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Governmental Support.

The Sea Of Energy

In Which The Earth Floats

by
T. Henry Moray

Chapter 6 – Governmental Support

To understand Henry Moray’s relationship with the Rural Electrification Administration and the United States Government, one should understand how he became allied with the U.S. Government in the first place. Political views of individuals around him meant very little in his early life. Although he was exposed to a number of radicals, he was unalarmed, not dreaming people could go to extreme measures to further their political ambitions. Only after becoming exposed to these radical views did he realize that some of his associates were truly not his friends, and that he was being used to further their political aims.

Early in his Radiant Energy work he was introduced to two men, John and Dan Magdiel, who once had openly admitted to being members of the Communist Party. Both of these men had participated in Communist Party organizations even before the Communist Party came to power in Russia. Later, when the political climate changed, John would deny his relationship to the party. In 1955, the last time I saw him, I was rather irritated, and in order to chide him I said, “John, you are a member of the Communist Party.” He replied, “Oh no, not me!” When Henry applied for a secret clearance for-the research laboratory in 1957, the relationship between Henry, the Magdiels, and the REA proved embarrassing. Henry’s clearance was delayed until a security hearing was held. This hearing, not open to the public, cleared Henry of any Communist activity, and his secret clearance was granted.

In 1926, Dan went to Russia in an effort to interest the Russian government in Henry Moray’s work. In 1929, a Russian, I believe a colonel in the Russian Army, Yakovlev, came to Salt Lake City to visit Dr. Moray. Yakovlev was given a complete demonstration of the Radiant Energy device in detail, making several tests as Dr. Moray directed in order to improve the device. He checked all the wires to insure that there was no internal source of electricity in the device and checked the device after it was put into operation. He made a statement that the device was high frequency and that it was producing at the time some 665 watts of energy. Quoting from Dr. Moray’s notes we find the following:

“He was permitted to remove the ground connection and antenna connection as many times as he wished, and the machine was permitted to die down. He then made tests to see that the energy was all gone. The machine was then again tuned and after the energy came back he was again permitted to make the same tests. After spending considerable time with the machine, the device was killed by hitting the table on which it stood with a hammer. This was done at the suggestion of Mr. Yakovlev, as it had been explained to him just what would happen if this was done, and the results were as claimed they would be. About two and one half hours were taken up in the demonstration. After the demonstration, the machine was opened for Mr. Yakovlev to inspect; and his report will cover all of that even to the testing of the condensers and the holding in his hand the detector and tubes or oscillators, which he will tell you weighed not more than 8 ounces. All in all, he was given as complete a demonstration as it is possible to give without disclosing the secret. Several hours were spent the next day discussing the theory of the device with Mr. Yakovlev. Mr. Yakovlev left the next day for California and four days later returned to Salt Lake City, at which time he and I spent some hours going over my invention. He seemed very much impressed at what he saw.”

Yakovlev then requested that Dr. Moray come to New York in November of 1929 to visit with his superiors at Amtorg Trading Mission. Interestingly enough, when Moray reached New York, they ended up at the offices of the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York – always after working hours with no one else around.

At this point, Henry became alarmed. Why were they so secretive? Why were they at G.E.? Who were these men? What were their connections with Russia? Why did they insist he go to Russia? His questions remained unanswered. No actual agreement was ever reached. After completing their discussions it was determined that they would negotiate further at some future date. At this point, because of his suspicions and fears, and because of his alarm, he questioned these men’s intentions. He was invited by Yakovlev to return to New York by sea, but because of his previous experience with sea sickness, he traveled by train and subsequently returned to Salt Lake City.

When Henry would tell his friends what happened, and even later as the 1938-40 period developed and he learned more of the political ambitions of these men, no one would believe him. Few conceived during that period that Communism was any threat. With apprehension, he tolerated the Magdiels. He allowed the contract to build the laboratory (Fig. 59) to go to them because of the insistence of his financial backers. It was not until years later that he became fully aware how completely radical their views were. They had an almost religious dedication to Communism and the glory of Russia: to them Mother Russia and the “heartland” were to be protected at all costs.

When Henry asked Yakovlev if he wanted to meet with Dan and John Magdiel, he answered, “Oh no, not me! They’re too powerful for me.”

In approximately 1953, about the time Beria was executed and Malenkov took control in Russia, John Magdiel wrote Henry from Mexico, where he was living in seclusion because of his political views, telling Moray that within the next “five days” great changes would take place in Russia, so that he, Magdiel, would have more influence. He said that it would be Henry’s big chance for Radiant Energy — under Russian auspices, of course!

The enclosed letter from Dan Magdiel reflects the radical views that so discouraged and alarmed Henry. I have used the letter even though it is dated in 1951, as it is typical of some of the statements I remember hearing prior to that time.

Dan and John Magdiel persevered after the Yakovlev / New York incident, determined that something should be done about Moray’s Radiant Energy. As the Roosevelt Administration began to have greater impact and the REA began to shift to a more liberal attitude, more contact occurred between Henry Moray and REA engineers. Ben W. Crim of the REA called Henry from Baker, Oregon, and asked for a demonstration. Moray agreed. When Crim arrived in Salt Lake City, Moray was very eager to give him information. He performed a number of tests, and Crim was very impressed with them. In January of 1938, he wrote Dr. Moray about the conference he and Henry had recently held and the notes Henry had allowed him to read. Mr. Crim made this statement to Henry: “I understand Mr. Magdiel and the administrator are going to have a conference on this subject this week.”

At this point another REA engineer entered the picture, Frank P. Woods, who with J. J. Jurgensen of Greeley, Colorado, had originally seen Dr. Moray’s research work in 1933 (Figure 53), and had thoroughly endorsed Dr. Moray’s work at the time. Mr. Woods, who had become an engineer for the REA, renewed his acquaintance with Henry Moray.

Henry’s memo gives his view of what transpired with the REA: “As early as February 1939, 1 began to fear, from personal contact, that many offices in Washington had more radicals in them than I had the slightest idea of and it worried me. I expressed my fears to some of my associates in Salt Lake upon my return from Washington in February 1939 and later informed Dr. Frazer whom the REA had called in as a scientific expert to consult with me on my work and as my bodyguard.

“In answer to my letter expressing my fears that I had gotten Radiant Energy mixed up with liberals and radicals which I could not go along with, Dr. Frazer wrote me on March 27, 1939, `The only thing J.M. should not say or write is anything in connection with a threat. When he does that he is very wrong and should be told so, and in fact I have told him so upon many occasions. I realized that the so-called ‘radicals’ are feared out West, but the term is not feared here in the East except by a few ‘reactionaries.’ So it was I seemed to be surrounded with radicals, liberals, and what have you and their talk of ‘their daring plans’ and `this man is one of us and that man is not.’

“It must be remembered I did not go to the REA, they came to me. After my return from Washington in February 1939, I wrote Mr. Franklin Wood that I did not care to be put on the REA payroll and I could not, nor could my Los Angeles associates, see the REA offer had much, if anything, to offer toward the perfecting of Radiant Energy.

“While I may not have fully agreed with U.S. Representative Thomas D. Winter (R) Kansas, when in December 1941, he publicly stated that the REA in Washington, D.C. had ‘fallen into the hands of a gang of Communists, fellow travelers and political second story workers who do not hesitate to sabotage the national defense program in the interest of preservation of their political theories,’ for I had in 1939 met and become well acquainted with the REA administrator and deputy administrator and some others first in March 1939, and I must say I have never met two finer loyal Americans or gentlemen anywhere. There were those in the REA who did fit Congressman Winter’s description. I do know there were those in Washington, D.C. more anxious to let Russia have RE than get it for America. They continually spoke of putting the President over the barrel and of their ‘Daring Plan,’ so in March 1940, I refused to continue my research under the REA proposals which included Russia.”

On March 24, 1939, writing from 2000 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C., Woods stated, “I just received copy of your letter to the Administrator which was sent to me by Felix. I was deeply distressed at your-conclusion — we do offer to help you get a patent, and who could do it better than the Government — and through the per diem expense ($25.00) we are going to pay you to develop it. This will not preclude your using it on any private commercial scale you may find it desirable to do.”

On March 29,1939, L.M. Smith wrote those in Washington who were trying to get Henry to accept the REA offer, “I was unable to urge him (Moray) to accept the proposition in its present form.”

April 2, 1939, the REA telegraphed Henry: “Felix Frazer leaving by automobile today for Salt Lake City. He will communicate with you en route as to arrival date. Suggest you await his arrival before making definite proposal.”

Frazer, representing the REA, came to Salt Lake City and began investigating Henry and Radiant Energy. The following is copied from Henry Moray’s notes made in April and May 1939: “In April, 1939, a department of the United States Government on its own initiative, sent a gentleman to Salt Lake City who had been introduced to me as Dr. Frazer. This gentleman was in the Moray laboratory for a total of about two months spending hours each day making tests and taking pictures of the Moray Radiant Energy discoveries, especially the Radiant Energy powered radio, and gathering information for written reports to his superiors in Washington, D.C. After about two weeks, he said it was necessary he go to Los Angeles, California, and it was necessary that I also go to California.”

In California, further conferences were held. Henry returned to Utah in about one week, and ‘Dr.’ Frazer came back to Salt Lake in May of 1939, when he again continued tests and experiments. He was getting advice and suggestions on testing from two scientists at Columbia University in New York City. After days of these tests he said, “I have tested and tested until I am fully satisfied and feel there are no tests left to make. As long as I have the device I will want to run tests, and I wish you would destroy the damn thing so I cannot ask for any more.”

Frazer returned to California and Henry again accompanied him. While in California, he mentioned the “Jensen” test where the RE current had been passed through a sheet of 1/4″ plate glass in series with the antenna, and even then the device operated with no hindrance to the flow of current. Frazer said if he could use the “glass” test, that would be all anyone in the Government could ever ask for. It was arranged that he should make such a test. The only requirement Henry made was the Government should furnish the glass for these tests so it could not be said he had “doctored” the glass. Twelve sheets of window glass were used. The current passed through this glass and the device operated as if the glass had not been in series in the circuit. Frazer said; “That is enough, we will never ask for another test.” They returned to Salt Lake City. He gave Henry several copies of pictures he had taken of the Radiant Energy device being used to power the RE radio, which was capable of receiving radio programs over great distances – even from the Antarctic where Admiral Byrd was broadcasting from Little America.

Then one morning in Henry’s laboratory — totally unexpectedly — Frazer took a hammer and smashed the RE device He said “Now I cannot ask for any more tests!”

Here we have two men working quietly in the one room laboratory that served also as a machine shop, supposedly under the most friendly conditions, carrying out experiments on the device so that the REA could be assured that it had been thoroughly tested, when without warning Felix Frazer took advantage of the tools that were available to wield a hammer – and maliciously destroy the RE device.

My own reaction would have been to shoot the man, and in my frustration I said so, but my father said, “What good would that have done? I had my gun and he had his. It would have been my word against his.”

From what I remember of what I was told, Felix arrogantly walked out. Later when my father made protests, Felix claimed that Dad had destroyed his own device. Circumstances demanded that Dad continue to work with Felix in spite of what had happened.

The question is often asked why Felix Frazer would do this. What was his purpose? From the evidence, I am convinced that it was to force Henry into cooperating with him and his associates.. He realized that Henry was not in a financial position to re-produce the device. He knew much of what went into the device and that the expense of reproducing its components was beyond Moray’s financial capabilities and the capability of the facilities that were available to him.

Henry had refused to enter any contractual arrangements with the government a this point. Felix’s strategy in smashing the device may have been to move Henry into arrangements he had previously resisted.

Henry had shown confidence in Frazer by disclosing details of three of the Radiant Energy tubes; to an extent he permitted him to make detailed drawings of these tubes for patent purposes. He wrote then, “I think that speaks for itself as I have only permitted one other scientific man to ever get that far into details Q the construction during my entire work with this research.

At one time, Henry was asked by the REA to investigate the effects on human beings of high energy, high frequency current. (I use the term “high frequency” in its broadest sense.) Even then Henry was very much opposed to the inductive heating processes used by diathermy machines. He started his investigation by examining all the known electrotherapeutic devices being used in the 1939-40 period. In fact, he became disgusted at some of the devices he was required to investigate, because the “devices” bordered on psychic phenomena.

A number of reputable medical doctors and osteopaths in both Salt Lake City and Southern California cooperated with Henry in these investigations. As far as I am concerned, these physicians and osteopaths were some of the finest men I have ever met. They honestly believed in what they were trying to do to benefit mankind in the advancement of medical science.

A number of highly successful tests of an electrotherapeutic device that Henry had developed were run under the direction of these doctors. However, the results were not accepted by the medical profession, and Dr. Moray was criticized because he did not understand the “pecking order” of the profession.

I will not go into detail with regard to Henry Moray’s electrotherapeutic device and his research with it. However, the reader is referred to the research by Robert O. Becker, M.D., of Syracuse, New York, published by the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center, the Veterans Administration Hospital, and Syracuse University. Suffice it to say that today research is verifying that without electrons available as furnished by ATP, and without the electrical reactions that take place in the body, none of the human functions could operate. Chemistry, after all, is founded on electricity, and the importance of body electrical activity in its chemical processes is at last emerging.

As early as March 17, 1939, Henry wrote the REA: “Your proposal appears to accomplish little more than it gives me a few months of work in merely repeating what I have already done. Neither I nor my western associates are of the opinion the REA’s offer will spell success.” However, upon the promise of a laboratory built by private parties, he did say he would try working with the REA personnel. Other cash grants were to add up to $500.00 per month and eventually to not less than $250,000 for equipment. This promise was made in the presence of S.E. Bringhurst at various times. This help was never forthcoming because he did not become one of the “Brotherhood,” “one with them,” “one of the Daring Plan.” The bills incurred in the building of the laboratory were unpaid and fell upon him when he could not see their “liberal” ideas.

In 1939, Henry wrote the following and sent it to Washington: “I wish I could have someone come out here from our Government who believes in the strength of our laws, who believes that the Government that Washington and Lincoln stood for is not going to perish from the earth; someone who believes in the continued strength and protection of our United States laws, including the patent laws, and with faith in the preservation of the principles and the Spirit of ’76, someone who will not have a pet hobby of `our Daring Plan’ and who does not live for `the expected change in our national structure’ which `will have taken place under the guidance of our honorary 33rd President, First Presidency of our New Regime.’ For all these mad reasons they wish to control Radiant Energy to `put the President over the barrel’ and force their will upon the people.”

One former high government official (Thomas R. Amlie, Congressman, Wisconsin) wrote Henry trying, as Henry said, “to convert me to doing what the REA wanted me to do-disregard all patent protection and patent laws so they could get everything away from me or to cause me to lose ownership in my discoveries so that I could not interest anyone in this work in order to make a proper success under our present way of Government… Two years ago I made the statement that democracy had probably less than five years to run in Europe and that the process of disintegration there was probably not more than five years further advanced than here.”

In other words, he thought that America would, in five years or so, be controlled by the so-called “liberals.” Therefore, Henry had no hope of his work succeeding, except in cooperation with them. He could put no confidence in the protection of the laws of the country as they had been.

One thing is certain, REA did not help Henry financially. Twenty-five dollars a nay and a few loaned instruments are of little assistance in developing a major invention, particularly the greatest invention of all time and one with far reaching effects on the entire world.

Dickering, floundering, hindering the inventor and running him into possible debt, bringing lawsuits and threatening him – are these activities “helpful” toward progress? It took Henry until 1949 to rid himself of the debt this episode cost him!

In 1942, a congressional investigation of the REA was held in Washington, D.C. by Congressman Charles A. Halleck of Indiana. The investigation was looking into Communist subversive activity and how this was hindering the war effort. In his investigation, Halleck discovered Henry Moray’s participation in the REA .

I specifically remember the evening this story came out. Dad had not seen the newspaper article when a newspaper reporter called him, read the article to him over the telephone, and asked him for comments. Dad was taken aback, as he believed that he himself should be invited to testify before the investigation committee, and he did not wish to speak publicly until he had had an opportunity to testify. Consequently, he refused to comment to the reporter. He was very disappointed because he never was called upon to testify to Halleck’s committee. Rep. Halleck also made irresponsible comments about Henry Moray and Radiant Energy without any supporting knowledge of the facts.

As a result of the constant threat to his life, my father carried a gun with him at all times. He carried a .32 in his pocket, and whenever he walked from the house to the laboratory at night he would wear a 32/20 revolver. He was an excellent shot in the old “Western” sense, and I remember having seen him shoot from the hip and hit a crow at about 50 yards.

On three different occasions, he was attacked at his laboratory and shot his way out of the situation.

The incident of March 2, 1940, particularly stands out in my mind. Late that afternoon a friend of mine and I were playing on the front lawn of our home. My cousin was just starting up his car, which was parked beside my father’s car in the garage, the two cars side by side; from the street one could not tell which car was being cranked or who was driving. Suddenly several men in a sedan turned in to the driveway and pulled guns as if they intended to fire on the car that was starting up in the garage. When my cousin backed out, the men could see that it was not my father, and they quickly drove away. I told my father about the incident and he laughed, trying to minimize it to prevent my worrying about it. He later took my two sisters and me to a movie at the Center Theatre and instructed us to call him when we came out of the movie so that he could come and pick us up. When the movie was finished, we called home and were told to wait there, we would be picked up by my mother. However, no one came, and we waited for several hours. Finally, my cousin Chester picked us up. When we arrived home we discovered that my father had been shot in the leg, and the doctor was there attending him. S.E. Bringhurst, the president of the company, was also there.

My father’s account of what took place was very simple. He had gone to the laboratory just after dark and on leaving, had found that he had forgotten to pick up some material from the one office that was kept locked. Because the material was bulky, he left the front door open and went back to the office. As he fumbled with the keys in the dark, unlocking the office door, he had the impression that someone was coming up behind him. As he turned to see who it was, he was hit on the shoulder by a heavy object. Although the blow left his right arm numb and half-paralyzed, with his good left arm he grabbed his assailant by the head and held him pinned to his left side, entangling the assailant’s gun in his overcoat. As the first man struggled, a second man carrying a gun came running up. Dad kicked the second man, knocking free the gun he was carrying just as the first man’s gun discharged. The bullet traveled vertically downward, grazing the side of Dad’s leg as it went, and ricocheted off the concrete floor. At that point Dad’s right arm began to function and he was able to get his own gun out. He gained control of the situation and showed the two men out the front door at gunpoint. He was immediately fired upon again by someone at a distance; he returned the fire, knocking the third gunman down. fourth man rushed up to help the wounded gunman. Henry recognized this man as Felix Frazer. The second man said to the first assailant, “Well, you weren’t as quick on the draw as you thought you were,” and Henry Moray recognized the voice of an FBI man he had known at one time as a security guard. At that point, Henry realized he was all alone in a very dangerous and difficult situation. Here were two men, supposedly FBI agents, who in a shoot-out had gotten the worst of it. Henry was “severely wounded;” he thought he was bleeding to death, and he knew he was going to faint at any moment. If he fainted while these men were still there, he knew that he would be completely at their mercy. So in panic he told them to get out, pretending that he had not recognized any of them, and the men promptly let. Henry locked the lab, went directly to the house and called his doctor and his good friend, S.E. Bringhurst. The doctor came and treated Henry’s wounds, stopping the bleeding. The doctor knew Dad was doing government work, and Dad promised to report the incident to the FBI himself. Consequently, the doctor made no direct report. As far as I know, no police report was ever made.

It was Dad’s belief that the continual harassment was to force him to turn over his notes to Felix and his friends. During this first attack, probably the four gentlemen only intended to abduct my father. Otherwise, why would they not have shot first instead of trying to hit him on the head?

The next morning, Sunday, my father asked me to go down and check the laboratory. He told me to go through my uncle’s yard, taking my.22 rifle for my own personal protection. I was 13 years old. Upon reaching the west end of the garden, I was to watch the front door of the lab for half an hour to insure that no one was there; then I was to go to the door and check it to make sure that it had been locked, as he could not remember. I did exactly as I was told.

On Monday morning, we assisted my father to the laboratory at an early hour before anyone else arrived. Julius Noyes, his assistant at the time, was due to arrive at 8:00 a.m. Julius came in and went right to work in the back room after simply saying good morning, and Dad did not move from behind his desk. Later, Felix Fraser came in and rushed back to Julius Noyes. Shortly after, Fraser returned to the office and fussed around for a few minutes, looking at the floor. Then he came into my father’s office and said, “Henry, why didn’t you tell me you were shot?” Immediately Dad asked him how he knew that he had been shot. Fraser said, “Oh, Julius told me,” but my father had deliberately prevented Julius from knowing of the shooting. Dad quickly changed the subject, but from that point on he refused any further cooperation with the Rural Electrification Administration.

Interestingly, Mr. Hans Amley, who was a faithful friend and bodyguard/night watchman, had been relieved from his job just a few days before March 2, the date of the shooting. If Hans had been present on watch, Henry’s attackers might have met an abrupt end, because Hans was noted for the fighting he and some of his friends had done in the Spanish Civil War.

Because of Dad’s refusal to cooperate further with the REA after the shooting, the liberal backers from Southern California withdrew their financial support. Suddenly, a number of contractors were bringing actions against him to collect bills he thought had been paid months before.

Things began to move rapidly then. Dad refused to cooperate further with Felix. He discontinued any active direct correspondence with the government except through Bringhurst and his attorney, K.K. Steffenson. He insisted that the government furnished equipment be taken out of the laboratory and that the government withdraw from the research.

In 1939-40, Henry was introduced by Dr. McManis to an English diplomat, M.V. Bluit, D.A.S. Mr. Bluit became very excited about Radiant Energy. In January of 1941, Mr. Bluit invited Henry Moray to come to England to work under the auspices of — we assumed from the correspondence — the English Admiralty. However, Dr. Moray felt that if he left the United States he would also leave behind what little security he had left. He knew it would be impossible for him to carry a gun in England. He also knew that he would have to transport his notes and materials. While I don’t think he really believed that anyone would ever completely stop him from developing Radiant Energy, he had become more and more cautious and more afraid of the world as a result of the direct attacks upon him. Henry therefore declined the offer to go to England.

Henry’s efforts thereafter were abruptly directed to surviving, physically and financially. He was given a fixed time limit to completely pay the debt he had incurred in building the laboratory. Funds became so tight that he could not even afford to have power in the building, and the laboratory appeared to be deserted. Henry became somewhat of a recluse and refused to plant lawn or shrubbery around the building. The yard was allowed to go to weeds. In spite of his precautions, on two other occasions after this he was attacked again.

In 1942, shortly after World War II began for the United States, Henry Moray attempted to rebuilt a Radiant Energy Device, using the remaining bit of what was known as the “Swedish Stone.” This material, which was the heart of his original RE detector, he had never been able to duplicate, and the shortage of this material limited the amount of power he could draw. Consequently, in the larger unit, he developed a second detector that forced him into extensive research involving nuclear materials and radioactive reactions. He became deeply involved particularly in the study of synthetic radioactivity as described by Gustave LeBon in his book, The Evolution of Matter. He ran into a new problem at this point; he found that for some reason the book had been withdrawn from the public libraries. As a result of Henry’s inquiries about the book, FBI agents came by and asked why he wanted the book. He told them, very plainly, “To read!” To Henry this investigation was harassment, pure and simple. He had no way of knowing that the Manhattan Project had started and the U.S. was deeply committed to a massive effort to develop the atomic bomb. He had no way of knowing why a book more than fifty years old had been classified and was gone from every library in the United States. Consequently, his friend Wilson at the Wilson Book Store on 2nd South in Salt Lake City advertised for The Evolution of Matter and obtained three copies for him. One might ask why Henry needed three copies, but the answer is very simple. He had been accused before of falsifying and printing books for his own benefit by a “gentleman” at the University of Utah who had graciously given him credit far beyond his due in claiming that Henry had ghosted and reprinted one of Nicola Tesla’s books for his own profit, calling it Experiments with Alternating Currents of High Potential and High Frequency. Henry always laughed at this preposterous charge. However, this is one of the reasons why he became a book collector and always collected more than one copy of any book.

At any rate, Henry Moray succeeded in rebuilding the small Radiant Energy device and began testing it for endurance in the summer of 1943. He put it in the back of his automobile, with a bank of lights as the resistive load, and drove the car with his family from Salt Lake City to Ashton, Idaho, into Wyoming, back to Salt Lake City, and to Denver, letting the device operate continually. In Greeley, Colorado, he took it out of the car, switched the device off and stayed overnight in a motel. The next afternoon he attempted to set up the device in a park in Denver. He had been promised backing by Dr. Spears, one of the originators of the Spears Clinic in Denver, and wished to demonstrate the device for him. I specifically remember how distressed he became at the time because after I had helped him set up the antenna and the ground, he was unable to tune the device properly and get it to operate. My father sent me away to get something to eat, and I grabbed a quick hot dog and returned. Dad was still quite upset. My mother spoke gently to him and said, “Henry, it’s all right, come and get something to eat.” I said to him, “Daddy, I will watch things.” So he stepped over to the table to eat, and I sat and watched the “dead” bank of lights. After about ten minutes, the lights began to glow ever so dimly. As I watched, little by little the illumination built up and became distinct. I ran and got my father, and within a very few minutes the lights were burning very brilliantly, and it was obvious that the device was operating and in excellent condition.

But once again failure was to thwart his efforts, even with the new and successful rebuilding of the device.

He had been promised through a well-meaning second party that Dr. Spears would back the Moray research and insure that the RE device would be produced. However, when we left Spears’ home that night we left in despair, for Dr. Spears’ offer had been, to quote, “If you will leave your device here, I will contact you and let you know if I like it or not.” Of course, this was intolerable.

This was the crowning and fatal blow to my father’s research. We returned to Salt Lake City, somewhat fearful of what was about to happen. Henry had been given a time limit to either settle his debts or leave the laboratory and his home. Foreclosure procedures had already been completed. His reputation and his credit had been attacked.

But even this was not the worst. That Thanksgiving a man named Robert B. Perish, from Monrovia, California, came to Salt Lake. I personally heard him say to Henry, “Either come back to the government or we will liquidate you.” I became so angry at this direct threat that I went to get my .22 caliber rifle to shoot the man myself, but my father stopped me in the back room – for which I am thankful to this day.

This brazen threat was the final blow to Dr. Moray’s courage. Meanwhile, the RE device had burned out during a test in Salt Lake because of an overload in the circuit. The so-called “detector” was no longer operative, for out of fear of compromising its secret, he had dismantled it months before. He had been shot once and had exchanged fire with attackers on two other occasions, hitting several of his assailants and miraculously escaping with his life. Now it appeared that the U.S. Government was saying that he was to be liquidated.

However, Dad countered by telling Mr. Perish that the RE notes had been divided into separate packages and sent to secret friends in England and Canada. He stated that these notes were hidden in safe places with the instructions that if anything ever happened to Henry Moray, the notes were to be published immediately and in full. Perish then replied that Henry would never be bothered again.

As a result of Perish’s visit and delivery of a threat of liquidation by the Government, Dr. Moray began to refuse to see anyone connected with the Government. He buried himself completely in the therapeutic research. From time to time there would again be evidences in his laboratory work of his RE effects. However, he felt that because of the high cost of materials and of gaining legitimate assistance, it would be almost impossible to rebuild the device.

Because Henry himself did not have powerful financial backing, most individuals refused to do any investigation of the RE device and its operation from a simple description unless they were hired and paid.

The years slipped by and from time to time Henry and I would discuss his notes and go over the drawings. He spent most of his time working on what he called the “counter-balance” to eliminate the need for an antenna. As time went on, I became afraid the antenna would fall. The neighborhood was becoming quite built up. A seventy-foot pole falling on a neighbor’s house would have done considerable damage, so I had the antenna dismantled in 1956.

In 1949-50, my father, my brother, and I had a conference and discussed what could be done to raise sufficient capital for RE development. My brother thought Canada would grow, and proposed going there and investing in land to eventually raise money as the land increased in value. I volunteered to stay in Salt Lake City and work with my father. Consequently, while we continued to try to find other research projects to support our research in Radiant Energy, we divided our forces. My brother went to Canada, and my father and I stayed in Salt Lake City.

Needless to say, through the years my father and I were not very successful in raising capital because most of the projects we obtained either barely paid their own expense plus a living wage, or they required additional capital to support them.

*Note made by Dr. Moray of this visit reads: “Robert B. Perish, 718 Mountain View Avenue, 5944 Monrovia.”

I became interested in high energy radiation effects and spent much time investigating the effect of high energy electron and photon beams on materials. I received recognition for my work when I delivered a paper in 1964 in Colorado before the Colorado Mining Association’s convention. I have been listed in American Men of Science since that time.

My brother’s work has been successful financially, and he has supported much of the research the last few years. My father was an innovator rather than a theoretician in his experimentation, and consequently, his notes are more general than specific; but my brother and I believe that by combining our personal knowledge with his notes and other documentation we would be able to rediscover — and with financial backing, rebuild — the RE device. Though it may cost a fortune, we do not intend to allow his work to remain buried.

Radiant Energy can no longer be stopped by simply ignoring it or attacking one or two individuals, for we have been able to build an organization where several persons are qualified to carry on the work. The only remaining difficulty is that this type of research and development takes several millions of dollars and long periods of time. Thus financial assistance is still needed, and assistance is needed from individuals willing to work without immediate remuneration towards the salvation of mankind in this increasingly energy-short world.

In the past, Dr. Moray never intended to make large sums of money for himself. He only wished to insure that the device be made available to mankind instead of being hidden or used by a few powerful men for a monopoly. I think this can best be proven by examining the record of his work with the Judd interests of San Francisco. I have two letters which are directly applicable, one from his attorney, K.K. Steffenson, and another one from Mr. Edward Sasoon. Both persons were present when Judd of San Francisco offered Dr. Moray one hundred million dollars for a 51 percent interest in Radiant Energy. Dr. Moray refused because selling a 51 percent interest would mean passing control of Radiant Energy into the hands of men who would then never offer it openly to the world.

On October 16, 1956, Dr. Robert Craig, a former REA deputy administrator wrote: “The development of Radiant Energy has been a slow, laborious task, one of the greatest difficulties being that Moray has stood all alone. People who should have been interested were more concerned with immediate returns than with the important long-range returns. Naturally, during such a long period, many questions arise as to protection of rights, interests, etc.”

Again on November 14, 1959, Dr. Craig wrote, “Permit me to say that I have known Dr. Moray now for about 20 years and have observed him single handedly trying to get acceptance of some of his ideas and discoveries, particularly in the area of ‘Radiant Energy.’ Many of the now accepted areas in atomic and nuclear physics were outlined by Dr. Moray as early as the middle 30’s.

“At one time or another I have endeavored to help him by bringing his work to the attention of people in the government without any great success. Of course, no longer do they dispute the basis of his work. However, to bring pure research to successful commercial application involves time and money, particularly the latter. While we can spend millions for missiles that are abortive and no one seems to mind, a few hundred thousand dollars available to this man would obviate, I believe, much of the need for missiles. Of course, this is my own idea in the matter, but I do believe a helping hand now to Dr. Moray could do more towards solving world tension than the mere building of bigger and bigger armaments to protect us from the ‘have-nots.’

“I can assure you from my personal knowledge of Dr. Moray that here is a unique mind and an ability which would be worthwhile developing.”

Henry Moray became more and more amazed as he approached death, for he had never believed he could really be stopped. The words of Perish had essentially come true. He had been liquidated. Many people in the world had attacked his credibility, many of his records had disappeared, and the true background of things that had happened to him was generally unknown. In fact, we have recently been informed that none of the original patent applications that Henry made are any longer available at the U.S. Patent Office. Although their file jackets are there, the contents and applications themselves are gone. Methodically, more than a dozen applications have “disappeared.” The question of exactly who has removed them will probably forever remain unanswered. But I can assure the reader that Watergate was not the first great cover-up and act of duplicity — and it will not be the last.

Others may discover direct energy conversion systems using synthetic radioactive materials. Bell Laboratories has made millions of dollars from semiconductors though no credit has been given to Henry Moray. Therapeutic or chemical reactions that Dr. Moray worked with may be extensively used in the next few decades.

I knew and had the privilege to work with one of the most brilliant scientific minds that ever lived who received little credit. Using, as a friend of his calls it, “second and third order of magnitude thinking,” Henry Moray produced free Radiant Energy that could lift mankind from his servitude and energy limitations and place the very stars in his grasp. Even though I am his son and may be accused of being prejudiced, no one who looks at the record can say that my claims or my feelings are entirely unjustified.