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Ted L. Gunderson
On August 19, 2003 you announced that repealing the USA PATRIOT Act, which
you claim boosts law enforcement’s ability to investigate terrorism, would
endanger Americans. You stated, “to abandon this tool would disconnect the
dots, risk American lives, sacrifice liberty and reject September 11’s
lessons.” You announced a national campaign to defend the act and your plan
to visit more than a dozen cities, but you would not hold public forums. Your
speeches will be choreographed tightly before law enforcement officials only.
You are quoted as stating, “If we knew then what we know now, we would have
passed the Patriot Act six months prior to September 11TH…for Congress to
have done less would have been a failure of government’s basic
responsibility…to preserve life and liberty.” As a retired Senior Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Memphis, Dallas
and Los Angeles divisions, I am compelled to distribute the enclosed January
7, 2003 report that contains information furnished to me by Mr. Michael
Riconosciuto on January 3, 4 and 5, 2003. This report was sent to your office
on January 28, 2003. I am now distributing it to the Chiefs of Police,
Sheriffs, city councils and the news media in the cities that have been or
will be visited by you in the next few days, according to your published
schedule. Attached to this report is my ADDENDUM dated August 29, 2003, with
several itemized exhibits. In January 2003, I furnished this report to 155 senators and members of
Congress, every committee on the hill, Mr. Lee Hamilton, cochairman of the
President’s 9-11 committee and numerous members of the executive branch of
the United States (U.S.) government. President Bush was furnished a copy last
April. To summarize, in January 2001, eight months prior to 9-11, Mr. Michael
Riconosciuto, who has been a U.S. intelligence agent for years, developed
information about imminent terrorist attacks against the United States. On
March 20, 2001 he furnished FBI Special Agent (SA) Keith Cutri of the FBI’s
Williams-port, PA Resident Agency the identity of an individual in Patterson,
NJ who: a) Was coordinating forthcoming
terrorist attacks on the United States. Mr. Riconosciuto also furnished information that 6 planes were to be
hijacked by 30 terrorists, and the targets, other than those hit on September
11, 2001, were the Capitol Building, the Statue of Liberty and the White
House. He also furnished information about a false identification ring in
Montreal, Canada and New Jersey, and advised that he could furnish the true
names and false identities of the 30 terrorists who had been chosen for
actions inside the United States, if he and his contacts were given immunity.
(Redactions beginning on page 2 of the enclosed January 7, 2003 report are
for protection of Mr. Riconosciuto’s confidential source and his allies. You
have a copy of the uncensored report.) Mr. Riconosciuto also told SA Cutri about 37 Soviet-made missiles that
were being smuggled into the United States and stated there was a 30-hour
window of opportunity to confiscate them. He warned that terrorists were
taking flight training in various types of aircraft. Mr. Riconosciuto
believed, by furnishing this information to the FBI, he had prevented a
terrorist attack against the U.S. Two days after 9-11, on September 13, 2001, FBI SA Cutri returned with
another agent and met with Mr. Riconosciuto. The FBI agents: (a) Wanted to know why Mr.
Riconosciuto was bothering the FBI and wasting its time. The fact that Mr. Riconosciuto knew about imminent terrorist activities in
the U.S. in advance of 9-11 is documented in his February 5, 2001 letter to
his attorney, Mr. Don Bailey. This letter was sent certified mail,
#7000-0600-027-1175-1175, postal stamped Whitedeer, PA on February 6, 2001
(see Exhibit “A” of the enclosed report). On page 3 and 4 of Mr. Riconosciuto’s
letter to Mr. Bailey, he stated: (a) “Things have now come to a
head! I now have contact with an operative that is in an Arabic group known
as The Base. They are presently engaged in preparation for a major attack in
the US.” From September 23, 2001 to early May 2003, this author wrote several
letters to U.S. Senator George Allen (R-VA) and he, in-turn, wrote several
times to the FBI in an effort to document that the FBI inter-viewed Mr.
Riconosciuto in March 2001. During this period, the FBI responded several
times without acknowledging or admitting they met with Mr. Riconosciuto prior
to 9-11. A year and a half later, by letter dated May 22, 2003, FBI Assistant
Director Larry A. Mefford confirmed that the FBI interviewed Mr. Riconosciuto
on March 20, 2001. Mr. Mefford further stated at no time has Mr. Riconosciuto
“provided any credible evidence or indication of a federal violation within
the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.” Mr. Mefford stated, “Mr.
Riconosciuto’s allegation was investigated and no ‘fruitful’ information was
developed.” Mr. Mefford advised that Mr. Riconosciuto is not considered a
credible source. (Note, according to Mr. Riconosciuto, when FBI SA Cutri
reinterviewed him on September 13, 2001, SA Cutri stated that the FBI did not
investigate his allegations.) Mr. Riconosciuto furnished detailed information 6 months in advance,
concerning the terrorists’ planned attacks that subsequently occurred, and
Mr. Mefford claims he is not credible? I have worked with Mr. Riconosciuto
for years. He and his father, Marshall, were U.S. intelligence agents for
decades. Their firm, Hercules Manufacturing in Silicon Valley, CA, handled
confidential government contracts during the 1970s and 1980s. His
contributions to the national security of our country are too numerous to
detail in this letter. (See Mr. Riconosciuto’s involvement with the Inslaw
Inc.’s PROMIS software, as stated in my introduction to the January 7, 2003
report and documented on several websites, including www.totse.com and
www.copi.com/articles/inslaw, as well as Mr. Riconosciuto’s testimony and
sworn affidavit furnished to the Committee on the Judiciary, House Report
102-857: The Inslaw Affair, 102d Congress, 3d Session, September 10, 1992,
[USGPO, Wash., DC].)
As a result of 9-11, we now have Homeland Security and the USA PATRIOT
Act. The U.S. Department of Justice, Homeland Security and who knows how many
other alphabet agencies will be able to “legally” keep track of all credit
card records, bank transactions, car rental receipts, gun purchases, passport
applications, magazine subscriptions, medical prescriptions, academic grades,
bank deposits, trips everyone books, events we attend, drivers licenses,
bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, rental car records,
telephone records, internet traffic and complaints by nosy neighbors to the
FBI. It has been publicly announced that one in every 10 Americans are
expected to become informants for the U.S. government. The Pentagon has
developed an urban surveillance system that can track, record and analyze the
movement of every vehicle in a “foreign” city. And what about searches of our
neighbors’ and our property without a search warrant? And randomly tapping
our phones and seizing our property? Initially, when quizzed, representatives of your department denied that
USA PATRIOT Act II had been authored by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Thanks to a loyal American within your ranks, the 87-page document was
“leaked.” Although it has not been presented to Congress, if passed, anti-war
activists could be jailed without due process. This is in direct conflict
with the First Amendment of the Constitution. Sir, I was trained as a FBI agent in anti-terrorism and counter-espionage
matters. Therefore, I am well qualified to declare: There is no way our
intelligence community did not have advanced informa-tion about 9-11. Do we
need legislation that encumbers and restricts the freedom of law-abiding
citizens or do we need more effective, efficient and honest law enforcement?
Those who allowed 9-11 to occur should be identified, arrested and prosecuted
for treason. You claim the USA PATRIOT Act will preserve our liberty and freedom?
Instead of preserving our freedoms, this legislation has been implemented to
destroying them. In my opinion, the inappropriately named USA PATRIOT Act was
devised to circumvent the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. It is touted
as legislation to protect our unalienable and constitutional rights; on the
contrary, it is a giant step toward a police state. Speaking of a police state, I can document that the FBI has attempted to
“frame” me on a drug operation, and they have “planted” an informant, Stewart
Webb, on me. I have copies of his letter and his video statements that he is
an FBI informant! Since I disseminated my January 7, 2003 report in
Wash-ington D.C., I have been under surveillance and burglarized in my Los
Angeles apartment. I made a police report, concerning the April 3, 2003
surveillance, and reported the incident to President Bush by letter, April
24, 2003. (This letter and today’s letter to President Bush reporting the
burglary are in the enclosed January 7, 2003 report ADDENDUM.) Upon returning from a trip on August 23, 2003, I documented the break-in
and burglary. The building is secured by keys that are only issued to the tenants.
The apartment burglary was surreptitious, a tactic used by the government for
decades. There was no physical evidence of a break-in: my files, new tape
recorder and new cellular phone were stolen. I am filing a police report
concerning this. Was the break-in and burglary committed under the auspices of the USA
PATRIOT Act? Am I targeted and labeled a terrorist by the U.S. Department of
Justice, FBI, CIA and others because of my investi-gations of the Oklahoma
City bombing and 9-11? I applaud the 165 communities nationwide and over 16,000,000 people in 26
states who have passed resolutions condemning the USA PATRIOT Act. I
encourage other communities to follow these examples. In your lecture tour
you are only addressing law enforcement. Why aren’t you addressing the public
in the 165 communities? As you know, every U.S. government employee who enters on duty, every
soldier and military who volunteers to serve, every federal judge, every U.S.
Cabinet member, and also, of course, the President of the United States, are
sworn to uphold the Constitution of the U.S. Public servants who defend and
support the USA PATRIOT Act are in direct conflict with the Constitution and
in violation of their oath of office which states that they must “protect and
defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.” The USA
PATRIOT Act is a tool being used by those who wish to eliminate our freedoms
and are the enemies of our country. This letter and the enclosures shall be posted on my website today. Soon, my
network and I shall release a public protest petition urging America’s public
to demand that each member of Congress immediately repeal the so-called USA
PATRIOT Act or resign before July 4, 2004, due to their violation of their
oath of office. My network and I are establishing a nonpartisan organization, TAKE BACK
AMERICA, NOW!!! We are seeking volunteers throughout the United States to
further expose the corruption in our country. Those interested in assisting
us should email to [email protected].
Ted L. Gunderson
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Ted L.
Gunderson August 29, 2003
Please refer to my letter to you April 23, 2003 (attached). This letter
informed you that I was the victim of surveillance on April 3, 2003. I also
furnished you a copy of my intelligence report on terrorism that indicates
the FBI had advance information about 9-11 and failed to take appropriate
action. I am writing this letter because I learned on August 23, 2003 that I
was the victim of a surreptitious entry into my apartment sometime between
July 9, 2003, when I left Los Angeles, and August 23, 2003, when I returned. There was no forced entry, my files, a tape recorder and cellular phone
were stolen. As was the case with the April 3, 2003 surveillance, I have made
the break-in entry a matter of record with the Los Angeles police. Was the break-in and burglary committed under the auspices of the USA
PATRIOT Act? Am I targeted and labeled as a terrorist, because I dare to
highlight the incompetence and/or possible cover-up of the terrorist movement
by the U.S. Attorney General, FBI, CIA and others? I have enclosed my August 29, 2003 letter to U.S. Attorney General John
Ashcroft and a updated copy of my 9-11 terrorist report.
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