Al Bielek's Faked Family Album
| To illustrate how Al Bielek provided false information about his own life (his alleged
life as Edward Cameron and the false statements about his father and his brother),
we use the original texts from transcripts of three of his interviews as well as
what can be read on the web site http://www.bielek.com. Screenshots of the applicable web pages taken from Bielek.com
are also available in this report. The transcripts of his speech at the MUFON Conference on 13 January, 1990, were transcribed by Clay Tippen and corrected by Rick Anderson in Oktober 1992. The second source that we use is the interview which was conducted by Susanne Konicov from CONNECTING LINK, Issue 19, in 1992. The third interview was conducted by Kenneth Burke at the Global Sciences Congress, Daytona Beach, Florida in August 1997. |
Screenshot from Bielek.com |
The main story of the Philadelphia Experiment [known as the PX] as Bielek describes it is nothing short of the content of the first Philadelphia Experiment movie released in 1984, starring Michael Parč as sailor John Herdeg. In Bielek's version, Bielek and his brother were those two sailors (depicted in the film) onboard the test ship USS Eldridge. He then adopts the idea of time travel into the future (to the year 1983) from that movie. Other subjects are then borrowed from the well-known Roswell Incident (how the US government made contact with Aliens) and again others from another movie, titled "Alternative III" which relates a story about secret colonies on Mars. Additionally, Bielek incorporates subjects like "remote viewing".
However, let's return Bielek himself. For about ten years, he didn't provide any 'proof' for any of his claims, except for some underground videos that were of really poor [visual] quality and dealt primarily with what some consider being the spin-off project called the Montauk Project. In 1998, Bielek opened his own web site and there, for the first time in public, he showed what he is refers to as his "family" history. Beside some common photographs of Nikola Tesla and John von Neuman, he presents photographs of his [supposed] father and his brother.
Al Bielek as Edward Cameron
Al Bielek has consistently claimed in all his interviews that he once lived as another person, named "Edward Cameron". Here are the corresponding quotations taken from his interviews:
From the speech at the MUFON Conference, 1990
The important statements are highlighted.
"Now I think at this point, I should say where I came into it, both myself
and my brother. I was born August 4, 1916, in the New York area, to a Mr.
Alexander Duncan Cameron, Sr., the father, and a mother who, I don't believe
was married from what little research we were able to do. Had a rather
uneventful life, but pleasant life, because there was money in the family.
My brother was born in May of 1917. And we went on our merry way. Had a ball
as it was, didn't have any worries about money. Came the Depression years,
we decided to go to school and get an education. He went to the University
of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, until he graduated in 1939, in the summer
of '39 with a PHD in physics. I went to Princeton, Bachelor's and Master's;
I went to Harvard for my doctorate. Earlier, von Neumann said, "You don't
want to get your doctorate here at Princeton. Go to Harvard, it's a better
school. So I took a doctorate out at Harvard; I think it was in August of '39.
In the meantime I should add, there were some other things going in the
background, and that background happened to be our father.
. . .
Now one of the other things that had to be done eventually was to develop a
special crew. This came a little bit later. January of '41, the Navy decided
that my brother and I needed some sea duty, so they transferred us to Brooklyn
Navy yard, and about a month or so later we were assigned to the Pennsylvania,
an old-line battle wagon, and we went out into the Pacific. We were out there
most of the year of 1941. Along about October of '41, when the Pennsylvania
was brought in to Pearl Harbor to dry dock for some repairs, we took some
leave and eventually went to San Francisco. We had a ball in San Francisco
in those days, but we were there during that period of October, late October,
early November; and in November it was finally decided that we go back to
Pearl Harbor. Our orders were cut and on December 5th we were getting on
the runway for the aircraft at the Naval Air station to be sent back to
Pearl Harbor when we were intercepted by a captain in the Navy and addressed
us by our ranks, and said, "Your orders are cancelled. Come with me." We
followed him to an upstairs room in the Naval Air station and we were met
by Hal Bowen, Sr., who said, "Gentlemen, your orders have been cancelled.
You may as well know that we will be at war with Japan within 48 to 72 hours.
We expect them to attack Pearl Harbor. You're much too valuable to send back
to Pearl Harbor; you will stay here in the San Francisco area. You can do
paper work. You will be assigned to the Pennsylvania; its home berth is San
Francisco. You can finish out your year's tour here in San Francisco. You will
then be returned to the Institute to continue your work. Enjoy it while you
may, because there will be no leave time, and there will be nothing but hard
work after you're back there." So we did. We enjoyed it. And eventually we
went back there in January of '42."
Those are Bielek's claims from his first speech of 1990. For comparison purposes, let's do a quick summary of what Al Bielek
tells here:
"Alfred Bielek was born on August 4, 1916 as Edward A. Cameron II, son of
Alexander Duncan Cameron, Sr.
My father (Alexander Duncan Cameron, Sr.) enlisted in the U.S. Navy prior
to the U.S. entry into World War 1. He sired me and later A. Duncan Cameron,
Jr. (May 1917), by different mothers.
Both Duncan and 1, as half-brothers, were raised largely by Aunt Arnold in
the Big House, still in West Islip, Long Island (father remained in the Navy
until 1930, when he was retired with a pension). Since there was no lack
of money (due to the Arnold/Constable Department Store fortune), Duncan Jr.
and I (upon completion of high school) attended different universities. I
went first to Princeton, and later to Harvard, obtaining a Ph.D. in physics.
Duncan attended the University of Edinborough (Edinborough, Scotland), also
obtaining a Ph.D. in physics, in the summer of 1939.
In September of 1939, both Duncan and I enlisted in the U.S. Navy-taking
commissions as Lt. (J.G.) and then attending a 90-day training school for
"Special Assignment" Navy personnel at Providence, Rhode Island.
Bielek repeated all of the previous statements concerning his close relatives
and his family, and with the photographs (intended to back-up his claims)
which he published on his internet web site. We now had enough material to
go into the final rounds of our investigation.
On the web site bielek.com, the majority of the claims stated above can be found.
Al Bielek changed only some minor details. Now, on his web site of 1998, he mentioned for the first time his mothers name and that she was
legally married to his father, Alexander Duncan Cameron. In his speech from 1990, he said, "I don't believe [she]
was married from what little research we were able to do."OK, it is possible that Bielek did some research into his family roots since his 1990 statements. #
However, another subject he added to his personal history is noteworthy: In the 1992 interview conducted by Susanne Konicov, he said this:
"Both Duncan and I, as half-brothers, were raised largely by Aunt Arnold in
the Big House, still in West Islip, Long Island (father remained in the Navy
until 1930, when he was retired with a pension)."
And yes, we were able to find what Bielek called the 'Cameron Estate'. It is located in Bay Shore, a town of 35,000 residents in Suffolk County.
We were able to get some photographs of that building and to have somebody ask around for additional background information. Arnold Manor, as it
is called today, once was a large house (Bielek referred to it as the 'Big House') housing only one family, which was the family of 'Aunt Arnold',
as Bielek named her. Today, the property has been converted into condos, but the address is still 1000 Montauk Highway in West Islip, NY. And yes,
the name of that road rings some familiar bells. The Montauk Highway, as the route 27A is called in this part of the county, leads to
another mysterious place: to the Montauk Air Force Station.
To show what the former Cameron Estate looks like today, we here show some photographs for comparison purposes.
The email of our contact in West Islip is can be found here.
There have never been any published photos of Duncan Cameron as he appeared in his previous incarnation. Only as he looked as a man about in his 40s in this life. According
to the story, when he and his brother Edward became involved in the Montauk Project, at some point Duncan began to die so, via time travel, intelligence officials went back
in time and told Alexander Duncan Cameron that he had to have another son so that the spirit of Duncan could be put into body of the new child. That child, now grown-up,
is the Duncan that exists now and has a photograph in the above mentioned Montauk book as well as pictured a number of times in the Duncan Cameron section of the Bielek
web site. One of those pictures shows Duncan with his father, pictured as an elderly gentleman, in a color photograph from around the 1970s.
It is quite interesting to have a look at the source code for that
specific part of the web page, which states the link for that picture as
"Princeton yearbook 1936 showing photo of Ed Cameron.".
The rest of us had sent requests out to both Yale and Princeton Universities and received the answers that we were already anticipating. We got that confirmed by email
from Mrs. Christie Lutz, Project Archivist of Princeton University. This is her reply:
"Thank you for your inquiry concerning Alexander Cameron and Malcolm G.
Cameron, both of Princeton University’s Class of 1936. The photographs
of these individuals in The Nassau Herald correspond with other images
of them in our collections. I have located some general information on
these two men, as follows:
Alexander Cameron, III was born September 15, 1912. He attended St.
George’s, Newport before entering Princeton in 1932 and did not attend
any other colleges as far as I could determine. He withdrew from
Princeton in 1934 to enter the yarn business and lived in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cameron died in 1999."
Malcolm G. Cameron was born March 20, 1913. He attended the Hun School
and Woodberry Forest and entered MIT in 1931. He left MIT and entered
Princeton in 1932, withdrawing in 1935. Mr. Cameron lived in Virginia
and was in the aviation business. He died in 1981.
This was something that we were expecting and now we held concrete proof in our hands.
The man on the photo from Al Bielek's web page " The Life of Ed Cameron" was NOT
Ed Cameron; it was a person named Alexander Cameron and he had totally different biographical data!
"Your request regarding the attached digital image of a yearbook page
depicting A. Cameron and M. G. Cameron was forwarded to the Manuscripts and
Archives Department. If you look closely at the image, you can make out
the words "Princeton University" in the seal at the top of the page, which
suggests this reproduction was not taken from a Yale yearbook. To make
sure, I checked the _Catalogue of Yale University Alumni, 1924-1954_, and
neither Cameron is listed."
Unfortunately, a phone call placed to Alex Cameron's listed residence confirmed that he had died. A woman, who described
herself as the maid, said that he had died two years ago but gave us the phone number of his son, Alex Cameron IV.
So, these emails and the photos proved some interesting facts:
1. There never was a man with the name Ed (or Edward) Cameron at the University of Princeton during the times Bielek claims.
We were probably among the earliest of what later they called
the "90 Day Wonders" in the Navy. In 90 days you were trained as an officer
and were supposed to know everything. Be that as it may, we were then at the
end of that in 1939, early 1940. We were assigned to the institute.
Al Bielek's father ?
He, himself served in the Navy in World War I. He was a seaman, in the
pictures we have in our family album. Exactly when he joined we don't know
and exactly when he left the Navy, we don't know. Those papers are missing.
But as far as we know, he spent a full 20 years, took his retirement in the
very early 30's. And at what rank he left, we don't know, and what connections
he made, we don't really know, but he must have made some very interesting
connections with intelligence because of what happened from that point on.
Now in the 30's. From that point on he never worked a day in his life... by
the way, he didn't need to. Now in the 30's he had a hobby, and that was
building sailboats. Not little models, but full-sized ones, which he used
to race in the various regatta races, around Long Island, which was very
common then. Take a trophy or two. Get tired of the boat, and then sell it,
and build another. In the meantime he also became very active in other things.
Those other things were smuggling scientists out of Nazi, Germany, and
bringing them to the United States. That's a long piece of history, and I
don't really need to go into. But it ceased in 1939 when the war became hot.
In September of 1939 due to the arrangements by my father, who apparently had a great deal of influence in the Navy, had pre arranged that we enlist
in the Navy, as we both did in September of 1939. We were given commissions;
we then went to a special naval training school, in Providence, Rhode Island,
for 90 days.
· his father Mr. Alexander Duncan Cameron, Sr., who served in the Navy in WW I
· No details about his mother
· Al Bielek's brother, born May 1917, went to the
· University of Edinborough, Scotland (Editors note: as well called 'Edinburgh') until
he graduated in summer 1939 with a Ph. D. in physics
· Al Bielek, went to Princeton, Bachelor and Master's Degree, then to Harvard
for his doctorate
The life of Ed Cameron
Al describes his early life as Ed Cameron. He was born on August 4th 1916
in Bay Shore Long Island, New York to father Alexander Duncan Cameron and
mother (maiden name) Arville from a common law marriage. His Aunt Arnold
raised him and Duncan in a 26-room mansion in Long Island. Ed went to
Princeton in 1932 and finished up his education with a PhD at Harvard in
1939. He met Dr. John Von Neumann first at Princeton - a meeting that would
change the course of his life.
After Ed left Harvard, both Ed and his brother Duncan were recruited to work
with the Navy in September 1939 and sent through a 90-day training school and
left with the rank of Lt. "JG". Dr. Von Neumann recruited both of them to
work in the Project Invisibility (Rainbow) project. While waiting for the
battleship to be modified, Ed and Duncan were assigned to the USS Pennsylvania.
They were scheduled to leave to Pearl Harbor on December 5th, 1941, and had
their orders canceled because it was known that the Japanese would bomb Pear
Harbor. Apparently, the brothers were deemed too valuable to put into harms
way."
Screenshot from Bielek.com
To make this part of the story complete, we were able to find an older lady named Nancy Donahue, who
works for the Sagtikos Historical Society. This society is linked to a Manson named Sagtikos Manor,
which is a old historical place located about one mile east of Arnold Manor. History relates that
President George Washington stayed at Sagtikos Manor in the late 1700's, when it was an Inn. Mrs.
Donahue was asked about the people who lived
at Arnold Manor during the 30ties and 40ties, and she remembered Annie Arnold, which must be the same
as Al Bielek's Aunt Arnold, but she definitely did not remember any boys living with her Aunt in those days.
Cameron Estate 1993
Arnold Manor 2001
Arnold Manor 2001
The posting of an actual photograph of Edward Cameron on the Al Bielek website provided the first bit of hard information in the Cameron/Bielek saga. Until that time,
the only photographic evidence of the Cameron family consisted of two photos of family patriarch Alexander Duncan Cameron as a young man and as an older middle aged man.
In each photograph, ADC was dressed in naval military garb. The first as a sailor of some rank and then as an apparent officer in the Coast Guard. The photos would appear
to document his involvement in the military during WWI and WWII. These photos were published in the second Montauk Project book, Montauk Revisited: Adventures in Synchronicity.
A. Cameron
Picture taken
from Bielek.com In spite of Bielek's testimony of a specific place of birth, it has not been possible to
trace the existence of one Edward Cameron II, born August 4, 1916. in Bay Shore. However, thanks to his web
site Bielek.com, we now had some photographs
and we eventually managed to find the 'real' person on the photograph, which Al Bielek refers to as ‚Ed Cameron', which was
taken from the yearbook of the Princeton University. However, the name below that photograph clearly reads "A. Cameron",
which is another glitch in Bielek's claims.
"Princeton yearbook 1936
showing photo of Ed Cameron"
Taken from Bielek.com
Source code of the page "The life of Ed Cameron" taken from Bielek.com
As a cross check, we received an answer from Mr. Tom Hyry, Archivist at Yale University, which reads as follows:
2. The picture shown on the web page of Bielek.com was really of a man named Alexander Cameron III, who died in 1999.
3. The picture name in the source code of the web page of Bielek.com had been labeled to "Yale_yearbook.jpg"
in order to create a false track in case somebody actually tried to trace the origin of that photo back to its roots.