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cr (R=) (1) SRWRET involvement in the eeizing of Nikola Tesla's research papers and other documents and scientific instruments after his death on January 7, 1943. 7 BRS ‘ . Pued both ained cna Zeele ec akatie nt serbt - genius an eximenter . was. of Serbian arents on 7/10/56, went to school later in Grate, Auatria, — > Prague. Czechosiovakia and Paria, France. He immigrated to ‘the U.S. in the early 1880's, worked for Thomas Edison's laborator ’ for a couple of years, then started his own lab after being paid $1 million dollars for rights to his patents on his polyphase -.;- ““gyatems of alternating current dynamos, which legd to the .: | harnessing of Niagra Falls for producfing electricity ~t— and then the power system of the whole country. He was naturalize in 1889. He predicted wireless copmunication (radio). Hie later experiments in Colorado and elsewhere legd to his producing artificial lightning im the millions ‘of volts. He alao had atents on the concept of neon and flourescent lights, but he —. ter made little monay on his ister § tiene,” atthough he». =" continued to ‘do experiments leading to ficea of great ~ potential worth, which he never patented. He became more reclusive in his later years, living in various hotels in New York City. In the 1930's he claimed he had developed the concept and method of building a "death ray", which could destroy planes at many miles distant, for defending America. Also, there are report of resonance machines or devices whereby he could shake one or many large city buildings from some distance away. Both and id that fesle denated “some” of his papers (or copies thereof) to the Tesla Institute in . Belgrade, Yugoslavia; set up in the 1930°q in bia honor by their. * goverment. Biographies on Tesla claim it either the custodian of Alien Property and/or the FBI seized his papers and other rsonal effects, including a safe or safes, and other property Tamediately after his death in 1943. This ip elaborated on in + -the enclosed copies of certain pages of Margaret Cheney's book, C) : “Tesla: Man Out of Time". Ye Yo © said that after World Bar Il Tesie's papers were : shipped to sla Institute in Belgrade, pushers. y his | ne » Sav y D » who had become Tit assador to the 4 + ere were reports that some microfilming of Tesla's ~~.) apers by government agents while they were still in storage nm New York under Kosanovic's custody, -2- SEQBRET