Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 166

3 Form No. 1 THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT REPORT MADE AT TITLE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND A SYNOPSIS OF FACTS: REFERENCE: DETAILS: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION APPROVED AND FORWARDED: SAVA M. KOSANOVICH, with alias Sava M. Cosonovitch wp COPIES HESTRO DE 146 OCT 6 ✔ NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. B DATE WHEN MADE 3-29-43 OGA Bureau NYC (2 G-2) Baltimore 5.3 APR 22 14: SAV have turned Alien Property TESLA. PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE 3-6-3 Mr. ABE SPANEL, President of the International Latex Corporation, advised that OSANOVICH, He stated tha: he had been a very good friend of NICK TESLA who has died recently and that be believes that the subject is a third or fourth cousin of TESLA and that when TESLA died, the subject was his only close relative in this country and TESLA's effects came into his possession. REPORT SPANEL related that the subject had recently turned over to the government the majority of the patents of NICK TESLA. SPANEL described TESLA as being one of the greatest inventors that has ever lived. He stated he had more than CHARGE RUC APR 22 1943 102 REPORT MADE BY FILE NO. 100-8189 CHARACTER OF CASE Reported to ents and effects to odian, NYC, for NICK ALL INFORMATION CONTAINE HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BATH UNI 45 BY SOLGE 241866 Letter from New York Field Division dated 2-22-436 AT DOVER, DELAWARE INTERNAL SECURITY G. CUSTY DIAL DETENTION 1. S. SOYANVENT PRO DETICE SPECIAL AGENT Dency 65 4795 3 4 Рису 17 (66%) Towe (6)(2)(c) 72034 DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES SF RECORDE 166