◆ The Wardenclyffe Dossier
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The Wardenclyffe Dossier

Seized materials · File TESLA, N. · 1943–Present

The complete surviving record of the apparatus at Shoreham, Long Island, and of the man who built it — reassembled from FBI seizure inventories, private notebooks, correspondence, and forty years of archivist silence.

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The foundational materials are unrestricted. Read from the seizure of Room 3327 in January 1943 through the first American years of the subject — the Oregon dynamos, the Edison works, the night watchman, the ditches of 1886. Free. No key required.

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The complete dossier. Twelve artifacts published from the catalog of one hundred and twelve. The Aperture notebook in full. The seventeen names. The Morgan letter. The pigeon. The firing that did not happen — and the one that perhaps did.

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◆ Catalog Overview ◆

The Holdings

12 artifacts published · ongoing declassification · index rev. 4 · last accession 14 MAR 2016
SECTION I
Notebooks
3 published · CL-2 catalog 001–014
The Aperture Notebook and its companions. Written in the subject's hand, 1861–1943. Includes the fever-room pages (Gospić, 1873), the childhood June-Bug Motor sketch, and the final nine lines (Room 3327, 7 January 1943).
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SECTION II
Letters
4 published · CL-2 catalog 015–068
Correspondence with Mrs. Katharine Johnson (327 Lexington Ave.), J. Pierpont Morgan, Mark Twain, Stanford White, and others. Includes the Plunkett surveillance final report, the Morgan letter of 6 July 1903, the public refusal of 14 July, and the Satterlee memorandum book.
4 / 54
SECTION III
Ledgers & Records
1 published · CL-2 catalog 069–081
The Tesla Electric Co. payroll books, the Scherff second column, the Kelley folder of the New York World, and the Weiss labor agency receipts.
1 / 13
SECTION IV
Audio & Spectrograms
3 published · CL-2 catalog 082–090
The Colorado Springs receiver signals of October–November 1899. Reconstructed tower hum, 1903. Signal analysis, 2016 declassification.
3 / 9
SECTION V
Seizure & Inventory
1 published · OPEN · catalog 091–106
The Office of Alien Property seizure log of 9 January 1943. Agent W. Gorsuch's field notes. Chain-of-custody through NARA, 2016 declassification memorandum.
1 / 16
SECTION VI
The Iyer Papers
CUSTODIAL · catalog 107–112
Materials deposited by Dr. Sangeeta Iyer (1998–) at Butler Library, Columbia University, with restricted access. Includes the sealed envelope marked "To be opened fifty years after my death."
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Begin with the seizure.

Hotel New Yorker, Room 3327 · 8 January 1943 · 9:17 a.m.

The lightbulb in the overhead fixture was on. It had not been on the night before; she had turned it off herself at six. It was on now. And as she watched, holding the knob of the door behind her for a steadiness she did not quite feel, it pulsed, once — dimming almost to the filament, brightening again — and then steadied.

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