The archetype of a “hero” is constant. It’s found everywhere from ancient cave paintings to Bonnie Tyler’s greatest hits. But what exactly is a hero? I guess it all depends on who you ask. For the Spartans, it was Leonidas. For boxers, it’s Muhammed Ali. For suburban white kids? Probably Mr. Brightside by the Killers.

My idea of a hero is a little different. Meet Ted. Ted Gunderson.

Most people have never heard of Ted Gunderson. That’s what makes him the hero he is. Ted Gunderson was a hero who was silenced for being too loud, and erased for making his mark on history.

As a former chief in the FBI, Ted Gunderson made a name for himself by becoming the most important whistleblower in the history of the United States. His contributions cannot go unnoticed.

A Hero in the Making

Ted Gunderson joined the FBI in December 1951. He was 23 at the time. During his time with the FBI, Gunderson served in the Knoxville, New York City, and Albuquerque offices, and also held posts as an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in New Haven and Philadelphia. From there, Gunderson went on to become the head of the Memphis, Dallas, and finally Los Angeles FBI from 1973 to 1977. Then, in 1979, he was also one of the select few who were interviewed for the job of FBI director, which ultimately went to William H. Webster.

Unlike other sections in this article, this information is no secret. A simple google search would tell you this much. So why am I sharing it? To emphasize how trusted he was. His own background testifies to how respected, informed, and credible he was considered by the United States. He knew the in’s and out’s of US intelligence, was well-affiliated with the US government, and knew how to conduct proper investigations. Despite this, Gunderson would be challenged on these grounds for the rest of his life. In fact, his first challenge was directly following his retirement in 1979.

After retiring, Gunderson set up his own private investigation firm in Santa Monica called Ted L. Gunderson and Associates. The first major case he took under his new firm was the defense of a Green Beret doctor by the name of Jeffrey R. MacDonald.

In short, MacDonald was accused and convicted of the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters. He denied these allegations and testified that the murders were carried out by three men and women with a “floppy hat” who broke into his house. However, the court, the military, and most of the law enforcement officers involved doubted his testimony, resulting in MacDonald facing three consecutive life sentences.

Though Gunderson was also skeptical himself, he became increasingly convinced over the course of his investigation that MacDonald was actually innocent. This hunch was finally validated when Gunderson received a hand-written and video-recorded confession from Helena Stoeckley (the woman in the floppy hat) admitting that she and three other members of a Satanic cult (actual Satan worship… not Laveyan Satanism) she belonged to were the actual perpetrators. Gunderson submitted his report to the FBI, along with the confessions, but to his surprise, nothing ever came of it… at least, nothing good.

Following his submission, 19 of Gunderons’ witnesses were threatened by the FBI and ordered to recant their testimony. In response, Gunderson famously noted that “the FBI is supposed to gather information, not destroy it,” and cites this moment as the first time he realized there was a “serious problem” in the US government and law enforcement.

From that moment on, Gunderson used his 30+ years of experience to investigate Satanic cults, human-sex trafficking operations, and governmental conspiracies.

~ What exactly did he find? ~

Finders Keepers

Roughly 11 years after the MacDonald case, Gunderson began to investigate a cult known as “The Finders.” The Finders were a hot topic in 1987, when news reports began circulating about an incident in Tallahassee, Florida. According to reports, two adult men in dark suits were seen with six young and seemingly abused children. Following their arrest, several raids, and a series of conversations between Tallahassee and Washington DC police, it was established that the men belonged to a cult called “The Finders.”

From the original report on February 4th to February 9th, all reports of The Finders painted the cult as a Satanic group involved in sex-trafficking, pedophilia, and child abuse. Then, on February 10th, the script took a 180. The charges were dropped against the men, and the Finders’ were no longer evil. In fact, they were just “harmless experimenters.” In fact, the verdict of innocence was apparently so clear that on February 13th, the FBI and US Department of the Treasury shut down the investigation and stated that the claims were “unfounded.”

For the next 6 years, reports on The Finders cult kept them in a mostly positive light. However, everything changed in 1993 when AP News released an article titled “Justice Department Looking At Alleged CIA Ties To Commune.” The article shares that a Customs Service agent who raided the Finders commune has a document that proves the CIA owned and used the Finders cult as a front operation.

The Washington Times reported that the agent provided documents suggesting the CIA was blocking investigations of the Finders by the FBI and District of Columbia police.

The newspaper also said a police document of Feb. 19, 1987, quotes a CIA agent as confirming that his agency was sending its people to ″a Finders Corp., Future Enterprises, for training in computer operations.″

A later Customs report says the CIA ″admitted to owning the Finders organization as a front for a domestic computer training operation but that it had ’gone bad,‴ the newspaper said. (AP News, 1993)

Following the rabbit trail, Ted Gunderson compiled all of the evidence in the Finders case and concluded that it was indeed owned and operated as a CIA front operation. With that, he also concluded the CIA was involved in child molestation, sex-trafficking, pedophilia, and satanic ritual torture. If it wasn’t for his work, many of us would still have no idea to this day. Though, unfortunately, this was only the tip of the iceberg.

A Scandal in Franklin

Related to The Finders case both in time period and topic, Ted Gunderson also made notable contributions to the investigation of the Franklin Coverup. In short, the Franklin Coverup began with a man named Lawrence E. King, a wealthy black republican figure in Franklin, Nebraska in the 1980s. King was known to throw extravagant parties with US politicians and businessmen, and in 1987, King was accused by multiple children of child abuse and prostitution.

(Wanna dig deeper? Here’s my article on the Franklin Coverup.)

Though he was never officially convicted, a large web of lies and coverups began to suggest that King was guilty as charged. The main witnesses testifying against King (Paul Bonacci, Alisha Owens, Troy Boner, and Rusty Nelson) were largely discredited and mocked by law enforcement and the government. Alisha Owens was even convicted of perjury. However, the evidence gathered by the former lead investigator, Gary Carradori, told an entirely different story. And where Carradori left off before his untimely death, former senator John DeCamp and Ted Gunderson picked up.

While John DeCamp collected and conducted the majority of the investigation (even going as far to publish a book on it), Gunderson served an integral role in the investigative process and was the driving force behind the recovery of the Discovery Channel’s “Conspiracy of Silence” documentary.

Based on Gunderson’s research, he concluded that a large number of US politicians and businessmen were involved in child sex-trafficking rings and that the FBI and CIA were covering their tracks. And who was among those politicians? None other than Presidents George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

Digging For Answers

Among Gunderson’s many accomplishments in exposing satanic cults and sex-trafficking networks, arguably his most original contribution was his work in the McMartin preschool investigation.

In 1983, a complaint was issued by the family of a child who attended McMartin preschool. According to the child, children were being taken underground into tunnels, molested, and force-fed drugs that made them hallucinate. Though other children corroborated the claim, no actions were taken until 1987. And according to the reports, the investigators simply looked for tunnels, but found nothing.

Years later, in 1993, Gunderson was finally granted access to McMartin preschool before it was set to be demolished. In short, Gunderson hired an archaeologist to help look for the tunnels, and after about 35 days of searching, Gunderson found them. Inside, Gunderson identified a plethora of Satanic symbols. Following this discovery, a chain-like reaction began leading to the discovery of more and more satanically-affiliated tunnel systems below pre-schools in the US.

Waving the False Flag

If there is one event that American’s remember most, it’s probably 9/11. Every year, US citizens gather around the fallen World Trade Center and remember the lives that were lost in the 2001 terror attack. However, many younger American’s are unaware that 9/11 wasn’t the first terror attack on the WTC. The first was back in 1993.

However, besides the obvious similarity between the two, Ted Gunderson went a step further: he concluded that both attacks were false-flag terror operations that were carried out by the FBI, CIA, and the US government. He also notes the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 as a false-flag.

If you aren’t familiar with the term, a “false-flag” is a covert operation designed to deceive by creating the false appearance that a particular party, group, or nation is responsible for an attack, meanwhile, disguising the actual source. In this case, the US blamed terrorists from the Middle East in order to hide the fact that it was our own government.

In an interview with Gunderson’s close friend, Anthony Hilder, Gunderson explains what he believes to be the reason behind the false-flags.

“Back in the ’80s, the Department of Justice proposed legislation to fight terrorism. This legislation took away many of our constitutional rights and civil liberties. One of the authors of the legislation, publicly made this statement that before this passes… people will need to be killed. I believe this was the reason before the 1993 bombing… unfortunately for them… there were only 6 people killed. Not enough to pass the legislation… so what happened… down comes Oklahoma City, Murrah building, 168 people killed. One year later, the Anti-Terrorism legislation takes away many of our constitutional rights and civil liberties, is passed, and now with the twin towers… our congress is now proposing further restrictions on constitutional rights and civil liberties. These explosions… were an excuse to pass Anti-Terrorism legislation and implement them.”

Gunderson was also a key factor in the whistleblowing effort to expose Osama Bin Laden as a CIA/Pentagon asset that went by the name of Tim Osman. In fact, Gunderson met Bin Laden (Tim Osman) at the Hilton Hotel in Sherman Oaks, California in 1986.

With his background and many years of research and investigation, Gunderson repeatedly concluded that false-flag operations were the norm for US intelligence procedures and that those in positions of power were utilizing them to manipulate the public.

Tension in the Air

While much of Ted Gunderson’s energy was devoted to exposing sex-trafficking, satanism, 9/11, and MKUltra mind control, he was no stranger to the idea of government-funded population control programs. The most notable is known by many as “chemtrails,” or as Gunderson prefers, “death dumps.”

For the last 30 to 40 years, the United States and other international governments have utilized a geoengineering technique known as “stratospheric aerosol injections,” or SAO’s for short. Essentially, an SAO is an artificial cloud structure consisting of various metals and chemicals that, according to the government, are officially used to combat global warming.

Though he didn’t speak on it extensively, he was passionately convinced it was killing US civilians. Coincidentally, that was the last thing he said on camera before his death.

A Hero’s Last Breath

While Ted Gunderson officially died of bladder cancer in 2011, close friends and associates of Gunderson believe otherwise. Most significantly, Gunderson’s associate, Dr. Edward Lucidi, treated Gunderson and stated that his fingers were turning black. That being a characteristic symptom of arsenic poisoning, Lucidi was convinced he was assassinated. Though, to those around him, this came as no surprise. Even as early as 2008, Gunderson admitted that he had been consistently testing positive for arsenic and cyanide poisoning.

Was the ending of Ted Gunderson’s life truly as sad as it seems?

He fought a war as valiantly as Leonidas. He was a revolutionary, like Muhammad Ali. Although not every suburban white kid in America knows his name, like the chorus to Mr. Brightside – he left his mark on the world.

Does that sound like a sad story to you? I sure as hell don’t think so. Most heroes don’t suffer sad deaths, they walk into valiant ones, fearlessly – for the greater good.