Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 70

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO             : DIRECTOR, FBI                      DATE: 7/25/57

FROM       : SAC, NEW YORK (65-12290)

SUBJECT :  NIKOLA TESLA (Deceased)
                     IS -YU

        [REDUCTED] Street, New York 24, New York, a United States citizen of Yugoslav extraction, who on occasion, voluntarily furnishes the New York office with information he considers to be in the interests of the Security of the United States Government, furnished Special Agent MICHOLAS J. MASTROVICH the following information on July 3, 1957:

        [REDUCTED] stated that a certain woman named Mrs. MARGARET STORM who lives with her husband, JOHN, at the Colonial Hotel, 51 West 81st Street, New York 24, New York, has been issuing newsletters which contain information pertaining to flying saucers and interplanetary matters.

        [REDUCTED] stated that in his opinion Mr. and Mrs. STORM are exploiting the reputation and genius of NIKOLA TESLA, deceased, inventor of Yugoslav extraction who achieved world wide fame as a result of his inventions in the United States.

        TESLA was born in Smiljan, Yugoslavia in July, 1859 and came to the United States in 1894 and became a naturalized United States citizen. In 1886 TESLA designed the arc-lighting system and two years later he invented the Tesla motor and designed a plan for the transmission of alternating current. In subsequent years, TESLA's discoveries and inventions included such fields and appliances as wireless communication, electrical oscillation, radiant power and radio active matter. After 1900, communications and wireless power transmission occupied post of his research.

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