Ted Gunderson

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Ted Gunderson

Ted Gunderson (1928–2011) was a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles field office who, following his retirement in 1979, became a prominent whistleblower and investigator of alleged government corruption, satanic ritual abuse (SRA), and international child trafficking networks. He claimed to have documented connections between U.S. intelligence agencies, organized crime, pedophile networks, and the New World Order.

Career and retirement

Gunderson served approximately 27 and a half years in the FBI before retiring in 1979. At the time of his retirement he was Special Agent in Charge of the southern California region (excluding its northernmost counties). His first post-retirement investigation was the Jeffrey MacDonald case, in which he obtained a confession from Helena Stoeckley — a government informant he alleged was present at the crime scene — and submitted a 200-page report to the U.S. Department of Justice that he claimed was ignored. He attributed the case's suppression to the CIA's alleged role in drug smuggling through the body cavities of dead GIs returning from Vietnam, which he claimed a satanic cult connected to the murders had been distributing.

Gunderson stated that his subsequent investigations attracted a government disinformation campaign against him personally, including fabricated allegations that he was a homosexual, mentally ill, and involved in drug trafficking, and that the FBI employed a paid informant to attempt to frame him on a drug charge. He also claimed multiple attempts on his life, including loosened lug nuts on his vehicle in 1993 that caused a wheel to detach at 75 mph between Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska.

The Franklin cover-up and child trafficking

In the late 1980s, Gunderson assisted with the investigation later known as the Franklin cover-up, centered in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. He stated that 88 children came forward claiming participation in a pedophile and pornography operation, naming among the alleged perpetrators the publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, the head of the Nebraska Forestry Service, the Omaha chief of police, and other local businessmen. A witness identified as "Paul" told Gunderson that children were taken from orphanages and foster homes in Omaha, flown by private jet to Washington, D.C., and used at sex parties attended by members of Congress, senators, and foreign dignitaries. The operation was alleged to center on Larry King, a prominent Republican fundraiser who ran the Franklin Savings and Loan, whose Embassy Row condominium Gunderson identified as the site of the parties. Gunderson wrote letters to the FBI, the U.S. Attorney General (William Barr), and the governor and attorney general of Nebraska reporting his findings; he stated he received dismissive responses and no follow-up.

Investigative journalist Nick Bryant, author of The Franklin Scandal — the most extensively documented book on the Nebraska child trafficking network — corroborated the structural features of the operation Gunderson had investigated: three grand juries (two Nebraska, one Washington, D.C.) suppressed evidence; Bryant obtained sealed grand jury testimony and exhibits only through sustained legal effort. According to Bryant, the Washington node of the Franklin network was run by lobbyist Craig Spence — a CIA asset whose Kalorama mansion was "wired for audiovisual blackmail," where political parties transitioned to compromising after-hours events with underage participants. According to Bryant, both primary pimps in the network — Larry King and Craig Spence — had been in Southeast Asia during Vietnam with intelligence connections, and that "the dark corner of intelligence that does this type of stuff got a hold of them and said, you can either do time or you can work for us" — because when both returned to the United States from working-class backgrounds their careers "went exponentially high."

McMartin Preschool investigation

Gunderson also became involved in the McMartin preschool trial in Manhattan Beach, California, after the criminal trials concluded. In the spring of 1993, he hired archaeologist Gary Stickel from UCLA and led a privately funded excavation of the preschool property, spending approximately $17,000 of his own money as part of a $55,000–$60,000 total effort over 34 days. He reported finding a nine-foot-wide subterranean tunnel entrance beneath the west wall of the classroom, extending 45 feet through multiple rooms, with a nine-foot-wide chamber, plywood and cinder block supports, and over 2,000 artifacts including more than 100 animal bones. He maintained that this confirmed children's testimony and had been covered up, noting that mainstream news coverage and later television documentaries omitted mention of the tunnel findings.

Satanic networks and the Illuminati

Gunderson claimed that the satanic cult movement in the United States had in excess of three million members, drawing this figure from informants in South Bay Los Angeles, Lincoln Nebraska, and Iowa City who each reported proportional numbers in their respective communities. He further alleged between 50,000 and 60,000 human sacrifices per year in the United States, from three separate independent sources. He identified Michael Aquino and Anton LaVey as key figures, noting that Aquino — founder of the Temple of Set — was the subject of an 18-month Army investigation after a child identified him as an abuser at the Presidio day-care center, and that Aquino was subsequently alleged to be running a classified mind-control program at the University of Arizona.

Gunderson situated these networks within a broader framework drawn from William Guy Carr's book Pawns in the Game, tracing alleged Illuminati origins to Adam Weishaupt in 1776 and linking them through the Rothschild family, Albert Pike, and ultimately to contemporary organizations including the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Trilateral Commission.

CIA drug trafficking and MK-Ultra

Gunderson claimed the CIA was "the biggest drug dealer in the world," citing Air America and its successor Southern Air Transport as CIA fronts used to move narcotics, and identifying the Mena, Arkansas operation as the mechanism by which drug money was laundered through the Arkansas Development Finance Authority under then-Governor Bill Clinton into the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. He alleged that Executive Order 12333, signed by President Ronald Reagan in December 1981, was engineered by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to allow the CIA to contract out covert operations to outsiders, and included a directive that field agents who encountered large-scale drug or arms operations were to report upward rather than investigate — on pain of dismissal and prosecution.

On MK-Ultra, Gunderson described the program as a CIA mind-control system, inherited and developed from post-war German scientists, administered through shock treatment, hypnosis, drugs, and torture, and used to create programmed assassins with trigger words who were then instructed to commit suicide to destroy evidence. He speculated, without claiming proof, that mass shootings of the era were the result of MK-Ultra-type programs.

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