Washington, D.C.: Ground Saucer Watch files FOIA complaint against the CIA
On September 21, 1977, Ground Saucer Watch, represented by lawyers Peter Gersten and Henry Rothblatt, filed a complaint against the CIA for failing to produce material on the 1952 Ralph Mayher incident and the Durant report on the 1953 Robertson Panel.
Background
Ground Saucer Watch filed a complaint against the CIA, spearheaded by lawyers Peter Gersten and Henry Rothblatt. The complaint concerned the agency's failure to produce materials on the 1952 Ralph Mayher incident and the Durant report on the 1953 Robertson Panel. The International UFO Reporter reported the suit in January 1978 under the headline "CIA Sued over UFO 'Cover-Up'," and the first issue of Just Cause in April 1978 described CAUS as picking up where GSW and NICAP had left off. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.