Just putting this here from Sebastian:
http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1989/8901120145.aspSATANIC CULTS: EX-FBI AGENT FEARS FOR SOURCESBy James Wallace P-I Reporter
THURSDAY, May 4, 1989
Section: News, Page: B1
An ex-FBI agent who claims there are satanic burial sites in Mason County said yesterday his informant who knows details about the killings is afraid to come forward because he fears for his life.
The informant knows of seven burial sites in Mason County, including one that contains the bodies of at least 20 people, Ted Gunderson said. But the informant is not willing to talk with authorities about the murders.
"If people talk, they die," Gunderson said.
He said an Olympia man was murdered in 1987 in Grays Harbor County because he was helping him uncover evidence about satanic cults in this state.
"There are extensive satanic activities taking place in Washington state, particularly along the coast," Gunderson said.
But law enforcement officials said there is no evidence to support any of the claims being made by Gunderson about bodies buried in Mason County or satanic activity there. And authorities in Grays Harbor County said they investigated the murder of the Olympia man and found no evidence linking his death to a satanic cult.
Gunderson said he is trying to find someone in Mason County with knowledge of the grave sites who is willing to sign a search warrant that law enforcement officials will need to dig up the bodies.
Only then, Gunderson said, is he willing to sit down with authorities and tell them what he knows.
He said he has not personally seen the burial sites, but he has been told of their location by his informant. He said he does not have any information about the victims.
"These people have been killed over a period of years," he said.
His comments came in a telephone interview from his office in Santa Monica, Calif. Since leaving the FBI in 1979, he said, he has investigated satanic activities around the country. Gunderson spent nearly 30 years with the FBI and retired as senior agent in charge of the bureau's office in Los Angeles.
He caused a stir in Mason County this week after he appeared on the syndicated "Geraldo" television talk show, which discussed the recent cult- like killings of at least 15 people at a ranch in Mexico.
"The next burial ground that we will learn about will be in Mason County, Washington," Gunderson told host Geraldo Rivera.
In the interview yesterday, Gunderson said he has been investigating satanic activities in Washington state since the early 1980s. He said he has many "reliable" sources in the state who have helped him. Some of those sources are working from inside the cults, he said.
Gunderson said he became interested in satanic activity when he investigated the case of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a Green Beret captain convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in 1970. MacDonald claimed a hippie cult killed his family.
He said he also worked as an investigator with Maury Terry, who wrote "The Ultimate Evil," a book about the Son of Sam serial murders in New York.
Gunderson said he is reluctant to give authorities in Mason County details of what he knows until he finds a witness willing to step forward.
"If I turn this over to the wrong law enforcement officials, I could blow the whole thing," he said, explaining there are members of satanic cults throughout society, including police agencies.
"This element has infiltrated every level of society," he said. "It's big, and involves heavy-duty, intelligent people . . . doctors, lawyers, prosecutors, police, airline pilots . . . every walk of life has been infiltrated."
He pointed to what has happened in Thurston County, where authorities are investigating satanic-type rituals and have charged three men, including a former deputy sheriff, in a sex-abuse case.
He said hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people are involved in satanic activities in this state.
"Their best weapons are fear and secrecy," Gunderson said of the cults.
Gunderson said a "hit man," who was working for a satanic cult drug network, operated out of Shelton in Mason County for a time. The man was arrested last year in California in connection with two contract killings in that state, he said. Gunderson declined to name the man.
"I have enough heat on me now," he said. "I don't want his buddies coming after me. They have come after me in the past."
Mason County Sheriff Bob Holter declined to go into detail about any of the claims made by Gunderson.
"There is no evidence that there is any validity to anything that he has said," the sheriff said.
Gunderson said the hit man likely was responsible for the death of Larry Gearon in Grays Harbor County in 1987.
Gearon was killed because of what he knew about satanic activity in this state, Gunderson said.
"He was working for us. He was discovered," Gunderson said.
Gearon, 38, of Olympia, was found dead March 12, 1987, just off U.S. 12 about two miles north of Malone in Grays Harbor County. He had been shot several times in the head.
Gunderson contacted the sheriff's office shortly after Gearon's body was discovered and told officials the death was linked to satanic cults.
Grays Harbor sheriff's Sgt. Rick Scott said he and Inspector Mike Whelan spent much of April and May of 1987 pursuing Gunderson's claims.
But Scott said Gunderson failed to provide substantive details and claimed to have "an informant" who was supplying him with the information.
Gunderson refused to name his informant, or provide specific details that could have corroborated his story, Scott said.
"If Mr. Gunderson today has any further information we're again asking him to provide it, if it even exists," he added.