Tesla Papers, Conspiracy?
The Day After Roswell, Col. Philip J. Corso, (Ret.)

“…the mere hint that Tesla's theories might have found their way to the
Germans or the Russians so concerned the federal government, especially
the FBI, that when Tesla died in January 1943, the FBI immediately
seized all his papers, schematics, writings, and designs and turned them
over to the Office of Alien Property, where they were officially sealed
until released to the Yugoslavian ambassador, who was a representative
of Tesla's estate. They remained in storage in Manhattan until the early
1950s, when they were returned to Yugoslavia. Yet even after their
return, the Yugoslavian government believed that the FBI had rifled
through Tesla's papers when they were in storage and had microfilmed
them or photographed them. J. Edgar Hoover denied this, but photostatic
copies of photographs of Tesla's papers were in the possession of the
Army R&D's Foreign Technology desk when I took over in 1961. How did
they get there?”

“Tesla's property was officially seized by the U.S. government two days
after his death… Vice President Henry Wallace, however, told the FBI
that the government had a critical interest in whatever papers Tesla had
and instructed the FBI to seize them any way they could. That was why
the FBI directed the Office of Alien Property to enter Tesla's hotel
room on January 9, 1943, and take possession. Tesla's other papers that
were already in a storage warehouse were seized by the OAP as well.”
“Over the next couple of weeks in January 1943, after a flurry of
diplomatic activity between the Yugoslavian embassy and J. Edgar
Hoover's office, the FBI turned the entire matter over to the Office of
Alien Property, which also wanted to get out from under the diplomatic
tug-of-war between Belgrade and the State Department. The OAP, still
reacting to the vice president's instructions that papers that could
give aid to the enemy could not leave the country, contacted the
chairman of what would become the Office of R&D, the National Defense
Research Committee of the Office of Scientific Research and Development,
Dr, John Trump. Dr. Trump examined the papers, determined that not much
of them were useful, but decided to make photocopies of a number of
papers Tesla wrote during the years preceding his death.”

“With the OAP's making photographs and abstracts of Tesla's papers, the
entire Tesla property remained in storage until it was sent back to
Belgrade in the 1950s. That should have put an end to the matter.
However, in 1945, just after the war ended, the Air Technical Service
Command at Wright Field outside of Dayton, Ohio, sought copies of the
Tesla papers from the Office of Alien Property in Washington and sent a
military courier to take possession of them and bring them back to
Wright. Although there was some correspondence between the OAP and the
Air Technical Service Command over the next two years regarding the
disposition of the papers, at least one of Gen. Nathan Twining's
officers at the Air Materiel Command contacted the Office of Alien
Property in November 1947 to tell them that the AMC at Wright Field had
possession of the Tesla papers and would maintain possession of them at
least until after January 1, 1948. Thereafter, the papers, including
Tesla's own monograph on his accelerated particle-beam weapon, seem to
have completely disappeared -- until they appeared in my OCRD files in
1961. But that was only one of the copies.”
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