Humanity was set back hundreds and hundreds of years after the FBI stole Tesla's research.
Everyday people stood to gain from that knowledge, the wisdom of the universe was supposed to be for all intelligent life not kept hidden and used in black budget military machinations that will would take an act of God for the rest of people to know.
Supposedly the Catholic church used it to watch the crucifiction of Christ.

All so the evil ones could continue to rape everything. You don't even need me to name them you probably already know who I mean.