ccnfi~c;~tin.; so.:'le ·=>f t.r.e tr:.r.1.-{S
of Tesl; .. a:1d t:1at =.p~at·eiltl> the~ Alien ? .:·v_:;€rt~; Custociar, r.us t~·~in.~ so.::e act i·:·n in
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(.u~tocii::sn' s office, t ht: Burec:.:~ did nnt conduct any ii~~-~r~ iJt.O._ t:~is si t~;;.t ~-· ·.]. j
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IN RE:PL Y. PLEASE R~ TO
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W:::l :tr:h!r:
Director, FBI
Dea:- Sir:
Reference is mad~ to the Bureac letter dated Ja~ua~ 21,· 1943, which
bore a capti.o~ simil"!.ar to that !!l~nti':'ned abov~. ·'
'The :0€.-re~~r:(.'~d lP~.t.~~~ c~alt W:th th~ deat~, 0!1 c.T8!1Cary 7; 1;43, of
t~,~ -~a~.c.·.:s in .. :-:ntc~, N1K'J:"';~ -r--:~.:·~, wr.~ as \t-ei1 as being the- inventor of
:':.lt-=~r·at:nr ~l~r-~nt, pe!"fe-:-t.ec rr.~n:' electrical devices. ~~ is a'lso cred1tc:!
r.~ t!1 h2v.:..n;- dP.v-~·lt:'':"'l~~~ ~-h'- s., C'~:'i~d ..Jt.d~ath ray" wh~ ch w~t~ld ssfer,,:ard an~~
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gun. S?J.JTBL offered !inan\::lal aid to ~TZGERALT> and the two were in the
ct 'ft"i.th each other for a considerable period or time.
sa!d that FITZGEPJ~ had lined up a deal !or the purcr~se or
gu • e.~B'.ITNGTON ARMS t.n.~PA."'Y, hut for some reason SPA.\~ blocked
this deal by reaching top men in thrl.t::!l!NGTON Ol.fP~~. Sl)ANEL is then
reported as having obtai~ed a·job ror FITZGEF~L~ with th~HI~S SUJP
BUIV1!NG (J:)\tPA:."Y in New Orleans and negotiated a contract with FITZG~RALn
rnr th'~ nurchas'? and canufacture of the gun in a manner which would return
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tated that in November of 1943, for some unknown reason
to be attributable to S?.M!EL, FITZG~RALD was fired by
the li!GGo;:xs O':'N?Ar:Y. In September of 1941~, ~TZGERALD was inducted into the
Army a~c for a considerable period of time waWJIIMs·d at an ordinance
ex~erim9r.~al station at Elgin Field, Florida. stated that at
the nr~sent time F!TZ~~D is engaged in a hig y secre experimental ·
project at n~ight Field in Dayton, Ohio. !n spite of his rank of Private,
FIT7.r~AI..!) actually is the director of this research and is working w5 th ,
11l~t"!Y 'top young scientists who nre inducted into Army !ran leading industrial
posts.
According to- ~ITZG:S.~AID is presently workinr o~ the
perfection o£ TFSLA'S ~O:,j ch in FJTzr-::;RA!,D'S opinion is the only
noss~ble defense against of!ensi~e use by another nation of ~~tomic B~b.
In th1s connection, it iy noted that th~ew York Times~of September 22, 1$4(
in an article entitled~qo~~CS JN rnr-; ~~~ hy ~LLTAV. A~JAURENCE, Science
L .. r.1 I' r..ottor st.~tes that. ;;;;s::.A tJe~lred to J.A~!R~JC"=: the f;sct that he had developed
U IV a "oe&t~ ray" or ""tc'!.::'force~ wh~ c~ ':'~I. A cJ a1-:;ec woulci melt airplane mc•tors
2t & dis•.ar:ce o! 25C ~i"!..es, s~ that act'Jal1y an inv!sH··le (;hinese Wa!l w:>uld
be b"Jil't around a c·)tmt.ry aga~nst attack b:; an ene!!"•Y air force.
Accc!'d!nr to the a:-~.icle in th~~-r=:s, this electrical device would
optrate by the generation of pawe:' fran a -plant., a r.umbe~ of whi.ch might be
located strater,ically a1on~ our coast lines and t~e beau f~om wh~ch would ·
melt an:r enrine within a radius or 250 1:1iles.
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st2ted that during FITZG~A~n•e ac~uaintance ~th
S?Ar~, . d told S'PA!·~:L of his asso~iations with TBSLA~,., · ·
apparentl~t described to S~A1~I. some of '!'ESLA' S most secret work.
believes that S?A!Sl, wh" he cla~s is definitely pro-Russian in ~ ~u e,
is nor. att~motinr t~oufh l~val procedure t~ se~Jre custody of TSSLA'S
e."fects wh:_d, are n~ h~:!ld b~· TESL-\ 1 5 only h~ir, one S.t..VA K0SAt:0':~CP., w'lo
is presently in Yugoslavia occup~~nr sene r.ov~rn~e~tal post.
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it Will be ~s.ca'!.led that in an .qrti cle published 0:1 '-.~arch 15, 1945,
bv th~-1.,.~::; !':.A7T.,.~•: S":\'T'I!Ch1'~ n:~·~?GRA'I'~, FST3~00K~-=:·at~ charged s-:."A~~
with spreading '!)ro-('nmT.ur~ist and pr':'- Russlar. proparanda thr~ugh his full
paf.l? advertisP.Tient ir. the news~aoers, which S::"A!ffi, characterized as be: r.g
nub] -ts7!~~ for th~ ~ti'rt:~'.:h7T'J~.:Al r.AT'S'( ""'1~0~A'r!'J:-J, as a public sen·i ~e ~~~atu~·e.
Jt is aiso inte:'ESL~nG to observe tha; :r. the r:ew ~0rk Times of Oct.ob::::"" ::;,
191..5, ar. article at·:pears which stat~s :.:1at S?IJlSL is s~Jin~ thE KING !O: .A.'!L'R:O:
S'll·r·Jr.;..:: T~;C'"'rtr-~:"=(A'!~~ ~or six !nillicn !ollars alleging the cohrun hy
~-:~!.;."R i ... ~ have been litbf?lous.
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llllllllllllllstated that through J;JTZGBRAL!> he too had met SPM~
and fran~ acquaintance he fonned the opinion that S!-R:EL was
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the\Ccm:nunist Party in this country. stated that SPAl'iEL was
born in Russia, but.is now an American c1 1 • also charged that SPANEL
xerted tremendous political influence in Washington~ D. c., and said that
i one of SF.At~EI'S closest political friends was HEl-ffiY .:At.I.A~.
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~~ lllllllllllllladvised that two agents fran Army Intelligence contacted
and stat~investigation to dete~ine the qualifications of
FITZr~ALD for a commission, th~y had developed.info~ation indicatin~ that
efinitely endeavoring to secure possession of r-~1A'S effects.
indicatec that Army Intelligence was pursuing an investigation
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l·zs~l ?·:')ss~ss:.~n of:·,~.:::· ..'.'.~ e.:; .. ~~r.s in order t.ha~. ~ ::t~o:-1al
b·~ establi_st1ed f';.:- ... ~·? p~..,t_.~::-•.-i:m of 7-=~~L-~.'5 expe:-:.7-.o~r.s anc
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s~.ate~ t.~ctt 'tJT~G-::tAlD had int~rested a frO~':) 'Jf ~ .. cune /{
A~y s e·'! oriacker in order thf T~S!.A'S was
ng t r~less trans~ission of electrical power. He clai~ed
that T~SLt1. had perr~!":'n~d a successful experiml?nt 'llany years ago at Pikes
~P.ak, a~ ~~ich ti~e he harnessed 1ocal current from~~ which he
built uo i.,to a hnP.e !)Ot~nt'!al o~ electrical energ· aid that
acco-:-~i:1n t:> -:-:r~z~~=--~n,. i ~ this idea could be furt.h~re , a~ e ectrical
~ne~r:::.' to ooe~ate th~ w~~ld' s T'lachinery might be gC"tten absolutely free rather
tha~·~y the. c~stly ~~thod with w~ich el~ct~i~41 power is presently ~enerated.
H~ s::~~~ tl-).~+-. h~s ide?. was to C'1nduct furth-e~ experiments a1ong this li.nP.
:n ~i:-JP. -....-!v.,re the nec-:; ,...,r electrical pa.v~r is v~ry great.
rn~:;i~~, we.$ ,::ae at the '~.a.:-:sA7.'!'A~= STDRA\T~ :~·tt.~"S~r~P~B in N~w Yq:-k ~; t.,;,',
~r.~~ it ;vas dei:.eMi :1~~ t!;a t th:? effects of NJK')LA 1''SS!-A are contained i r: E :1~'?
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75 packing cases and trunks and a~e presently und~~ seal ~y the New York
Stat~ Depa~tment of Taxation. It was learned that th~ rental for this
sto~a~e, which apr.r~xi~ates ~15 per month, is being paid by one Cf.k~
._:(tT?.A'q 1 134 "2st 6Jrt: 1 Street, New York, New York, w~o 1 ~ 11 sted as the agent
for s.~'-~4 K'JSA~~ovr~~
Jn·~u;_ry ...-as 9lso made at t~fll o~fi ~a of the Alien ?roperty Custodian
in ~~ew '!~rk Cit:·, concerning an investigation conducted by this o!'fice at
th~ ti~e of 'IT..":l.A' S death, and at w~rich time the lattet1s J_:>roperty was placed
under s~!al ~y t~1f' :rn.: ted States Goverment. ¥.r. "NA!.~ GORSt."'~,· Chief
Investigator fer thP Alien ?roperty CUstodian, provid~d a cover letter an~
a su~r,-r.ary o~ mater:&l,s om1ed by TESLA at the ti!Ile o.f his dec.th -r.t: ~~ w!ls ----
e1Ca"'T!i-red ~y ~TORN G., Rtp,(?, of the offtce o~CI~~IT!FIC RSS~AR~ ~· D'S~-:! •. ')P-
'lS:·;T. ;.!r. no~SPS'f! aisn stated that hi~ file in this matte:- refiected that
on the niE;;~t T:::SLA c!i:::J his safe was forced. open by a representative of' the
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Dear Sira
At )our request and that o! Mr. Joseph T~
ICing of tbe
. Wuhington office or the Alien Propert1 Custodian, I have examined
the private paper•, writings, and other property or the
la~. Dr. Hikola Tesla with the view to detendni.ng bot~ their
possible· usefulness to this country 1n its war etrort and the
possible hasard attendant on their tall1ng into un!'rien~
banda.
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This examination was made at· the Vanhattan Warehouse,
S2nd Street, Hew York Cit1 1 on January 26-27,-.and included all
.. of the notes and aaterial in Ill-. Te8la •• 1mmed.1ate posaeaaion
at the time or hie death and now in the cuatod7 of your office.
For reuoaa 1nd.1cated below,. -no 1Dvest1gat1CG waa made of aaterial
· . ;···,.· in trunk8 which had razaained l1D'touehe4 in the baeSlleDt o~ the .~:-~
New Yorker Hotel tor ten years prior to DE" • reala• a death.
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oo that there exist among Dl'. Tesla' a papers and possession•
._!!ltifie notes, deaeriptione ot hitherto unrevea1ed aethoda
vices, or actuu apparatus· wr..ich could be or signiticant
.· t.r1Mdl,y bands. I can therefore H
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Yalue to tbia count.r7 or wJrl..ch wou1d~t1tute a.huard 1n !;!!-
no tiObri!cil or llilitar7
reaaon wh7 further custody ot the pro . . ahoul.d be retaiDed..
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It should be no discredit to this distinguished engineer and
scientist 1rhose solid .. ~.contributions to the electrical art were
made at the beginning of the present century to report that hia
tbougbte Md efforts during at least the put n.tteen years were
primarily or a speculative, philosophical, and ·ec.ewhat pranotional
character-often concerned 'With the produc\tion and wireless
transmission o! power-but did not include new sound, workable
principles or m.ethoda !or realia 1ng euch results.
Very trulJ 7ours,
JOHN G. TRUllP I
Technical !ide 1
D1 via iOn 14 1 NIRC.
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RETAINED AS EXHIBITS
FOR THE ALIEN PROPEXTY CUSTODIAN
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On Januaey' 26 and 27, 1943, an exmination W8.8 made or tbe
technical papers or Dr. Nikola Teela which, after hie decease, had
been stored in the Manhattan Warehouse in Hew York Cit7. This examination
waa made for the purpose o! determining it an7 ideas ot
eigni.f'icant Talue in the present U~ited States war et.rort could be
.round among bis possessions. Participating in this examination were
Mr. John C. Newington, New York Office of the Alien Property CustodianJ
Vr. Charles J. Hedetniemi, Washington Office of the Alien Propert.7
Custodian; Dr. John a. '!'rump, O:f'fice o! Scientific Research and Develop:nent,
Y.asse.chusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, llassacbusetts;
Willis George., Office o! Naval Intelligence, Third Naval District;
Edward Pe.l.mer, Chief Yeoman, USNR; John J. Corbett, Chief' Yeoman,
USNR.
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The following papers 1 which are regarded as typical or Nikola
Tesla• s writings and thoughts in the period of 1925 to 1942, were removed
.tor the purpose o! record and are listed below in the random order in
which they were round, together with a brie! individual abstract.
Exhibit A
Possibilities or Electroatatlc GeneratOrs• ::- aD ~dated.
· ;irt1c~ probably written about 934 discussing the po8sib111- ·. ~: .-:·. -..
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of\b-t ~ Producing. 'l'errestrial
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Exhibit F (cont.)
The proposed •cbeme bears eaae relation to present :-means
tor producing high-energy cathode raya by the cooperative use
or a higb~oltage electrostatic generator and an evacuated
electron ~cel.lrration tube.. .It is •ell known, howe_Ter 1 that
such devices • while o_r acientitic and aedical inter eat 1
incapable of the:"transmiesion·~or .large .aounte or power in
··non-diaper sed. be-ams over .long distances •. 'l'eala• a disclosures
in this memoranqum WOUld not enabte. the ccmstructiOD ot 110rkable
combinations or generator and tube even or ll.m1ted power' though
the general elements ot auch .a combination are auccinctq ·.described.
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Exhibit 0
A circular by caro~d,. dated September 10, 1938, entitled.lf&emendous
lew p'ower Soon to Be Unleaahed•. Tbia de-
. scribe/in popu1ar style some biographical information concerning
Nikola Teale and some ideaa for the transmission of power
on which he ia stated to be working. It appears that the
method of transmission ia by the mechanical resonance method
outlined 1n ~bit F, above.
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of the British Government··dated August 28, 1936i Octo-
. her 26, 1917; December 1S 1 197/J ·and April. S, 1938. · It includes
a repl-7 dated January ? 1 1938 # b'oa 'the Bri tiah Qoverl'lllent.
These letters oUer to the Britiah Govermaent, for a !ee, the
~sclosure
or a aeans !or accelerattng to high energies minute
particles. SUch beams would constitute a death ra1 capable of
the protection or Great Bri~ain tram air attack. . . .
The aethod propeaed ia eaaentiall1 that deacrihed in Exhi-
.. _bit F aboTe. Following the initial letter dated August 28,
1936, the aub.sequent letters attempt to clear up the "misunder­
•tandinga• ot the British repreaentatiTea and to expedite tbeir
acceptance or the Teala proposal. i'he Bri tiah repl1 dated Januar7
? is a polite expression ot disinterest in the proposal •
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J.n undated memorandum written after Tesla' s 79th birthd&7
describing several discoveries 'Which he believed he had aada.
The first related to a dynadc theory of gravit7which ia deacribed
as not yet cOilpleted. The second at!.ted u a phJ8ical
truth the belief that •there is no energy in matter other the
that received !roa the environment•. This second statement,
•hich ia diacuased at length in this and other writings of Teala,
indicates hie disbelief in the ~Ot~~4!h or atomic or nuclear ·
energy.
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aemoran in Teala• s handwriting describing 11 & 11811 proceas ot
generating powerfUl rays or radiations•. The memorandum reviews
the works ot ,,Lenard and Crookes, describes Tesla'a work on the
producaticm of high voltages, and f'inal.ly in the last paragraph
gives the only- description ot · th~ invention contained 1n the
11emorandum. '!'hie descriptioo is as tollowsa •Brierly stated,
ay new aillplified process ot generating powerful rays c.onsista
1n creating through the mediU. or a high-speed jet or suitable
fiuid a ..-acuous space around a terminal ot a circuit and supplying
the aaae with currents or the required tension and volume".
Exhibit It
A letter to prospective licensees on telegeodynamics dated
December *J:1 1 1941. This 1a a single-page letter with the typewritten
signature or Dr. llikola Teala, in which he addressee
hiluelf to the prospective licensees ot telegeod]U~ics, states
that over a half Jlillion dollars was spent on this devel~ent
. with funds contributed by the Morgans, Crawford, J. J.J(ator,
and Fish, as well as c~ercial organizations, and states this
to be a new art with which "unvelievable wonders can be achieved".
Exhibit L. .
Tesla•aJiew System ofnuid Propulsion•. This ia an undated
memorandum of about 20 typewritten pages describing a ayat•
of fiui.cl propulsion in which the conversion traa hydraulic
to rotary mecbnnical pcnter 1a ·achieved b~ passing the fiuid between
nat circular disks, shaft-counted and enclosed 1n a caa- ..
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This ae.oranduawritten ~t 1925 describes 1n general
teras a kind of hydraulic turbine which aeau practical. There
·is copioo.a evidence •Cilg the other ot Teala•a papers that this
idea was generally- disclosed to appropriate individuals and
that it received .favorable comment and possibly ecae use. Saae
ot these comments are contained on the last page of the exhibit.
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by Tesla and probabl~ in response to a request from aane popular
science grwp for an opinion aa to the source ot tuture power. ·
fbia 11eaorandua reviews the gradual nolution ot power sources.
It discusses in some detail the poseibilit1 of atazdc power and
atates aa his opinion that atomic power 18 not teaaible. !he
diacuasion ot atomic energy is apparently contused to some extent
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Exhibit M (cont.)
•ith planetary energy. The article fUrther discussc~ the
subject of wind, tides 1 lightning, and water pol'ler as a source
of commercial energy. The last sentence of this memorandum
atates: WWitb 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
advance~ which would be more desirable at this t illle and more
beneficial to the further progress of aankind.• This memorandum
constitutes an interesting generalized discussion of the various
sources of power. It is qualitativel7 correct for the most
part e7-eept probably in that portion which deals with atanic ·
power.
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"The Transmission of Electric Energy Without Wires" - an
B!"ticle by N .;.qesla in th~Electric World, March 5, 1904, pi ges
429-4)1. A general, somewhat biographical article on Tesla' s
early work with some speculation on the poss~bility of longdistance
wireleef' transmission of large amounts of enE;rgy.
Exhibit c
~rld S steJI'l of T.ireless Tr&nSmission of Erler - an
article by N. Tesla in elegraph and Telephone Age, October 16,
1927, pages 457 and 460. .ln article which traces the early
work on the production and transmission of electromagnetic radiations,
describes Tesla 1 s efforts to increase the &Mount of
pol'ier which can ~ transmitted ,without wires and concludes
with a proposedliworld System• !or the wireless transmission
ot both power arid communications. No workable disclosure of
a means for aecanplishing this ie included, and such generalities
as suggest the approach which Tesla had 1n mind do not
seem capable of accomplishing the·desired result.
Exhibit p
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for~opular Science Jlonthly 1 May 24 1 1928. An ll-page memorandum
written in popular conversational style describing an interview
with Dr. Tesla and reporting bis present work. This
report inclu.des statements on a new airplane 1 on rocket ships,
on the wireless transmission ot power 1 on a world sysicem plan
for the transmission of speech and television, on the impracticability
or harnessing atomic energy, on radio activity, snd
on the acceleration of charged particles, such as cathode raY.s,
by high voltageE.
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and th~torg Trad.Ulg Corporation, in whi.ch Tesla agreed to
aupply ~lana, epec1fi.cat1ons, and canplete information ori" a
method and apparatus ~or produciDg high voltages up 'to 1'1tty
million xolta, !or producin6 very small particles in a tube
open to air, ''Cor' increasing the charge o~ the particles to
the full voltage or the high potential terminal, and tor pro- .
jecting the particles to distances of a hundred miles or aore.
The ll8.ldlaull speed of the particles was specified as not less
than 350 ldles per ·aeeond! The receipt of $2.5,000 f'ee ror .
this disclosure was acknowledged~ this agreement, 1f'hich waa
signed by Nikola Tesla and by A .Bartanian or the Amtorg Trading
Corporation. The method re erred to 1n this agreement is
apparentJ.y that described 1n Exhibit F, above. It is probable
that Exhib1 t D 1 above 1 1a an effort b;y Tesla to clear up the
questions raised by Soviet engineers atter the subject disclosure
had been made. There is no evidence that the inventions
and intormatim referred to in tld.s agreement are other
·than those described in ·a number of Tesla • s papers and published
articles. It should therefore be expected, and 1 t is
substantiated by Exhibit D 1
proved unworkable.
that this dieclosure subsequently
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An examination of severe! items or scientific apparatus among
the Teala e~forts at the Manhattan Warehouse and in a deposit box at the
Governor Clinton Hotel showed those to be etandard electrical measuring
instruments 1n common use several decades ago.
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Jannar1 30 1 1943.
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CC-247
Mr. Tolson __ _
Mr. Clegg __ _
Mr. Glavin __ _
Mr. Ladd. ___ _
Mr. Nichola __ _
Mr. Rosen. __ _
Mr. Tracy __ _
Mr. Egan ___ _
Mr. Gurnea __ _
Mr. Barbo __ _
·Mr. Mohr ___ _
Mr. Pennington_
Mr. Quinn Tamm
Mr. Nease __ _
Mi •• Gandy __ _
llE: SAYA lT. KO:s!BOVIC
YUGOSLAV .AMBASSADOR TC i•J1E ~
IN~EBNAL SECURITY - R
(~au file 65-4'/953.)
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ALL IJlFORI'f.ATlO)I CONTAINED .,
PURPOSE
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JAI"E f;= I (.;;-f~ BY 8 tft,o~
This memorandum is submitted to incorporate all the pertinent
references in the Bureau files concerning tne entitled individual who is
tne Yugoslav Ambassador to tne United States.
A ease vas opened on this individual vnen information vas
received that Kosanovfmc had taken possession of t.ne scientific papers
'-of his uncle, liikol~s.J.a, tne internationa.ll7 lmovn inventor. Subsequent
investigation determ1ned tna~ Kosanovic had turned over the possession of
these scientific papers to the Alien :Enemy Custodian in llew York City.
(ti5-47953-Xl & ~eri~l 3 & 4)
~ava !.L ~~OSa.!'!OVic was in"&erviewed in eit.ner April or ¥Ay, 1948, for
the purpose of ascertaining vhetner or not the ~erbian National Federation snouid
be required to reg1ster under tne Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Pertinent information concerning this individual has been properly
forwarded to tne State Department by separate letters.
Tne main file on ~osanoT1c con~ains only two reports. one of which
was sent to the At"&orney Generlll by letter d.a~ed December 13, 1943, (otner .,
report not pertinent). 1'nis case is currently in a pending status. . f r ·
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Office 1\lf:emu'"t:tndum • UNITED s·..- TES GOVERNMENT .
TO The Director DATB: April 3,
FROM
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Bureau File 65-4?953
Ref~rence i& nade to mf ~emorand~m datec ~~rch 29, 1950,
relating to ~telephone in0uiry by the Yugosl~.v Aobessador Sava
N. Kosanovic as to the rossibility of obte.ining a eor-y of a reierofilrn
co~y of the techl".ical papers or theJate i"Iikol~esla, worl~ra~ous
scir:ntist who died in New York in 1943. · .
Kosanovic cla~Es to have beer. a nephew of Tesla and.is
kno!m to h~ve t.ried to ob"tein these papers at the time of Tesle 1 s
death. Hw.ever, tl:ey were taken over at th:lt time by the Alien
Pror.~rty Custodian. If any copies ~ere ~ade of these paper3, they
l':P.rf !T!ade by the .'}ffice of' t~,e !~lien Propert.y CUstodien rhich tool:
posses~ion of ~esle's papers ir. 1943 or ~~e Derx~rtment o: the ~rcy
r.!:id, '!.'iE.s int~rested in eo~yinr. '!'esl&' s notes in 1945. The :.rmy' s
\ inte:-est epparently wt:.s developed by a yoWlg scientist nemeO. ?:~·.!•ce
~:t!.~z~~~! 'l:"!h~ h~d been e protege of Tesla and cne cf !-is few -··
ccr..~j ·:!'-~!:+.!:. F·i t·!-:'f'rc.l,.~, v:ho kne-::· t~~t Tesla hnd ber:n endeavoring
t('> ['',:Oft:·~~- "t'· ·:· ·:··irE.l-:.-::- ":r~n~rdssirn cf ~: :-r:tr:i c~l C'.!rreorit, on~ e:f
t: -:: b~~~.~~ cc-:·.ce::;-tG i:t.·c~v'=~~ :i!': t!.'": p!."C.:t:ctic·n cf ~ "D~nth :·.r.::n
h:1d s":.:.bse~u!::;~tJy ent~red t~•e J.a.rmy, a.nc~. in October, 1945, a:;rE:e.red
at or:r !,er. Yor~: (.~fice, to£~tr.cr ?itt thr-:-:: oth~r f"'enbers of the
Fni ted ~t~ tes !irmy, to re'!u~st our assist~nc~ ir. ol:t~_ir.i~g access
tc- '!'esla 1 ~ paper·: r.hich were stor~~ in a r:ar~;-housr::; of the ::?.nhett::m
Storr ..[::? Co::1peny. Fit';j!.:~reld an~i his associates v:ere referr£·d, at
th!!t tirr.e, tc. tl!e :~.Ji~n Prope~·ty Cu.st.cdian ,. hich l1!-!.S rE-porte_d to
h:1ve r.lade an invP-stigetion of 'l'esll.' 1 s belongings follotiq; the
letter's death.
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of the ~my n5.ght be able to :f\:.rnish a c&:·py of Tesla 's papers to
!~osano·Jic, it is not believed tr;::t tte :::·'?I shoulci f~ciJite.t-: l'!is
~~r-.rc> for t.h:=. s m~teriel, r.hieh e.l t!".:ouri possil:ly o~ :-.o present
-" ·.luP. frc~ :! !~:. tionel !H?fens~ ste.ndpoir.t., eo1.~ld still eor.cei vsbJ.y
h.-:· of assistr..nce to the Yu~·oslav GoverriJ!'ent •
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1. Th~t t~n att~ch~~ lett~r e~,lninin[ th~t W? h~ve nev~r
hru! such e co~y ~s }~e r0qu~s·s, be sent to :r. ~os=novic.
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2. Thrt t~1e att.:ic:-2ed mcr:~o to the Pe~: York Of~jce, ir.structinc
then tc rncl:e further in-:-1uiry at the i.:anhc.ttan Storage Cor:p~ny and
advising th:!t firn th~t l!e have no co: y of Tesln' s papers ~s they
alJ egedly claim, be forv:::rded.
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DATE: April 17' 1950
.JAIL lNFORt~ATION CONTAINED
P.f.REIN IS UNCLASSIF~.Pn ~
F.ebulet dated April 3 last. DATE 7- .5-0 8~~ .
01'1 April ? , 1950 agents of this office interviewed Mr. J.V. FOT'IS 1 \,
Vice President of the J.&anha ttan Warehouse am Storage Company, 52nd Street "'
& 7th Avenue, New Yorlc City, and at that time J£. R>T'IS advised that the ~
rules of his firm required that all persons gaining access to goods stored
by !-1anhattan first had to fill out an appropriate form setting forth their
names, date of visit, and reason for requesting access to the goods.
_ re~ review Of the file pertR:ining to the Storage of the effects of
NOOWTESLA, ~~. PO'~'T3 revealed that only one such visit had been made by
pe~o:!S outside of the uJanagement of Eanhattan Storage itself. This one
occosfion took place on Janucry 26 and 27, 1943, at which time representatives
of the Alien PropertJ Custodian made a thorough review cf the entire effects
of the TESLA estate.
T"ne TESLA effects are stored in roocs 5J and 5L of l:anhattan Stora;e •s
warehouse at 52nd Street & ?th Avenue, New York ~ty. MR. ~ICRA.EL KING, who
stated he had been Floor Supervisor for approxis~ly 10 years on the floor
in question, stated that he could recall only q; one. occas;ion in early 1943
.,_.hen an exar.rl.nation was made of the T~LA effects. He stated that at that
time numerous photographs were taken by the ex$i!Diners.
His description of
the eq~ti.pment used would tend to show that a ·nu.cro!ilm reprod·:.e~tion was !:lade
of some of the papers o! the deceased scientist. · .;.(~. laNG a·~ded that several
of the group JJakine the examination wore U.s •. Navy )mi.forms, and durin; the
two days required to complete the examination ··the civilian assistants in the
broup were ide:-:tified to him only as "fEDE:-:.U, AU'IKllU:TIES". Accordin;; to !5~.
KING, no other instance o~ microfilming cf the records of the 'IESLA estate has
taken place since that the •
It should be noted that the Du.rean was infonned of the exazr.ination mentioned
above by New York lette~ {with attachments) dated O~to~r 1?, 1945,
entitlerl "lNKNO'~~ SUBJECT; SAV A ~nSANOVICH; Experiments & F.esearch of J~IK('LA
'lESLA {Deceased), Espionabe-!.1.
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am:ination of the 'lESLA effects had been made by anyone~ In ~act, added MR.
/ PO 'ITS, the only correspondence relating to ~l'le 'lESU estate has ·.:>een in the
. form of bills for storage. . · · · ~ · · · · ·
YEt. 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.
Inte IViewing agents explained to ;.!!~. POTrS that the exami.."lation made,
as mentioned above, was nc.t instigated by the Bureau, nor had the Bureau taken
part in that examination.
Unless advised to the contrar.y, this investigation is being placed in
a closed st.at.:;s, and no f:.1rther investiE;ative acti0n is c~nte;,;Jlat.ed by this
office. C!l'Sil>.
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Unless other sources arc accredited, all inform-a
app~aring in this report was rcc~ived from Confidential Inform~n
Honcver, it is pointed out that a considerable amount of the informa 1on
received from this informant is quite old and uas not· set out in previous
rc.~rts due to the unavailability of a Sorbo-Croatian translator at tho
time.
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had received a phone call from Pi.ttsburgli, roqul.sting t~~ct
lLIIlbas KOS.&~.NOVICH. He is to ask KOS;,?JCVICH to prcp.:li'o a talk on
, the great Yugoslav inventor, ~hich is to be -delivered over
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An article appeared in the "Buffalo Evaning News,"
a daily newspaper published in Buffalo, New York, on July 24,
1976, which in part contained the follow~ng information:
The article was captioned "Dignitaries Unveil
Statue of 'Genius' Tesla."
The article contained information that NIKOLA
TESLA \~as the inventor of the al tetnating 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 \\ ith four cents in his
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pocket and plans for an airplane and a book of poetry.
In 1888, he invented a system to oake the trans~ission of
alternating current practical, at 37 was a millionaire
but died at the age of 88 in N:;n·l York City alone and
penniless. ·
The statue, approximately nine feet high, was
erected on Goat Island, a site '"~hich 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 MARG&~, President of
the Socialist Union of Croatia, representing Yugoslavian
President TITO, as both pulled the cord unveiling the nine
foot high statue of TESLA.
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NIAGARA FALLS, NEW YORK
The sculpture was created by Yugoslavian FRANO ~
KRSINIC and was the bicentennial gift of the Yugoslavian
people to the United States. Both of the above men read
official greetings from their presidents and exchanged
pledges to continue good will and friendship between the
two countries.
The article. stated that following the unveiling,
a reception-luncheon was held for several hundred persons
at the Park\"ay-Ramada Inn, Niagara Falls, New York. Mr.
ZARB toasted the Yugoslavian delegation which was answered
by that country's Ambassador to the United States, DIMCE
BELOVSKI.
According to the article, there was a bit of
diplomatic b}~lay between Mr. ZARB and Ambassador
BELOVSKI during the ceremonies. In his remarks at the
statue unveiling, ¥~. ZARB included an appeal to Yugoslavia
to stop all harassment of Americans visiting that countrr.
In responding to Mr. ZARB's toast at the luncheon,
the Ambassador gave assu~ance that his couqtri wants American
visitors and will welcome them. · ~
According to the article, some observers thought
that the Yugoslav release of an American held for the past
seven months was timed to coincide with the unveiling of the ·
statue.
The tribute to TESLA was sponsored by several
Yugoslavian groups in cooperation with the Niagara Mohawk
· P~~er Corporation, Westinghouse, and the New York State
Park and Recreation Commission.
An article appearing in the "Niagara Falls Gazette,"
a daily newspaper published in Niagara Falls, New York,
captioned "Zarb Calls for Energy Independence for U. S."
the article dealt with the unveiling of the Nikola Tesla
Monument and stated that accompanying the Yugoslavian
Ambassador to the ceremonies on July 23,· 1976, were Dr.
PAVLE SAVIC, President of the Academy of Science of Serbia,
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and VASA VESKOVIC, Yugoslavian Consulate General in New
York City.
An article appeared in the "Niagara Gazette" on
July 24, 1976, captioned "Aide Almost Missed Event." The
article in part indicated that friendship and cooperation
between the United States and Yugoslavia was the theme of
the day as that nation dedicated a statue of NIKOLA TESLA
on July 23, 1976.
The friendship was personalized when a Yugoslavian
tried to cross the border from Canada to the United States
to attend the dedication without a visa.
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The individual was GOJ~o·sEKULOVSKI, who was in
Hontreal, Quebec, Canada, as the Chairman of the Olympic
Commission of Yugoslavia. He also happens ·to be the
Assistant .Secretary_of State for Foreign Affairs in that
country.
He did not have an American visa and almost
missed the unveiling of the statue.
Fast thinking on the part of representatives of
the Niagara Frontier State Park and Recreation Co~~ssion
sent an official car to take the dignitary across the
border, which saved the day.
In the "Niagara Falls Gazette" on July 24, 1976,
there appeared an article concerning the unveiling of the
statue which indicated that Dr. BOGDAN MAGLICH was Chairman
of the Yugoslavian-American Bicentennial Committee and was
a speaker at the affair. Dr. liAGLICH also serves as
President of the Fusion Energy Corporation, Princeton,
New Jersey. Dr. HAGLICH eulogized the inventor TESLA
and stated ''only America could have. taken a giant of Tasla' s
statur~, embracea him and provided "him the means he needed
to bring his talent ·to its·best use of humanity."
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Established sources, wha have furnished reliable
information in the past and were -in a position to observe
the commemoration of the Tesla Monument, stated that no
adverse information came to their attention concerning the
dedication .of the statue on July 23, 1976. ·
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.fr0m the local neC'ple 's cornn.j ttee rj ~t up t,. the Yi nistry r-f Inter" t".lr,
has to he reneated. In the reports cnncern~.nr the CC"nsul;!r Serv~_ce
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we conatantly made reference to this prohlem and be~ged the rinistr:r
of Interior to verify the accuracy 0f documents (at least the crude
errors which anyone can detect)J .the situation has nolf improved S0rnewhat,
but the nroblem of slowness still re~ains in sending doeuments
so that in urgent cases we are rorced t~ expedite the matter by telegram.
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-\he- proposal to the Personnel
atey of Interior
askinc for authorisation to hi
•• a second female
clerk at th~ Consulate (she waa • while ber parents
OOJie trom Herce~eri:na . s e 1• nai tiDg ~In her presellt
position she ea
aontJi tor a $-da;r ~equentlyt she
c. an be autbori~ed
a a ~arr or at 1eaat this mach. Be.fore
(approaching) . talked to tift other female olerka -
some because ea -~ in their present positions than
we .can giTe them, saae tor other~ reaaonst turned down the offer.
'Dle P.resent female clerk we aha11 be able to release only atter
another one is hired an:i broken \n and after n find another female
clerk to replace the oreaent one~ We relldncl 7012 that
had less work in past years and .
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ll"'""'-1'1..-~ !1'!ale c during 1
S. 7he ~roblem o£ purchasi~ a house tor the Consulate
c· · · ~ ::_ · . .!'ro!"l before. ..c are no1·; payinr. JhOO a month for !.he C0ns':J..1:e
- ''"!: _:2QQ fer the rcaidencc r-f t~e C:'"nsul '1eneral, a tnt.J1 r.f "(OC,
wi:dch mean~ ,J7200 a ye;rr. .c t0nk im interest in yarious :-~~ses b•A•LeT
whjc~ were for sale an~ ascertained U1at for $50,'to ~O,OOOAw,nl~,~eL
a building for the Chancer.y, th~ residence of the Consul General
and one or two small rooms in a4dition. I~ the o~rer for purch3sing
a house were to be accepted, •eiwould forward concrete proposals for
your consideration. We remind TOU that tbe present premises of the
Consulate are saall (we need a~ least one .are room) And conse~ucntly
this too would be aettled by t~ purchase of a bowse.r
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the late tfiKOLA~'IT3I. ~ and the posai bili ty c! purchasin~ the same from
unidentified owner (name illegible). There is also a notation to the
effect that""-PALANDACIC has olYJ' receipts or the money 1fhj ch he sent
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As a member of the IEEE I receive and read a considerable volume
of Institute material. The current isSlle of our Engineering Management
Society Newsletter carrie~~rint of an ariiale fran another society
newsletter entitled: "!rik:C ~.la:._1!.be Gre~test Inventor of all Time?".
In my opinion (hflving some knowledge o-! electrical-eiigineeriiigl:iiSrory-)
it is overly lauditor,r, but worse than that it ~lies 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 tram 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."
Personal~, I do not believe this am I would like to retute the
statement. Please let me know whether the statement is true and if so
what dispos1ti~· been made of the papers. The quotation does not
say what type • ~ere confiscated. I am not concerned here with his
ideological views (I don't know what they were), only with those relating
to electricity.
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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 RlJina~j.on. 0/7//// .· '.·
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It was the con~~trered oplnton 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 ~o---- --
technical or military reason why further custody of the prop~r~Y ..
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E••c AD Acl111. _ were released to Mr. Sava N. Kosanov ic, Dr. Teal a's nephew and
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on the Tesla materials since the 1940s, and their current
whereabouts or condition is unknown.
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Assistant Director in Charge
Office of Congressional
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NOTE: Reply discussed \\'ith-FOIPA, RMD, who has
handled similar ·requests fo~ 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.
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--+-riNNEY, CAL(VIN L.) Feb. 2, 1908-
Radio commentator
Addrus: b. c/o Mutual Broadastinr System,
1440 Broadway, New York City
Since August 1941 Cal Tinncy•s slow Texas
dr.a•·l and homespun hun-.or, with intimate,
folksy interpolations, have been heard over
the Mutual network in Si..-illf "' tiN Nn~U
each Monday and Wednesdal eveninc from
8:00 to 8:15 p. m. Tinney s colloquialisms,
•·hich the folks "'back home" chuckle overhis
"just-between·)'OU·and-mc, ain't it the
truth?" "it shore is~ method-has ca~red
many a listener bored with the formal, polidled,
cw cut and dried comments of other news·
casters.
But there has bftn more to Tinney than
his mannerisms. Speakinc usually as a reP'!·
scntati'-c of what the "common man,. thtnb
about affairs at home and abroad, he has taken
more than one direct and shrewd pot shot,
leh of center, at stuffed shirt policy. the doinp
of Bic Business, politicians who coddle Fasci5111
at the expense of democracy under high-soundinc
terms of Americanism, etc. h is not
IW"prisinr that the sandy-haired young man
from the West has occasionally found him·
self in bot water. Objections have at times
been made to the FCC on the "character of
the broadcaster's ullerancn.." But Tinney has
apPircndy IUrvived the alleptions apinst him,
:ik:, he currently continues his bi-weddy
The outspoken hom«:spun phiJososmer, who
has become a Jcind of Will Rogers columnist
of the ~ir, "-as bom February Z, 1908 on
a ranch •n Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. His
family, however 1 originally came from Texas,
where his granofather, a ruggtd individualist,
had strange politics for those parts. ".My
cran«fCather was a Texas Republican," Tinney
says sadly, "and they shot him. Seems he
exploited his sentiments one Saturday night
in a bar room. £,-er since then my Pop has
been a Democrat.~ So has the son and, judging
~y his broadcasts, a fen·ent !\ew Deal-supportanr
one..
After attcndinc the Oklahoma public schools
Tinney enrolled at the .Murray State School
of Acricvlture in Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
There, ho"·ever, his education lasted only two
weeks. "I never did stay there long enoueh
to find out whether it was a high school or
college," he says. Young Tinney apparently
decided he could get a better schooling by
trawlinc and seeing the world at first hand.
For some years he tramped around, often as
211 ordinary seaman aboard freighters off for
foreign ports. He ~-as a ne"·s_parerman of
sorts, also, and found jobs in Shanghai and
Paris. His •·orlc 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 eiC\-ator, and caretaker to
janitor ...
Arter &ettin&' his education by travel, Cal
Tinney settled down in Oklahoma to edit a
country paper, and began to advertise it O\'er
Station KVOO at Tulsa. That v.-as in 19JZ.
His humorous, drawling voice soon became
more popular than his gazette. So he cave
up h.is job as an editor, but since 19-U he has
written a weekly feature, ".Man of the Week:
for the McNaught S)'ndicate. He is the
· author, also, of a book called Is It T,_ Wltet
TMy Say flbcnll r..-Jcmf 11 Non-P~~rtisan
Portrait (1936). When Tinney turned to
radio for a livinc. his voice v.-as heard, successivdy,
011 the M~~rtlt of Ti~ (19J2), the
Yol" of Affln'ira (1933), and the Jluuorll
HtltU~ Slunv BHt program (1934). From
1937 to 1939 he was 011 the Vo11ily Fair feature,
and from 19J9 to J~ on Y o111h fls. Ag~.
Tt.at year he originated, but did not appear
on, Stol Jf~ If y,. Htord Tltis On~.
Tinney is married to Mary Maxine Noble.
The couple have two sons, David N. and
Scott.
It was in 19-10 that Tinney hit on the idea
of a folksy newscast and tried it out in Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Farm listeners chudcled, appreciated
a commentator who spoke their own
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This is lht farJI in • 11rin of ,ro{a/11 of lht Rttl
Amluuuon who rtprtstnl lht JtfltrM Srwid s•ltllitt
fDIItrnm.nts in W'~Uhintltm. Oth"J will follow short/7.
AMIU.U u they ue with the blasts
F of Vishinsky and Molotov, most
Americans arc not aware that some of
the most fervid tirades against ''U.S.
imperialism" delivered in this country
come. from..!_n,f..fficially accredited un·
bassador. ~~anovich, a wiry, red.
dish-haired man in his early fifties,
represents Tito in Washington and in
the United Nations. He travels all oyer
this country making speeches in praise
of the "new progressive democracy" in
the Balkans. denouncing "An&lo-Amer·
ican reaction" and helping to form front
groups for Tito. Incidentally, the Amer·
ican ambassador in Yugoslavia cannot
even move around Belgrade without
special permits and a auard of secret
police agents. • ·
From Kosanovich's speeches at Lake
Success and elsewhere, it would appear
that everything in Yugoslavia before
Tito came to power was reactionary or
Fucist. Yet, when he was touring
America during the war, he used to in·
troduce himself as a "member of the
democratic goYernment of His Majesty
King Peter the Second."
Kosanovich is 'a restless man-his
face and hands seem to be alwap agi·
tated and movina. He is a cultured man
with a Ions blckground in liberal,
democratic rno"~Cft\ft\ts, But he is a man
. ,( strong ambitions, who was willing
to betray his own. pest and his closest
friends for those ambitions.
In an Embassy which is more of a
propepnda bureau than a diplomatic
office, Kosanovich is only the front man
for the Cominform's schemes in A.mer·
ia. The mJ power in the Embassy is
held by membcn of the Communist
Party and the secret police, OZNA, just
as its real policy is dircct~d from Mos·
cow throush B~lsrade. Though Kosanovich
repeats the Moscow line, he is
not yet one of the inner circle.
I first met Kosanovich in the fall of
1941 in thfo United Sta~. where he had
come with some members of the exiled
Royal Yugoslav Government, represent·
ins Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. The
tragicomic adventures or that royal mis·
sion in America centered around the
battle between those who wanted Yugoslavia,
after its liberation from the
Nnis. to become a democratic federal
union, and those who demand~d a Yu·
goslnia which would be a Great~r Ser·
bia administered on the old prewar
pattern. The grim outcome was that
Tito succeeded in charmins American
public opinion with his swcepins prom·
ises of democracy and ,federation, while
the exiles were quarreling amons them·
selva--mostly for personal, rather than
ideolosical, reasons.
OSANOVICH dreamed for I good
K many years of becornins Yupln
ambwt.dor to Washington. His uncle,
Ni~~la. was an important scientist
SAVA KOSANOVICH 7
in America. He himself is descended was active, with his friends Louis
from a long line of Serbian Orthodox")'-Adamic and the violinist, ~ptk)f§aio-­
ministers. His friends in politia used kov1c, ~the formation alii romotioii'
to tease him about his shyness toward orlhej'\lnited Cpmmjttec o£ Soulh...
women, his hatred of smoking and · Sln·ic Americans,_ subsequently metamor·
drinlcins. A strong and dynlmic polit· j)hosed 1nto an important part of the
ical leader, they said, should be a lady· Kremlin's Pan-Slavic front.
kilJer, a hard drinker and a chain In his speeches KosanoYich has bttn
smoker.
one of the principal promoters of an
In prewar Yugoslavia, Kosanovich aJ. idea 6rst adYanced by Adamic-that
ways attached himself to some populu America is a nation of nations. AJ such,
political leader. (It seemed to give him she is not only Anslo-Saxon, but Ger·
the feeling that he was running things man, Italian, Nesro or Slav. The Slavs
himself.) In the beginning of his of America should unite in the name of
.:J ~reer he followed the tide o( $~1.. brotherhood to carry on their slorious
"]N"ribichevich, the leader of the Demo- traditions, to show other Americans the
cri'tlc Patti, who sought a hishly cen· heritase they hue brousht to this countralized
Yupln state and drove the try, and to keep in touch with· their
Communists underground through his motherlands. On the surface this idea
secret police. That policy helped to rc- seems harmless enough, but it is the
inforce communism for the present job. banner or Stalin's movement to divide
Nat, Kosanovich was attracted by the United States. Russia and her sateJ.
th~aden of the Croatian ~~nts, lites carry the idea farther in th~ir con·
StevafRadich and pr. Vl_a~..- troUed press by openly maintaining that
· ~e_k, now in exile in Washington. He America cannot be progressive until it
considered that he was Machek's is transformed into a series of "~pie's
'orain." Machek, however, did not at. repubJia" on the Soviet pattern, giving
ways wekome the attentions of his satel· their national scn-ereisnty to all the
lite: several times he told me that he ncial aroups that compose the populawas
tired of Kosanovich's "old maidish tion. Behind that scheme is the desire
sugestions and tearful interventions." to Ballcanize the United States-to
For when he is arauing an7 involved is· divide it into conllicting dans so that
sue, KosanoYich's Yoice takes on a a rnolution ma7 be centralized through
querulous tone which makes him sound the onl7 uniting force, the Communist
like an adolescent. · Party.
During the war, Kosanovich defended
Mihailovich and a united Yugoslnia.
He took an actin part in Allied meet•
ings and the affain of American Yusoslavs.
His name often appeared in the
"Letters to the Editor•• column of Tht
Ntw Yorl TimtJ. He was a chairman
of the Southeastern European Plannina
Board-6 movement not popular with
Stalin, as it threatened to bloclc his plans
for rcsionaJ •&reements and the attiticial
buildina up of ~er states. And he
rouuo LA Gu.uDIA was Kdsa.no­
F Tich' 1 srcatat acquisition. He Jed
the New York MaJOr throup the same
politial zig-ua he h~lf foUowedfirst
to MihailoYich, thea to Tito. The
speech o,f srcetin& to King Pet~r that
La Guardia retd in Serbo-Croatian on
]ul7 8, 1942, was written by Kosano­
•ich. The Ma)'Or retd:
"Dnzha MiJW1o•lcb and Vladimir
Macbek arc the expression of the Yup·
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slaY spirit of resistance--from Trigln
to Vardar. They will r;o down in his·
tory ••• ,"
In his own speeches Kosano•ich often
compared Mihailo•ich with MacArthur,
Chiang Kai-shck and Timoshcnko. For
example, at a mming of the anti-Nul
l.ciJUe in New York, June 8, 19•U, he
apoke of "the epic struggle which my
people arc making under the IIWl whose
name alrcadr symbolizes to mankind ln.
domitable spiritual and physical resist·
ancc-Druha Mihailo•ich."
. MihailoYich was ldUed by I JOftlo.
mcnt of which Kosano•ich was a memo
bet. Machek fled the country to escape
the fate of PctkoY, Maniu and ather
peasant leaders. Immediately after be
became Tito'a ambwador, KosaDOYich
quoted Count Ciano to proft that Mao
chek had been willinJ to acll out Croatia
for a rclati.ely small amount of
money. The former follower of Michele
admitted intirn;atelr to a friend that be
did oot beliCYe the accusation, but that
Tito had ukcd him to make it.
On July 6, 19·42, at a reception held
in the YuplaY delegation's mansioo
on New York'a Fifth A'lfflli,.e, Koaano­
Yich introduced M~MarkOYich,
editor of the Serbian Contm~ist ncwapaper,
Slobo.ln• R,t, and now professor
at Belgrade UniTersity. MarkoYicb of·
fercd King Peter a check of ooe thou·
aand dollars for "the Olctnilcs and rep·
Jar army of General Mibailo•ich."
A week later orders arriftd from
Moscow that MihaiiOYich should be conaidercd
a traitor and Tito accepted as
leader of the war for liberation. Marko­
•icb and his Serbian equinlent of the
D.il7 Wcw!" suddenly twitched to at·
tadtins MihailOYich. KosanoYich did
not-but bu defense of the Oletnikl'
leader srew weaker. Shortly before be
went to London in March. 1944, Kosa·
no•ich io a Ntw Yor! Posl iattmew
was quoted as follows: "MihaiiOYich is
in the position of a General Lee. Tito
iJ some kind of a Lincoln out to aave
the Union. MihailOYich was an atmJ
officer. I thinlc be iJ sincere but he is
surrounded by a .cry bad political entourase.
The entourase wu catastrophic.
The Government, diplomats abroad,
workins in his name, arc CYCn more
catastrophic. ••
Curiowly, KoaanoYich himself was a
member of that same "catastrophic''
t;OYCI'DIMnt. When be joined the Yu·
plaY r;onmment·in-ailc in Loodoo
io the spring of 1944, it bad already
dismissed MibaiiOYich and IOUJht an
agreement with Tito's Natiooal La'bera·
tioa MoYCIDCDt.
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PJTII. was in Londoa. Head-
1 his t;OftmmeDt·in-exile wu Dr.
ubasich, the •iceroy of Croatia.
The aroup was more or less asrccci that
Yuplnia should be restored on the
buis ef a federal unioa. .
KoaanOYich asked for a t;Oftmment
representing all political parties, which
would be strons enoush to fisht the
Communists. He was a frequent 1isitor
to King Peter and his mother. And
when an ssrcemcnt was drawn up be·
tween Subasich and Tito, Kosano•ich
was terribly dissatisfied with its terms.
(I suspect that wu because he had not
taken an acti.e put io it; he was in·
dined to think that CYCrythinJ in Yup
sJay politiCS needed his JUiding band.)
nto was in Belgrade. The Red Annr
was crossing the Danube in its push toward
VieMa. On~daty 18, 190,
Tito's emissary, Gcner.J:'velcbit, •iaited
Kosano•ich io Kinpton House, Lon·
don. KOS&nOYicb left the interYinr pale
and Dervout. For the first time he real­
Ized that dcalina with the CommunisU
demanded fortitude.
A few dars later, oa January 23, Kina
Peter dismissed Subasich' 1 cabinet and
reappointed its members only after aU
of them-including KosanOYich-bad
asrccd io writins that, on their rctum
to Yur;oslnia. they would defend certain
oblisations the k.ing had made coo·
cernins the Tito-Subt.sich asreement.
The chief oblisation was that the new
united Yur;osln Go.ernment to be
formed under Tito should pan.ntee all
fundamental political and ci•il riJhb
and freedoms to the YuplaY people.
KosanOYich took a prominent part in
draftins this public statement announc·
ins the reappointment of the prtYiow
cabinet and the oblisations its members
assumed. As the kina'• most intimate
adviser, be dnltcd Peter's act of conacnt
to the Resenq. Before KosanOYicb left
Londoo, the JOWIB kin& kissed him, and
received his formal promises that he
would defend the interests of the
monardly.
In the sprina of 194,, Yupla•ia
was "liberated'' and the members of ill
London JOYeromcnt·io-cxile came back
to joio Tito's ao•emmeot with the blessins
of Olwthill, !OOSCTelt and Stalia.
It wu at that time that the Communists
characterized Kosanovich as a "useful
inncnnt" (!orislru~ 6•ti.J•). In a
mcctins beld io a awanlcy Belsrade
apartment howe-ttiU the headquarttn
of the Communist Party of Y1JBOSlaTia
SAVA KOSANOVICH -9
Tito 1tubbo~ 1 ~n Loadoo and Wuh.
inJton. Mil~~rol (tbe vice-premier
and leader of the Serbian dcmocntl)
will tefft u a Trojaa Horse for the
West. He is a reactionary politidan who
badced MihailoYich. If Grot declares
that the Serbian people han to abandoa
MibailOYich, they wiU accept the
Jdea. As for KosanOYicb-be iJ not an
important personality nor a polltidan.
But be iJ a useful innoceat. who may
be of help in the Uaitcd Statca where
be is considered to be a Westem·type
democrat."
The onlr member of that Loodoa
t;Ofttnment who stiU IW'riftl politically
il the "useful iMoccoL" Subuich, alter
haYina been Tito's prime minuter md
foreign min~· is DOW a prisoacr-.Jn
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~Jreb. Fran~oj, alter partidpatins .
an the Communut so.emmcot of SIOYe- j
nia. was recentlr sentenced to leftG
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mrs of slaTe labor for "cspioaase ia .,
!nor of the Westem democracica." The
liberal Dr. B. MarkoYich of Serbia died
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io New York. I uriftd there ia time
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to ace him before hu death. After I · ----.
bad told him the srlm ltory of what · ~
YuplniaJookecl like under the Com.
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munists, be said very sadly:
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"How iJ it possible that Sa'Yitsa (the t
diminutive of KosanOYich'• first aame) !
could 'star in Ncb an outrtseous. p· 1
emmeotr•
--th.e a-lcbooltcacher, Bd._!'J~~elj, , .
th~~onteocsrin, Milo~jilu. and 'rrro 100a beau to fpoN aU the
adler top Communist leaden were talJc. ~ obligatiou assumed io his asreeifts
OYer the political cbanctcristia of meot with Subulch. EYeD before the
their new partners.
eJectiou he declared that the kin& was
Gjilas said. accordins lo a wit:Desa DCYtr to come beck. Milao Grol and
who reported the mectinJ to me: '"T'he othen Immediately left Tito's JOftfD·
AnJio-Amcricans dream that they may ment. I!YeqbodJ io Yuplavia expect•
in8uence us throuJh someone who is ed KosanOYich to do the same. But he
not a Communist. Therefore ~ Su:.-bcsan to field to ~e Communists.
~cb.Js best fitted for the job of' lor· Subulcb had Just come back from a .
cap minister. Tbouah he IOIDCtima trip 110110d YaplaYia. He bad ICCG
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o.ism; they wanted quick &rtioa by cbc
clemocrats. Aad he bad the courage to
tell this to Tito. Althou&h he was foreign
minister. be was arrested.
J was with Kounovich io his room
in Belgrade's Hotel Majestic when Mrs.
Subasich klc:pboncd and asked for im·
~e help. Her husband was arrested
and ill. Kos.a.noYich tried to reassure
her. He telephoned Lt. General Ranko­
•ich. OZNA's chlcf triaer·m:an. Tbe
Communist hangman answered coldly
that oodUng would happen to the foreign
minister. Precautions wc:re merdy
being taken to defend bim from IllY
attanpt of the ·"'Western .rcadiooaries"
upon his life.
We bad just been reading Daote
there in the: hotel room-the part where
Count Ugolino hungrily devours the:
bn.io of Archbishop Ruggieri, describing
the merciless end of all tniton. The
blood :and turmoil of ancient fratricidal
war rose before: us: it seemed very near
lo our own Yugoslav tragedy.
Only a little later Kosanovich entered
the oew People's Front against the: will
of the lndepc:ndc:nt Democratic Party.
of which be: was Secretary-Gcnc:n.l. His
party Usued a d:andc:stiae CQIJlriluniq~
describing his defection. Soo~
the: cbairm:an of the party. ~ -
..!2:!._ich. was terribly beaten for thrc:c:
bours-oy a Communist youth mob. He
was lying in a hospital the same ni&ftt
that Kosanovich was flying to the Loa·
PLA1N TALK
cloo CDDferma: of tbe Big Four. ICOCDpMying
tbc Communist Kardc:lj as a
••Liberal and clcmoaat... Before he left.
~ich bad published an article iD
tbc: Communist oBicial Otpsl. BorN, ia
which he attacked Subasich and the
leadership of the party with whom he
bad worked closely for twc:aty p.n.
Tbe Communists waated a proof of
"betrayal.'' And the prio: was paid.
Fnxn ~don. KosaooYich wart to the
Paris Paa Coofereocc. and from~
to Washington-to attack .Amc:rian
democracy. which be ba.d formerly
praised.
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CANNOT •EUEVE KosanoYicb is a
happy maa. though he bas attained
his ambition. Those who ooo: opposed
fascism and are now serving commu·
nism have: lost all faith in tbc:msclves
and in mankind. 'I'bc:rc are no more
miserable people th.a.n the inklligentsia
who know better-but who have bcc:n
afraid to resist in the last battle foe
m:an's liberty.
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·sYllOPSIS: SLO!ODFA REC (Free hpressionl.: :Serbian cozm:Junist-line tri-weekly
neYspaper printed at 1916 Eu~_ ~-•. f.~ttabu.rgh, Pa., steadfastl1
,.,..-::::-....____a.a..rleres to the generally recopt~.A ~QmmUDist line and operates,
~.,~..._ Serbs in the u. s., ae the "organ for the dissemination of
in1f"m~~ion on Serbian a!!airs--h "f~slavia. As the leading Slav
omJmUL1at organ it contained,·a~t-~ the period from 12/6/44 to
, f~rable publicity for·a~ commn~ist front organiz
S'iO~~.berice.n Slav Congrea_sJ\Yidovd~ Committee end t
·A=--_~.-!!!!_ ~t: So~~-h-~layic ~~~~·· tt supported the TITO
~·~J·~ governments unequivooall1.and denounced opposition believed
exist against thes~vernme~ta. Du.e to the leaving of the formaT
,.. Editor-In-Chief, ~iRX01 ~ARXOV!CH~: to confer with '!'ITO and his repre-
~~ sentatives in Belgrade.~~goslav~a. the editorship has been under­
.,_..., taken by Reverend l1IKO~VJBENOVA.~. The 1-'.a.naging Editor is __c~L
...;-.... S. ~-~JICH ~d :Business Yanager is }.:.AlB)UsNJ.Aa, al-1-uaoeiated. with the
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Anchorage (Info. ) 1 }~Tew Haven (Info.)
!al timore (Info. ) 1 New Orleans (Into:)
l!oston (Info.} 1 Few York (Info.)
~utfalo (In!o.) 1 Oklahoma City (Info.)
!utte (Info.) 1 .Omaha {Info.)
Chicago {Info.) 1 Philadelphia (tnto.)
1 Cincinnati (Info.) 1 Phoenix' (Info.)
1 Cleveland (Info.) 1 Portland (Info.·)
1 Denver (Into.) _ 1 Richmond (Info.) ~
1 Des Voines (Into.) 1 St. Louis (!nfo. )·
I. Detroit (Info~) 1 St. Faul (Info.)
1 Houston (Info.) -· 1 Salt Lake City (In!t.)
1 IndianaJXYlis (Info.) 1 San Diego (Iafo.)
1 Jackson (Inf•.) 1 San Francisco (Iil6t )IN
1 Kansas City (Info.) 1 Savannah (Info.) HEHEIN
1 Little Rock (Info.) ~)sta.ttl~(In!o.)
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~~&YICH•s lack of complete coordination W1th the Communist Party movement in l
the United States may best be indi~ated by hi~ individual editorial policy in
SLOBODNA REC. Unlike other foreign ·laDgU.age communist organs, as will be sho~
in Section III of this report, SLOBODXA B!C did not pu~ a predominate loTalty·
to the American Communist Party, but rather concentrated its efforts on foreign
..news, policy and informa.tio~.--. ··
The ~1nistration of SLO~ODFA R!C during the period covered by tbjs report ~
. be seen to pursue a more cautious line or policy regarding the printing of
sources of news items and other information in the newspaper. Ma117 1 tems ai3~al'
izr the translations of this newspaper which of neces~ity must have been dcriJid
trorrr. a foreign source. One such source mF~Y be pointed o'ut in that during 14~
e~~~t of 1945 }.' ARXOVIC:S: h.l\d installed in his home a Rat:lerlin IOOdel short- '
wave·- radio receiver with a special short-wave antenna and vi th log&ing for radio
:Selgr~~.
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TrA!lslations
~d Office
-Sl~.vonic
in this report were made at t~
Serbo-Croatian translator, an~
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tn the "Statc!11Elnt Of The Ownership, Managet!".ent, CirculA.tion, ~tc., Required B7 · it. L
r
The Acts Of Congress Of August 24. 1912, P.lld V.arch 3, 1933, n regarding newspapers
ut~s as ~ m~ans of transmission, furnished the Fittsbargh Offics
b~ ore~n. rittsburgh Post Office, the following are given as
off cera o ODlVA lGC: .
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J.~XRS~OVICH
Publisher
Editor
CH.!RLES~~CK
Y.ana.ging 'Editor Non~,· . _,.,.,.,-
Business !··:anagcr
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"2. It is true thP.t this ~car 1 s cp~endRrs wore printed too late.
but we hP.v~ inspitc of this sold ~:~. sufficient number of c::Uend.a.rs
~d some of the sollcrs have not sent in their money. In addition
to the excellent success in P~vertiscments for the cp~endar and besides
the; fp_ct th~".t the CA.lcndA.r vas excellent. the work of the sale
of tho calendArs is not s~tisfactory. Our activists should have p~id
more Rttention to this then thAn before selling the c~lendars.
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3. So or. we sh~ll h:\vc rccei ved severAl hundred copies of the new
book 1 Guns For Tito. 1 We ought to do our best to sell these books
~s soon ~s possible. The book w~s compiled by an Amoric~ Major who
organized n shipment of ve~pons to TIT0 1 a Army And met TITO pcrson­
~lly sever~ tirnos. The price ~f the book is $2.75.
"4. We must finish the sAle of the book of NIKOT~TESLA. we should
n.~U"ticulnrly interest the .AmcricM engineers ~-:-tfn~nists in it.
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"5. Soon t'.. book of EIRKO ~~9~l!_Cj1 _ _:,.rill bo off the press: 1 i'h~t Wo
J.h.v Und~rstt=tnd EP.Ch Other.' Therefore it will be n~ccssa.ry to orgr:mizc
tho sPlc of the s~!!JC. The book contF\ins 350 p~cs ~.nd. the price
of the s:u;ie is $2. 50;
"i'hc working com!:!ittce decided th.".t b'r the end of the nonth of Hf'.rch
or i~ April, FIRXO K-\..l1XOVIC!i should stA.rt for t"'lc ?q,cific CoA.st, to
C'"'.liforni~., to -work in the strengthening of our rovcr"&ent P.nd ncwsp~~cr
~nd in building up of clubs ?~d the ~pp~r~tus. This will be
discussed in d£tA.il ~t tho ~cting of the Suprcr.lc :aoa.rd in Clcv~Vl.nd."
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"Bcorg~izBtion Of Le~ersbip Of Serbiqn Progressive
Movcm~nt In City Of Akron C~ried Out."
This Riticle, which is quoted below, indic~tcs
tha th~n policy of SLCBODNA REC in its leadership
in the Serb1~ Frograssivc MovOM0nt in the
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held 1'\ spccin.l meeting Of the S~rbira.n politiCP~ progressiV~ ClUb,
which w~s A.ttende~. b~" the editor-in-chief of SLC30DRA REC, 1-t:IRKO
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the following article which appeared in the November 1. 19+7. iesue ot the
above captioned Communiet line newspaper publiahed at 1916 East Street.
Pi ttsbw-gh, Pa., 11 turnished toy your ild"ormation:
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Congress, OCtober 26 Iii Pittaburg}l,. Pa. -~·
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Brothers and Sisters:
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I come among you to extend y-ou the r;reetinga ot the people& aDi the
govermnent ot the Federated People' a Republic ot Yugoslavia., headed
by .Mar ahal Ti to aDd to thank you tar the considerable aid which you
have given your brother• in the old holiiSland.
By ooinoidenoe, I tound Jll'&el1' in the period or l9J-L4 in this great
oountr;, where I did rq beat to defend the truth 8lld contribute to the
best of my &b1li ty to the thwarting or spree..!~ \mtruths on the
part of the o!ficial representatives ot the than Yugoslav ~overnment
in exile and or &l.l those who wanted to oonvin·ce public opinion or
America and its ottioial oircles or the tmpossibili~ or restoring
Yugoslavia. I recall your valuable help of tha.t time. I remember
a dear friend in the person of the la.te Rev. KRAJNOVICH and his can-:­
atant struggle. a.s well a.s ot ao J1J11:a3 others or that period.
You Americans ot Serbian descent were hit the hardest. You were
exposed to the greatest trials and the heaviest attacks. You bAd
to exercise the greatest selt-denial and perspective correctly to
see the oourse of eventa because every ettort waa made to contuse
you. The idea wa.a that when Serbian Americana tollcnr the wrong
path, 'When chauvinism and national hatred get possession ot them.
when hatred toward the Croats and Slovenes and toward Yugoslav unityia
aroused in them, then it will be ea.y tor the same attitudes to
work among Croatians a.nd Slovenes aa regards Yugoslav unity, pving
chauvinism tull away and thus contributin& to the weakening ot the ./
war effort in American and rendering impossible the struggle tor the
salvation and restoration ot YugoslaV!& and the Balkans.
In a letter or thanks tor an honor which wa.a shown me in February,
1~, by a. great number ot. you who are now asseiD.bled at this Serbian
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Conuess when I was elected an honorary president of the Vidovdan
Congress I said:
•rn an extraordinar.y difficult period ot mankind you have with
sacrifice and self-denial done your duty also toward your people tram
whotl you sprang and toward America. of which you are good citizens, and
toward mankind. Since fl13' arrival 1n America in 1~, in an official
oa.pa.oity, I found among you the best understanding 8lld best cooperation
for an ever greater unification of national forces in the struggle
against a.l.l manifestations ot fascism. Together 11"8 tried to be as
serbs - bearers of Serbo-croato-Sloveno-Hacedonian har.coQY and unit,y
at a time when the eneli\V' banked his entire hope on disharmony and
hatred. Y{orldng thus we have contributed to the correct 1mderste.nding
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'. u
.And when ta.ldng leave or Serbs in Jl!lerioa in a letter of July 24,
l$i.4, among other things I wrote:
•we have here been those who have defended the purity or 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 Maeedonians we have beat represented
the true national Serbian interests and thus represented tle
interests not only ot Yugoslavia but also or America and all United
Nations. We have by common sao~itioes or a liberation war achieved
great successes in the country. but there still are great trials.
Enemies will particularly seek to contuse the Serbs and destroy them
with false defense ot Serbian interests. I ask all ~ good friends
to make every effort to promote harmony 8lld 1mi ty. 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 tram the very
outset, that they forgive tho~wbo haven't seen it because they were
deceived by those who thought they must be believed. The true
national champion is known ~ his setting the errant ones on the
right path. Responsible culprits who misused their positions and
misused the credulity or the ignorant will answer to the people for
their misdeeds. The more you will promote har1~ony • the better it
will be for Serbdam. far Yugoslavia, and for America - toVIard \7hich
you have the greatest obligatian.n
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.That we.a the path to whi~J:'4 were called until his last days by
our great countryma.n NIX . ·, SLA..
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And you. by your moderation. have contributed to the interest ot the
democratic struggle of the world. You have contributed to the unification
or all national forces in America in the organization of the
war effort. And at the same time, as Americans ot Serbian descent
together with other Yugoslav Americans • you have shown your American
fellow-citizens that your brothers in the old homellll:ld are w1 th
united ettorts resiSing fascism and struggling tar t.reeda.m and the
restoration of their independent state. Yugoslavia.
In this you were able to be the best spokesmen. You and your predeces-/
sors 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
tar the progress of this country. Long is the chain of miners.
farmers, scientists, and soldiers who gave their best for the general ~t
progress and prosperity ot the .American Union. You have conscientiously
been doing your duty and you ha.ve become good citizens of this grea.t
land. Who or us is not proud or· the work, lite and nobleness ot
NIKOIA TESIA without whose work and mind electricity would not be what
1 t 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 benefici~ of TESLA's genius. He asked tor no riches.
And so. brothers and sisters. when during the war you have raised your
voice tor your brethren in the Balkans struggling not only for their
life but also for a better and more secure existence o£ 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.
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expressed a desire to have KOSJ\.NOVIC be there on Thursday night. KOSA;-!OVIC (Jrc·
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He 1·,-a.s told that ADA.i.i!C would like to have dinner with him on Thursday night J
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-. KOShNOVIC
stated he was not very happy about having to go to Paris. He said he hadn't
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:ould accompany him to Paris. They expressed amusement over the
account of KO&U~OVIC's press conference the previous day.~£t
The article in the. ~ 1 Evening Star" which was referred to above
appeared July 23, 1946, and was entitled nNew Envoy Disclaims Any Yugoslav
Plans for Coup at ·rrie-ste.u This article was written by NEi·rnoLD NOYES, JR.
The article quotes the Ambassador as saying that Y~goslavia 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 KO~~~OVIC is a nephew of NIC~LA, the
Yugoslav-American inventor.
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said there was quite a bit in the ~•New York Times'• 1
t he expected more in the "Evening Star" than had
~'~iashington Post" because he had "one of theJr good people,
who VIas very favorably impressed and said he would say so." l~~ ·
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Senator TA.YL~fice and advised that the Amba ike to have ·o I c.
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arrangements for Junbas~ador KOSAJ:ovrc to have lunch1"n,.th S~--and
probably Senator ~~IA.GNU.30N in the Senate dining room. \~J,xf~
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Information contained in bulletin entitled
"~ews Flashes fro!a Czechoslovakia under Nazi
Do~ination" issu~i by CzeChoslovak National
Council of A-merica, with reference to Ameri- .!~
can Slav Congress, set forth herein. Includes }
information concerning tbe permanent committee ~ ~
set-up and a pa.rttal list of delegates to the a :s ·~- cJ
American Slav. Coll"gess •. ~Also set forth is a ~ • c-·J
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under Nazi Domination", published by the Czechoslovak National
Council of imerica, 4049 West Twenty-sixth Street, Chicago, Illinois,
release no. 132, dated M~ 11. 1942•
This bulletin cc;lntains nc\.rs concerning the American Slav
Congress held.at Detroit, Michi~·n, A~ril 25 and 26, 1942. T.he
article contains the permanent ccmmittce set-u~ of the Congress
and a list of men of eminence· S.!:lOng ·the delegates to the Congress.
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".hMERICAN SLA.V CONGRESS FOR GRE/t.TER "iAR EFFORT"
The coordination activities of all groups of Slavic
~xtraction in Am~rica for an intensified war effort
moved a long step closrr to reality as a result of
the American Slav Congrecs held in Detroit A~ril 25
and ?.6 and attended by more than 2300 delegates representing
church, fraternal, labor, social and
cultural groups from all parts of the country. Ever~
substantial American "Slav organization in the country
was reprcsentE-:d.
Percanent Committee Set Up
~ normanent committee was elected with LE~RZYCKI,
Vice-president of the Amal~amated Clothing,~rkers
for President; Prof. J. J.~RHAL, of the pzcchoslovak
l1at1onal Council, Vice-president; STEP~, JR.,
of the Slovek Evangelical Union, Secretary; VINX~,
of the Croatin Fraternal Union, Treasurer; a~ B~IR F.
NT~, member of the Zduca.tional 1 Committee of the
lish Nati~nal Alliance, Chairman of the Board of
Directors.
Participating Slavic nationality groups elected v1conresident•
to the Board of Directors. Vice-presidents
;or t~~ respective ~ationa2~t~ groups clect~d were:
.!!iDMU~OINC, Polish; W. J .~'UZIK, CzFcf,; V. S.'~TEK,
Slovak;' VJiSI~ICOFF, l3ulgP.rian; SJJ.ruE~"ERLilUCH,
Serbian; JO~UTKOVICH, CroAtian; VINCE:~Al}~, Slovene;
PETE~TI CA, Cf'rpatho-Russian; GEORG~RINSKY,
Mac~donien;·HAR?.~ESHKOFF, Russian; MICHAE.~TCH,
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The Yarious nationality &roups also elected members
to the n~tionality committees of the Board of
Directors. The National Committee of the congress
h~ld its first plenary session in Pittsburgh, ~~y 10,
to plan stens to translattt tha decisions of tho congress
into action. ·
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Anti-Hi tlcr Measures lLdopted -·
M~.in decisions embodied in the resolu_t1ons of the
congress were:
1. To make a direct appcp_l to American Slnvs col:l­
~ris1ng mor~ than half th~ workors in the w.nr essential
industries of the nation to intensify thPir production
efforts to outproducc Hitler and the Axis. -
2. To intensify vigilance Pgainst fifth-columnists
~~rnting within th~ VArious Slavic groups in this
country aiming to sow division Rnd disunity in the war
effort.
3. To chp_rt A. plan to recruit 50,000 ~PricRn Slav
volunterrs for a house-to-house campaign Among ~rican
Slav fAmilies for raising the amount of war bond subscri~tions
to 10 per cent of incooe.
4. To tAke ~11 measures to strengthen the bonds of
solidarity Among Americ~n Slav groups and betwcer. them
Rnd the Slav peoples of Europn for a concerted effort
against BITLER.
5. To increase suJ)T>ort of P..ll war relief agencies,
pArticularly the Russian, Yugoslavian, Polish, CzechoslovPkian,
]ritish, Greek and Chinese.
6. !Lio tAka ste-ps to counteract the appe~sers.
7. ~o set u:o a -permanent organization to coordiM te
And assist in carrying out the decisions adopted by the
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Th~ r espons ~ to the first Amcr1 c~.n Slav Congress ever
held in America exceeded all anticip~tiona. It revc~lcd
the do~th of Anti-Axis feeling thPt has seiz~d
hold of the Americans of SlRv descent who came oxpreasing
desires to do their utmost to the end t~.t the power of
Hi tlerism, arch-:foe of thr: Slav peoples ns of froedomloving
nr.opl~s everywhere shall be decisively soaahed.
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The delP.g~tcs were mostly brawny men from coal mines,
steel cills, machine shor.s--thP. ccn on whom the nation
is counting for ~ch ·Of its WP.r essential goods production
and wholeso~o-looking women Whoso facPs showed
hRrdcning lin~s of dctermin~tion bcno~th war smiles~
MC"ll' of ltlitu:·ncc · J..z!Jong Delegates
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AmOng th~ deleg~t9~ wcr~ men and women of distinction
. in l!lAJlY fields of· PC tivi ty--scholP.rS, wri tcrs l'.nd
clnr~en, &~ongltr~m Rev. VllTCl~)ORipv~oz, who relJresentE'd
tha ~Rev.' •. :Bishop S~J S, WOZN!CKI .>
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A.t t~ Congr~s..;. and delivered the opening invoca.tion;
J.!ctropoli tP~ho:-o BcnjALlin, of the RuseiFUi Orthodox
Church; ~!oat Rev. J0~3.:s.JlTOVICH of Johnstown, Penney- -
lvMiR, and Rcv~WLOWSKI, tSf .Buffalo, New York.
Among others ~resent were JOSEPh~~TT.RAS, director of
~he Poli eh Ha ti onal Ji.llience of ?it tsburgh; CHESTER .A..
~ROJ, President of the Polish Contr~l Citizens' Coo-
' mi ttce of Dctroi t; Judge :; ~N"A:OWSXI of F.aJ:ltrSJ:lcbi
CAptain W~DU:I., Polish War VetP.rans, Chicago; Dr. W.
T~SO~SXI;. cha.ircP.n ldchigan :,.,11 Slav Co::JCittee, Detroit;
M~ M.~STEROWICZ, d~P.r ~f Polish journalists, Buffalo,
Nr w York; ZLk.Th.~ALOKo·.o;r CH, ft'med Croat inn violinist;
F~~IGORSKI,· A.ssistar.t district A.ttorney of Milwaukee
a~d nresident of tho Pulaski Council there; VINC~i~LEIN,
Secretary Chrysle-r LocP..l No. 17 of U.A.W-CIO; Michigan StP.tc
SC'ru-.tor, ST.A.NLEl!:QW.IJ{; Prof. J. J. 4MRF.JLL, President of
tho Czechoslovak NP.tion? .... Council; .Tbs~TINEK, ExecutivP.
Secret~ry of thP Czechoslovak NRtion~~ Council,
Chicago; KARE~CliiLL, President of the .ber1can Sokol
---=union; lt.DOL~'cER, PreRii_ent of the Czech ~rican
NntionA.! Alliance; vnrc~~SXY, Sf!cretAry of the Czech
American lTP.tional Alliance; R£'v. Jia.l"i ~R;&.D~C. Honorary
,rresident of the Slove:..: lr~tional A.llifL"lCCi Rev. ARliOST ·
~IZii of the ~edcrAtion of bmcricRn Czcchoslov~~s in
Texas; NICOLA~SLk, s~rbian kof!ricRn inventor; ETBIN
~ISTJJ:r.l>rooii1ent SlovP-nian writer; Dr. D. K~i'ICH,
lfiret vicc-nresidC'nt ~iChigAn All-Slav Cocoittee; ~1UZL
~"ERLI!aCH. President of t~e S('rbian ~:a ti onA.l F oderA.tion,
. Pi ttaburgh; Judge ~JTHO:~UCA.S, Pi ~tsburgh; Ohio .StAt-e··
Se~~to~Y.D-BOICH; Judg~ GE03GE S~~:~SY, Clfvcland; .
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~v. 1·'· :F, .~HC_O, ClevclMd; W~IX, President of
~!~e Czechoslov~k Society of America; and Mrs. MARIE
~~~ of the Nat 1 1 Alliance of Czech Catholics.
Froo th~ serious and restrained mood of the delegates
it was visible they had coue for the one purpose of
~.grr,eing on a colll!Jon line of A.cti on to· be: tAken to
guarantee a speedy end of HITLER and the. Axis. There
WAS a notable Rbscnce of the usual convention hilarity
and abandon.
J..n IntrrnP..tionAl Event
It WRS a wnrti!JP Lw.~ting domirmted by a wartime grimness.
That the dalib.-~re.tions of the congre.ss would
hnvP. intern~tional rnpcrcussions wes ~videnced in the
more thRn thouspnd t~legrpos from All pArts of the world
th~t rcPdl.cd t:"l~ congress ~.uring the sessions.
One of the wires greating it was from a Czech group
in Teher.an, Pcrsi~.; there were oany froc Sle.vic groups
in Chile, ~gcntin~t, Cana~.a. A!'ld throughout A.oerica.
Soviet writers And scientists ~ mecbcrs of the Yuglslnv
govcrnrn~nt in Xuibysh~v wired t~ congress ~essages
of greetings e.nd good wishes~ .
The Congress WAS not only nn event significant in the
history of America's 15 ~illion Slav-descended· citizens
but frP-ught with ceaning for the destiny of the more
thPn ~00 nillions of Slav ~copies across the seas enga~d
in a life-and-death struggle agai·net Nazi enslavers.
For the first tice the peoples of the diverse Slavic
groups in .hmeri ca. wer~ rC'f' '!hing a coor.1on understAnding
on a world-wide issue--B. .:latter thP.t gave delegAtes a
feeling of considcr~ble satisfaction.
FRr b~yond the brilliAntly delivered ke,ynote sper.ches
P~d th~ iron notr. of resolve sounded in the resolutions-­
All of w~1.ich ra1 sed tile P.ssembly to wild cl:eers of onthusiAe.w--was
the vi brP.nt ~cnsc of u..'"li ty which, given
cxprnesion by the co1l{;res~ ce.rrif"d to the Slav peoples
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throubhout the world its ressag~ of rcdoubl\!d efforts
to crush RITU:R f'nd guarr··tr.e a democr,__tic victory
for the world.
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Kr.ynote--Production for Victory
Production and SP.crifice ~.;ere the keynote cotifs of t)le
t"iP..in address of the congress· delivered by LEO KRZYCKI.
Reninding listflncrs that ~crican Slavs occupy e key
position in Aocrica's WRT industrial pattern, he called
for gree.ter efforts this ~pear to turn the scales of
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victory in fRvor of the d~nocr~cir.s.
How to safeguArd AocricAn war ~oduction and ~crican
oorRlc took up the following sessions which were addressed
by Prof. J. J. Z~~. President of the Czecho- () r~
slovak National Council of ~~rica, on fifth-col~n ~
activi tif's and ncA.eures to be t~cn against tffi:c; FRiJnc
~IS3EY, che.irne.n of tht' t.:ichig~"l Defense s~.v::.ngs ProgrAn
on·nP.tional tjorale; ELMLIVE.-={, of ., the Labor Division
of the Wp: Production BOP.rd and GEORG~DDES, Secretary-
Treasurcr,of the ~uto WorkP.rs Union on.problccs facing
lP..bor in the WP..r ind.ustrir·s. These subj~cts were treated
in further detr·.il in speciAl pRnel discussions lA.tcr.
10,000 HcE~.r Hon. Pnul V. Y.clTutt
Two thousP.nd plA.tcs were served Rt the b~~quet tendered
th£; delegates ~.nd guests by the Michig~n· Co:~i ttec of the
~erican Slav Congress in the Masonic TeL~lc on April 25.
But the clicpx of the congr~ss w~s a victory rP~ly in
tho MichigP-n StRt~ FRir Coliseuc where 10,000 persons
~ssemblod
to hear thP Hon. PAUL V. MCNUTT, Federal Security
Ad.r.;inistr~.tor Md U. S. Gc··~·erMcnt representative to the
Conr,rese who greeted the dP.leg~tes and drew thunderclRps
of Ppplause by his ·Rpncal for "more tA.nks for Tn-tOSHElfJC0 11 •
11 In this first SlP~V Cont:;ress you hc.,vc shown the world the
J:jirP.cle of klericPn unity," hP. declf'.red •
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.A ::1cssPr;•" fror~ Frr. sid£'nt RJOSEVELT wo.s r~c~~i vcd wi shiZ¥.;
the Congress success in its work."
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Tho following is the Index to Informants mentioned in
the report of Sp~cial Agent C~~CE E. CLAY, dated November 18,
1942, Ft.t Indianp:polis, Indiana, in t}tc matter enti tlcd,
"AMERIClu,- SLAV C011GRESS (All-Sle.v Congress) IliTERNAL SECURITY -
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started calling him down for connecting his name with that of CommunimM.
-advised that he knew that
was running the labo~~ampaign, and that if he
name linked with Communists he shouldn't ass.th them.
advised that during the ensuing conversation admitted
wa~ the labor end of his campaign, an e had given
to111111111on the occasion of his announcing his candidacy.
. Confidential Informant-as questioned regarding .
the infiltration of un-American elements into AMER RESS,
and corroborated the information furnished b and .
It should be noted that ConfidentiSl Informantllllll
advised that the national organization of the Al!ERICAlT SLAV CONGRES~
no control with the various state organizations, suCh as the New York State
and the Hichigan State groups of the JJ.(ERIC.AN SL.~V CONGRESS.
hl, .ade available the current listing of officers of
the .AHERIC.Al-T SLAV C • The national officers, and the national vice-
·~~c presidents are not being set out here, inasmuCh as the correct list is set
Ill out in referenced report of Special Agent A. ROBERT ~~~TSON, dated 3-16-43
b?]) at New Yorl< City.
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CO~! GRESS&
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a listing of those persons from the Pitt ield Division who attended the
AHERIC.AlT SLAV COlTGRESS in Detro! t on •\pril 25 and 26 1 1942. It i.s noted that
this list totaled 19~·names of persons t4ho were representing 91 different
organizations. Thevtroatian Fraternal Union with 35 representatives attending
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The Ne,1ark Field Division will make a preliminary investigation
of these officers by checking its indices, and interrogating Communist
informants. If. sttch preliminary check indicates Communist activity on the part
of suCh officers, their activities as affects the AMERICAN SLAV CONGRESS, should
be thorottghly investigated and reported herein.
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HAVEl~ FIELD DIVISIOH
• AT :BRIDGEPORT, COlll!ECTICUT
,.Till ascertain the activities rel.d on "All-Slav Sundlcy'n,
June 21, 1942.
Will ascertain the extent of Communist control of the
local offices of the ~·mRICAlT ·SLAV COUGRESS, if suCh have been esta~lished,
and in the organizations of which it is composed.
THE liEtf YORK FIELD DIVISIOlT
. Will check the names of the delegates from new York to I_ '1"
the Detroit Congress· of April 25, 1942, \dth the indices, to ascertain if any
of tho delegetes have previously been reported as Communists or as having been
affiliated tdth Coccunist organizations.
Will keep in touch "'i th confidential infomants to
ascertain further activities of S~bject orgelization.
The following individuals are officers of the lrational
Organization of the AMERIQ~! SLAV DmlGRESS, residing in the New York Field
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The New York Office will make a preliminary investigation
as to such officors by Checking the indices and interrogating Commnnist informants.
If such preliminary check indie~.tes Comr.nmist activity on the part of suCh
officers, their activities as affects the AMERICAll SLAV cmrGRESS should be thor­
~1~ investigated and reported herein.
THE PHIL.t\DELPHIA FIELD DIVISIOlT
* * AT PH IL.ADELPHIA, PA.
Will ascertain the extent of Conmunist control in local
offices of thc~·ffiRICAlT SLAV CmTGRESS and in organizations sending delegates to
the lu-!ERIC.Ali SLAV CONGRESS.
THE SAlT FRA:tTCISCO FIELD DIVISIOlT
* ~ S~T ~1CISCO, CALIFORNIA
Through appropriate sources of information, will continue
its contact with those All-Slav organizations in the San Francisco-~ay
Area which are lmo\m to subscribe to the platform of the Detroit Congress.
Through discreet investigation will endeavor to ascertain ~
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Louis Adamic
Thomas Bell
S. Garbuzov
Abner Green
E. Konecky
Alvena Seckar
Marie Seton
Lyla Y. Slocum
M. Yladimirova
Ilene Vlahov
Ella Winter
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Nikola
TESLA
f17Jzose daring imagination and concrete accomplishments are among the wonders of our age.
By PAULINE KLOPACKA
WHEN Nikola Tesla died in
January of J9.t3 in com·
parative seclusion in a ~cw
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 "·omen of all the world.
\Vhat price can he pur on the work
of a man who brought into being thr
electric power era? The industrial
giant that the C. S. is today rests on
the series of brilliant discoveries and
inventions in the harnessing and
.transmisiion of electricity conceived
Drawin&s by .Alut:na s~cktzr
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 Testa
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 priest
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
en~ineering and at the a~e of
25 a graduate of Prague Unh·ersilyearlier
training had been obtained
at the Graz Pol)1echnic in Austriahe
was set for his first job.
At that time the American T ele·
phone Srstem was brought to Europe
and an instaiiation set up in Budapest,
where Tesla was a successful
applicaJJt for a position.
THREE years later, in 1884, he was
U.S. boWld. There were 4 cents in
the young immigrant's pocket when
he arrived in New York, hut 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 bring·
ing in handsome royalties. ~
It .is interesting to n!>le the descrip·
tion of Tesla at this time by his biographer,
J. j. O'Neill in the hook,
"Prodigal Geniusn: nTesla was a
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built iridividu·aJ with ·a flare for wear·· :· I ut if I were to be sufficiently for-
. ing clothes that ga\"e him an air of lunate to bring about at least some
magnificence, who spoke perfect Eng- of my ideas it would be for the benelish
but carried an atmosphere of fit of all humanity. If these hopes
European culture. He was an out- hecome one day a reality, my greatest
standing personality to all who be- joy would spring from the fact that
held him." One of his colleagues this work would be the work of a
described him as "immaculately ~erh."
groomed, and of delightful courtesy Tesla dedicated his life to peace,
and charm."
to lightening the burden of toil from
A review of Tesla's work is noth- the shoulders of his fellow man. As
ing short of amazing. To quote from C\'ery scientist who so interprets his
]. ]. O'Neill's book: function in society, he was stricken
"h "·as T~flat in\·ention of the pol)·plaase
when he saw the coming of World
altemaaing current !}"~tem rhat wa5 direcaly War II and his inventions being pre·
responsible for h~tn~~>ing f.iiagara FaU~ p.ued (or d~tructivc purposes. He
and openinl!. tft,. modern dl'Ctric super·
po"·er era in "·hicll C'rc\'Cridrr i~ transported
~ought desperately to prevent the war
for hundreds of miles to overate the tens and made avaiJable a device which he
of thousands of mass production factories offered to the world, maintaining that
of our industrial svstem.
"Every one of the tall, Martian trans· it would make any country, no matter
how small, safe within its bound­
mission Jines that stalks across the earth and
whose wires carry electridty to distant cit· aries. His offer was rejected.
iet~ is a monumeut ro T esla. ~-err dynanw
and every motor that drives e\•ery mad!ine But on("e the war was an accom·
in the country is a monument to him. plished fact, and when the people's
"He discovered the secret of transmitting armies rose in defense of their nations
in what appeared to he an un­
electric power to the utmost ends of the
earth without "·ires and demonstrated his
syFtem by which power could be drawn eoual fight, he did all he could to
from the earth anywhere by making a connection
to the ground; he set the entire
rally his countrymen to work to the
earth in electrical ,·ibration with a genera· limit in the war effort.
tur "·hida !'prouted lightning thar rivalefl
~hortly before his death he wrote
the fiery artillerr (If th(' ht'avt'ns. Jr was a
a!' folJow~ to his nephew, M. Sa\'a
minor portion of thif disco\"{~q that he ere·
at~d the modern rarli.-, s)·:nem. He planned
our broadcasting methods of today 40
years ago when others saw in the wireless
only the dot and dash message that might
u ve ships in distress.
.. T esla was an invenror 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 inorention be created
the world of po"·er of today.
"He brought into being our electric power
era, the rock bottom foundation on which
the industrial ayatem of the eoure world is
builded. He Jat"e us our mass production
lyttem for without h.i.a motors and currents
it could not exisL
.. He gave us nery caential of current
radio. He invented radar 40 yean before
its uae in World War II. He gave us our
modem neon and other fonu of gaaeoua
tube liahting. He gave us 8uoracent ligbtiq.
He gave 111 the high frequency cur-
.· · ·reaca which are performing their electronic
. .. wouden throughout the industrial and med­
. ical world. He gave us remote control by
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Always proud of his national origin,
Tesla epoke as follows during his
visit to Belgrade in 1892 in answer to
a speech of welcome by the city's.
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Kusanovic, now Yugosla,· Ambassador
to the U. 5.:
"Preside11t Roosevelt and Donald
Nelson, Director oj our War Productum
have repeatedly urged the Amer·
ican people, u:orkers and employers,
to meet as fully as possible the goals
established for the production of u·ar
materials. ••• For tluJt reason, my
dear brothers and .sisters, a.s the oldest
Serb, Yugoslav and American. in
the U. S., I am addressing thi& letter
to you, asking you to answer the call
of President Roosevelt.
"The achievements of OUT brotlu!rs
in the old country are worthy of tM
spirit which pemu:ate.s oUT 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
comfortablr. The man who could
draw up a c.Jc~i_:n for a pcrft•ct tuutor
was also concerned with drawing up
a plan for a better worl(J. When
Tesla read the address of the then
Vice-President, Henr-,· A. Wallace. on
The Future of the C~mrnon ~Ian~ he
"·as fired with enthusiasm. The Yugoslav
edition of the speech included
a preface Ly Nikola Tesla "'rith.'n in
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again!'l that danger which mnst disturbed
the Founding Fathers-the
power of the military. And note how
all the~ things are inter-related. Liberty
is imperiled by po\'erty~ hy munopoJy,
by war. Every measure \\hich
the new party propol'es is a mca!'urc
lu ~nfe~uard lihcrh.
H~ ai.Jumlam:c, tilt: new t•arty means
that our rich )and-and ·our ~kills.
brought here by immigrants r rom the
Old World in the last 300 yearsshall
produce all that i~ needed to
make the good Jife available to every
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woman here, and their children, regardless
of color, race or religion;
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a few are glutted "'ith a surfeit of
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.WE FIGHT .FOR A PEACEFUL WORLD
~l·t•a!..·,__,:FREE FROM FEAR AND WANT •••.
Tlae Auaerica1a lt' ay
with Wallace). The same was true
again in the period of Andrew Jack·
son, "·hen American democracy took
another long slep forward. \Vhen
Lincoln came along and started a new
party. his most steadfast backin3
came from the numerous new-immigrant
groups-Germans, Finns, Poles.
Scandina,·ians and others.
This was quite natural. As newcomers
who came here seeking liberty,
abundance and opportunity,
the,· had a more acute sense or what
An;erica professed, anrl they took
:\mrri1·an prinriplt>~ IJJ•lre seriously
than man\" of the old-line Americans
who had .begun to be matter-of-fact,
if not smug, about the country. As
newcomers, they were somewhat out·
side the mainstream of American life.
By going behind the cause of Wash·
ington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lin·
coin, they became part of the main·
stream. They promoted themsel\"es
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 ,·ery
fortunate, that man\' of us in the
new-immigrant groups have joined
with many old-line r\egro Americans,
with manv white Americans of the
earlier im;,igration waves, with Hen·
ry Wallace, in this mo\·ement to form
a new party and make it competent to
deal with the complex problems loom·
ing before us. Many of us SJa,·ic
Americans alreadv in 19-16 and earhin
19-t-7. sensed ihat Henry Wallac~
was right, and we became part of th~
growing impulse to form a new part~.
Delegate• join in dncinc the 1\'adonol Anthem.
(Continuttd /rom pa&~ 291
Regardless of what some of our oppo·
nents have said, this fact is strictlY
and wonderfully in the American tr~dition.
It is part of the Americaniza.
tion process. It is according to the
American Way. We are promotin~
ourseh·es from second-class to first·
class citizenship. This is resented by
some of the Americans of the older
strains, the sell-styled standard Americans;
but don't let that worry you too
much. They, too, are being Americanized
or re·Americanized as you al'·
sum•· \·our full ri!!hts and dt~lie-s of
citiztn~hip. Ame~icani5m ha5 its
standards. to be sure; very high
standards; but it is not anything rigid
or dead; it is ali\'e, Yital, open to
change and enrichment.
Sla,·ic 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 immigra·
tion greatly complicated the American
cidlization as it was, say, 90 or
100 years ago. Most Slavic immi·
grants became workers in the great
indu!'trie~. and nf.m· their ener!!\" i~
integral ,~·ith the American sce~e as
a whole. Most immigrants in the last
100 years or so worked hard. man,·
of them too hard at too little par, and
helped to create a complex industrial
machine which, lest it overwhelm us,
now need~ intelligent handling and
controL It is our duty to take an a~th·e
interest in finding an approach
to the immem•c industrial, economic
and 5ocial problems facing us: lor.
let me repeat,

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Dear Editor:
Our small duh of eight members, from a small
mining ('cunmuuity in Penns)·h·ania, until recently
"·a~ known as the Rural Ridge Busy Knitter~
Club. We are now a chapter of the Congress
of American Women.
We hne only fifteen dollars in our treasun
and out of this \H' are ~ending you SlO, b~cause
of our desire tu contribute to the work vou
are doing. ·
May it help in !'ome wav towards The Slaz:il'
American's fight for freedoin and democracy.
Ann~ominac, Pres.
A nn.e · K orulrick, Sec", ..
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secretary of state to the rugosla~ Government in eztle in Ne~
rork. He later became Ambassador and returned to rugoslavia ·fifst
year. We investigated him on vartous occasions as a possible
espionage agent. HolDever,··there were no ouert acts ever dettei1.oped:
!ft·
In 1945 1 we talked to a Private Bloyce Fit2gerald,
who atated he had been associated with Tesla, and that the ~ray
believed that Tesla's "death ray" is the only defense against
atom bo•ba.
It was ve.ry clear IDe had no responsibility for Tesla 1 s
effects, that the Al-ien Property Custodian aeized thea and we
learned later that Naval authorities aade aicrofilJnB of all hia/.
papers.
Kosanovich co~municated with the Bureau on March 29,
1950, and under date of April 3, 1950, in response to his request
for the Micro..f"ilms 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: aome people sa:y 4,. .is a. C"•ununiat; other~t. say he is
not a Communist but is a_-~ito opportunist. On one occasion, on
Dece r~Ll.J. 1946 1 we ob.~ued Na-pMn Gregor~tt.tehAaster and
in a meeting with Kosanovich inv~~ ror~ Citv.
Sena
d the Bureau'fiue CO'Ift.ftUnications
receiv~from a
which pertained priaarily to
A~~E:IJt.'l.__~E.a!lel.
ntioned the FBI at length in
these communications, pointing out that·Mr. Foxworth had been
called in .on the Teala case but was killed shortly thereafter. Be
further stated that he was associated with Fit2gerald and as such
came in touch with Teala. He stated the FBI investigated this
aatter but their hands ~ere tied, that there was nothing the FBI
could do as they had been stopped Jrom a higher level, that ~1~
B R the FBI ~gent he dealt with, resigned and requested ~
never to dtscuss the aatter IDith hi• again, that
and family to consider and that the last hope was
Congress. These communications were fu~nished to the Departaent
on September 19, 1950. ·
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~The checks we haue ~tade on Spanel reflect allegatione
ts pro-Soviet and others that_he_is a patriotic American.
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It is significant that Spanel filed suit agatnst King
• Features in 1945 for #6 1 000,000, alleging libel on the par.;f~['·
a. Pegler.
We dtd
duty February 16,
have an Agent, Harfiey E. Roth, who entered on
1942, resigned April 5 1 1946. .At· the tta.e·
tou business ~ith .
i1enue, and hts r·e eiaad
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hat toe have interviewed Rath on the basis
llegations.
I think ws should see ~hat spectftcs ;egler ~ants. I
think we can tell him on the Tesla papers that when they were
reported to us, the Depart.ent stated that the Al ten Propert11
Custodian was going to seize the papers and that we learned Bpanel
had called the rar Department about the papers falling into the
wrong hands. I think the less we can give Pegler the better as·
the libel suit aight still be pending. Again, he aay be looking
or information to bltct2e Bpanel and International Latex.
bout
for
us ton.
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er stated ~that he wanted to find out something
who was ordered deported.
red to the
1shed to Re last Fali ob being in .
Tfe made a check on th.at and found
ad some oil
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aterial and ~ill go~~nly as Jar as'needed~;ct the
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obtained a note ~rom Colonel Graabach, Special lnt
concerning the above menti~ned· individual. llr.
that the information supplied ~ Colonel Grombacb
the Bureau.
1be in!omation as obtaiDed t~m Colonel' BrciiDb~ilC!l
is quoted as follow~ a
DATE: August 30 1
1946
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he was interes'Wd in Yu
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and their advances in nt. He. said he was also desirous of.making
the acqu ntance of 1 who was an outstanding Yugoslav scientist
and ne ot the s of i7estinghouse. He said he· first learned
of the Lo on group (Yugoslav goverment in exile) in the newspapers and,
Ylhen visi ng in New York City, he visited them in the office which was
on Park A enue 1 as he recalled. By this means he first became acquainted
Yd. th SAV KOSANOVIC. KOSM:OVIC eventually became an important official
· with the - to government (beine Yugoslav Ambassador to the urii ted States) 1
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. (KOOANOVIC), :would be especially efi'ecti\~ as Ambassador because he was
a nephew or TESLA (mentioned above) and a friend or Jlayor LA~
and other infiuential persons in this country. According tO
KOSAN:JVIC is believed to be in disfavor in Yugoslavia now beca an · \
article he T~ote in defense of the Yugoslav~azi Pact some years previous.
He has been under attack by theo~~~~~rtic the Camnuni.st Party in ·
Yugoslavia for this article. In
opinion, KOSANOVIC is not a
Camnunist, and he believes that K . ~s against Marxism.
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interested in ADAMIC' s Tlork and ini tJ.ated corresponden • At
a subsequent date, possibly in late 1941 or early 1942, ·ADAMIC was publishing
a bulletin for distribu
c:.,.,,.,~,A ...,T.. es it to be in the fall or winter of 1942 when he
first met ADAMIC· In the spring or 1943, a rally was to be held in the
Slovene Hall on St. Clair Avenue, in Cleveland, Ohio 1 in an effort to
obtain funds for Yugoslav relief, and ADAlliC at that time requested the
subject
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BENTLEY f~~accuMi rmation concerning him, it
is possible that either or (if they
were agents, as she clai may h ed to attribute
some of the on they were furnish~ng to her as
having come from He added that it wa ally
known by his acqu d and,
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cate that ELIZABETH T. BENTLEY is incorrect
wh accuses him of furnishing information from the files
of because the Russia-· hly-placed officials
in so any information could furnish concerning
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made contact in'New York City with representatives of the
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in exile. ~dmitted at this time he was interested
in Yugosla~Yugoslav progress in engineering, and
their advances in equipment. He said he was also desirous
of making the acquaintance of NIKO~A, who was an outstanding
Yugoslav scientist and one o!""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 ~ea. By this means he first
became acquainted with SAV
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little con
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since
said KOSANOVIC was
not a grea , s considerable respect for
him in many ways. He believes that KOSANOVIc·emphasized 'tO the
Yugoslav government that he (KOSAt-..'OVIC), would be especially
effective as Ambassador because he was a ne"vphew of TESLA
(mentioned above) and a friend of (,iayor LA G~AL~DIAIM! -,
influential persons in this country. According to ~
KOSANOVIC is believed to be in disfavor in Yugoslav~a now ecause
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which was published a num~rs ago. As a Yugoslav
National in this country,
was interested in ADAMIC's
'..vork and initiated corresp ~h him. At a subsequent
date--ss·· 1 in late 1941 or early 1942, ADAMIC got in touch
with
He estimated it to be in the fall or winter of
1942 , , irst 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 ADA!·.l!C at that time requested the applicant to .
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Dear Friends: INTERPLAliETARY SESS.]OJi NEWSLETTER·
r-·~ We have not issued a Newsletter since May 1, 1956 because l'le had no
· Space news which we could consider authentic. However, now we have some
good news to pass along to you.
LEQrUBE - by George Van Tassel and Dan Fry, in Ballroom of Hotel
Diplomat, 110 West 43~d 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. 0. 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 Ne~1 Mexico to New York City and
return, in 32 mi~utes •
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Dan Fry and another ' gentleman are now enroute to New' York by automobile ..
George Van Tassel and Art Aho will arrive in Mr. Aho 1 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 tim"e to sight flying saucers over New
York on the night of June 13, from 10 p.m. to 1 a om• But there will
again be full scale operations of flying saucers over all American aregs
oh July 1. This will be in three phases, as follows: New York areas.,
July 1, 9 a.m. j Washington, Dc.C'h·areas at 9:25 a.m.; general North
American areas, after 9:25 aimojf Gentra'.J. American areas, 9:30 a.m.;
South American areas, 9:35 a·tm·~ ''Seconcf phase: Same areas as above,
beginning at 12 o'clock mid;day, July_ 1. ~h;trd phase: Full scale
operations over all Arneriqa'ni a111?as .be~~pifii at 7 o i clock on the evening
o_f July 1. The above inforinati.t·op_ he~i--;l)~·en supplied by George King,
editor of Cosmic Voice, 88tine-,Dpive: 1 Ma'ns~ons, Fulham Road, London s.w.
6· Also, please note that~~p:r~ge ~ing has also published back issues of
Cosmrc Voice iq one volume~J.Qp~e~-~1.90 plus postage. This is beyond
doubt the finest "buy" of s13:u·cer messages that we know of. George King
is considered the best telepathic contact which the space people have,
although· George Va_n Tassel :1s tpe finest we have in America.
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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 Agee Nuch of the data for this book has been supplied to Mrs.
Storm through transcripts received on the Tesla set, a radio-type
machine inv~nted by Tesla in '1938 for Interplanetary Communication.
Tes1a died in 1943 and his engineers did not build the Tesla set until
after his death. It was p1a'ced in operation in 1950 and since that time·
, the Tesla engineers have been in close touch with apace ships. The Space
People have visited the Tesla engineers many timef!.t....ruu! have ifold us 'tffiit
Tesla was a Venusian, brought !~ .. t~S.J?.~

'f.~;i; A biography or Tesla was published 1r. 1944. It can prc10· ·'·: 1-' · , •. ;,, ' : t:~ .
i~/ -~;¥ from your local library or bookstore. It is entitled Prou~ ~ ·. _ n' ... : .; ~ ::
t·:·""~-- t John J. 0 'Neill, then science editor of the Ne\'T York Herald :···:: · 'ir'~-
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SP!NEL advised that he is engaged in some ldnd of governmental
work connected with .the war effort whiclt"-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
0.:.2 headquarters .in Washington, D. c.; as well as Yr. BORKIN of the Department
of Justice in Washington. SPANEL stated that Mr. BORKIN advised ·him that
he, BORml 1 would· immediately make the informatio~ available to the Director
of the FBI and advised SPANEL_ to lose no time in taldng s~eps 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 advisBd that he had be~n in telephone
communication with Dr. D. LOZADO, one of the advisers to Vice ~esiden.t-----~
WALlACE.
After talld.ng·with WZADO he, LOZADO, called back td..S:eANEL...aJl!i~-----1
told him that the government was vitally interested in the eff&cts of lPlliSm, I.
part~cularly those dealing with the wireless transmission of eiectrical
energy and the "death ray" and for SPANEL to lose no time in d]~ing alllhEb _ 194
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a young man by the name of BLOYCE FITZGEA.tUD, an electrical engineer, had
been quite close to TELSA during his lifetime and in fact was the protegy
of TELSA. 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 gr~at deal of information about TEISA 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 FITZGEAP.LD came to the ·office and in a,
personal interview with the writer gave the following infonna.tion:
Nikola Tesla, a native of Serbia, came to the United States late in the
nineteentli 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 p01rer 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 renmmed people,
principally those in the scientific field. Telsa, by reason of his
wizardy became a· consultant to Yarconi, Charles Edison, and many others.
Telsa•s induction electrical motor was sold by him to 'VIestinghous~ for
$2~.5'oo,ooo.
FITZaruucrD stated that of late years he had become a ~onfident
of TEISA and knew that TELSA. had and was carrying on extensive experiments
for transmitting electrical porter by wireless and .Yf.i.th propelling elect:M:cal
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 TEISA has conceived and designed a revolutionary
type of torpedo which is not presently in use by any of the nations;. it is
FITZGEARLDi 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 TEISA• s which cost more than $19,000 to build in a safety deposit box
of TEISA! s at the Governor Clinton Hotel; and from statements made by TEISA
FITZGEARLD believes it has to do Ylith the so called ttdeath raytt 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

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has for several' years stored some of his possessions in a 'mrehouse some
place in Uew York City.
Of recent years TE1SA became more or less destitute, and for
the past three or four years the goyernment of Czechoslovald.a has been
paying .him a subsistance of $500 per month, a part of which was used to
pay the rental for the warehouse accomod.a:tions.
TEISA residences in New York have been ~he Pennsylvannia Hotel,
Governor Clinton Hotel,. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the New Yorker where he
led a secluded existence. so far as FITZGEARLD knov1s TEI.SA ha~ ny-7eal
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intimates, nor does he know oti";J. attorney in who~ jO'Confided~
On January 7, 1942, SAVA KOSANOVICH,.RdEORGE CIARK, w}ls is
in charge of the lluseum and laboratory for RCA, and KENNETH SWE~f
163 Milton street, Brooklyn, u. Y, \'lent to TEI.SA 1 s rooms in the Nevi Yorker
and with the assistance of a lock smith broke into a safe which TEI.SA 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 nexphews.
One is S!-VA KOSANOVICH and the other is a man by the na.rne of TRBJEVICH, who
is presently in a hospital in Chicago, illinois. The name of the hospital
was unknovm to FITZGEARLD. KOSANOVICH• s address is the Navarro Hotel,
New York City.
When asked if FITZGEARLD 'vas primarily interested in getting
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possession of TEISA' s papers, he stated that he was not; what he wanted 'tas
for them to be made.available tq the government C?f yhe United states for
usc in the present war. Because, 'he stated, the so• called Death Ray would
be a deadly w~apon in the hands of any power, and th~ use of the wireless
transmission of electrical power would make possible the most efficient
airplanes conceivable. FITZGEARLD 1 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
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l'rrZGEARLD indicated that it was his intention to contact
KOSANOVICH on January 9th, 1942, and suggest to hini that he: make
available to representatives of tile u. s. Government for inspection all
of the personal and private pap~rs and apparatus of TELSA.
FITZGEARLD expressed particular concern o~er the model now
in the safety deposit box at the·Governor Clevelarid Hotel, and insisted
that s.teps be· taken by .the Gpvernment that not· only it, but the ot~er
technical papers ·and designs of TESIA, be safeguarded so that. they cannot
be removed -from th~
co~try or made .available. to the use of. other natiops •
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FITZGEARLD~was'adviseci that this·matter Would receive the
appropriate attention of the new York Field ·In:vision. ·
Respectful:J.y sub~i?ted
F.red·B. cot.nels,
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J?\.CT.S O'fi' CGJIPLAUIT: A D.O.A. (De[th-en Arrival) call at Room 332.?, Hotel
-Rgw rotx:e_r turnecf""out to be Nichola "Tesla, noted scientist. It was revealed
NYFD detectives are going through books and writings _in the room, and FBi
was invited to sencs agents over to Toin the search if' such action was desir~d.
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IN .THE NEW YORKER, AliD 'l'iiTH THE ASSISTANCE OF A LOCKSYITH .. BROKE INTO A
SAFE· WHICH TFSLA. HAD IN HIS ROOJJS lli WHICH HE KEPT SOliE OF HIS VALUABLE
PAPERS, nlCLUDlllG IMPORTANT ELECTRICAL FOBMUIAE, DESIGNS, ET CETERA.
WITHIN
THE PAST llONTH, TESLA. TOLD FITZGEARLD THAT HIS EXPERD.fENTS IN CO~CTION
WITH THE WIRELESS TRANSMISSION OF ELECTRICAL PallER HAD BEEN COJ.!PLEi'ED AND
l'ERFECTEDfoTZGEAllLD AlSO Ki!O'IlS TIIAT TES!A" liAS CONCEIVED AND DESIGNED A
REVOLUTIONARY TYPE OF TORPEDO WH~CH IS NOT PRESENTLY IN USE BY ANY OF THE
·NATIOUS.
IT IS FITZGEARLD 1 S ~LIEF THAT THIS DESIGU HAS llOT BEEN MADE
AVAilABlE TO ANY NATION UP TO THE PRESENT TiME.
FROM STATEMENTS MADE -To
FITZGEARLD BY· TESLA., HE KNC1l1S THAT THE COMPLETE PLANS,. SPECIFICATIONS AriD
EXPLANATIOll OF THE .J3ASIC THEORIES OF THESE THillGS ABE SOliE PLA.C~
IN THE
PERSONAL EFFECTS OF TFSLA.
HE AlSO KNOWS THAT T~ IS A WORKING MODEL
OF TFSLA'S iiHICH-COST MORE THAN TEN· THOUSAm) DOLLABS TO But~ IN A SAFETY
DEPOSIT BOX BELOUGDlG TO m?LA. AT THE GOVE:RNOR CLD~TON
HOTEL; AND FITZGEARLD
BELIEVES THIS MODEL HAS TO DO WrrH THE So-CALLED 11 DEATH RAY'.' OR THE Vfi:RELESS
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TRAllSUISSIO}! OF ELECTIUCAL CURRENT.
TESLA HAS l'.LSO TOLD FITZGEARLD ;rN PAST
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CONVERSATIONS THAT. HE FAS SO~ EIGHTY TRUNKS Di DIFFEBENT PlACES CONTAINING
T.RANSCIUPI'S AND PI.AllS HAVnlG TO DO WITH EXPERnmNTS CONDUCTED BY Hnl.
IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE Il.!l!EDIATELY YlHAT, IF NlY, ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN
ev
COUCERlliNG THIS !fATTER AND ~ THE NEW YORK FIELD DIVISION.
FOXWORTH.
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UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; EQUIPMENT, J!7PERDJENTS AND RESEARCH OF NIKOLA. TfLA,-~- ~
DECEASED; ESPIOUk E : ll. n::siX REFERENCE IS MADE TO THE TELETYPE r~~R-
ABOVE HEADING TO THE BUREAU FRO'..! THIS OFFICE DATED JANUARY NINE IAST-.·
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WQUIRY DEVEWPS THAT mm TESLA. DIED JANUARY EIGHT, RATHER THAN: .
THIIIISDAY, JANUARY SEVEH, AS STATED IN liEFEilENCE TE~., ON THE I
NIGHT OF JANUARY EIGHT, SAVA KOSANOVICH, GEORGE CLA.RK, AND ~TH~
SVlEEZEY VISITED TESIA IS HOTEL WITH AREPRESENTATIVE OF SHAW*'i'ALKER ~0 . ,.
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IN ORDER TO OPElf THE SAFE IN THE ROOM OF TESLA. KOSMWVICH LATER I·
REPORTED TO i{J WALTER GORSUCH, OFFICE OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN,
NEW YORK CITY, THAT HE WENT INTO THE ROOM/IN ORDER TO SEARCH FOR A VIILL
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E§ OF=· KOSANOViCH rD THE OTHEllS I!ADE TllS SEARCH OF Till! SAFE IN THE
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AND TRANSFERRED THEl! TO THE MANHATTAU .STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE CO. NE.W YORK
YIHERE THEY ARE llOYT lOCATED.
AT THAT TRIE THERE WERE AISO IN THIS WAREHOUSE
APPROXIMATELY THIRTY BARRELS AND BUNDLES BELQNGTilG TO TESLA 'Vl1IICH HAD BEEN
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Mr. LITTLE, of the· Bureau, called me on Januacy--···-r . ..,,.crtyCJerk
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·Reference is made to a teletype dated January 9, 1943, fr m.-the:>portyClerk·.
to a phone conversation between Mr. J. :i3. I;it-£1e"
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It was ·pointed out to• !Jr. Donegan th.at Sava Kosanovich, George
Clark and Kennetl) Slvezey ~y have committed a burglary violation by entering
Teslals rooms after his death and particularly by using a locksmith to get
into a safe containing sme of Tesla Is valuable papers. Mr. Donegan Tras
advised this matter should be discr~etly discussed ·with t the State 1 s Attorney,
New York City, iiith a view to locating Kosan9vich 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 1 s effects, as well as tho
contents of his safety deposit boxes, might not be entered· without the presence
of an Agent, in order that the secr~cy of aey plans or items essen1{ial to
the corduct 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 concernif
··~ .. h ing Nikola Tesla and his inventions and it should be noted that one Nj_cola
\,''( Tesla, who might have been identical vd.th Nikola T~sla, rmde a speech at the
\\ Grange Hall, Springfield, Massachusetts, on .June 4, 1922, under the auspices
of the Frimds of Soviet Russia.
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It further appears that ·sava Kosanovich may be identical 7Tith an
individual of the same na.me, 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, a.rri ved With other Yugoslavian Government
officials at norfolk,. Virginia, on Septembe;r: 4, 1941, on the SS City of
'Exeter, a British ship, from Cape Towit en route to the United Kingdom via
Washington and Canada.
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In another instance the name of Sava N. Kosa~9vich. aP~l:§_on:ih;
. onery of the Central and Eastern European Planning Board IW~f9!tq~lovaki~,
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Greec·e, Poland, Yugosla~ia). On this letterhead Kosanovich is described as
Chairman of the Board and }.!inj,ster of State for Yugoslavia. It is stated
that this Board is. interested in "planning foz: 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 Ythel1 an
anergency 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 ~1ary from the exiled Yugo-siam.an Government. He
and other exiled goverllLlent officials are stated to use these large salaries
to finance every Serbian paper in tpe United States except "Srbobran" published
at Pittsburgh,
No record of Kenneth Swezey could be located in the Bureau files
from the information available.
Th~ foregoing information ~s 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,
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a si.'O.rch for friends or relatives.
It was believed a nephew Is Jlv- 1ng In the city but his where- '
. ll.bouts arc not known.
Nlkola Testa was born In Smtljan,
Yugoslavia, 1n July, 1859. His .
1"ather, a Greek Orthodox Church j
m'lster, was a noted writer, ora- ,
to ;, linguist and mathematic!. '
l-I s mother, Georgina ManHe:. camc~:tB"~t!lc·
,.._,~"-united '"States tn;·;l894,l-and'':be.,,
'camc~a ·naturalized citizen.
In -1886- he· designed the arcl1Siht111g
system. • Two years later.
he Invented the Tesla motor and
designed :a plan for the transmission
of alternating, current .. Tbe
foliowlng year he presented plans
1"or electrical conversion and disliE\'!
YORK WORLD TELEGRAM
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worked at the laboratories ·of ..
specializing In motor design.
Fed Crumbs to Pigeons. ~ :.::
..... Durlng_:r;ecent ·Years Mr. :Tesla'
. · ". ·ltad:been)seen;{butrseldom,recog~
.4, ·. nlzed.·'on\the:steps·ofJSti..Patrick's
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fi" :~cc·Jtlltided tbuti~nevex: ;~ullY..f::de;;
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. 'could: be rreectcd~abou~~a' nation's
borders whfch would..,render. help::
less ·any·mtlltary attack. He·dis':O·/
closM existence of the plan :hi
1934, and said he fntended·::to'
present Jt to tlle Geneva Con.:,
!erence. He seldom referred to Jt
afterward. . .
In 1936, when ·he was· 80, he
said his. orlgfnal plan to live .tO
be 135 had been · changed with
the repeal of prohibition,. and he
would llve to be 150 instead.
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the' ci\!St uhder·.advise:tlt'nt e;n~ ~ould,. render ~ 1\oqbion ;:,~a~iYo, b prou.e~tuion·
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TITLE
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n"'v' tt·:ll.::tn~t ... nerrJ
. SYNOP!?IS OF FACTS~
r;e;.ort bt c;;ecis.l A:C1. ~td t• tro(;~t, ~~ted AU.:~~ 10,.
l~M. a\ J:c,- 1~r~ City.
~:ehsill~~ ~tti~ ttato=. Ai#t;."'t;.C:f ~!~~1 p •. l-:"::1;.:lt, .t~t
~'1t*~l';l f:'itstr'~~ et tc-:t Ycr:k' tolo:.!:O:llcalit c~=te&t~
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Reference .is made to
1~ ~tar dated Feb~ary' ..l·:r'th, addr~·ssed to yot;. · ~ (4,., 1 /) 1?
by sava N. Kosan_ovich'tti-~2 Central Park .:southr~Y I
New York 19, N. Y., regarding J?h1l:iP. 1:4axok.ovici!f(J~l7,. r.t.1'1 :
and enolos~.res which. w~:r:e hB:nHed to· me b·,r you~ I - · ;;
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·secretary; _on F~bruary. ~th. . f:' _- C>" ;t ~ ?~ ,..~ ·
A check of the recorda of
this .office· reflected that· this· matte~ llad beencalled
to o\U' ~ttoAti_()~. on. July. 1:5. 1 1943, but
that .it hBq· prev~ously beep reported t b tl}.e
New :i'ork 01ty Polio~
Dapa:r~ent •. _ The reco;rds.
ful\ther reflect 'th9:t Markpv~·ch was O.rr·~ated by
·the New York Oiti Police Departm~~t Oil July ~2,
1943, ·.charged. with violation pf· Seot~on· 551 oi'
the Penal Lawl a~nding tfute~te;1ing letters·, \7hich
under the New York law is ,a mi-sdemeanor. Uarkovio~.
was ·arraigned before ·Magistrate, 1\;lna KJ!.oas, ..
YorkVille Court; on J~y 16,. 1943 ~d the )lqaripgs
have ·been adjQurn.ed to date. ~ateat
1nqu:1r1 .reflects
that Magiat.ra'~e Kr~ss ¥a ·p.oa!iPC?t:l~d phe
prooead1.ngs ~ this c~se ·un1i1I· S,eptembo~ 19r 1944. ·
. Shor~ly afte·r the ·rec~ipt
at this office of· the material in> oonhe.otiob \~ith
thi~- case,, the -facta pn hand . were subm~t'tec1j.; ~0 '
the ofi',.co of· th~ Un~ted States Attorney r~ the.
Sou~hern Di~trict or· ~~w York. V111;h a view .~q
·possible prosec~tion und~~ the Fede):lal. Extq~t1qn
Statutes., P,roaooution was deolit1ed by tteQ·don ·Q(
the fact that the local author! ties were h~dlin~
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E. E. COllROY
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tns.t. ot Tech.,
t!~a.s.
Ct:nbri~e, ~ass.
J~uary ?? , 1943 •
. :r. J:"tll~er Gcf&ilct,
" Uiei} Prpperty c~~tQdien,
120 JZoad~ey,
· ttew l'crlc 1 JJcw Yprk.
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jt ~o~ ~eg.uest.
and tent .ot' J:r. cToo9ph ~ •. ;.l."lg of the
Westington o.f!ic(l t>f th0 .. Alien Property Qustod!an.-.. t hnv¢ ex-.:
. Ellililed ~he pdvat.e papers~ writiil&s 1 .a\nd 9ther p_rop~rt.;ttQ_1' ·tho
late Dr. Nit:ola 1esla Tlitb -tte v~ew· ·;~ ·de.termi$g both' the~
possible 'U6E;f'~lneos
j:-cs~ible
tQ this .countr.y in its wor cf,fort and tho·
t;Gzt:.\'4 attendsnt on ~~eir' fcP.ini; into" unfricnal~
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catlo· ~t tho, ,tonhattcrtl!ore~.euEe,
52n4 ~treott tlcit );ork OitY.; em .J:.nu~y .2t.o-27, r.nct ihelud~d a~1
of tU ·1;\otcs rnd· ~1t~ri-al in Dr~ Jfeslra's itt::edi3t~ p¢:J~qss1~n
.at the tin\.e ct h:r; ce3~ ~;nd now ir.::the- ct;;~tGu)i or ~-o~· ol'.ficot
}'~r re~Qng ;r,_di~atod be~cm; 1:'.0 .inVC$tit:ation W•iS' r,!l

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It ahQuld;be no discredi1; tb. ~iS .dfsi;oinguis}}e~ ·enginee~
scientist whose solid. contributions to thl:l electrical. fu-t -were
made at the b~ginning. pt -the presQnt century to report ttmt· hiS'
,thougll.ts JJJl~ ci't9rts ·durin~ at least: the past f;ittee'n .ye~.,:p ..,ere_
pr·~arily ot a ·spaculfl~ive, phl:lo3opliical~ 'tlnd. somewhat prom~
t1on~l-ol)ara~tl¥'-9tten.:co~c~~fled :w~tb the pr9du~atiori t,t~d wireles~
·trensmisoioit 9~ poifor~bu~ did 119t includ~· n~ qound) Jlorkpblq
principles ot me~hods. !or realiz~g- .i=JUch x-csu~ts. . · -
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RETAINED AS EXl!IDITS
·roR · ~}~ ittrut .P.Rom'lt ctl's~m!K
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~ · On .Je.r.uary 26 tmd '(:]' 194:3 1 -an exa.."lin:ltion 1'{08 ·~ade of the
~cr.pical pAper~ of Dr• takola ~cela 1fhich 1 ~ter .hi,S: d~ce{ie~ 1 . ·h(!d
betn stored in the Nsnliat.tbll W~eho~se ~ New Yo~k 'City. · ·T41s· e,t­
(lmin$tion- was made ~to~· the purpose ot deten:\~ing ·5;£ ~.ny ·ideas· of' .
signifie~nt v~iuc in_ the present Pniteq st.ates '·Wei:· ·~li'ort ·COUld. ·lle
r:.ilitd t:lCng. his posse5sioiu3. Particip\ltins. itt this- ~otiOI.l were
Newingtoih Ne'lf ~ork Cfi'ice Q~ tho Al;ien Property GustodianJ
l!r. John·C~
cr. Ch~le" J• l{edt?tnie:ti, Wa:i!hi.Qgton· Of£ice of th!' J;lien Pro'P,erty
custodien~ 'W• .John,:Q. ·-Trump·, Ofi'itse of Sc~ehtific 'Resf;!~~h apd ·:ne.­
y~opment, MossccbUsetts Institute .of Teclmo1.og1·, Oa::tbriqge 1 l~assaoh\l-·
sett!Jr·Wil;liS 'Qeo~g~,- O.f.'fice ot NflY~ lp.telllge'rice .. Thir~ N~y~l Dis-­
trictJ J~~ard·.Paltler 1 Chief' Ycom~,JJ~l\j Jo~··V:. Oo;r.-bett, Chief: Yeo-
_n;cn, ueili{. · - · · .
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lh~ prppo~ed -~~M;:e ·bearS' ~dma r~~ation to present ~:e;.;r~~
·for: pr~d¥Qirl~-Hi&l\~n~rgy cQ.~hode ~aye .i..·Y the tioop~rt'\tive ~se·­
ot a bith•voltpze .~leatrpsto.t~c ucne~rttor nnd ;o.n evacuo.t_eq
electron cc~ole~at.ion: tul)~. ;J:'t is 'ftC~ kn01m 1 boWOV.el' t thot;,
trJch davic~s, '!rhi1e Qf DCienti.f.'ic· _qtd eedi~3lin~e~ost,, 2re
i,nctptble o1; t!~e t~~:::rl.El_a~on o.r lcrge C.."~',oU::"lts. .of Jl9Wer in .
non-d,ispcrsed- be~s over lonr&

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"A rethod of Producing P01rerful Rsdi!ltions"·- em undatf!d.
memors.'lduJL in Te~J..aJ s l!an~it~g de~eribing na ntm process of
genp-ating paw~ri'ul ·~a;s .or tadititionsn. The. m~orandu~ .reviews,
the works .of Lenard end Crople~ 27, 1941-- This ~s a sin(;le-p:Jge· l.,ttet." with .thQ t.ypelfl'itten.
ai&nature ·Ot nr-. Niko4 Toslh .. in J:bich· )le addresses
~imaelt to the, PrO~pe~tive licensees. ·ot t~loceodl'l'lr.::tics., states
that over a half nilll:Qn doll~.s ·l'f.~S ~pant Q!l this· devclo;x:umi;
"'~tn tund~
contributeg ·by tlie l10rgans, C:rcwfcn:P,, J• .t. Astqr,
M4·Fi.sh, ~s \f~U ·azs· co::::!lerci'Sl ~:ttgru.Uzat~ons, ·und-.states tb.is .
to be ~ new art with "'~Qb "unvell~\.-ablo wondo~s. can be ncbi~vo.dlf.
'Thchibit.t
Teslat s )ltJcw iWstem c:)£ "F-1\,id 'ProtrJlsioni:t • ~is is nn un.;...
dn~ed memorendutl 9t ab,out:,?o 'typpwfi1itt~ pcgep d~scr~bing. n. ·8,~tem
at :!lu~d'-propu~io~. #JAvhic~ the: ,con¥er:Sio~ ~om .hy;draulie:
to rot~i' .zoo~hnnicnl paner·.~~- n~hieved ·b~· p~~~.ing ·th(t nuid be-­
twe~n nat. gircul~ Ciis~s,, ~haf~oot:lounted. tu'\d enc:to~ed; in a cas­
~g.
1hi.s ilcnorllndu::t 'Wi-itt~n ~bout ).92$. describes in ·~eneFal
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ldth pl~etax7 eJtergy. The ertic~e further discusses .the
subject or 'lfmd,- tides', lit;htning, and '!Jater pow€!~ gs a acrnrce
~t ~om;ercial e~~rgy. The last ... scn1;.~ncQ 'of this l:le:noran&J:l
atctes. "71ith my lti,rel~::s sJste:t 1 it. is -p~;lotic&blo ~~ transmit
electric~ ene~Q' at Jl ~ta~9e ·9!' tifelve thou~o.nd miles
1fith ~ lo:!l3 ttpt ex~oeding 5 per cent. t ~on gonceive or no
advonces "'1-J.en. w.ould 'be ·uote dosirnble at thi$ t~~ runt more
beneficial to. the fUrther progte.ss of mO,"lkind.n This mc;:oranl'.lu;a
.cori~titutes tlJJ interesting :generaliZed discussion of ·tho vt..rio-qs
sources or _power. tt. ~s qualitat:tvol'J qorreot . .tor ·t}1e _coat· -·
par~ except probably in tt.:at po~t~on wtdch :d~ with ,atO!rlc
power.
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article by'R! T~s;L~ in the r:lentrio"rorld; l!arch- 5} 1904.? }:egos
429-431:; A general, somewhat. biQ~aphicaJ: ar.tiole on ·T~sla •·~ ··
e~l)" work Tti~h · so!lle· llpeculn~on ·on tha, poss,ibili;ty 9f lon;;­
dis~t:."lce' wire~ess trons:U.ssion o:£ larGe mounts ·~r :en~r~. -
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!'i£orld Systm of l(ireless 'l'rtns!!tission. of r:nergztt - .nn
~tiel~ by Jl. Tesla ~.Telegraph nnd ·Telephone Aget Qct9bel:' 1.6,
J.9~7, pnge~ 4~7 snd 460. ·An. ~tiole wrdch_ tr~ces tho cc,..ly
1f6rk·on th!l·productioij. _ruut- t;ransmission or eleotrc:);tognetic radiations·,-
~es9r~btss Te~lats ~!torts tQ ¥t~rea~e 1jho. ~ount o~
~er 'flhich cap. Q9 trAP~tted Without lril'e!J .an4 .concludes
llith a prop6sfJd Jlftorld Syst&:l"- tQr th~ wiroless tranmn~_sion .
cr both' pO'Ifcr and cc~~caticns. lro. work{iole dia'c¥>surf) .p:t .
a Jlleans .for accofuplish~g thl.s is inc~uded,r and' suon··gencralitiea
.as ~U8fij;)St 'the: epyroaqh Tl}d.C~ Tcs).a had iT\ t:tinc\ ·dg not :
SEtem capable 9f· :uceomplisr.ing tl;Q desir~d _res~lt.
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tor .Po~lar ,Science .l:onthly, ~Y 24~ ~9.28.~- Arr ll-p3;;e ·memoJ.':lnd\Ull
JJri:ttcn in popular qonvers'ational styl~ dQscribing· an interrl.Cl'f
with ~. Tesli and reporting his -~e::u;mt -w9rk. - Thi~
· re~r~~cludeas~atQments on. an~ nirplona, on roQk~t ships,
' ~n the wil'.alea~ tran:;~~sioq of power; pn. *' world systen J>l~n;
tor the tfoil::rnsaion .ot JJpeech ,and tE}levision,- ol\ t~e ¥lZ'r3Q-·
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.and·t}lo fmtorg'Tr~ding_ corp9rati0~,. :.in :Wb1ch:·Tesl~ .agreed t(>
. supply- plans~ 'Sii~~ificntions,_ silct eomplo,te' inr6~at~on Qn h- '
.method and .app~atl!_S ftf pro~cing ,hi&l\ vo~tog~~ Up.. to li£.t;r
• • ~l.lio~ voltB:., .fo~ prQduc~g very v~all p~t~cle~ irt 4. tup~
open-~ air,' for ilt~raa5ing 1}1~ ~hart;e .of' tho ,:r~.nrti~les ·to·
the full -vQltctQ · qf the, high" potent~~ temlnal, ~lid-tor p~oj9pti;ng
tho. partic~e~ to~Aist~C;o~ q~ a hundr~· miles ·p';'' ~;toro~ "' "
'l'ho a:rud.tr.:nl speed o.~ .tho--pnrti9l~s 1r~s sp~~.i#(}d qs n~t less
t}lan '350-~~Hr pe,r a,econ~•- "The ~ec(lipb o£ ··$~5,000 ~£c~ ~~r .
this ~J?Closure wa;r ackn_cmledged in ·this ~grt?Smerit, Tfhich it ~B.
siij_n~O..bi.,ifikoia Tcsla Gnd by Ai tlBl'~~:t~ ·or .tpo lmtorg~ Trad-
.- in~ OQrpornt~on~. 1h~-met~d ret_c~~r;l ta _1p.,1.hb. -~~.eei:l~ht is -·
· .~ppnr~ntl_, ·tltat .deecr~bed ~ ~b~1; .R,. abQv~. ~ii is· l>r.obt,;blo"
thn~.:~b~t P: ·above;· is p.ir. ei'i'ort :py·Tesl~ to 'cl;.~~ ·up ~he ·
qti~st!on~ Taieed: by t.ov~eii ~)l&ineers. after 1;,li& .$ul;)ject diS-t
olo~Q. -~ad Ql3en m~d~ ., - 1here 'iq. he) ~vidence that :the: iriv.ori,­
tioh~ .and ~~or;mt~on.l"eferre·d to- in ~his agTqe:::eq.t, ~e otb~r
.~hnn~ ~ho1m described. in a•J)umb~: :Qf 'tosla~.s- P,3~-t's ·atict~P\lb.­
~iehed-~tiolo.s•, ,~t'\i· -~!lould ·thore,£o~o be ~pcqted, ~nA ~t ia:..
··substantiated, .~r ~.l~b~~ Tit. that th~~ ~scl~~\ll".e ,sUbseClu~!)tlf ·
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·th~ ~es~n·_ef!orts :at ~he l:'j.nfu,\ttan 1'/~ohous.e· anc~. ·itl· a de~o~it ::oox-a1it the
-Gov~rri~r Ol:!Jlto~J, t!otel ;~h¢t.ed: those_ to pe stf,lnd~~ ~o~e.ctric;~·.r.teasup;p~
ins~rumentu~_il.l cpl!U:lo~ ,us~ .~~y{lrsl. decades .. a~o!'. • _ : ·
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$Xpor!cen'ts \and l"f!se~rch .ot NIKOLA 'l:ESLA' (deceased)
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Reference. is made to tho J)>Jrcau letter dated Ja~uacy .21, 1943,.. which
Qor~ a caption simiUar to that 1:1ontioncd above. ·
Tho referenced lettier dc:al~ with the death, on January 7; 194~,. pt_
tho famous inventor, NJKOLA TF'SLA, ~0 as wall ~s ·beipg th~ invontor of
Alternating, Current, perfected: many qlootrica'l. dev~ce"• .He is also credited
wtth having dev~loped· the ·so called "de~tb. ray," -:rrhioh. 'tould safeguard any·
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gun. S:'A.~ offered financial aid 'to FITZG'm!LD and the two· ware in theolocest
contact_ irtth.e.ach ot'Qer. ~o.r ~' consic!erab16" period or tilne.
lE?.~~""R s:4d t~t. ili:'ZG:mALD 'ht!d lined up a deal. for the pur.cbase ot
the gun by the R~Ii'HlTON An!4S WJP.l'tt,but for .soo~ .reason SP.A.~'1il. blocked
this deal by reaching top men in the P.ErmlGTO!f OllPANI. SPA!rc:L is i;hon
repor~ed as having.obtained a job .tor FI+ZGZP.ALD with: tho HI~t'S S!"'P
'DUILDINO OllP~'il in r.aw Orleans and no~oiiiatod .a ·contract with FITZGZRALD
for th3 pm"cnas3 and J~:nnutacture or the ·gun in a manner Which w~uld return
. ~~ or tb.g prof1.ts den~· to s~~~, .
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B~GS'l'IESSER ata~d that. in l:Wo::1bar--.o£ 1943,_ tor sil:le unknown rea~on
but which ha. b~U.evea tQ bo· attributable to SPA!JEL,. mZ

cto'!>er ()'1945
13~GS'ffl'SSS:l sta~cd th:lt thrm:zh FlTZG:mALD he too ·had cat SPA.~
and ..frca tMs personal ac:quainta.!!CO ho !'omod t;ne opioion that S?R~EL wtls
·definitely· a c=unist and is probaol.y ono ·or th~ i'inan~al._ supporters -of
the Co=unist Party in 'this country. :Sm:!OSTI?8SSZR atat~d that. ·sPANEL was
born in Russia,. ~ilt is .1)~- an k;e~c::1n citizen. Y.~ al~Q charged that SPAllEL
emrtod trc::ond~s politi:eal infiuanco .in t"a~hi.ngton, J). c.; and. 13aid that
Qnet ·bi' SPMi:::t,.tS clooest tlolit~cat !rlcpds WS!J lmlmY ·WALLACE.
• F:l!!i!P.~SER adviaed- tllat tw agents !roo Amy Intalliccnco contacted.
and stated t.~t; .~n an investigation -~ datomine tbo . quaUfications or
FITZ~Wl' for ·a ccanission, th:)y bel developed infoimation indicating that.
S?~~ }r3S definitely endeavoring -tq SOC'I\r~ possession of TEStA'S erract.s.
l:n!t0CTR1'SS::'R indicated that f'.roy Intelligance was pursuing .an invast,igat.ion.
along these J,ines in an att~pt; to. ascortain the. ~a:1plet~ ~tory in this
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For the 'Sureau•~ -intor.nnt.ion, B:nGSTR~m was ·born on: July 3, 1912
a.t 'Puoblo, Colo~do,. he is 'Uri::amed; and his fQC~tly res~des it.l Wicliita, Kansas ._
He is a grnduate of trortmreatem Universtt:r and .. unt~l July 1945 lW.d· been a: ·
Sinployee of liha'lf!, tJVerseas branch, from \&arch 1943 un~il 'January 194$ •. ijc)
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a.ccess·be. given. to ,the,'e'ffects.of' Dr., llicola.-.llesla-.·held .in'-'.Manha.ttan:
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pr~j~cts under. c~nsld;eraUo~ .. py·-~he Q'o~.tr~l: Eq'llip~~-~~~ 13i'a~9h~ ~~·\~¥ -~
! qliip!nen~ La.~orat~g ,. ~lne.er~ __ D_iv1~,1~n,. ·~ ·!e~~cal.. s~~~·e .
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.and it ~~_,lielleyed .~h8.t. t~ ·4,ata f'1-"9tvh~!i!··~st~.te !ri!li~-~B:S.~~s~- ~ ·
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Reference is ilade ~Q a l~t~r dated :october +7, ~945, cap~oned as
·above, whic\1 contain~.~ ~u:li!J:larY, 9t recopt· i:nfC?rmatipn recei:,vod by. this
Q!fice rel~the· to ·the ertects of lJIKO~ _'I.'F..S~? $l(lce~~e~.,iyv~n;~r.
. On october 26,.l94S,, Prl'm~·l}to~Q~ FI!t'ZO~.ALJl, ASlr 3691.6_9~0, nho
is •ntioped in tbo ·rei'~rel)ce ~ette~; cn:+;ed ~~j>erson a~ t~eroper.ty cusi(odiah, ~cq nnd~ a.
v~cy 'thorough lnvestigatiQn· ot.'i'BSLA·•s b'elqnsings. tol~Olfi~ the inventor\1·
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. stated: that the Amy bollqvcs ~fA •a !•l)Ca~ ·p~yu· t· ·be. ;the ·:only poss~~e . _
d~t~nse against. ·tne. a tome ·})oil~, and t):ley-l'eel, that pgsa~bly the s~c~et .
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Oft April, 7!,1950 a~e~~ o£ thi~ Clf£ice intel'Vj:owed 1:1-. J.V. 'POTm, ·
Vice- 'President o£ t~e-~r.hattan Warehouse- and Sto~~ Co::lpany, ?2ncl. St~~t
lc. 'ltl\ !V~'UCi Melf '!olic City, ~d. at that time m. roT,ro· advised that the
rules ot his Ji~ req:.dre,d tt.a~ :an I>Qrsoil.s gaining access to g~pda stored
b¥ W;mMttan i'itst r.ad to fill- out an JaFP~pria~ rom· spttina forth thoir
oDal;les 1 date of visit 1 ~d -XC.~on tor. ~q,ue::J.ti.ng access to tl'~ _f;09es. ·
In a reviett p~ tM~rue, portainins. to the storage· ~r· tb! ;£!oQt~
:rom ~'{ealed tba~ only ono. auah 'Yis~t. bad been z:ildo by
NinJLA, 'IESLA, w.~.
persons optsidq ~i' tho tano.ce:ta~t or Uanbattan_ Storace: ~tsel£". ·.This on~
occassion took pla.ee on Janu~ :26 .an\1. 27' 194,, :l.t which ·tic.~ representatives
of the Alien Plfopel'ty Custo~ ~9o. ·a. 't~roueh ~view or tho ent;i:e effects
of the :zESLA -estate. -
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The TESIJ.-eftects Bl'Q .stored in rOOi:"S 5J .. and 5L or· l:arihnttan Storace •s
at 52nd St~e_et & ?th Avenue, lrtnr.;tork.city. ltti, MICHAEL )Ol;G, llho
Jttatecl he had:bcen··Floor Suparvisor fo~ approxitlately 10· yoara on '\iha .noo~
in ~ucstion, stated that he. coUld ;rtlC'lll o~ the.OJle· occassion in early 1943·.
1'~kl1 ~l ~tion w~s- ~de of ·tho 'mGLA erreat~. ·· .J!o stntf:!d that ,at .t~t, -
tir;le. t1Qerous.:photosraph3 ware taken.'Py,.~he ox~pe~., ~. :de3!Jrlption.·p.(
tm e(J,i:ipt:lont used would tend to. slmw· ·th4t ·a microfilm rdP.*'d~s:tion wns ,~e
of scce or the pnpera or tlie .cleceat'ed DCientiat_.. tc.. Knta ad~ed that several ··
of-the croup~- the ~r.b;:l{roti,cn wore u.s. navr ~ni!6ri:13;;--and. durinl! the.
t?(o ~ys· required to complete· 1iba exatiination the. civ~ assistnn~ .in f;he
group were identified to biJa only tl¥· ·n~!:AL AU'll(iliT~lED"• ~CCC?rdin3 tO m.
Jerno, no otber instance of _micro~~Z. of' t_pe reco.r~a of the SLA ·cotaw bas
taken place sin~~ -that time. · ·
.xt sholllcl·be. noted that the Nreau·lftl8 · infomedcQf the. exm:U.nation t:lentioned
above· byl!eTi York letter (w.ith ~t~!;len_ts) ·Ciated Octobe~ 17. 1 . 1945,
entitled. t£iD:~ ~aBJECT.; SAVA l~SM~1!CU; ·~erir:lell1!s· & Re~e~rch pf N;Jl['ILA
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SAVA N. }pSA."iiV~CH;. D)J.' luuU.tanluittan· ipforme~l'·h~, ill any war, that ·SI! ex•
ambiation-of the 1ESLA efi'e.cta· had be~n-nade oy ~one~ In fact; added:MR .•
Po'lTS, the only c9rrespondenco ·rel~ting to the 'IESU. estate ~ ooen .~n -tho
form of .bills for sto.rage. ·
JtR. PO'riS .stated -t~at ~-personal ·inCJ.ui~s l'e&arding the e~tate ·1'1c;>uld
:of necessity be directed ~o ·hiLl, and· ·to date ·itO· stigll; lnq¢-ti,es .h~ve ·oo~n J;.Ulcle.
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· 'InterVieWing age~ts e-xpi8iried:to J.m• Po'lTS ~hai th~ .exSpdnation r.w.de,
as mentioned above, ·ws.:J. not _insticated by t~e ~rcau 1 . nor· ha4 the. Bureau ~n
part in t}Jat examination• · · ' - ' ·
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'tive to~he· following· individuai.s;--. ~·SPANEL; RALPH· BERGSTREsSERi
NIKOLA ~USSL:A. -· . . - .
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O.evelopea~ 'Sa· ·a ~sttlii gf?-\lM~ .the Alien ,Enemy 'Custodian seize~· all his
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ing tl;le 'years) thel:~ aave oeep. -~ number· cit nonspecifiC: .cotnplalnt's received.
· l.7.e ~PANEL's all:egeci- CP· sympS.thies't. One of' t~es~ ~omplalnts came front
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$enator J91?~P~· }1ccartljy ap,g. -t)le ;Se¥wr ·tUI:ne~ ·his.iet:'ters over to'·
·:tfh~ ~~ea'!;l ... ·:.One- _of '1he l~tters t9 ,Senaii;>r McC~~by·ws regarding
s~ANEt .• ?:n tQ:~t let~e.r he ~dvised"ijqG~thy, ·tbat he 'had tak~n- t~ ·
.days in -a~out ~pril., l9ij.5.r ·to exE'l:alli ·~e ent~e stocy_ w·tlie FBI
in ·Nev York City.. He ·.s·aici they- stattea·a.n i~vestigation .against
&PANEL ~a, after a iew_ weeks .lndi~ated ~ha.t the~r ~ds were· tied;.
- -that there :v~. -I10'tbing ~he ~BI: could dq as th~y had, been ~topJ,>e_(i.
,from· ~ h115Qer ~eve,l~. Th-er 'did not- say ye·s ·or .ri_o in--ref'erence· to '
s:P.ApEL;. 1~ .. other ·vor(].s; "$ey "\roUlq._ rtot comnii~ ·:tiiemseives- too -'lllu~h·
However) ~:~?-ey ia;ter t~d.i~a:J;e~ jj~t appaJ:ep.tl.y iny ~uspicioilS. 'Wer~
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Senator-· Josep~. McCarthy and: the Sena'!iar ttit'Ji~,_ ~ letter~- oy~ t9
the Bure_au. ·one ot th~ lct~er;3 to S_ena.tor lt.ccarthy -)'aS. -re~ding-
.s~~f ·n\.tha:t letter··1l~ ad.vit$e~-¥cC:artbY: thll.t h~ ~~a ~n two
.d~y$ in- about- Aprn 1 . ~9,45 ,. -to- exp~:l.~ ~~- e1fiir~ stpry to· -tu~ FBL
in:·:l{ev· Y.o~k City t Ue ·_sa~a "they st{lr~· an -illvcstieation al¢.1tlst
SP. ~d .cite!\ a terr. ·weeks in~iea~d. :tba~ the# hi:Uia,~ were. tf¢d 1
'but ~lm.t there -:tras .-nothin:! th~ ·Jn3I coUld: tl9· as they ~d be~~ stqppe~ ·
fioo'::l a. hleh.er- ·leyel. !;i1}ley did n~t eay yqa. _Qr to in. refcr~nc¢ to. ·
S?ANELl ~-o~er- vor~ 7 tlley woUla not ~9~~ thet:Oel~es ·to9 I!iUCh.
· l!ove~er, they· la~e~ ill,d~ca~cd- tha~ ·apparentl-y 1:1ff s-q,sp:I,ci9~ vere .
. ~ue.. liAlWEY .RATH, the l"BI aeent vl19- l: deal:.t vith ~s:t, resigne~
his Jo1J ~ requea~ tha.t I n~v~r- 04f;c\13s this -ma:~~er .~~ ~
.aSSJ.:n; -~t .he }lad a., vif~ .~a .fa.tii~Y'. to con5ider'+ t. ~~~ ~ if'
~h~e: v~n 1 t ~bbe.'hoW l¢~·a.nd he. ~ta~c\ i:~t. the -~~c.,$
c~~¢a~ ,_n ·;r.have new~~ ec~n. ·C?X' eonta.c:t;ed ,hitr ·'O.~iil as :Per ~his
. reqU:~st.
Mr:. l!ennrich sa~~~~ena:~r 'Uaga:bth:t i;tit'nca t}?.is material
, . 9ver ·~ the Bureau ias~ Jlin;e o~_ .:tw.r, but .z;Q~i:ns w.a :done about
tt, 'l1l~-~~l1~ ~Y !l~s~broo~ Pcg~.'W~ AA t~ an(i. stopped; ·1n. to
-~.ce.Asa~•. ,D4-.• 1 .. :B •. Jf~~!lo~, -~~ vhi.cli ~#U; ~g s:wl{C. :hl,6t. ?-~out·
~4f:EL. ~o~tir.le; ~ :SPANEI; s\1~~--P~Sl~ to* ·lib~:l·~~ nov· ~:tap:-­
pe~s ~ i~ ·out.'~ get:_l1im... O~e ot .l'~gl~~s- COD.~c;~~ .1.~ ·l;lERG-.
$~SER., ~.en: ~!r", J{icho.ls ~avicwed the :~U#;~~'i:t· til~~ il;l ~h~ -rr4t-­
~er 1 he in~uired .about the reason wliy fq~ .SA. ~:v~:r Ra.th :.ha.a:
n~~ been ~teryieweo. iu, ~ ~t~er.... ·
.t~·•. J!ennr~ch rcq~iited ~t .i'o~mc:f ;~ Jlfp:Yey Railf~· b~
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ln.~~v~ and. :~t;\le fine\- ·ou-t; .. \iha.:f;. h.c- ~ w ~a.y
~ .. the ~orma~ion..rcpor~d:bY ~ in..~·l~tt.~ .. eo ~t£ ~~t;'l:(
1~1+7/45.·'cieilt~oned:. aliov~_. · • . . · - . . ·

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·a,evcr~ persp~, im\tic;~lY co:lifidential .. ~ource~ ·he ~- ~~ve).ope~)
v~:th who:~, h~ had · l¢"t .. his ·~t~e p~o.ne· tq. ~e inquir~~s "Qf :~ or t6
give hiti ~o~tio~ ~ 'll~, in:·.au .ihs:t~c~8 1 _ ~e -11; a p;-act~ce
to rete~ the:a. to t~e ~~ ):orlf.. Office· j~t ·8:$ -he: qid BERGS~~·
· ~e ·£Uerr ot tlle· ltCV. ··tor~ ()ff'ic~ ciotW,te1y ~ca~e. thai;
llERG3msSEa ~d not :f'Utniell .a_ny, infon:ation to ~ o~~ce .11?.
April, :191}5, a$ he_liruJ ~llee~> but ·~lig.t··he·~~e ~-this 9ftice on· -,
-twq se~~ .occas~oriG 1 - r.ar;el-y'6/9/45 and 9/:!f/45. . -
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ted· an -~vesti~t~o~ a£Yllns:t sp~.an~··i:ttcr a f~v·weeks ~ated ·
:t~e:lr h;lnds ver,e ~ie~ 1 ·the .Bureau is_ a~ Vie~ that there is: ·no··recor4'
in this ottic9 b~ our ever .starting an investiC'-tion·ot SP~ ~~
as ~ ~tter ot ~act ~.SPA.:}~·.'resides in_ .DCJ.s.~c -~d ~ueh an lnv~s~i_f'.'•.
tio~ ·would 'not be undertaken .by t,hiS. 9~~C?e• Rf.Tltaavised tl;lat he
at no· t~ advised- m:f::.GSmESSER that. the .BUreau -vas undertaking anr,
. investftation~.ot sp~: an~ ~:(tliei> did. be ~Vet ind1.ca~ tl;at ·the
'Bureau vas· not inV'estitating· hiil(because ~ts -handS·-vere -tied. He
~vei indicat~~- to. tmtG§>~ESSEa t;~t liifi (BmG:S~~s) silsp1c1o~
relative ... to .sp.ANEL were either true or false.
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~~tiQ#J with Em~~~~· -h~ncei· h~ 18 l?O_:S~t~w ~t be·
;)leVer. tiid~ any. ·sta.t~~nt ·thQ.t ':th~~:owa :no\;o_pe· lett-or· that,
"~~e ~:t ·~~~e: 'VaS ·.co~_rwes:s'' • - , · ,. _
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has ;hdd .110 conto.c~ v~tsoever· vitn BimGSmEOOm ,and. lie haS
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_l:X.a. !7AnGAr~ &~~ft;at> 'l-ives 111~ ,llq~ ll~ll~d~- . .
- .J~I!t.r -at tho COloniall:otol~ .51 l!o~t 6l.n.t St+'C?9t 1 l1on · .. -·
Yol':~ 24 1 l!~li Yorl:, ~a bc.on..1$~u3.115 :n~t1'llottcrl:f t~hiqh
- ~Qnta1n -~~~io~ portaininz .. to £1yitl~l saucor;l
-Md intQX$)le.nctalt;( r4:tto~z. · .
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.of 11!KOLA. TJSLAJ· .a~oo~cd,invel\tor of t'U3onla.'V: ,.
ex~l';l~t1on t~hq miit:v~d t:~rld 'lt~C.a fp,.~ .au a .;aon~t ofi
h1oc inventions in. tb.~· ~~ad JJtat~r;. ·
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f ·cnd_..boc~c a n:\turol.izoQ. UnitQd_Sta~_s cititcrl. ..lr,l -
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WQrr"..:tt1on l1hJ.l6 o~~ cc;;y- io b9in3 uu1.'01tt~~ to
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