Ted L. Gunderson affidavit

In 2010, a man named Keith Salvatore Labella submitted a FOIA requests asking for gangstalking related documents. As it produced no results, Labella tried to sue the involved agencies for withholding the documents her asked for. As part of the lawsuit, there was an affidavit (from April 2011) from Ted Gunderson giving support to Labellas claims. 

Theodore L. Gunderson (1928-2011)  was a Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge, head of the Los Angeles FBI at the time of his retirement. He worked for the FBI for nearly 30 years (1951-1979).  

In summary, he said:

• There is an illegal, covert, nationwide program of monitoring and harassing people (that is what constitutes the targeting). It makes use of government intelligence resources - including equipment, personnel, intelligence data and funding. The program was active at the time of the testimony (2011) and has been since at least the 80’s.
• Networks of people covertly infiltrated the government and are using this structure for personal gain. Wealthy people - crime syndicate leaders, multi millionaires and the corporate elite - are using the system to target their enemies. The reasons vary - they may be corporate whistleblowers, parties in financial, employment or marital (usually divorced women) disputes and even people who refused sexual advances. Also, journalists covering controversial issues, attorneys and private investigators representing unpopular clients or interests have been targeted. There are thousands of victims in the US alone.
• The monitoring and harassment campaigns are being carried out by government personnel themselves in conjunction with organized crime, the cult movement, political and commercial interest groups and misguided civic organizations and neighborhood groups.
• The FBI and other intelligence agencies are administering and covering up the gang stalking program. Gunderson is confident that they have files on the targets and the targeting process and are refusing to reveal them. He has another important example of the FBI refusing to investigate a subject on request. They may be using codenames for the practices to evade having to report on them if requested.
• FBI and NSA have data about the targeting in the records pertaining to the Echelon Program, Carnivore System and Temperst system. These are surveillance systems that essentially can intercept any electronic communication and access data stored in any computer and, thus, have access to information about virtually any important security issue, including the targeting.

The following is the full testimony (emphasis mine):  

“1. My name is Ted L. Gunderson. I am the owner and operator of Ted L. Gunderson & Associates, an international security and consulting firm based out of Santa Monica, California. I am. currently a licensed private investigator in the state of California. I have performed private investigation and security work for numerous individuals, companies, and governments worldwide since founding my firm in 1979. I have worked for, amongst others, F, Lee Bailey, Esq., The California Narcotics Authority by appointment of Governor Jerry Brown, The 1984 Los Angeles. Olympic Committee, and The 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico by appointment of then U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell.

2. Previous to my work as a private investigator I spent nearly three decades in the F.B.[. Between 1951 and 1960 I was an F.B.1. Special Agent. In 1960 I was promoted as.a supervisor at F.B.I. Headquarters in Washington, D.C., where I was in charge of Organized Crime and Racketeering investigations covering 26 F.B.I Field Offices nationwide. Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, I was re-assigned to Special Inquiry White House Matters at F.B.I. Headquarters. In 1965 I was promoted again to Assistant Special Agent-In-Charge of Internal Security and Anti-Terrorism of the F.B.J. New Haven, Connecticut Field Office. In 1970 I was promoted to Assistant Special Agent-In-Charge of the F.B.I. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Field Office. On July 12, 1972 successfully negotiated with two terrorist hijackers of National Airlines Flight 496 for the release of 119 passengers at Philadelphia International Airport: In 1973 I was promoted to Chief Inspector at F.B.I. Headquarters. T also served as Special Agent-In-Charge of the F.B.I. Memphis and Dallas Field Offices. I retired from the F.B.I. as Senior Special Agent-In-Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office of the F.B.L. with over 700 employees and a budget of over 22 million dollars in 1979. 
3. I have read the Complaint in the current action of Mr. Keith Labella against F.B.I. and D.O.J. It is my professional opinion, based on information, knowledge and belief that the information sought by Mr. Labella in this F.O.LA. suit regarding “gang stalking”, “gang stalking groups” and “gang stalking methods” reasonably describes an ongoing, active, covert nationwide program that is in effect today, and, based on my investigations and experience, has been operational since at least the early 1980’s. Since the 1980’s gang stalking has increased in scope, intensity and sophistication by adapting to new communications and surveillance technology. These programs are using the codenames Echelon Program, Carnivore System, and Tempest Systems. The Echelon Program is administered by the N.S.A. out of Fort Meade, Maryland, and monitors all email and phone calls in the world. Carnivore System is administered by the N.S.A. out of Fort Meade, Maryland, and can download any computer system without being traced or otherwise known to the owner. Tempest Systems can decipher what is on any computer screen up to a quarter of a mile away. These programs are negatively impacting thousands of Americans and severely abusing their civil rights on a daily basis. 
4. Based on my investigative work, which includes intelligence from sources such as active and former members of the Intelligence Services (including the F.B.L, the C.I.A., the N.S.A. and Military Intelligence), information from informants active in criminal enterprises, and, victim testimonies, I have come to the conclusion that thousands of victims have been targeted by an illegal government rogue criminal enterprise that is active 24 hours a day within the U.S. This conspiracy is far too active to be controlled or operated by private enterprise whose goals are achieving financial gain. These operations require extensive financing with no return on the investment. This program’s operations are financed by illegal black operations, i.e., narcotics, prostitution, child kidnapping (children sell at covert auctions for up to $50,000 per child), human trafficking, gambling and other rackets. 
5. I have documentation and know that throughout the U.S., operating 24 hours-a-day and 7 days-a-week, there is a Central Command, located within the U.S., with multiple satellite offices, whose administrators can instantly initiate surveillance, phone taps and harassment against any individual in the country. They have the technology, financing and manpower to dispense illegal surveillance and harassment against anyone at any time, day or night. I have files on numerous cases of active, programmatic, illegal government harassment currently being conducted against thousands of Americans. This makes the F.B.I.’s former COINTELPRO program, which I worked on, including in a supervisory capacity, look like a Sunday school program by comparison. 
6. I firmly believe that most individuals working in the F'.B.L, other intelligence agencies, and the government overall are honest, law-abiding public servants. However, a sophisticated network of rogue operatives has secretly infiltrated the F.B.L., other intelligence agencies including the C.I.A., and other key government positions. This rogue element seeks personal power and wealth and considers themselves above the law and the Constitution. They are carrying out the aforementioned surveillance and harassment activities in conjunction with organized crime, the cult movement in America including Satanic cults, other commercial and political interests, and even misguided civic organizations and neighborhood groups. This illegal surveillance and harassment program is being called gang stalking and organized stalking by the victims targeted by it. The victims are targeted for a variety of reasons including government and corporate whistleblowers, parties to financial and employment disputes, parties to marital disputes (usually divorced women), and even jilted paramours. Journalists covering controversial issues, and even attorneys and private investigators representing unpopular clients or interests, have been targeted by this program. 
7. Individuals targeted by this program have been subjected to illegal and unconstitutional phone taps, illegal re-routing of business and private phone calls for purposes of harassment, illegal audio “bugging”, surreptitious entry into home, office, and vehicle, visual surveillance in the home conducted by illegal placement of miniature remote, wireless cameras (often accessible via internet), illegal internet spyware, illegal GPS tracking (often through their own mobile phones), regular fixed and mobile surveillance, mail misdirection, mail theft and tampering, financial and employment sabotage, slander campaigns and community ostracizing , internet disinformation and smear campaigns, poisoning, assaults and murder, illegal set-ups on drug charges and other felony charges, amongst many other civil rights abuses. 
8. In addition to high-ranking members of the F.B.I., other intelligence services, and the government overall, wealthy, powerful members of criminal syndicates, multi-millionaires and the corporate elite are using the government gang stalking program to harass enemies. They can get a targeted individual harassed for the rest of that individual’s life (individual cases of gang stalking lasting for over a decade are common). The higher status members of the gang stalking conspiracy initiate the gang stalking and coordinate logistics and funding. Lower echelon government rogue operatives, lower ranking members of the military (in violation of Posse Comitatus), petty criminals and street thugs perform the actual grunt work of daily monitoring and harassment of individuals targeted by the program. 
9. Based on my professional experience, extensive intelligence information and belief, it is my professional opinion that the F.B.I. is involved in and has investigative files on the subject of gang stalking, related gang stalking methods, and gang stalking groups in the F.B.I’s vast intelligence files, that are responsive to Mr. Labella’s F.0.I.A. complaint. Furthermore, I have personally referred numerous victims of gang stalking to the appropriate for investigation of their cases. I have also furnished the F.B.I. with documentation of an active, international child kidnapping ring probably operated by rogue C.LA. agents. The F.B.I has ignored my requests to investigate even though it is their responsibility to investigate kidnappings. I have a contact in Germany who advises me that the C.I.A. has set up secret operations on U.S. military bases for the kidnapping, sale and trafficking of children worldwide. The F.B.I may be using a unique codename and nomenclature for the gang stalking phenomenon in its records. However, this is a semantic difference, and, in no way changes my professional opinion that the F.B.I. has investigative files on the nationwide phenomenon of gang stalking described in reasonable and specific detail in Mr. Labella’s F.O.I.A. Complaint. These F.B.I. files contain information responsive to Mr. Labella’s F.O.I.A. Complaint regarding the subject of gang stalking. The F.B.I. and other intelligence agencies are administering and covering up the rogue, covert, government criminal enterprise of gang stalking. The gang stalking phenomenon appears in the records of both the F.B.I. and the N.S.A. in their records pertaining to the Echelon Program, Carnivore System, and Tempest Systems. In addition, the gang stalking phenomenon appears in the records of both the F.B.I. and the N.S.A. in their records pertaining to information collected by Narus systems. Narus is a wholly owned subsidiary of defense contractor Boeing that produces sophisticated, mass surveillance computer systems currently being used by both the F.B.I. and the NS.A.”

In response to this, judge Nicholas G. Garaufis stated (among other things), in 2012, that:

".. Gunderson- whose employment with the FBI ended in 1979 - offers little more than speculation; he provides no tangible evidence supporting his theory that the FBI is involved in or has access to records on gang stalking, let alone calling into question the reasonableness of the FBI's search for records on the subject."

Gunderson had no opportunity to respond to that as he died 3 months after writing the affidavit.

Its interesting to note that a quick search on the internet shows that, clearly, there is a large amount of self declared Targeted Individuals in the US and a considerable amount of them stated they have tried to get help from the government - if the subject is inexistant in government databases its reasonable to conclude, at least, that its refusing to recognize the issue - something which is, at least, suspicious.