The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers Page 464

464 Exhibit O: Tesla's (10/16/1927) article entitled "World System of Wireless Transmission of Energy." This essay was discussed earlier in order to establish that Tesla had conceived of the death ray years before the mid 1930's. The fact that Trump did not look through trunks from this period (i.e., the date of the article, 1927) and before is most peculiar. Further, what proof did Trump have that only pre-1933 material would be contained in them? It was extremely possible that a complete explanation of the death ray lay in these trunks.

Exhibit P: A 5/2411/1928 interview with Tesla published in Popular Science Monthly.

Exhibits D, F and Q: These three exhibits are most unusual, as it appears from them that Tesla actually sold his particle beam apparatus to the Soviet Union in 1935. Exhibit F describes a "generator used to accelerate charged particles...through air [in]...concentrated non-dispersive means.... There is described an open-ended vacuum tube within which the electrons are first accelerated." Exhibit Q described:

an agreement dated 2/20/1935 between Nikola Tesla and [A. Hartanian of the] Amtorg Trading Corporation, in which Tesla agreed to supply plans, specifications and complete information on an apparatus for producing high voltages up to 50 million volts, for producing very small particles in a tube open to the air, for increasing the charge of the particles to a full voltage...and for projecting the particles to distances of hundreds of miles or more. The max speed of the particles was specified at not less than 350 mi/sec. The receipt of $25,000 fee for this disclosure was acknowledged and signed by... Tesla and... Amtorg.

Trump goes on to describe in this paragraph that Exhibit D, entitled "Reply to Amtorg re: The Generation of High Voltages and the Acceleration of Charged Particles" written November 8, 1935 was Tesla's attempt "to clear up the questions raised by Soviet engineers after the subject disclosures had been made." Trump concluded that "it is well known that such devices...are incapable of transmission of large amounts of power in non-dispersive beams over long distances." Further, at the end of Exhibit Q Trump wrote:

"There is no evidence that the inventions and the information referred to in this agreement are other than those described in a number of Tesla's papers and published