Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 106

November 10, 1975     

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Dear [REDUCTED]:

        This is to acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts (FOIPA) request forwarded to the FBI by the Department of Justice on October 22nd.

        In response to your request for files pertaining to Nikola Tesla, please be advised that in order to preserve the privacy of an individual who may be the subject of a similar inquiry, it has been necessary for the FBI to maintain the practice of not indicating whether we do or do not have such information in our files.

        If you can provide notarized authorization from Mr. Tesla's next of kin directing us to release to you any information our files may contain concerning him, we shall thereafter search our files and advise you accordingly.

        Since we have not conducted a search of our files, please do not infer that we do or do not have the information you requested.

                                                       Sincerely yours,

                                                       Clarence M. Kelley
                                                           Director

1 – The Deputy Attorney General – Enclosure
     Attention: Susan M. Hauser

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