Nikola Tesla Books
IN SEARCH OF NIKOLA TESLA There was a rumour that Puharich had been forced to flee for his life from the attentions of foreign intelligence agencies. The whole story seemed to be tied up with mind-bending radiations and Tesla transmitting towers. Later I heard that Puharich was working in Mexico with a psychic healer. In the past Andrew Microwski had hinted that spies from several countries were interested in Tesla's work. Arthur Matthews, Tesla's surviving assistant, said that 'men with Russian-sounding names' had been to see him, and even Tim Richardson, whom I considered fairly level-headed, had told me of people nosing around outside his laboratory. Were foreign spies really trying to obtain Tesla's secrets? Had they actually gone as far as to threaten Puharich's life? I tend to be particularly cynical when it comes to intelligence agencies. To begin with, the whole business often seen very childish and hardly likely to promote world peace and trust amongst nations. But then I suppose I'm in danger of sounding like Baron Raglan who, in the Crimean War, refused to listen to an agent's intelligence on the enemy's movement because it wasn't the gentlemanly thing to do. I have, however, lived through the late sixties where everyone fancied that they were under surveillance because their telephone made a mysterious series of clicks each time they picked it up. If an unmarked car was parked across from one's apartment, or a letter was mysteriously delayed, then clearly âthey' were stepping up their campaign of surveillance. For my part, I began to wonder where this giant army of spies was housed and fed since to keep so many people under close observation would take tens of thousands of agents. When it came to Nikola Tesla, I was at first inclined to take these stories of spies with a generous pinch of salt. After all, what could they possibly learn that was not already contained in a host of patents and articles? As usual the allegations were vague, yet on one occasion a name cropped up and when I checked back I discovered that the same name had been mentioned before. With some difficulty and a measure of innocent deception, I managed to trace the name to an intelligence agency and eventually talked to the man in question. His answers were vague and non-committal but they did bear out Andrew Microwski's spy story. 131
