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| 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 his 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 |
To the average person, the story of a top secret US Navy experiment taking place in the middle of WW II appears fantastic and exciting. Al Bielek is a gifted speaker and lecturer and as a source for PX lore he is very convincing. However, to the critical view of one who has taken a 'crime investigators' point of view, becoming more than a passive reader, becoming very familiar with historic facts of WW II and the technical developments since the war, it becomes obvious that Bielek has merged real facts with fiction; as well he borrowed subjects from other sources, adding them as layers and filler.
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".
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."
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.
Thus Bielek's claims from his first speech of 1990. For comparison purposes for the following quotation, let's do a quick summary of what Al Bielek tells here:
Al Bielek subsequently repeated most of this in the 1992 interview conducted by Susanne Konicov for CONNECTING LINK, Issue 19:
"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 his web site bielek.com, the majority of the claims stated above can be found.
| 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 |
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.
 Cameron Estate 1993 |
 Arnold Manor 2001 |
 Arnold Manor 2001 |
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.
The email of our contact in West Islip is can be found here.
 A. Cameron |
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.
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 "Princeton yearbook 1936 |
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.
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.
The existence of Alexander Cameron III gave us strong motivation to search deeper into the background of this person. We had to find out why and how
this Cameron was chosen to act as 'substitute' for a person which Bielek claimed to have been in his earlier life - that of Ed Cameron.
Among the real facts that Alex IV revealed about his family: His grandfather, (who according to Bielek would have been Alexander Duncan Cameron) was never in the Navy. His own father, Alex III, was never in
the Navy either nor any other military service due to having polio. His father never lived on Long Island, his family has always lived in the Pennsylvania area, Alex III did have a brother who died as a child
in a swimming accident. Alex IV had never heard of Al Bielek, Preston Nichols or Duncan Cameron nor had he ever heard of the Philadelphia Experiment or Montauk Project.
All of these statements he made prior to being told anything about the details behind the nature of our inquirey. In other words, the interview was not "contaminated" with leading questions or clues. During
part of the interview he was directed to go to the email account and open it and verify the photos inside. He did verify that all of the photos of Alex Cameron III were in fact his father. He was then
instructed to go to the web site of Al Bielek. Once there, he went to the page for Edward Cameron and indentified that in fact, the photo of "A. Cameron" was indeed his father Alex Cameron III.
"Oh my, God. There's my dad".
He was then asked to identify the photos of Alexander Duncan Cameron and he couldn't. Not only did he declare that that man was not his grandfather, but that he had never seen him before. He was then
informed of all the sordid details behind what had been going on, using the photo of his father as part of the Bielek PX/Montauk hybrid. He was in shock. When informed that if he wanted to sue, we would
offer him the full weight of the evidence we had acquired during our investigation as well as testify, he declined, stating that the story was "so wild" and not true that he wasn't worried about it.
He did however, give us full permission to use his name, recording and his father's images to set the record straight. The last thing he said on the matter was, "I think poor Al has smoked one too many".
Some other information came to us by the Genforum of the internet site Genealogy.com. This forum is to support the search for ancestors, and we posted a request for information about
Alexander Duncan Cameron of Bay Shore, NY. The initial request listed the information about the Cameron's as presented by Al Bielek's web site. we received some interesting responses, which
indicated quite clear to us, that Bielek had used the biographical data on another person not involved in the Philadelphia Experiment or the Montauk Project to 'outfit' his stories. These are two
screen shots of the most interesting replies that we received:
With that information on hand, we were now able to find the granddaughter of this Alexander Cameron III.
Eventually we relayed to her the claims that Al Bielek had made about her grandfather.
The name of this lady is M. Long, her full name and her current email address are known to our team, but for reasons of privacy protection, we will not
post her address here.
"My grandfather, Alexander Duncan Cameron was born and grew up in Babylon, LI, NY. About 1910 or so he married my grandmother, Evelyn Hollins Nicholas.
They had two children, a son, Alexander Duncan Arnold born 1912 and my mother Evelyn Stuart Arnold in 1914. Just for your information, my grandfather was
adopted by his Aunt, Annie S. Arnold of the Arnold Constable Department Store - NYC, and that's why my uncle and mother have the last name of Arnold.
He soon removed himself from this marriage and moved West. I have found him on the 1917 Civilian Draft Registration Rolls in Biose, Idaho. After a
few years he returned to Bayshore, LI where he lived until 1961 when he moved to Florida. From Florida he moved to Cape Hattaras, North Carolina in
about 1970. He was married 6 times. I can name all the wives with the exception of the second. He was a frequent visitor in our household and was never
"missing". His son, Alexander Duncan Arnold went to private school in NY and then to college at NYU. He also has never been "missing". When his Aunt
died, he changed his name from Arnold back to Cameron, his birth name. I am in the process of researching his mother's side of the family. His material
side were Carll's and Snedecor's from Long Island. He has two other known children by a wife other than my grandmother. These children are about 53 and
50. A boy and a girl. This son has the name of Alexander Cameron. I do not think his middle name is Duncan.
As for the pictures on the Bielek page; The photograph of Alexander Duncan
Cameron on the top of the page is definitely my grandfather. The photo on to
the left, indeed looks as he must have as a younger man. I do not recognize any of the others."
The importance of this information cannot be
understated. From the statement of M. Long, who is related to Alexander Duncan Cameron but not to "A. Cameron", to that of Alex Cameron IV who is the son of "A. Cameron" but
not related to Alexander Duncan Cameron or M. Long, the truth is clear for the first time. Al Bielek has stolen the identity of Alex Cameron III and claimed that he was Edward
Cameron. Since Bielek's only proof of the existence of Edward Cameron is a form of identity theft and a fraud, it is obvious that there never was such a person. According to M. Long,
the life at Aunt Arnold's mansion was actually lived by Alexander Duncan Cameron, whose last name at that time was changed to Arnold. So there were never any brothers Cameron, Edward
and Duncan, living together at the "Big House" in comfort and privilege. That was a fantasy concocted by Bielek and Duncan Cameron, the same and only Duncan Cameron whose photo is
in the Montauk book and on Bielek's website. It is interesting to note that for a time now, a rumour has circulated that Duncan, who no longer lectures in public, has
denounced the Montauk saga.
Al Bielek claimed repeatedly, that his brother Alexander Duncan Cameron went
to Scotland, to the University of Edinburgh, and while there he received his Ph.D.
in summer of 1939. We already knew that Bielek's claims about his own education were falsified
and so we now looked deeper into the educational background of his brother.
Requests were sent by the authors to the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (which
sometimes is referred to as University of Edinborough. In fact, there is an
University of Edinborough, but it is located in Pennsylvania, USA)
to verify the claims of Al Bielek about his brother Duncan Cameron.
The answer we received was again what we were anticipating. Edinburgh could not confirm, that any person with
the name Alexander Duncan Cameron ever graduated from the university in the years that Bielek claims his brother was there. So for the university parts of both Bielek and his half-brother
Duncan Cameron, the claims stated on Al Bielek's web page are not supported by our research and appear to be false.
Concerning the military involvement of Al Bielek and his brother, Bielek claims
that he and his brother both enlisted in the US Navy as
Lt. (Junior Grade) in September 1939, and that both attended a 90-day
training school at Providence, Rhode Island. They became what is known
among WW II vets as 90-day-wonder,which meant that they underwent a very
compressed and rapid training covering all basic knowledge and skills of a
future US Navy officer, which would normally take some months longer.
This kind of rapid training was needed to cope with the lack of trained
personal within the officers corps of the US Navy in 1940.
Contact was made with Brown University.We inquired, according to official historical sources,
where the only place on Rhode Island that the military training for those 90-day-wonders could have been conducted.
Brown University wrote back, that
the first officers training course was not conducted before fall 1940,
which again portrays Bielek's claim as bunk.
Next Bielek claims that he and his half-brother were sent onboard
the USS Pennsylvania and were with the ship for the most of 1941. Three requests were sent to National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO, one for each of the Cameron brothers
and their father, but the answer came back that even with the date of birth and the full name of Ed Cameron in addition to other
details like the tour of duty, no personnel records of him or
his brother or father could be located.
Another photograph very much in doubt can be found on the web page "The Life of Ed Cameron"
. Next to the description "Final briefing inside the USS Eldridge August 9,
1943 we read: Lecturer - A. Yaglu, Don Thor, Oscar Schneider, Lawrence Schmidt
(Maxon Electronics Corp.), Morris Hablagnian, Dr. Vannevar Bush." A 'ready room'
onboard the USS Eldridge is shown. Allegedly this picture was taken on August 9,
1943 and shows the test crew of the USS Eldridge inside the ship, assembled for a briefing.
This is what a true expert says about that photo from Bielek.com.
Tim Rizzuto, ship restorer of the museum ship DE 766, USS Slater, Albany:
Any doubt, any last vestige of disbelief of this new set of circumstances should firmly be erased by the
simple fact that, in the photo on the Bielek site of the Philadelphia Experiment Test Crew, neither of the Cameron
brothers appear, and since we know who Bielek has identified as Edward Cameron, we should be able to easily pick
him out from the group. He's not there.
Members of our team have had personal experience with Murmansk Run survivors or their families, and all have
indicated that gathering volunteers for a classified experiment that could develop a way to beat the German
radars, and make that route safer, would have been easy amongst those sailors even if they were told it would
be dangerous. Which is another critical portion of the PX mystery - the fact that it wasn't the commissioned
crew that ran the PX test, but a skeleton crew of volunteers while the commissioned crew were housed in cabins
prior to their taking control of the ship in late July.
Yet, according to Bielek, the Camerons were a major part of the goings on with the PX, even having been
sent to a special school to learn first hand from John von Neumann how physics "really works". But every
piece of evidence that Bielek has presented to support his story fails, once it is scrutinized on even a
cursory level, its credibility vanishing into a wispy fog as surely as they say the USS Eldridge did.
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.
Would the real Alexander Cameron please stand up?
Because of the surname, it was quite obvious, that Duncan Cameron (if that is his real name) brought in this 'family' touch into Bielek's
biography. With the real name of Alexander Cameron III and a photo of him, we now proceeded to follow this lead. Following our request we received additional material from Princeton University.
On May 21, 2001, we received photocopies of some interesting documents by mail forwarded from Mrs. Kate Holland of the Alumni Records Office, Princeton University (KHolland@Princeton.edu).
A copied page of "The Freshman Herald" showed the same picture of Alexander Cameron III, and
had more content to his biographical background. A. Cameron, was born September 15, 1912 at "The Peak" in Wernersville, PA. From the "Fifth Year Herald" of 1941, we learned, that Alexander Cameron III
had become a yarn salesman and lived at Greenfields, R.D. 2, Reading, PA. He was married to one Rosemary B. Hoff in June 1936 and had to kids, Rosalie Haxall Cameron and Alexander Cameron IV.
Alex IV was contacted and told that we wished to discuss his father with him because of a possible public misrepresentation going on with his father's name. A special email account was created
where all of the photographs and information that our team had assembled up to that point was contained. Then, he was contacted again, by phone, and with his permission, a tape recorded conversation proceeded
where the information about his father and his family was revealed, information that completely contradicts everything that Al Bielek has ever said about Edward Cameron, the very same man that claims he used
to be "A. Cameron" in the Princeton photo, who we know now to be Alex Cameron III.
A. Cameron
Taken from
Bielek.com 
From Fifth Year
Herald, Princeton
From Freshman
Herald, Princeton
Cameron Biography,
Princeton
Reply by H. Van Pelt
Reply by M. Long
The granddaughter of Alexander Duncan Cameron speaks
In an email from October 2001, the granddaughter of Alexander Duncan Cameron gave this response to our small group of investigators:Alexander Duncan Cameron and the University of Edinburgh
Al Bielek and his brother joined the US Navy
Request Pertaining to
Military Records 
National Archives
Reply March 15, 2001 Allegedly Bielek and his half-brother were then sent to the Institute for
Advance Studies that was located adjacent to Princeton University.
BB38 USS Pennsylvania
The Final Briefing on board of the USS Eldridge
We sent this picture to some people, who would be able to
distinguish what the insides of this class of ship looked like. Nobody else could this do better than these people who actually
take care of one of the last three remaining Destroyer Escort vessels of the Cannon Class that is left in the USA. In Albany, N.Y.
you can still locate the USS Slater (DE 766), now preserved as a wartime memorial, which is open to public
visits. Mr. Tim Rizzuto, who is taking care about the ship,
received that photo from Bielek's web site from me and with that photo in his hands he walked through the whole ship [the Slater] from bow to stern, and couldn't find a
room, which in any way matches the room shown on the photograph either by size, shape or fittings. Have a look yourself, the people of the
Slater provide an Electronic Tour
through their ship. The biggest rooms are the Ward Room and
the Crew Mess, which are still much smaller than the
room shown on the photograph 'The Final Briefing'.
To get additional opinions, I sent the photograph of the alleged test crew to two US navy vets, who were doing duty onboard
a Destroyer Escort of the Cannon Class during WW II. Both took a look at the photograph and replied that
it in no way was this photograph taken onboard a Cannon Class Destroyer Escort. Remember that the USS Eldridge was of this class.
The Final Briefing ?
The Philadelphia Experiment Test Crew
Further, the only reliable source of first hand information on the PX,
the man that was given the name of "Dr. Rinehart" to hide his identity, stated that the crew for the PX was
handpicked and hardened volunteers from the Murmansk Run. The significance of this is lost on anyone who has
no knowledge of WWII naval history, but the Murmansk Run was the brutal yet vital route that ran from Britain
to Russia through the North Sea. A crucial supply route that was not only stalked by German subs but the only
area where the German surface navy operated, and all those German ships used radar.
A. Cameron
Taken from bielek.com:
"Graduating class which comprised
of the test crew for the
USS Eldridge 1942.
Note: Alexander Cameron
is in the front" This photograph, that features the older Alexander Duncan Cameron, is another piece of false evidence and,
like the rest of it, holds a self defeating feature for Bielek once more - If Alexander Duncan Cameron was
in the Coast Guard during WWII, why would he lead a Navy crew for the PX test? And if it was a Navy crew
that was involved with the PX tests, why is this Coast Guard class, which doesn't have the Cameron brothers
in it and is obviously under Alexander Cameron's charge, labeled as the Test Crew?