Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 55

July 7, 1975     

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Dear [REDUCTED]

        This will acknowledge your letter of June 9th.

        In response to your inquiry, the papers of Dr. Nikola Tesla were impounded, after his death, by the Office of Alien Property of the Department of Justice.

                                                       Sincerely yours,

                                                       Clarence M. Kelley
                                                            Director

1 - The Deputy Attorney General - Enclosure

     Attention: Susan M. Hauser

NOTE: Bufile 100-2237 indicates that Dr. Tesla was a world famous electrical inventor, and at the time of his death his personal papers and effects were impounded by Office of Alien Property for national security reasons. Since Tesla's death in 1943 the Bureau has received numerous inquiries about the disposition of his technical papers. The above reply is forwarded in answer to these inquiries. Bufiles contain no information identifiable with requesters.

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