Chapter 13: He Made Things Up -
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Published on: 1/16/2007
Last Visited: 11/11/2007
He even claimed to have been faculty or staff here when he really wasn't even a student and claimed to have worked with Professor Paul Biefeld, who hardly even knew him.I mean, he just made a lot of claims that were false."
She certainly had my attention.This was not the first time that I'd encountered implications that Townsend Brown might not have been entirely forthcoming in some of his dealings.
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• Dr. Paul A. Biefeld (physics faculty member at DU, 1911-1934, resident astronomer during that period;
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I asked the Physics Dept. for help since the archives yield little on Biefeld, nothing at all on T. Townsend Brown, and nothing at all on this so-called Biefeld Brown Effect.
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Of the relationship between Brown and Biefeld, Ms. Hoffman wrote,
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In November 1956, a UFO investigator named Leon Davidson (apparently taking an interest in the formation of NICAP, about which more later) wrote to Dr. L.P Biefeld - the son of Paul A. Biefeld - to inquire about his father's relationship with Townsend Brown.
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To which Paul Biefeld's son replied,
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Perhaps even more revealing is a letter written later that same year from Biefeld's son to the journalist Gaston Burridge* . Biefeld told Burridge,
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And then the visitor signed the affidavit with his name: Paul Alfred Biefeld.