by Marc Seifer
22. NT, “Dr. Tesla Writes of Various Phases of His Discovery,” New York Times, February 6, 1932, 16:2; in Tesla Said, p. 237.
23. John O’Neill, “Tesla Cosmic Ray Motor,” Brooklyn Eagle, July 10, 1932, in NT, Solutions…, pp. 95-96.This may be the description of a solar energy machine.
24. Carol Bird, “Tremendous New Power Soon to Be Unleashed,” Kansas City Journal-Post, September 10, 1933; in Solutions…, pp. 101-2.
25. NT, “Tesla, 79, Promises…,” New York Times, July 11, 1935, 23:8.
26. NT, “Expanding Sun Will Explode Some Day Tesla Predicts,” New York Herald Tribune, August 18, 1935; in NT, Solutions…, pp. 130-32.
27. Joseph Alsop, “Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles, Tesla’s Claim,” New York Times, July 11, 1934, pp. 1, 15; in Solutions, pp. 110-12; Walter Russell, The Russell Cosmology: A New Concept of Light, Matter and Energy (Waynesboro, Va.: The W. R. Foundation, 1953).
28. NT, “Expanding Sun,” August 18, 1935.
29. NT, “Tesla, 79, Promises,” July 11, 1935.
30. “Tesla at 78 Bares New ‘Death-Beam’,” New York Times, July 11, 1934, 18:1, 2.
31. H. Grindell-Mathews, “The Death Power of Diabolical Rays,” New York Times, May 21, 1924, 1:2; 3:4, 5.
32. H. Grindell-Mathews, “Diabolical Rays,” Popular Radio, August 8, 1924, pp. 149-54.
33. H. Gernsback, “The Diabolic Ray,” Practical Electrics, August 1924, pp. 554-55, 601.
34. H. Grindell-Mathews, “Three Nations Seek Diabolical Ray,” New York Times, May 28, 1924, 25:1,2.
35. Helen Welshimer, “Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft in War,” Everyday Week Magazine, October 21, 1934, p. 3; in NT, Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets, pp. 116-18.
36. L. Anderson, NT’s Residences, Labs & Offices (Denver, Colo.: 1990). (Original source, a Dr. Watson of New York.)
37. Titus deBobula, Tesla tower blueprints, circa 1934 [NTM]; FBI archives [FOIA].
Chapter 45: Living on Credit, pp. 428-435
1. Hugo Gernsback, “NT and His Inventions,” Electrical Experimenter, January 1919, p. 614.
2. NT to GS, July 11, 1935 [LC].
3. Branning, 1981, p. A-3.
4. NT to Carl Laemmle, July 15, 1937, Profiles in History Archives, Beverly Hills, Calif.; Neal Gabler, An Empire of Their Own (New York: Anchor Books, 1988), pp. 58, 205-6.
5. Mark Siegel, Hugo Gernsback: Father of Modern Science Fiction (San Bernardino, Calif.: The Borgo Press, 1988).
6. Lawrence Lessing, Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong (New York: Lippincott, 1956).
7. “Tesla Is Provider of Pigeon Relief” [KSP].
8. Leland Anderson, “Nikola Tesla’s Patron Saint,” American Srbobran, August 14, 1991, p. 4; L. Anderson, NT’s Residences, Labs and Offices, 1990.
9. OAP files [FOIA].
10. NT to GW Co. circa Jan-July, 1930, written from the Hotel Pennsylvania [KSP]; $2,000 debt, OAP files [FOIA].
11. O’Neill, p. 274.
12. Hugo Gernsback, Westinghouse recollections [KSP].
13. NT to GW Co., January 29, 1930; February 1, 1930; February 14, 1930; February 17, 1930; February 18, 1930; April 18, 1930 [LC].
14. A. W. Robertson, About George Westinghouse and the Polyphase Electric Current (New York: Newcomen Society, 1939), p. 28.
15. “Nikola Tesla,” Scientific Progress, September 1934.
16. TdB to NT, November 1897; December 10, 1897 [NTM].
17. Ibid., July 26, 1901.
18. FBI deBobula files [FOIA].
19. TdB to NT, May 29, 1911; NT to TdB, May 31, 1911 [NTM].
20. Telephone interview with Robert Hessen, author of The Steel Titan: The Life Story of Charles Schwab (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975)—teaching at Stanford University; “Schwab Answers Suit of deBobula,” New York Times, August 7, 1919, 15:6.
21. TdB to NT, July 11, 1935 [NTM].
22. NT to GS, June 17, 1937 [LC].
23. TdB to NT, November 25, 1935; July 6, 1936 [NTM].
24. deBobula FBI files, circa 1936-1949 [FOIA].
25. FBI deBobula files [FOIA]; “Tauscher Accuses Munitions Partner,” New York Times, July 25, 1934, 36:4.
26. OAP NT files [FOIA].
27. Hugo Gernsback, Westinghouse recollections [KSP].
28. GW Co. to NT, January 2, 1934 [LC].
29. Mildred McDonald, December 1, 1952 [GWA].
Chapter 46: Loose Ends, pp. 436-445
1. Elmer Gertz, Odyssey of a Barbarian: The Biography of G. S. Viereck (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1978).
2. M. Pupin to K. Swezey, May 29, 1931 [KSP].
3. D. Dunlap, Radio’s 100 Men of Science (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944), p. 124.
4. M. Pupin, From Immigrant to Inventor (New York: Scribners, 1930). Tesla is mentioned once on p. 285 within the phrase, “Tesla’s AC motor and Bradley’s rotary transformer…” (see chapter 10).
5. “Dr. Pupin Inspired,” New York Times, 1927 [KSP].
6. Stanko Stoilkovic, “Portrait of a Person, a Creator and a Friend,” The Tesla Journal, nos 4, 5, 1986/87, pp. 26-29.
7. NT to RUJ, circa 1929-1937 [LC]; Grizelda Hull Hobson to K. Swezey, February 14, 1955; Richmond P. Hobson Jr., in “Books of the Times,” New York Times, Decemer 21, 1955 [KSP].
8. A brief excerpt from “The Haunted House” by G. S. Viereck, circa 1907, from Gertz, 1978.
9. Niel Johnson, G. S. Viereck: German/American Propagandist (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1972), p. 143.
10. Ibid., pp. 138-42.
11. NT corresp., March 2, 1942 [LA].
12. NT, as told to G. S. Viereck, “A Machine to End War,” Liberty, February 1935, pp. 5-7.
13. Peter Viereck, phone interview, September 8, 1991.
14. Gertz, p. 24.
15. Elmer Gertz, June 1991 phone interview.
16. Cheney, p. 243.
17. NT to GSV, 1934 [from L. Anderson, “N. Tesla’s Patron Saint,” American Srbobran, August 14, 1991, p. 4]; NT to GSV, December 17, 1934 [in Cheney, p. 244].
18. “Sending of Messages to Planets Predicted by Dr. Tesla on Birthday,” New York Times, July 11, 1937, 1:2-3; 2:2-3.
19. “Immigrant Society Makes Three Awards: Frankfurter, Martinelli and Tesla,” New York Times, May 12, 1938, 26:1.
20. N. Johnson, pp. 204-10; GSV FBI files [FOIA].
21. “G. S. Viereck, 77, Pro-German Propagandist, Dies.” New York Times, March 21, 1962.
22. NT, “Tesla and the Future,” Serbian Newsletter, 1943.
23. O’Neill, 1944.
24. L. Anderson, August 14, 1991.
25. O’Neill, 1944.
26. “2000 Are Present at Tesla Funeral,” New York Times, January 13, 1943.
27. Hugo Gernsback, “NT: Father of Wireless, 1857-1943,” Radio Craft, February 1943, pp. 263-65, 307-10.
28. Serbian Newsletter, 1943, p. 5 [BLCU].
29. “NT Dead,” editorial, New York Sun, January 1943.
Chapter 47: The FBI and the Tesla Papers, pp. 446-462
1. January 22, 1946, OAP report [FOIA].
2. J. Edgar Hoover, memorandum, January 21, 1943 [FBI, FOIA].
3. Cheney, p. 258.
4. M. Markovitch, personal interview, 1984.
5. As I rewrite this chapter in November 1995, Yugoslavia is in the midst of a civil war, with essentially all of the provinces having declared their independence. The most bellicose new nation is Serbia. It has attacked Bosnia repeatedly for over the last three years in attempts to drive out Croats and Muslims and capture as much land as possible. Many women have been raped, thousands of people have been killed, and over one million have had to flee their homes. At this point a solution appears to be futile.
6. Cheney, 1981, pp. 260-61.
7. J. Edgar Hoover, memorandum, January 21, 1943 [FBI, FOIA].
8. FBI, January 21, 1943 [FOIA].
9. “Floating Stretchers for Landings,” New York Times, August 27, 1944, IV, 9:6; “Company Volunteers $1,
500,000 Refund,” New York Times, November 19, 1944, 1:3; “France’s Honors Heaped on Spanel,” New York Times, March 3, 1957, 26:5.
10. F. Cornels, January 9, 1943 [FBI, FOIA].
11. Fitzgerald to Tesla, March 8, 1939; December 20, 1942 [NTM]. MIT, however, had no record that Fitzgerald was a student in their school [M. Seifer to MIT, 1990]. Fitzgerald also met with Jack O’Neill to help on the biography. He also discussed with Jack the possibility of setting up a museum in the United States, perhaps with backing from Henry Ford.
12. J. O’Neill, “Tesla Tries to Prevent WWII,” TBCA News, 7, 3, 8-9/1988, p. 15.
13. F. Cornels, FBI report, January 9, 1943 [FOIA].
14. L. Anderson, files from Cheney, 1981, p. 264.
15. D. E. Foxworth, FBI report, January 8, 1943 [FOIA].
16. D. E. Foxworth, FBI report, January 8, 1943; Donegan, FBI report, November 14, 1943 [FOIA].
17. Personal correspondence from Irving Jurow, Washington, D.C., July 5, 1993.
18. Werner Heisenberg, for instance, was in charge of the Nazis’ version of the Manhattan Project. According to Heisenberg’s autobiography, he knew that Germany did not have enough heavy water to construct an atom bomb, and he was just hoping that the war would end before such a device would be invented. Werner von Braun, of course, was also implementing the highly destructive V-2 rocket, which was yet another ultimate weapon.
19. Phone conversations and personal correspondence with Irving Jurow, June, July, 1993.
20. OAP memorandum, January 12, 1943; January 12, 1942 [1943 typographical error] [FOIA].
21. Cheney, p. 270.
22. W. Gorsuch, OAP report, January 13, 1943 [FOIA].
23. Trump resort, January 30, 1943 [LC]; C. Hedetneimi, OAP report, January 29, 1943 [FOIA]; interview with a guard from Manhattan Storage, FBI report, April 17, 1950 [FOIA].
24. C. Hedetniemi, OAP report, January 29, 1943 [FOIA].
25. Trump’s conclusion, was that since the device was similar to the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator, Soviet engineers would find no ultimate value in it. This is somewhat astonishing, as Trump also enclosed an article written by Tesla in 1934 in Scientific American where he states explicitly that his device was, operationally, completely unlike the Van de Graaff generator. As Trump worked with Van de Graaff at MIT, it would seem that his cavalier dismissal of the particle-beam weapon was based on professional jealousy. To Trump’s credit, however, here we are, a half century later, and the Tesla weapon has yet to be perfected. (Trump report, FBI archives; N. Tesla, “Electrostatic Generators,” Scientific American, March 1934, pp. 132-34; 163-65.)
26. Homer Jones to Lawrence Smith, February 4, 194[3] [OAP, FOIA].
27. NT, “The New Art of Projecting Concentrated Non-dispersive Energy Through the Natural Media” (1937), in E. Raucher and T. Grotz, eds., 1984 Tesla Centennial Symposium, pp. 144-50.
28. According to a letter to Sava Kosanovic, Tesla was planning on selling eight particle beam weapons to Yugoslavia, three to Serbia, three to Croatia and two to Slovenia. NT to SK, March 1, 1941, Correspondence with Relatives, p. 183.
29. “$3,500,000 Payment by Amtorg Today.” New York Times, November 15, 1932, 29:7; Amtorg and Bethlehem Steel, New York Times, April 30, 1935, 30:2; “To Catch a Spy,” Newsweek, May 19, 1986, p. 7; etc., Amtorg Trading Corp. to M. Seifer, April 4, 1988.
30. J. Trump, letter quoted in Cheney, p. 276.
31. FBI NT memorandum, January 12, 1943 [FOIA].
32. J. Alsop, “Beam to Kill Army at 200 Miles,” New York Herald Tribune, July 11, 1934, 1:15.
33. J. Corum and K. Corum, “A Physical Interpretation of the Colorado Springs Data,” in E. Raucher and T. Grotz, eds., The 1984 Tesla Centennial Proceedings, pp. 50-58.
34. Alcoa Aluminum Co., private corresp., December 16, 1988.
35.NT, in Tesla Said, p. 278.
36. H. Welshimer, “Dr. Tesla Visions the End of Aircraft in War,” Every Week Magazine, October 21, 1934, p. 3.
37. Charlotte Muzar, “The Tesla Papers,” The Tesla Journal, 1982/83, pp. 39-42.
38. E. E. Conroy to J. Edgar Hoover, FBI, October 17, 1945 [FOIA].
39. Ralph Doty to OAP, January 22, 1946 [FBI, FOIA].
40. Cheney, p. 277.
M. Duffy to OAP, November 25, 1947 [FOIA]; FBI memorandum, April 17, 1950 [FOIA].
42. Andrija Puharich, phone interview, 1986; Ralph Bergstresser, phone interview, 1986.
43. “Are Soviets Testing Wireless Electric Power?” Washington Star, January 31, 1977, pp. 1, 5; “Russians Secretly Controlling World Climate,” Sunday Times, Scranton, Penn., November 6.1977, pp. 14-15.
44. Tom Bearden, “Tesla’s Secret and the Soviet Tesla Weapons,” Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets, John Ratzlaff, ed., 1981, pp. 1-35; Tom Bearden, “The Fundamental Concepts of Scalar Electromagnetics,” Tesla Conference Proceedings, Steve Elswick, ed., 1986, pp. 7:1-20.
45. C. Robinson, “Soviet Push for a Beam Weapon,” Aviation Week, May 2, 1977, pp. 16-27; N. Wade, “Charged Debate Over Russian Beam Weapons,” Science, May 1977, pp. 957-59.
Chapter 48: The Wizard: Legacy, pp. 463-470
1. Lawrence P. Lessing, Man of High Fidelity: Edwin Howard Armstrong (New York: Lippincott, 1956, p. 286.
2. II. Fantel, “Armstsrong, Tragic Hero of Radio Music,” New York Times, June 10, 1973, pp. 23-28; Lessing, 1956; Marc Seifer, “The Inventor and the Corporation: Case Studies of Innovators Nikola Tesla, Steven Jobs and Edwin Armstrong,” 1986 Tesla Symposium, S. Elswick, ed., pp. 53-74.
3. W. Whyte, The Organization Man (New York: Doubleday, 1956).
4. David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1980).
5. Bill Gates; interview, Playboy, September 1994, p. 64. In 1996, Jobs reemerged as an overnight billionaire with a highly successful stock offering of his new computer graphics company Pixar in 1996, and, in an amazing turnabout, Jobs was further resurrected as replacement CEO of Apple in 1997. Further, IBM has agreed to produce a Macintosh compatible computer.
6. Henry Aiken, corresp., phone interview, April 1986.
7. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (New York: 1957), p. 236.
8. M. Seifer and H. Smukler, “The Tesla/Matthews Outer Space Connection,” Pyramid Guide, part I, May 1978, p. 5; part II, July 1978, p. 5 [FBI, FOIA].
9. “Tesla in Japan,” Tesla Memorial Society Newsletter, Nicholas Kosanovich, ed., Fall-Winter 1995/96, pp. 2-3; David Kaplan and Andrew Marshall, “The Cult at the End of the World,” Wired, July 1996, pp. 134-37, 176-84; Tom Bearden, “Tesla’s Secret and the Soviet Tesla Weapons,” Solutions to Tesla’s Secrets, John Ratzlaff, ed., 1981, pp. 1-35.
10. P. O. Ouspensky, New Model of the Universe (New York: Vintage Books, 1971), pp. 29-31.
11. Dane Rudyar, Occult Preparations for a New Age (Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books, 1975), p. 245; Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illumenati (New York: Pocket Books, 1975).
Appendix, pp. 471-476
1. J. R. Johler to Leland Anderson, August 15, 1959, in Anderson, “Nikola Tesla’s Work in Wireless Power Transmission” (Denver, Colo., 1991, unpublished.
2. Eric Dollard, “Representations of Electric Induction: Nikola Tesla and the True Wireless,” In S. Elswick, ed., Proceedings of the 1986 Tesla Symposium (Colorado Springs, Colo.: International Tesla Society, 1986), pp. 2-25-2-82.
3. NT, 1916/1992, p. 138.
4. James Corum and A-Hamid Aidinejad, “The Transient Propagation of ELF Pulses in the Earth-Ionosphere Cavity,” 1986 International Tesla Symposium Proceedings, pp. 3-1-3-12.
5. NT to KJ, April 19, 1907 [BLCU].
6. NT, “Terrestrial Night Light,” New York Herald Tribune, June 5, 1935, p. 38.
7. NT, 1984, p. 225.
8. NT, Colorado Springs Notes, pp. 180-183; patent no. 649,621 in NT, 1956, p. P-293.
9. NT, May 16, 1900; patent no. 787,412, in NT, 1956, pp. P-332-33.
10. NT, “Tesla’s New Discov
ery,” 1901; in NT, 1984, p. 57.
11. NT, patent no. 685,012, in NT, 1956, pp. P-327-30. It is doubtful but possible that he considered using superconductivity, as this property of elements involving the expulsion of magnetism occurs at temperatures almost twice as cold. This effect, which is an abrupt and discontinuous transition from a magnetic state to a nonmagnetic state was officially discovered a decade later in 1911 by Kamerlingh Onnes (see J. Blatt, Theories of Superconductivity [New York: Academic Press, 1964]).
12. Discussions with Stanley Seifer, February 1991.
13. Tom Bearden, “Tesla’s Secret,” Planetary Association for Clean Energy, 3, pp. 12-24.
14. NT, 1897, in NT 1956, pp. P-293-94.
15. NT, 1956, p. P-293.
16. Ibid., p. P-328.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book began in earnest in the late 1970s, and has continued unabated until this point in 1996. Along the way, there were many individuals and institutions that helped me in my research. The first person to thank is my former partner in the field of consciousness research, Howard Smukler, who gave me the O’Neill book in 1976 along with the nutty text Wall of Light: Nikola Tesla and the Venusian Space Ship. Shortly thereafter, in 1977, I wrote my first article on the inventor. The second major hurdle was accomplished in 1979, after spending two years poring through the microfilm letters between Tesla and J. Pierpont Morgan, George Westinghouse, George Scherff, and Robert Underwood Johnson, which were obtained from the Library of Congress by Roberta Doren of the Interlibrary Loan Department at the University of Rhode Island (URI). After Roberta transferred to a different division, Vernice (Vicky) Burnett took over helping me, and she continued to do so unabated for another dozen years. I would like to thank Vicky for her resourcefulness and extraordinary efforts, and the rest of the staff at the URI library.
In 1980, I began a doctoral program at Saybrook Institute, San Francisco. The work resulted in a 725-page doctoral dissertation entitled Nikola Tesla: Psychohistory of a Forgotten Inventor. Stanley Krippner was not only my mentor; he was also a keen editor who corrected and criticized the entire treatise. It was a mammoth undertaking for him, and I am most appreciative. Other Saybrook committee members I wish to thank include Henry Alker, Octave Baker, Jurgen Kramer, Debra White, and the outside reader William Braud of the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio, Texas. The dissertation was completed in 1986.
