15 Facts About Ted Gunderson

Theodore L Gunderson was a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI, an American author, and a conspiracy theorist.

Ted Gunderson was the author of the best-selling book How to Locate Anyone Anywhere Without Leaving Home.

In December 1951, Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation under J Edgar Hoover.

Ted Gunderson served in the Mobile, Knoxville, New York City, and Albuquerque offices.

Ted Gunderson held posts as an Assistant Special Agent in Charge in New Haven and Philadelphia.

In 1977, Gunderson was appointed head of the Los Angeles FBI.

Ted Gunderson became a leading figure on the far-right and a leading anti-government conspiracy theorist.

Ted Gunderson was involved in the McMartin preschool case, at the heart of the 1980s "satanic panic".

Ted Gunderson made numerous confident statements supporting the truth of the supposed abuse ring and became a "recognized spokesman on the dangers of satanic ritual cults".

Ted Gunderson 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 US government.

The Southern Poverty Law Center believed Ted Gunderson "played a pivotal role in the anti-government 'patriot' movement".

Ted Gunderson alleged the US government was preparing for mass executions by setting up a thousand internment camps and purchasing 30,000 guillotines.

Ted Gunderson was 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.

Ted Gunderson appeared in Hilder's Reichstag '95 and Illuminazi 911 documentaries.

Ted Gunderson did not believe that Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident.