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involvement in the seizing of Nikola Tesla's research papers
and other documents and ecientific instruments after his death
on January 7, 1943.
They poured ee that Tesla was @ scfentific
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genius and imenter who was Yugoslavia of Serbian
arents on ef f56 ene" as wetgols later in rae Austria.
ague, aki aris,
eee bt8, “tn ori ‘early 1881 ene hom Thoma: faon'a laborator
a couple of years, then started his own lab tee being paid
a million dollars for rights to his patente on his polyphas
“ystems of alternating current dynamo ch legd to the
harnessing of Niagra Falls for producing electricity
and then the power system of the whole country. He was natu:
a 1889. He predicted wireless communication (radio). lis
eriments in Colorado and elsewhere legd to his producing
artificlal Lightning in the Billions ‘of volts. He aleo had
Titer ned on ike beeing of neon pers floure: cent teres Led he
eer made little money oo cer ions," although he
tontim Gs txperteerte Te ‘leading eo eee
potential torch, which he never patented.
reclusive in his later years, living in various hotels in New York
City. In the 1930's he claimed he had developed the concept and
method of building a "death ray", which could destroy planes at
many miles distant, for defending Americe. Also, there are report
of resonance machines or devices whereby he could shake one or
many large city buildings from some distance away.
Both = and id that Tesle donated “sone”
of his papers (or les thereof) to the Tesla Institute in ie
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, set up in the 1930's in his bonor by tl 4
povernment, “Biographies on Tesla claim chat aither the custodian
Sf Alten Property and/or the FBI seized his papers and other :
Yenedise effects, fncluding a safe or safes, and other property
diately after his death in 1943. This ip elaborated on in
gasccoriet of certain pages of Margaret Cheney's book, (g
‘ime" Ye
said that after World fax ¥y te ta
Papers were
ela Institute in Belgrade By hts
who had become Tit 0 the //
re’were reports that some microfilming of resla’s
Pe overnment agents while they were still in storage
EnPhew vorE°under Rosesovie's cuscouy” .
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Algo; the Soviet Oyton has ellepediy had edheos --
to some of Tesia’s 3, possibly in Belgrade and/
else where, which influenced their early res¢arch into directed
ehergy weapons, and Butler feels access to wuch of Tesla's
papers on lightning, beam weapons and/or "death rays" would
ive him more insight into the Soviet beam eeernel program. -.
is Butler's area of expertise and responsibility. He ~
thas been unable to locate any Tesla parece or copies of same
in the classified or unclassified aries at 'B. However,
there are reports that some porti of them were shipped by
the Custodian of Alien Property Office in Washington, D.C. to
a technical research lab at WPAFB, possibly the Zquipment
Lab", now closed for some years or reorganized into another
organization. ?
oie. he both desirous of Learning|
ght locations ef such papbre ef Sesia gp Sov. ghiat in the o
for both intelligence and research purposes erefot
would like to examine FBI files relating to Nikola Tes: ;
possibly any on Sava Kosanovic, his nephew who received the Zz
bulk of his pape: Tesla's death, and may possibly
have been the subject of FBI investigation.
travels to the Washington, D.C. area on
FID bus: riodically and can review FBI files at FBIHQ
relating to Tesla and Kosanoyic.
REQUEST OF THE BUREAU
The Bureau te requested to conduct full indices checks
on both Nikole Tesla and Sava Kosanovic.
Should there be such files at FBIHQ,-as well as at
ated that Bureau consider Branting the
FID, official access to ‘same, in the
curity. . :
NEW_yoRK
‘AT_NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Will conduct same indices check as requested of
Bureau and advise the Bureau and Cincinnati of results and
confirm such files and references till exist there
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