Marc Seifer and the Unsolved Mysteries of Nikola Tesla Page 7

For years, there have only been pieces of the puzzle. The two-room suite on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker in Manhattan where Tesla died is opened by the FBI, who remove papers. Pearl Harbor occurred just a little over a year earlier, putting the United States into World War II. A reported “death ray” or “particle beam weapon” that Tesla has been working on for years disappears — or doesn’t disappear? — from storage, where it was reportedly kept as payment for the inventor’s debts. Corporations and different governments are involved. There are ties to secret weapons and technologies of today. One of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the Tesla saga is doggedly researched and now published by the author of the international best-selling biography Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla — Biography of a Genius.

The publication of Wizard, innumerable interviews over the years, appearances in documentaries and a History Channel series “The Tesla Files” led to people all over the world contacting Marc Seifer with more information, more leads, more of the trail to follow to unravel hitherto unknown aspects of the Nikola Tesla story. After 40 years of his life spent traveling to New York, Colorado, Belgrade and Tesla’s birthplace Smiljan, Croatia, and documenting the world-changing inventions of alternating current electricity, radar, the Tesla coil, the induction motor, radio, wireless electricity and the extraordinary twists of Tesla’s life story, it would seem Seifer could retire, happy about his gift to the world of presenting a true biography of a genius. With the August 2022 publication of Tesla: Wizard at War—The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon and the Pursuit of Power, Marc Seifer has come further than anyone in tracking down answers to one of the greatest unsolved questions left hanging at the time of Tesla’s death: What was the truth about his particle beam weapon? What was it? How far did he get with it? What countries got it? What became of it?

Wizard at War reads like an incredible mystery novel, the boiling point of which is the chapter “The Day Tesla Died,” in which Seifer lays out major players and events that circle at this critical juncture at the start of the United States’ entry into World War II, Tesla’s death, and the cast of characters and events around his particle beam weapon. Although they include military and political people from different countries, high level industrialists, J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI and Eleanor Roosevelt among others, one of the most unseen interesting characters in the book is the author, whose painstaking following of leads if not cracks the case, underlines the fact that this was/is a real technology that many serious parties were deeply interested in.

Seifer answered questions about the book for Infinite Energy, but our best recommendation is to get your own copy of Tesla: Wizard at War, and sit down to read it with a pen, paper, computer or whatever you write with, and follow the many people and paths laid out therein.

Marianne Macy: Marc, I’ve made my way through this book and what I think I gleaned, although I need confirmation from you, is that you have managed to come much further than anyone in following leads about Tesla and his particle beam weapon. But in the end, some things are still left hanging and we don’t have final answers. Do you believe more