Internet Archive full-text search (run 2 recheck) - 2026-10-03

Site: https://archive.org/ ; full-text API https://archive.org/services/search/beta/page_production/?service_backend=fts&user_query=... (the run-1 page_target=texts parameter is now refused); item text via /download/{id}/{file}_djvu.txt. Result: positive. Recheck: yes.

Queries tried (run 2)

"Moray" Shinkle (1,927, noise); "Moray" Tugman (1,431, noise); "industrial revolution projects" (18); "Moray" "radiant energy" Wallace (9,230; Moray books and free-energy compilations only); "Moray" Hooper "Wilbert Smith" (180); "Moray" Schiess (3,232, noise); "Moray" Glassford (10,537, noise). Item metadata of UnsortedFBIDocuments; text of its FBI FOIA logs for Jan-Mar and Apr-Jun 2013.

Findings [web]

1. FBI FOIA log, 1 Jan - 31 Mar 2013: "BADIA, LYNN | MORAY, THOMAS HENRY DR. | 1178194-002 | 12/01/2011 | 02/08/2013 | 02/11/2013 | 0 | 0 | No Records" (https://archive.org/download/UnsortedFBIDocuments/foia-log-1-1-2013-to-3-31-2013-pdf_djvu.txt). Excerpt saved: files/FBI-FOIA-log-2013Q1_Moray-1178194-002_excerpt.txt. - Against the 2000 entry (request 917273: 74 pages reviewed, 72 released), the FBI answered a 2011 request for the same person "No Records". Possible explanations: the earlier file was destroyed under a records schedule after 2000; the 2011 search used a different index (main files vs cross-references); the request was handled as a search for a main file only; or the "-002" suffix denotes a sub-request with a narrower scope. Not decidable from the log. Practical point: a new requester should cite the 2000 release (917273) and ask for previously processed records, which the FBI may hold as a FOIPA release copy even if the original file is gone.
2. Electrical World, 11 Nov 1944 (vol.122 no.20), "Washington Comment": "REA Investigation Report Competes with Comics" (https://archive.org/details/sim_electrical-world_1944-11-11_122_20). It names the author of the report as Supervising Investigator V. A. Young of the Department of Agriculture and cites "pages 1344-1347 and 1368-1376, Vol. 4, REA investigation testimony". Ridicules the projects ("This scientist retailed perpetual motion to REA at $25 a day for two years"). Electrical World was the private power industry's trade weekly, so this is an interested party's characterisation of an REA embarrassment. Excerpt saved: files/IA_ElectricalWorld_1944-11-11_REA-Industrial-Revolution-Projects_OCR-excerpt.txt.
3. Nothing new on Shinkle, Tugman, Schiess or Glassford in full text (word-proximity noise).

Bearing on claims

Silence B (FBI file): the 2013 "No Records" response is a new anomaly to weigh against the 2000 release. Claim 6: the industry press used the Senate report to ridicule REA research a month before Halleck's statement.