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Germans because they were spying on him and because his workspace had been broken into? Is that why?

Seifer: Yes, Tesla did fear for his life, but linked to that, I also uncovered a strange relationship Tesla had with Germany, and it was through his friend George Sylvester Viereck, who was most likely the illegitimate son of the Kaiser. Tesla co-wrote the 1935 article “A Machine to End War” for Liberty Magazine with Viereck, which was on his particle beam weapon and on other topics including the future which would involve the advent of television and also eugenics, a form of population control achieved by not allowing so-called inferior people to propagate. Unfortunately, Tesla, most likely, would have supported that position, but it was probably put in there for subversive reasons by Viereck. What I uncovered was that Viereck was actually a German propagandist, literally on the Nazi payroll, and that he was also closely associated with Franz von Papen, who had been chancellor of Germany and was vice-chancellor when Hitler took power.

Macy: How do you know all this?

Seifer: I got Viereck’s FBI files through FOIA. Viereck was on the Nazi payroll. From these documents I also learned that when Viereck would write a paper, it would be published under his name in America and under von Papen’s name when it was published in Germany. Five years after co-writing this article with Tesla, Viereck would be placed in jail for his activities as a German propagandist.

Macy: And you state that shortly after that paper was published, the Germans approached Tesla?

Seifer: Yes. The German ambassador did. He met with Tesla, perhaps even at Tesla’s apartment, to try and get the details to his particle beam weapon, but Tesla turned him down. I have the correspondence. Shortly thereafter, during World War II, the Nazis, much like what they did to the Jews, set out to exterminate the Serbian people, killing about 90,000 Serbs at that time.

Macy: You write of a DARPA contractor (p.262) who told you in the 1990s that the invention was clandestinely worked on then. Any other details? Can you speak of this person’s credentials or how you came to have this conversation or what they did? Did the DARPA contractor state that today’s rail gun and Israel’s Iron Dome anti-defense missile system were derived from Tesla’s technology?

Seifer: What I can say is that a top-tier Tesla expert who I had met many moons ago was indeed hired by DARPA, the

Book Review — Tesla: Wizard at War
Marc J. Seifer, Citadel Press, 2022 — Review by Toby Grotz

In his second book about Tesla, Marc Seifer once again breaks through the legend, the enigma, and the life and times of a man who brought more technical innovation to humanity than any other in history. This book is a treasure trove of never before published details about Tesla’s invention and his personal relationships with the celebrities, scientists and business moguls of the early twentieth century.

Seifer’s detailed search of archived letters, correspondence, documents and new documents released under Freedom of Information Act requests has resulted in a detailed account of Nikola Tesla’s involvement with scientists, diplomats and businessmen during the First World War and leading up to the Second World War. From what Tesla said, quoted in an article published in the New York Times on December 8, 1915, it appears that he had invented a particle beam weapon. Tesla announced his particle beam weapon in 1934, three years after he made the cover of Time magazine celebrating his 75th birthday. The details of the design were sold to the Russians shortly thereafter. How it worked and what became of the technology is detailed in Wizard at War. Included for experimenters, engineers and scientists are details not only of the particle beam weapon but of the design of the Wardenclyffe wireless power transmission installation. The intended patent application and drawings for the particle beam weapon were first published in 1984 in the proceedings of the Tesla Centennial Symposium held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, an event I co-hosted with physicist Elizabeth Rauscher. In fact, it was at that time that I first met Marc, who spoke at the conference.

In a major contribution to the study of gravity there is a chapter devoted to Tesla’s Dynamic Theory of Gravity and the necessity of including the aether in any attempt at understanding gravity and the origin of matter. Well-known scientists such as Sir Oliver Lodge, J.J. Thompson, Lord Kelvin and Einstein all recognized the need for aether in order to explain the physical phenomenon of inertia and gravity. Tesla spoke of his theory in 1937 in a prepared statement to the press prior to interviews on his 81st birthday. This statement is presented in Tesla Said, published in 1984 by John T. Ratzlaff of the Tesla Book Company. On May 12, 1938 Tesla spoke again about his gravity theory to The Institute of Immigrant Welfare. In 1951 the U.S. Government Library of Congress acknowledged it had “research studies by Dr. Nikola Tesla…on gravity…” This theory closely resembles the theory of gravity and the aether worked out by Paramahamsa Tewari (see https://vimeo.com/161261940 and https://vimeo.com/190251670).

Tesla: Wizard at War is essential reading for anyone interested in the life and times of Nikola Tesla and an important follow-up to Seifer’s 1997 book, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla — Biography of a Genius.

Swami Vivekananda, from whom Tesla learned the Sanskrit words from the ancient Vedic texts of India that describe the origins of matter, said “in Tesla’s electrical discharges I even felt the presence of Brahma himself.”

Samuel Cohen, writing in the Electrical Experimenter in July 1915, described Tesla as “…one of the world’s most distinguished scientists of whom it has rightly been said, ‘He lives a hundred years ahead of his time.’”