The Gunderson Report is series of three volumes on the most important threat to our children today and was presented by Ted L Gunderson International which was an organization created by Theodore L. Gunderson (November 7, 1928 – July 31, 2011) who was a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and head of the Los Angeles FBI. Ted Gunderson was born in Colorado Springs. He graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1950.
In 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. In 1977, Gunderson was appointed head of the Los Angeles FBI.
After retiring from the FBI he formed Gunderson International and in 1992 released this report on the widespread epidemic of satanic ritualistic child abuse.
This report demands a solution to one of the most serious problems in America today. Someone must listen – something must be done. Warning: This material is intended for professionals involved with ritual abuse survivors. I strongly caution against giving this and other explicit ritual abuse information to survivors who have not yet extensively uncovered their own memories of cult involvement. My ritually abused clients have taught me that it was difficult enough for them to trust their own memories without worrying if they were influenced by prior reading of related information.
This report presumes some previous education regarding Satanic cult history, beliefs, and societal indicators of ritual abuse practices.
It is an overview of key issues relevant to intervention with ritual abuse survivors who grew up with extensive involvement in orthodox or traditional Satanism. “Spiritual intervention” with survivors is quite controversial and beyond the scope of material presented here. It is essential for the reader to differentiate between varying degrees f involvement in Satanism (e.g. dabblers, self styled, public Satanic churches, orthodox). Beginning assessment of degree of involvement may be based on apparent, level of secrecy, with the orthodox end of the continuum being the most secret and apparently the most widely networked, organized, and ritualized. Survivors of orthodox Satanism all over North America have similar reports of a religious network characterized by a belief system which includes sacrificing humans and routine torture of children in worship of Satan as the primary deity.
Survivors further report that orthodox Satanists continuously seek new “recruits” (children, adolescents, adults) to be used by the cult. However, inner circle positions involving knowledge of the larger hierarchical network will generally be held only by those born into the cult or indoctrinated at a young age. Inside the 623 pages you will find among other topics:
- Introduction: satanism, ritual child sexual abuse and human sacrifice
- Newspapers and magazine articles dealing with satanism
- Adult survivors statements
- Results of studies by psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists
- The mind control aspect of satanic activity
- Police awareness of the satanic cult
- Satanism, ritual child sexual abuse and human sacrifice
1. To understand the philosophy of satanism and ritual child sexual abuse, read the following excerpts from Aleister Crowley’s book The Law Is for All.
Moreover, the Beast 666 adviseth that all children shall be accustomed from infancy to witness every type of sexual act, as also the process of birth, lest falsehood fog, and mystery stupefy, their minds, whose error else might thwart and misdirect the growth of their subconscious system of soul-symbolism.
“When, where, and with whom ye will.”
The phrase “with whom” has been practically covered by the comment “as ye will.” One need no more than distinguish that the earlier phrase permits all manner of acts, the latter all possible
partners. … In real life, we have seen in our own times Oscar Wilde, Sir Charles Dilke, Parness, Canon Aitken and countless others, many of them engaged in first-rate work for the world, all wasted, because the mob must make believe to be “moral.” This phrase abolishes the eleventh commandment, “Not to be found out,” by authorizing incest, adultery, and pederasty, which every one now practices with humiliating precautions, which perpetuate the schoolboy’s enjoyment of an escapade, and make shame, slyness, cowardice and hypocrisy the conditions of success in life.
The misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from the realization of itself, and from intelligent
cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. The vileness and falseness of religion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery.
2. To understand the satanic philosophy on ritual human sacrifice, read the following excerpts from Aieister Crowley’s book Magic in Theory and Practice.
Enough has now been said to show that the bloody sacrifice has from time immemorial been the most considered part of Magick. The ethics of the thing appear to have concerned no one; nor, to tell the truth, need they do so. As St. Paul says, “Without shedding of blood there is no remission”; and who are we to argue with St. Paul? But, after all that, it is open to any one to have any opinion that he likes upon the subject, or any other subject, thank God! At the same time, it is most necessary to study the business, whatever we may be going to do about it; for our ethics themselves will naturally depend upon our theory of the universe. If we were quite certain, for example, that everybody went to heaven when he died, there could be no serious objection to murder or suicide, as it is generally conceded–by those who know neither—that earth is not such a pleasant place as heaven.
However, there is a mystery concealed in this theory of the bloody sacrifice which is of great importance to the student, and we therefore make no further apology. We should not have made even this apology for an apology, had it not been for the solicitude of a pious young friend of great austerity of character who insisted that the part of this chapter which now follows—the part which was originally written—might cause us to be misunderstood. This must not be.
SYNOPSIS
I first became involved in investigating satanic cults in October 1980, when P. E. Beasley, a retired Fayetteville, North Carolina police officer, and I obtained a signed confession from Helena Stoeckley who stated that she and members of her satanic cult had murdered Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald’s wife and their two children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on February 17,1970.
The murders were Stoeckley’s initiation into the group. Stoeckley advised that Dr. MacDonald was the victim of an Army drug frame.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s drugs were flown into United States Army bases from Vietnam in plastic bags concealed in the body cavities of dead GIs (see Time magazine article January 1, 1973 and summary of the MacDonald case, which are included in this report).
Dr. MacDonald was convicted and is serving three consecutive life sentences for these murders.
He recently lost an appeal which was based on the concealment of evidence by the government during the 1979 trial.
As an outgrowth of the MacDonald investigation I became involved with a civilian network in investigating satanic cults. We have developed extensive information which establishes that a loose- knit satanic cult/drug network is active in the United States. Members of this network finance their operation through the sale of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines and barbiturates, as well as prostitution, pornography, snuff films and other illegal activity.
The drugs are normally sold by street gangs.
This network kidnaps and sacrifices children and others to Satan. We have information concerning numerous homicides and human sacrifices committed by this group. Some of the victims were working in our mini-civilian task force at the time of their deaths. We have interviewed numerous adult survivors. (An adult survivor is usually a person who was born into the movement, survives, and later disassociates himself or herself from the group, going into hiding to avoid being murdered.)
The survivors came from different areas of the country, and none have been in contact with or know each other.
Each of the survivors I have interviewed furnished me with similar details concerning ceremonies they witnessed in which humans and animals were sacrificed. Often, the victims were infants or young children. Under torture, the body’s production of endorphins increases dramatically, raising the level of adrenalin and other body chemicals. Occultists torture their victims to death and cannibalize their bodies just before death in order to ingest these chemicals, which they believe gives them power.
Similarly, some satanists eat their victims’ brains because they believe the victim’s intelligence will thus pass into their own brain. Members of the cult network are operating child day schools throughout the country.
Children from different states who have never met are telling authorities similar stories concerning their experiences in these schools. There has been successful prosecution in North Carolina, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada and California of pre-school owners and operators.
A psychiatrist in Los Angeles interviewed children from eight different day schools. All these children told similar stories about witnessing rituals satanic in nature, as well as extensive sexual child abuse by teachers and others.
One adult survivor told me that when she was a young girl, her father – 15 made her hold a knife to the chest of a live infant. He then placed his own hand over hers and plunged the knife into the heart of the victim. The occultists often force preschool children to participate in human sacrifices and then tell them they and their parent or parents will be murdered if the children reveal any secrets or talk about these activities.
The psychological effect on the child is that the child believes he or she is guilty of murder. I know of one instance where a Satanist held a gun to a child’s head and told her he would shoot her if she didn’t shoot another child that was tied to a post. She shot the other child.
Sexual molestation of children during their preschool years is part of the ritual. It is also used to indoctrinate them.
Children are indoctrinated between the ages of 2 and 4, when they are at a critical stage of development. These children acquire many of their values while under the supervision of Satanists before being returned to their parents and entering the public school system.
atanists convince the children that their parents don’t love them but that they, the Satanists, do. Even after they leave the day school and enter kindergarten, children’s activities are followed by Satanists and continually reminded that they are being watched. When the children enter junior high and high school, the Satanists will attempt to actively recruit them. At this age, youngsters fall easy prey to peer groups who involve them through music, neighbors, drugs, sex, etc.
Mind control and discipline are an important part of Satanism.
The application of mind control techniques starts during the child’s preschool years in day school and continues through junior high and high school.
Games such as Dungeons and Dragons are used to teach the unaware child satanic philosophy.
In the McMartin child day school case in California, more than 500 complaints of sexual molestation were filed with the police before the district attorney decided to prosecute. The D.A. indicted seven defendants. After a grand jury and pretrial, they were all held over for trial. The D.A. dropped the charges on five of the seven. Virginia McMartin was found not guilty. Ray Buckey was tried twice, with both trials resulting in a hung jury.
The children had stated that they were taken into tunnels under the school and molested.
Some said they were taken out of the tunnels into the yard of the house next door to the McMartin school, placed in vans, and taken to various places in the community, where they were used for prostitution.
Many prominent citizens were identified by the children as having been involved, including politicians, professional athletes and actors. In May 1990, one of the McMartin victims’ parents gained access to the school. She hired an archeologist.
He and his associates found the tunnels at the time of the second trial of Ray Buckey, but the district attorney refused to use the evidence in the trial. More than 5000 students attended the McMartin preschool during the 28 years it was in operation (two schools, 1956 to 1984).
We know a 34 year old woman who recalls being sexually molested, along with her schoolmates, at the McMartin school during her preschool days, more than 30 years ago. Many prosecutors are reluctant to prosecute preschool sexual molestation cases because they believe children cannot be competent witnesses. A three-year study by Gail S. Goodman, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, and Karen Sawitz, Ph.D., UCLA, examined the testimony of children who were actively involved in an event and who interacted with an unfamiliar person.
These are laboratory studies involving recall about (1) playing a game (low-stress situation), (2) having blood drawn at a clinic (high-stress situation), and (3) being inoculated (high-stress situation).
The findings included:
(1) There were not significant age differences in the children’s ability to recall the event, and their recall did not deteriorate over time. The children’s reports were 98% accurate.
(2) The older children (5 to 6 years) answered more objective questions correctly than the younger ones, (3 to 4 years) and the younger children showed a decline, after a delay, in their ability to answer questions about the actions involved.
(3) Children did not make up false stories of abuse even when asked questions that might foster such reports.
I have been told it is common for satanic groups to kidnap their victims, usually infants and young children, from hospitals, orphanages, shopping centers and off the streets.
We have information that Satanists operate not only child day schools but foster homes as well.
This is a source for children who often cannot be traced. It is also a way of obtaining children for ritualistic child molestation and recruiting children into Satanism. We have received information that interment camps are located throughout the U.S. where they hold their victims until they are ready to be sacrificed or sold to foreigners as sex slaves.
We have been told about a landing strip in the Nevada desert where foreign jet airplanes with no tail markings land and take off after buying kidnapped children at auctions. Another source of baby victims are “breeders,” female Satanists whose families have been involved in Satanism for generations. We have interviewed numerous breeders.
The Satanists impregnate the breeders and use the babies for sacrifices. Since there is no birth record, there is no missing-person report. The Satanists also use breeders for prostitution and sexual favors to politicians, law enforcement officers, judges, etc.
These officials are then blackmailed and as a result do not enforce laws broken by Satanists and often do not prosecute them. Thus, in some areas, satanic crimes are being overlooked or covered up because Satanists control law enforcement and the judicial system.
We have information that a child kidnapping network is active in the United States that furnishes children to satanic cults for human sacrifices. We recently identified two missing children ages 1 and 3 who, according to our witness, were victims of satanic sacrifice on the West Coast. One of these children was from the East Coast and the other from the Southwest.
The child from the Southwest was identified by two witnesses on the West Coast the day after he was kidnapped. Both children were sacrificed in a satanic ceremony. The Satanists prefer to sacrifice Christian infants and children.
The younger the child, the less it has sinned and thus the “purer” it is deemed to be. There is a preference for pregnant women.
They kill the mother and cannibalize the fetus. We have information about four individuals who were informants for U.S. government intelligence agencies and were involved in the satanic cult/drug network.
By using such individuals, Satanic cult/drug informants place disinformation in government files, thereby influencing in some instances action taken by government officials. In two cases, the informant worked for the FBI. This may be one of the reasons the FBI refuses to investigate the satanic cult movement in the U.S. today.
I suspect another reason is that the FBI’s consultants are providing them with disinformation about satanic, activity, philosophy and beliefs.
The satanic network utilizes specialists for surveillance, photography, contract killings, wiretaps and other techniques in its efforts to stay continuously aware of the activities of its adversaries. In 1984, I discovered that my telephones were tapped. I sued GTE and collected an out-of-court settlement.
We have information that the satanists operate internment camps throughout the United States where they keep their captives. We have been told that some of the camps are on government reservations (not confirmed). – Although there are numerous books available on Satanism, most of the teachings are passed orally from one generation to the next. During a trip to Washington, D.C. in June 1987,1 was identified at a church service as a visitor to that city.
The pastor informed the congregation that I was attempting to alert Congress to the satanic cult missing children problem in this country.
After the service, a mother and her 15 year old daughter, a student at a local high school, advised me the daughter had been approached by a classmate the previous week and asked to join a satanic cult. The classmate described herself as a witch and stated that a recent meeting of satanists in Washington, D.C. was attended by hundreds of people from all over the U.S. I have heard of other such meetings involving Satanists from other sections of the country. Several years ago I visited an abandoned satanic ceremony site,, located on the side of a mountain in Southern California.
The site is approximately 250 by 80 feet in size and can only be seen from the air. The house on the property had burned down shortly after the McMartin preschool scandal made the headlines and it became public knowledge the McMartin children said that they had been taken to the mountains in an airplane.
The children had also told authorities they witnessed infant sacrifices.
I was reminded of this when I saw a concrete bunker approximately 20’ x 20’ in size.
A source once active in the satanic movement told me that this type of structure was where Satanists kept their kidnapped victims until they sacrificed them. Also at that site I saw two satanic altars and a small room with steel hooks embedded in the concrete walls.
My source said this was probably a torture room. We have information that police officers, prosecutors, morticians, ministers, teachers, doctors, lawyers and others of all ages, in all walks of life, are practicing Satanists. Many of these individuals lead double lives.
To some they appear as leading citizens of the community, and to their fellow cult members they are dedicated evil worshippers. We have been told that a superintendent of schools in California is a Satanist. Michael Acquino, head of the Church of Set in San Francisco was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves in charge of records for all Army Reserve personnel. Acquino has top secret clearance and lectures at Fort Bragg, N.C. as well as other Army bases.
He reportedly is presently involved in mind control experiments at the University of Arizona. He was twice under investigation for ritualistic sexual child abuse at the Presidio in San Francisco. No charges were ever filed against him.
An adult survivor once told me the U.S. Army is Satan’s army. She made this statement because of the numerous Satanists in the Army. Her father was in the Army at the time. There have been ritualistic child sexual molestation cases at West Point as well as the Presidio in San Francisco.
A Boise, Idaho police officer believes 50,000 to 60,000 Americans who disappear each year are victims of human sacrifices by satanic cults. The bodies of some victims are buried but most are cremated so there is no body and no evidence.
I know of an occult supply store in Los Angeles that sells portable crematories. Reliable sources estimate there are more than three million active satanists in the United States. The FBI reports the number of automobiles stolen in the United States each year, but they do not keep a record of the number of persons who disappear. It is unbelievable that there is more concern for automobiles than for missing persons.
Some estimate the number of missing persons at high as 1.8 million per year. Only about half are believed to be located and returned within a year. I have alerted the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice and members of Congress to this and suggested that these matters be investigated by the federal government.
My requests have been ignored. Mr. Ken Lanning, Superior in Charge of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, Quantico, Virginia, states that since there are no bodies, there are no human sacrifices. He claims Satanism is a religion which is protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. He has publicly stated there are more crimes in the name of Christianity than there are committed in the name of Satan.
Many local law enforcement agencies recognize this problem and are actively investigating. However, local law enforcement is not equipped to coordinate this at a national level. A national clearing house is needed, as well as training and seminars.
The FBI already receives monthly crime statistics from every law enforcement agency in the country. It would be a simple matter for the local law enforcement agencies to add a column to their report for missing persons and arrange for distribution of missing children’s photographs.
Steps must be taken to protect Americans from an element that is far more dangerous to our society than the Mafia.
This situation cannot be ignored.
These criminals must be stopped.
Documentation for information contained in this report comes from police reports, court documents, books written by Satanists and satanic experts, reliable confidential informants and sources, interviews with past and current Satanists, researchers, and adult and child survivors.
Thank you,
TED L. GUNDERSON & ASSOCIATES
Ted L. Gunderson President
September 15, 1992
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