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Is there any claim to Tesla having been killed?
The official story of a natural death has been persistently challenged by researchers pointing to immediate FBI seizure of Tesla's papers, suppressed testimony, and the wartime timing of his death. The involvement of Otto Skorzeny — Hitler's commando chief — has been claimed as a direct murder connection. The circumstantial case centers on what Tesla knew, what was taken from him, and who benefited.
Evidence
- Within hours of Tesla's death, the FBI's Office of Alien Property — not standard law enforcement — seized all of his documents, notebooks and equipment.
- The most explosive accusation comes from claimed testimony attributed to Otto Skorzeny, the SS Obersturmbannführer who reportedly confessed before his death that he personally smothered Tesla with a pillow on orders connected to Nazi intelligence.
- Thomas Bearden and other zero-point energy researchers have argued that Tesla's scalar wave and longitudinal electromagnetic work represented a weapons-grade breakthrough that multiple state actors — including wartime U.S. intelligence — had strong motive to suppress or acquire.
- Michael Cremo and several esoteric researchers have noted that Tesla's closest associate, Kenneth Swezey, was denied access to Tesla's body and papers immediately after death — an unusual exclusion for a next-of-kin-equivalent figure.
- Researcher Marc Seifer, in his biography 'Wizard,' notes the unseemly speed of that seizure and the classification of materials that remained suppressed for decades.