Claim · G-034

David Grusch: Describes the retaliation he suffered as “very brutal” and as “administrative terrorism,” attributing planned retaliatory activities to “certain senior leadership” of the agencies he worked for, and states that a retaliation investigation has been opened to protect him.

David Grusch · Jul 26, 2023 · House hearing, Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs (Hearing)

Under oath Direct knowledge Retaliation, threats, violence

Original words

there is an open whistleblower reprisal investigation on my behalf

In support

At the House task force hearing of September 9, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace said it was known that this had been done to Mr. Grusch, referring to the dissemination of his personal information. In August 2023 the journalist Ross Coulthart maintained that the county sheriff had denied providing the documents and that the leak came from the intelligence community.

Against or denials

The Intercept (Ken Klippenstein, August 9, 2023), which published the police records, writes that it obtained them with an ordinary public records request to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, through its public records officer, and published the correspondence with the office. According to unofficial accounts (see G-050) Grusch's lawsuit against that office was dismissed in August 2025 and the court reportedly found the release compliant with public records rules; the order was not consulted.

Sources

1. Official transcript of the July 26, 2023 hearing in the House of Representatives (GovInfo, CHRG-118hhrg53022) (primary source)
2. Transcript of the House task force hearing of September 9, 2025 (GovInfo, CHRG-119hhrg61718) (primary source)
3. The Intercept (Ken Klippenstein), “UFO Whistleblower Kept Security Clearance After Psychiatric Detention” (August 9, 2023) (press)
4. Unknown Country, Grusch's privacy lawsuit dismissed (August 20, 2025) (press, pro-disclosure)

On this site

People 1

• David Grusch

Claims 4

• David Grusch: Claims to have confidentially provided the Pentagon's Inspector General, in July 2021, with classified UAP… Unverifiable
• David Grusch: Claims to have received threats, together with his wife, in early 2022 and to have noticed suspicious… Unverifiable
• David Grusch: Claims to have learned, during a closed-door meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee, that some… Unverifiable
• David Grusch: In a $2.5 million lawsuit, he argues that the release, by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, of 2018… Disputed

Inconsistencies 1

• David Grusch: Retaliation: from “administrative terrorism” to a plan to kill him

Documents 3

• Grusch's written statement for the July 26, 2023 hearing Original available
• The transcript of the July 26, 2023 House hearing with Grusch, Graves and Fravor Original available
• The transcript of the September 9, 2025 hearing of the declassification task force Original available

Where the claims come from 1

• Those involved in the programs or who speak about them have suffered threats, retaliation, violence and even…

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