Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 47

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20 June 1973

Dear Senator [REDUCTED],

Though in Alaska temporarily working on a military contract, I still consider myself an [REDUCTED] resident, hence it is to you that I write.

During my days at [REDUCTED] College, I became interested in a fascinating Czech physicist, Nicolai Tesla. Proffessor Tesla emmigrated to this country in the twenties, I believe, and did some of his most original here. Tesla had a peculiar bent of mind, in his younger days he was often called a bad scientist, and did not publish extensively when he came to the US. Most of the extant primary material is in untranslated Czech. Tesla was however, an extensive note baker. Its thought it strange that upon his death, none of his notes from his American period over appeared. Upon discussing this with a friend, I was informed that all of Mr. Tesla's notes were confiscated by the FRI. I cannot conceive how these notes on physics and electricity can in any way endanger the national safety. It seems that Mr. Hoover in his zeal, had confiscated material whose only sin was a radical approach to science. There is indication that much of Professor Tesla's later work concerned a very novel approach to time theory. Needless to say, it has been radical approaches to physics that have been our greatest scientific advances in modern times, viz. Einstein, Heisenberg, et al.

I was wondering if your office might be able to determine if these papers are still extant, and if so, see to it that the public has access to them. It would be a shame to see all of Nicolai Teslas work to have been in vain.

Please excuse my typing, in all the thousands of words I typed trying to get a liberal education, I never did master the typewriter.

                                                       Sincerely yours,

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