http://civilwarbummer.com/olux.php An article entitled “Does NICAP Really Exist?” appeared in Saucer News #72, Summer 1968 (edited by Gray Barker), under the byline of “Winston F. Gardlebacher.”
The article attacks one of the more active UFO groups of the time, the “National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.” “Gardlebacher” closely analyzes one of its financial statements, which he calls a “model of deception and padding”; compares the budget for postage and for UFO investigations, and charges that it’s really a mail-order business, selling memberships; and concludes, “It has failed as a lobby, as a publisher, and as a profit-making mail order business. It is mismanaged on all levels by untrained personnel…”
And who was “Gardlebacher”? I suspect Keel: the animosity to old-guard ufology and the close financial analysis are typical; he saved three copies of the issue, in one of which the article is clipped out; and the name is similar to such Keelian personae as Thaddeus T. Farnboggle and Thornton M. Vaseltarp. So — unless anyone out there can correct me — I’ll add it to John’s bibliography. Welcome aboard, Winston!