A TV producer has launched a lawsuit in a bid to end what he calls a "UFO cover up" within the US government and blow the whistle on a project to develop anti-gravity technology. Robert Kiviat, who has produced hit TV shows on UFOs and the unexplained, has filed a lawsuit in California against CIA scientist Ron Pandolfi, who ran the CIA's “Weird Desk” and his former employer InterNASA. Kiviat is seeking $300,000 (around £229,530) in unpaid salary he says InterNASA – the advanced physics research firm backed by Pandolfi and the CIA – owed him, according to his lawsuit filed in Orange County, California. He also hopes his legal action will allow him to expose the inner workings of the CIA's alleged "disinformation" schemes he says are designed to influence and confuse the public about UFOs by manipulating researchers. He told Sun Online: “Not only am I seeking to be paid for what I am owed legally for my dedicated efforts, but the suit has the added value of exposing the way the US intelligence agencies have manipulated the UFO community and overall, the general public for years. “And to put it mildly, it stinks, many good people have been damaged and it has to stop.” Kiviat, who lives in Los Angeles, first joined InterNASA in January 2018 – after their chief executive Joe Firmage told him that they had secured funding and CIA backing for his research into an anti-gravity machine. The research could revolutionise space travel – but many believe the US government has already developed similar technologies by reverse engineering alien spacecraft it has intercepted or recovered. Kiviat was tasked with overseeing the firm's news and entertainment arm InterNASA Studios, which aimed to prove to the public that gravity-control exists. He says he performed multiple tasks for InterNASA and was told he was working for both Firmage and CIA operative Pandolfi. So far he has only been paid $5,000 – a fraction of the $300,000 he is owed – and he believes that there may never have been any intention to pay him or make the research company a success. Hitting back, Firmage claimed that Kiviat was not paid because he had not delivered his side of the contract. He said he planned to fight the lawsuit and dismissed his other claims as "ludicrous". Kiviat also believes that Pandolfi may have been "spying" on the technology they had developed – or was even trying to sabotage the company – in a bid to protect the government's own top secret anti-gravity technology. Kiviat, who has produced shows for Fox and NBC Universal's Syfy channel, says that he began to suspect that Pandolfi was trying to sabotage the company's work around six months into the project – when meetings which had been set would be cancelled at the last minute and there would be issues with potential investors. He recalls being told that a major meeting – or “gravity control” demonstration – was being planned with Pandolfi’s assistance in Colorado. But the meeting abruptly was cancelled with little explanation. Kiviat was then informed the company was going “dark” to work on the machine without distraction but that he would get paid last – after the technicians and others working on the device. Finally he had enough and launched his lawsuit last month. “The government loves to play with UFO-interested people mostly because they want to keep a close handle on how much we know about UFOs,” he said. “They don't want us to know too much so they'll give a little bit of information and then pull it back. “I believe there is a UFO cover up and there is a UFO de-sensitisation issue. “When InterNASA decided in their infinite stupidity not to get me paid, they opened up the door for me as a journalist to sue them for my salary arrears – and when this goes to trial, which it probably will, I'll be able to put some of these official figures like Pandolfi on the stand, under oath and finally get to the bottom of the UFO cover up – if there is one. “I had to give up my Hollywood career to go and work for these people, I worked sometimes 15 hour days on the phone back and forth – and it took time away from my career and it hurt me and my family. “Once I realised they were going to treat me like that I thought about all the other people they have treated this way and I discovered throughout history, a litany of people that have been hurt, abused and affected with these kind of schemes. “The government even has a name for it – it's called a 'fly trap', where they pull people in and take advantage of people's work and their research. “I want this lawsuit to blow the lid open on whether or not extra-terrestrial beings have visited Earth and if the US government has tried to keep this secret hidden from the US public.” Kiviat is seeking donations for his lawsuit through via his Gofundme page. Sun Online reached out to Ron Pandolfi for comment and received no response.