Theodore L. Gunderson was a retired United States

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 Federal Bureau of Investigation

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 Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI. He was most famous for handling the Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy cases. He was the author of the best selling book How to Locate Anyone Anywhere.

Early life and The FBI

Ted Gunderson was born in Colorado Springs. He graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1950. Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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 in December 1951 under J. Edgar Hoover

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. He served in the Mobile

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, Knoxville

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, New York City

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, and Albuquerque

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 offices. He held posts as an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in New Haven

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 and Philadelphia. In 1973 he became the head of the Memphis FBI and then the head of the Dallas FBI in 1975. Ted Gunderson was appointed the head of the Los Angeles FBI in 1977. In 1979 he was one of a handful interviewed for the job of FBI director, which ultimately went to William H. Webster.

Post-FBI

After retiring from the FBI, Gunderson set up a private investigation firm, Ted L. Gunderson and Associates, in Santa Monica

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. In 1980, he became a defense investigator for Green Beret

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 Doctor Jeffrey R. MacDonald

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, 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.
In an interview (see link below), Gunderson discusses incidents U.S. government sponsored terrorism and the reasons behind them. He was a member of the Constitution Party

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. Ted died on July 31, 2011 from complications from cancer.

Links

• http://www.randomcollection.info/gunderson.pdf
• http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-911-files/the-real-meaning-of-terrorism.html