Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 6

ISE. ليه tersta JBL Las Cabreden we are mont Reid 1215am 1-13-43 1-12-43 J BURAN 8. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REDACTIONS Not JAN 12 1943 4. byg-14 FBI MYC DIRECTOR VEST UNSUBS EQUIPMENT, EXPERIMENTS AND RESEARCH OF NIKOLA TEŠLA, CEASED, SEX ESPIONAGE – M. RETEL UNDER ABOVE HEADING TO THE BUREAU FROM THIS OFFICE DATED JAN NINE LAST. INQUIRY DEVELOPS THAT TESLA DIE JAN EIGHT, RATHER THAN THURSDAY, JAN SEVEN, AS SOM STATED IN REFERENCE TELETYPE. ON THE NIGHT OF JAN EIGHT, SAVA KOSANOVICH, GEORG: *CLARK, AND KENNETH SWEEZEY VISITED TESLA-S HOTEL WITH A REPRESENTATIVE OF SHAW WALKER CO. IN ORDER TO OPEN THE SAFE IN THE ROOM OF TESLA. KOSANOVICH LATER REPORTED TO WALTER GORSUCH, OFFICE OF ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN, NYC, THAT HE WENT INTO THE ROOM ÎN ORDER TO SEARCH FOR A VILL OF TESLA. KOSANOVICH AND THE OTHERS MADE THE SEARCH OF THE SAFE IN THE PRESENCE OF THREE ASST MANAGERS OF HOTEL NEW YORKER AS WELL AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE YUGOSLAVIAN CONSULATE, IDENTITIES OF LATTER NOT YET KNOWN. AFTER THE SAFE WAS OPENED, SWEEZÉY, TOOK FROM THE SAFE A BOOK CONTAINING TESTIMONIALS SENT TO TESLA ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVE TY FIFTH BIRTHDAY. THIS BOOK WAS ARRANGED FOR TESLA BY SWEEZEY. KOSANOVICH TOOK FROM THE ROOM THREE PICTURES OF TESLA, TWO BEING ENLARGED NEWSPAPER PICTUREX. ACCORDING TO MANAGERS OF HOTEL AND KOSANOVICH HIMSELF, NOTHING ELSE WAS REMOVED FROM THE ROOM OR SAFE. THE SAFE WAS THEN CLOSED UNDER A NEW COMBINATION, WHICH COMBINATION IS NOW IN POSSESSION OF NINE GORSUCH AND * KOSANOVICH. ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JAN FTIZGERALD OF ALIEN PROPERTY CONTROL WENT TO HOTEL AND SEIZED ALL THE PROPERTY OF TESLA, CONSISTING OF ABOUT TWO TRUCKLOANDS OF MATERIAL, SEALED ALL ARTICLES AND TRANSFERRED THEM TO THE MANHATTAN STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE CO. NY, WHERE THEY ARE NOW LOCATED AT THAT TIME THERE WERE ALSO IN THIS WAREHOUSE APPROXIMATELY THIRTY BARRELS AND BUNDLES BELONGING TO TESLA WHICH HAD BEEN THERE SIN ABOUT NINETEEN THIRTY FOUR. THESE HAVE ALSO FX BEEN SEALED AND ARE NOW UNDER ORDERS OF ALIEN PROPERTYCUSTODIAN. IN VIEW OF FACT TESL, IS A US NATURALIZED CITIZEN, ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN FEELS THAT ITS JURISDICTION OVER PROPERTY IS DOUBTFUL BUT I FEELS THAT NO OTHER BERDIN IS UNCLASSIFIED AGENCY WILL BE ABLE, TO GET EK TO THIS PROPERTY FOR AT LEAST TWO DAYS ALL INFORMATION CAFENS DESTROYED 2/1058 PATE 13.12 EIBHin 100-2237-2 TELETYPE 11-06 PM COPY IN FILE 77 FEB 5 1943 ON THIS PAGE FOIA DELETIONS NOT FOIA ARE REDACTIONS WHS 1 Mr. Toleo Mr. P. A. hir. Cior Ally ܡܡܐ Mr. Mr Nisse N. I Mr Trav Mr. Caran NITZ Not FOIA REDACTIONG JANT 1943 Mr. Qui Mr. Neame y 6