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Google web search and Google Books (via Chrome) - 2026-10-03

Sites: https://www.google.com/search (web) and tbm=bks (Google Books). Used in Chrome because the web-search tool's quota was exhausted and the Google Books API returned HTTP 429 in run 1. Result: positive (as a finding aid; the documents themselves are elsewhere). Recheck: yes for Google Books (Google Books API was blocked in run 1; through Chrome it works).

Queries tried

Google Books: "Moray" "radiant energy" "Rural Electrification"; "Moray" "radiant energy" Technocracy. Web: "Moray" FBI file "radiant energy" FOIA pdf; "Schiess" "Moray" "radiant energy" Smith; site:arcs-atom.uottawa.ca Moray; "arthur-bray-fonds" OR "Arthur Bray fonds" "Moray" Smith file; "Correspondence: "Radiant Energy" Invention (by Dr. T. H. Moray)"; "Fonds Arthur Bray" scribd Moray; "Moray Products" Nevada OR Reno OR Washoe; site:newspaperarchive.com "Moray" "radiant energy"; site:newspaperarchive.com "Moray Products"; Washoe County District Court historical civil case files 1930s index archives; site:archives.utah.gov Moray; "Moray" "Ravnitzky" OR "917273" FBI; "F-2000-01342"; site:cia.gov "Moray" "radiant energy" (0); "Lynn Badia" Moray; "Okuto" "Crowell" "ionization coefficients in semiconductors: a nonlocalized property" pdf.

Findings [web]

  1. Google Books finds the 1944 Senate REA hearing (pts 4-5, pp.1344-1345) [read in full on HathiTrust: see 2026-10-03-hathitrust.md]. Snippets also show The First International Symposium on Non-Conventional Energy Technology (1982, p.319): "Dr. Craig, his supervisor, testified in 1963 that he knew of the test" (a 1963 Craig statement, probably the one printed in the 5th ed.); Journal of Orgonomy 14(2), 1980, p.240, and Tutt 2001 retell the story (secondary).
  2. University of Ottawa Archives, Arthur Bray fonds (CA ON0034 30-003), research files on Wilbert B. Smith (Canadian Department of Transport engineer, Project Magnet): file F4 "Correspondence: 'Radiant Energy' Invention (by Dr. T. H. Moray)", 1928-1956; a file for Marcel C. Schiess, 1928-1957 (F25), "correspondence and reports collected by Marcel C. Schiess for W. B. Smith about T. H. Moray's 'radiant energy' discovery", also on the Hendershot motor and "a brief biography of Dr. T. H. Moray and his associates"; and correspondence "between Wilbert Smith and A. R. Hooper", Hooper being the Research Institute associate named in the gold work [Google snippets of https://arcs-atom.uottawa.ca/ arthur-bray-fonds file list and https://fr.scribd.com/document/661735462/arthur-bray-fonds]. The 5th edition mentions Schiess (a letter to Schiess from Dr. Harvey Fletcher appears in the orro.info 5th-ed. snippet). This is an outside, non-family archive of Moray correspondence spanning 1928-1957, held by a university. The archive site itself returned "Rate limit exceeded for your region" (blocked; see sites.md).
  3. FOIA logs: - CIA FOIA log 1999-2004 (governmentattic.org, FOIA_Logs_CIA_1999-2004.pdf): "F-2000-01342 THOMAS HENRY MORAY. 22-Jun-00" (a CIA request received 22 Jun 2000; outcome not in the log snippet; the governmentattic PDF refused scripted download, HTTP 406). - FBI FOIA case log 1 Jan - 31 Mar 2013 (Internet Archive, item UnsortedFBIDocuments): "BADIA, LYNN | MORAY, THOMAS HENRY DR. | 1178194-002 | received 12/01/2011 | reopened 02/08/2013 | closed 02/11/2013 | 0 | 0 | No Records". See the run-2 Internet Archive note. The requester appears to be the energy-humanities scholar Lynn Badia (co-editor of Climate Realism, 2021); identity not confirmed.
  4. Nevada State Journal, 4 May 1932, p.6 (NewspaperArchive, paywalled): the same Washoe County legal notice "In re Moray Products Company", OCR "Section 33" (UDN OCR read "section 35"; check the image). NewspaperArchive also holds the Salt Lake Tribune of 11 Dec 1944 p.5 with the Halleck story. Reno papers (Nevada State Journal, Reno Evening Gazette) are the likely place for coverage of the 1931-32 Reno litigation and Hayes's testimony; behind a paywall.
  5. Washoe County court records: no online index of 1930s Second Judicial District case files found. Options: Washoe County Clerk records request (washoecourts.com "Obtaining Copies of Court Records"); Nevada State Archives (civil cases filed by case number); UNLV Libraries microfilm "Records of the District Court ... Washoe" 1855-1964 (685 reels).
  6. Okuto & Crowell (aa-Papers-To-Obtain): only the APS publisher PDF (paywalled) and citations; no open copy. Unchanged from run 1.

Bearing on claims

Claim 1 and Claim 6: the Ottawa Wilbert Smith/Schiess files are correspondence from 1928 onward held outside the family; they may contain contemporary letters and reports (including Fletcher's) that the family books quote selectively. The 2013 "No Records" FBI answer stands against the 2000 release of 72 pages (Silence B).