◆ The Wardenclyffe Dossier
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⬥ RESTRICTED — OFFICE OF ALIEN PROPERTY ⬥

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. One hundred and twelve artifacts. 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

112 artifacts · last accession 14 MAR 2016 · index rev. 4
SECTION I
Notebooks
001–014 · 14 items · OPEN
The Aperture Notebook and its companions. Written in the subject's hand, 1861–1943. Includes the fever-room pages (Gospić, 1873) and the final nine lines (Room 3327, 7 January 1943).
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SECTION II
Letters
015–068 · 54 items · CL-2
Correspondence with Mrs. Katharine Johnson (327 Lexington Ave.), J. Pierpont Morgan, Mark Twain, Stanford White, and others. Includes the Morgan letter of 6 July 1903 and its cross-linked memoranda.
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SECTION III
Ledgers & Records
069–081 · 13 items · CL-2
The Tesla Electric Co. payroll books, the Scherff second column, the Kelley folder of the New York World, and the Weiss labor agency receipts.
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SECTION IV
Audio & Spectrograms
082–090 · 9 items · CL-2
The Colorado Springs receiver signals of October–November 1899. Reconstructed tower hum, 1903. Signal analysis, 2016 declassification.
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SECTION V
Seizure & Inventory
091–106 · 16 items · CL-2
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.
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SECTION VI
The Iyer Papers
107–112 · 6 items · CL-2 + CUSTODIAL
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 "Do Not Disturb" sign had been on the doorknob for three days. Alice Monaghan stood in the carpeted hush of the thirty-third-floor corridor and counted. Three days was more than the standing rule allowed. The rule was two. She used the passkey. The room was as she had always found it — except for the light. The bulb overhead pulsed, once, and steadied.

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