Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla (81 page)

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.

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.

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).

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 Discovery,” 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.

T
his 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.

In 1987, I began to work full-time on a full-blown biography. Many entirely new avenues were revealed not covered in the doctoral dissertation. A number of key individuals, particularly Tesla experts, helped me enormously. From the start, Mike Markovitch of Long Island University provided me with important source material and translations; William
Terbo, Tesla’s grandnephew, spent endless hours over many years with me discussing various details. In Belgrade, Alexander Marincic, director of the Tesla Museum and, in particular, his assistant, Branimir (Branko) Jovanovic, aided me in vital ways. And in the United States, I must also thank heartily Dr. Ljubo Vujovic, Jim and Ken Corum, and the patriarch of Tesla experts, Leland Anderson, whose cache of material, which, like the documents provided by the Tesla Museum, was indispensable in creating this treatise.