Office of Alien Property Seizes Tesla's Papers

On Saturday 9 January 1943, two days after Tesla's death, Walter Gorsuch of the New York office of the Alien Property Custodian, accompanied by an officer named Fitzgerald, seized the entire contents of Tesla's room and storage holdings. The FBI's own summary of the action records 'about two truckloads of material, sealed all articles and transferred them to the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse Co.' A further 30 barrels and bundles belonging to Tesla were already in the same warehouse from earlier. Dr. John G. Trump of MIT and the Office of Scientific Research and Development would arrive shortly afterwards, accompanied by Naval Intelligence officers, to begin the technical review.