Ted Gunderson was American Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent In Charge and Head of the Los Angeles FBI.

Gunderson joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in December 1951 under J. Edgar Hoover.

He served in the Mobile, Knoxville, New York City, and Albuquerque offices and held posts as an Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge in New Haven and Philadelphia.

In 1973 he became the head of the Memphis FBI and then the head of the Dallas FBI in 1975.

Gunderson was appointed the head of the Los Angeles FBI in 1977 and in 1979 he was one of a handful interviewed for the job of FBI director.

He was most famous for handling the Marilyn Monroe and the John F. Kennedy cases.

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