The FBI and the Missing Tesla Papers Page 466

explosives. It describes such novel creations as: (1) an open ended vacuum tube, (2) a means for generating many millions of volts for charging minute particles, (3) a means for creating and directing a non-dispersive stream of such particles with a trajectory of many miles. Written virtually as a patent application, the Tesla article presents in clear and straightforward terms, the mathematical equations and schematics of his death ray. I have assumed that it is one of his secret weaponry papers which was probably removed from the warehouse by U. S. governmental forces and not shipped to Yugoslavia with the rest of the estate.

From various documents, I am also able to name at least a dozen people from widely separated areas who read the Trump report in 1943 and who possibly also had access to this weaponry paper and/or others like it. Copies were sent to Naval Intelligence, the FBI, the Office of Alien Property, National Defense Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and probably to MIT, the President of the United States, etc.

What astounds this researcher is that no other documents in the FBI files refer to the blatant Soviet connection. This was exactly the kind of information on which J. Edgar Hoover thrived. My guess is that buried in the censored papers which were not sent to me under the Freedom of Information Act is more data on this situation.

I was also curious to know why Cheney (1981) did not exploit this Soviet angle in her Tesla biography when she devoted such a great amount of time to the "search for the papers" including the Trump papers. I therefore wrote her and received the following reply (copies of which were sent by her to Leland Anderson and Nicholas Kosanovich, chairman of the Tesla Memorial Society and relative of Sava Kosanovich mentioned above):

I've always known that sooner or later some Ph. D. candidate would write and ask me why I omitted reference to Tesla's alleged receipt of $25,000 from the Amtorg Trading Co. as Dr. Trump mentions. And yet I'm rather surprised that you would not find the reason obvious in view of the history of the times and the political biases that have existed against Tesla right down to the present (in the IEEE, GE, and even the Smithsonian Institution). In the bio. I quote Tesla on offering his particle beam weapon idea repeatedly to the U. S. and then finally to Russia, England, etc. The teams were different in those days and kept on changing during WWII, with the