Ted Gunderson Explained

Ted Gunderson
Birth Date:November 7, 1928
Party:Constitution
Birth Place:Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
Death Place:Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Employer:Federal Bureau of Investigation, private clients
Occupation:FBI Senior Special Agent In Charge, private investigator, speaker, author
Senior Special Agent in Charge, Los Angeles; Special Agent in Charge, Dallas, Memphis and Washington, D.C. offices, F.B.I.

Theodore L. Gunderson (November 7, 1928 – July 31, 2011) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI,[1] an American author, and a conspiracy theorist. Some of his FBI case work included the Death of Marilyn Monroe and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.[2] He was the author of the best-selling book How to Locate Anyone Anywhere Without Leaving Home.[3] In later life, he researched a number of topics, notably including satanic ritual abuse.[4]

Early life and FBI

Ted Gunderson was born in Colorado Springs. He graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1950.

In December 1951, Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover. He served in the Mobile, Knoxville, New York City, and Albuquerque offices. He held posts as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge in New Haven and Philadelphia. In 1973, he became the head of the Memphis FBI office, and in 1975 became head of the Dallas FBI office.[5] In 1977, Gunderson was appointed head of the Los Angeles FBI.[6] In 1979, he was one of a handful interviewed for the job of FBI director, which ultimately went to William H. Webster.[7]

Post-FBI

After retiring from the FBI, Gunderson set up a private investigation firm, Ted L. Gunderson and Associates, in Santa Monica. In 1980, he became a defense investigator for Green Beret doctor Jeffrey R. MacDonald, who had been convicted of the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters. Gunderson obtained affidavits from Helena Stoeckley confessing to her involvement in the murders which she claimed had in actuality been perpetrated by a Satanic cult of which she was a member.[8]

Stoeckley later took and passed a polygraph, with the military examiner concluding that Stoeckley truthfully believed that she was present at MacDonald's home during the murders. But because of her drug use during and after the murders, the examiner could not conclude if she was actually present at the scene of the murders.[9] Some time afterwards, Stoeckley changed her story and denied ever having seen MacDonald, and was adamant she was not involved.[10] Under oath, Stoeckley denied any culpability in murders, and any knowledge of who may have committed the acts.[11] On her deathbed at the age of 31, Stoeckley changed her story one final time and reiterated and reaffirmed that she was present during the murder of MacDonald's family and that MacDonald himself is innocent.[12] [13]

Gunderson became a leading figure on the far-right[14] and a leading anti-government conspiracy theorist.[15]

Gunderson was involved in the McMartin preschool case, at the heart of the 1980s "satanic panic".[16] [17] He made numerous confident statements supporting the truth of the supposed abuse ring[18] and became a "recognized spokesman on the dangers of satanic ritual cults".[19]

In a 1995 conference in Dallas, Gunderson warned about the proliferation of purported secret occultist groups, and the danger posed by the New World Order, a conspiracy theory about an alleged shadow government that would be controlling the United States government. He also claimed that a "slave auction" in which children were sold by Saudi Arabian agents to men had been held in Las Vegas, that four thousand ritual human sacrifices are performed in New York City every year, and that the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was carried out by the U.S. government.[20]

Gunderson also claimed that in the United States, there is a secret widespread network of groups who kidnap children and infants and subject them to ritual abuse and subsequent human sacrifice.

The Southern Poverty Law Center believed Gunderson "played a pivotal role in the anti-government 'patriot' movement".[21] Gunderson alleged the U.S. government was preparing for mass executions by setting up a thousand internment camps and purchasing 30,000 guillotines.[22] [23] [24] He was also an architect of conspiracy theories around the Oklahoma City bombing, promoting a narrative of an FBI coverup, and the idea that if McVeigh was one of the bombers then it was due to secret government mind control.[25]

Gunderson had an association with former music producer and conspiracy film maker Anthony J. Hilder. Hilder had interviewed him regarding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[26] He also appeared in Hilder's Reichstag '95 and Illuminazi 911 documentaries.[27] [28]

Gunderson did not believe that Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident. Instead, Gunderson alleged that top officials linked to an international drug and weapons ring feared the singer-turned-politician was about to expose their crimes, so they had Bono murdered on the ski slopes and staged the accident.[29] [30]

Death

On July 31, 2011 Gunderson's son reported that his father had died from bladder cancer.[31]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI . Turner Publishing Co. . 1999 . 150–151 . 9781563114731.
  2. Web site: 2011-08-19. Former Memphis FBI chief Gunderson dies. 2021-04-30. San Diego Union-Tribune. en-US.
  3. Book: How to Locate Anyone Anywhere Without Leaving Home. 0-525-24746-7. Gunderson. Ted L.. McGovern. Roger. 1989. Dutton .
  4. Book: Gunderson, Ted L. Corruption: the Satanic drug cult network and missing children. 1994. English. 893568977.
  5. Web site: The Dallas Division, Office Locations and Special Agents in Charge .
  6. Web site: Daniel Schorn . CBS News, 48 Hours . Jeffrey MacDonald: Time For Truth . November 6, 2005 . 2010-06-07.
  7. January 2, 1983, The Dallas Morning News
  8. Web site: Associated Press International . Around the Nation; Investigation Reopened In Doctor's Murder Case . 1982-04-17 . 2008-08-21.
  9. Web site: Helena Stoeckley polygraph by Robert Brisentine Jeffrey MacDonald Case. 2021-08-18. www.crimearchives.net.
  10. The Murder Almanac, p. 112. .
  11. Book: McGinniss, Joe . Fatal Vision . 1983 . G.P. Putnam Sons . 978-0399128165 . New York . 9111302.
  12. Web site: Jeffrey MacDonald's Wife Says He Is 'At Peace' As Judge Considers New Evidence. 2021-08-18. ABC News. en.
  13. Book: Morris, Errol. Errol Morris. A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald. 2012. Penguin Press. 978-1594203435. New York. 760974114.
  14. News: SERRANO. RICHARD A.. 11 December 1999. Keeping an Eye on Would-Be Y2K Terrorists - Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times. 2021-04-26.
  15. News: 29 August 1996. Anti-Government Rally Set for Washington. Associated Press. 2021-04-26. The Oklahoman.
  16. Wyatt . W. Joseph . 2002-05-01 . What was Under the McMartin Preschool? A Review and Behavioral Analysis of the "Tunnels" Find . Behavior and Social Issues . en . 12 . 1 . 29–39 . 10.5210/bsi.v12i1.77 . 143610786 . 2376-6786. free .
  17. Book: Beck, Richard . We Believe the Children: a Moral Panic in the 1980s . 2015 . 978-1610392877 . 1 . New York . 884814316.
  18. Book: De Young, Mary . The Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic . 2004 . McFarland . 0-7864-1830-3 . Jefferson, N.C. . 53900894.
  19. Book: Jenkins, Philip . Moral panic : changing concepts of the child molester in modern America . 1998 . . 0300073879 . New Haven, CT . 38566093.
  20. Web site: Evan Harrington . . Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes From a Mind-Control Conference . September 1996 . 2012-04-29.
  21. Web site: 8 May 2001. False Patriots. 2021-04-26. Southern Poverty Law Center. en.
  22. News: Ingram . Hunter . Fact check: Fake claim about US purchase of 30,000 guillotines has circulated for years . en-US . 2021-04-26.
  23. News: 2009-08-29 . Secret camps and guillotines? Groups make 'birthers' look sane . en-US . 2021-04-26.
  24. Web site: Keller. Larry. 30 August 2009. Evidence Grows of Far-Right Militia Resurgence. 2021-04-26. Southern Poverty Law Center. en.
  25. News: Witt. Howard. 9 May 1995. AMID OKLAHOMA MYSTERIES, CONSPIRACY IDEAS WIN HEARING. en-US. Chicago Tribune. 2021-04-26.
  26. 9/11 Decoded: Journey to Polynesia by Jim Garrity · 2015 - THE WTC EXPERIMENTAL BOMB
  27. Something in This Book Is True, Second Edition by Bob Frissell - Page 75 Notes
  28. https://books.google.com/books?id=t0ghAQAAMAAJ The Free American!, vol. 10
  29. Web site: 2008-04-03. Sonny Bono 'assassinated' by hitmen: former FBI agent. 2021-08-20. NewsComAu. en. 2021-08-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20210820133709/https://www.news.com.au/news/sonny-bono-assassinated/news-story/2982ca725305be3fe4fb85f049fb916c. dead.
  30. News: 9 April 2008. FBI agent claims Sonny Bono was murdered. en-GB. NME. 2021-04-26.
  31. http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/18527976/former-memphis-fbi-chief-dies Former Memphis FBI Chief Dies