Nikola Tesla FBI Files - Page 91

Feb. 25, 1969

Dear Mr. Hoover,

        In the year 1943 the F.B.I. confiscated all of the papers and maybe some of the machines of physicist, Nikola Tesla. These papers were his experiments and ideas at the time of his death. According to the books I’ve read, these papers were confiscated on the grounds of the enemy getting ahold of his ideas and apply them his experiments and ideas and apply them to war machines.

        I have studied all of the material on this man and have found him to be more intelligent than the great "Brain" of his time, Thomas Edison.

        Why without Nikola Tesla there would be Westinghouse Company as we know today. This is the man who harnessed Niagara Falls, and was the one and only man who could see the possibilities of Alternating Current when men like Edison said "it would never wash".

        What I am wondering is, maybe these papers could be reclassified from whatever "Top Secret” classification they now have and he made available for study by the people who understand and can gain knowledge from them.