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Ex-FBI Gunderson: Gannon is Gosch
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Ted Gunderson, formerly the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angles
office, and for more than 25 years a private investigator, appeared on the
"Mysteries of the Mind" radio program March 8 where he confirmed that he has
"a credible, reliable source" that says "Jeff Gannon" is indeed kidnapped
paperboy Johnny Gosch.

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It is 2 hours long, but the longer you listen, the more interesting it gets.
This is a very, very weird story.
Tammy
http://www.johnnygosch.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&id=8174
lynnzy
wrote:
Gannon is only like 38 years old! I read that awhile ago...he couldn't have
graduated from High school in 1975.... Jeff Gannon can not be his name, he
couldn't have graduated until 10 years later... so he is the same age as
Johnny Gosch
Tammy Ballard
Published April 5, 2005
Is he Johnny Gosch?
By ERIN CRAWFORD
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
Johnny Gosch may finally have been found, thanks to Rush Limbaugh.
The Iowa paperboy was kidnapped in 1982, with unsubstantiated stories emerging
later from his mother that he was abducted into a child pedophilia ring. No
trace of him has ever been found, and no suspects have been arrested.
Nearly 23 years later, White House correspondent Jeff Gannon, who wrote for a
conservative Web site, was exposed in February as James D. Guckert, a man with
no journalism experience and links to several gay escort addresses online.
If you have the time to read a few hundred Web postings, you will see how
Johnny Gosch and Jeff Gannon, two completely unrelated individuals, became the
same person on the Web. The way the theory developed says much about the
anything-goes nature of the blogosphere and self-proclaimed reporters on the
Internet, who seem to find accuracy and proof a nuisance in uncovering
fantastical conspiracies.
It took the random efforts of scores of Web loggers (bloggers), credulous
readers and longtime followers of the case to assign the two men a bizarre,
shared backstory involving satanic CIA agents, pedophiles and presidents. And,
of course, Limbaugh.
Gosch's mother, Noreen Gosch, called the theory "quite bizarre," but not
impossible.
"We don't have anything conclusive," she said.
With so many people contributing twists, this dark fiction is as wild as
anything on daytime television. It is really only the most recent speculation
about what happened to Johnny Gosch, who has been "sighted" numerous times in
the last 20 years in Africa, across the country and even in a Montreal subway.
Police have been unable to confirm the sightings.
But here's how the Internet can feed a rumor until a bunch of people actually
believe it.
The Gannon-Gosch conspiracy theory first appeared on the message board of a
liberal political site called The Democratic Underground on Feb. 26. A site
regular, using the name TwoSparkles, speculated that Jeff Gannon was
victimized by a government-organized child pornography ring.
Then he foreshadowed the future with this note: "I found this picture of
Johnny Gosch. I looked at it and almost thought it looked like Gannon! It must
be getting late." The image was a school picture of Gosch taken in the 1980s
and later enhanced.
The same poster noted that Gannon/Guckert and Gosch had the same initials.
Before long, other site members were trying to figure out whether the ages
matched. (In fact, there would be more than 10 years' age difference between
Gannon and Gosch.)
Full-blown details came from several popular Web conspiracy theorists.
Self-styled political activist Sherman Skolnick, who analyzes political
corruption with an evangelical tone, adopted Rense.com as his forum about the
Gosch-Gannon/Guckert link.
Then the story was dropped into dozens of Web sites. Gosch case activist and
Denver resident Ted White estimated he posted messages about the connection on
65 or 70 sites.
"I'm a member of over 80 Yahoo groups," he said. He fanned the rumor on the
sites, spreading information he heard from private investigators on the Gosch
case.
Bloggers picked up on the theory and soon the yarn was developing on hundreds
of sites, many linked to one another. Entire blogs, or Web journals, are now
devoted to the subject of whether Gosch grew up to become the disgraced
reporter.
The complete concoction goes like this: Gosch was kidnapped into a pedophilia
and child pornography ring that serviced the upper echelons of Washington,
D.C., society. He was brainwashed by the CIA, trained to be part of a
top-secret escort program. Then, he became Jeff Gannon and was given a plum
job as a White House correspondent with the online conservative news service
to keep him quiet.
Finally, he was "uncovered" by the bloggers.
Photos combining the two men's faces are now posted on dozens of sites.
Gosch's glossy, parted hair morphs into Gannon's bald head. Gosch's little-boy
smile turns into Gannon's broad, tough-set jaw.
The nose is similar. The facial shape similar. A mark on one cheek is similar.
A coincidence, you might say, but a lot of people are buying it.
"Though the photos' perspectives differ, and it's proof of nothing, the
alignment of features is striking," wrote blogger Jeff Wells on Rigorous
Intuition (rigorousintution. blogspot.com).
But a lack of proof wasn't enough to stop a vast network of gossip from
enveloping the story.
"The synchronicities . . . are stunning"
The most fervent bloggers on the Web aren't as interested in linking Gannon to
Gosch as they are in presenting their version of a massive conspiracy. The
story that excites them is a sordid tale about the CIA operating a pedophilia
ring on behalf of dignitaries and politicians and training male prostitutes to
serve as spies.
They try to link both Bush presidents to this conspiracy, prove that Hunter S.
Thompson's death was not a suicide and investigate a so-called
government-sponsored pedophilia operation they claim continues to abduct
children.
Coincidentally, Gannon was exposed as Guckert by persistent bloggers. After
drawing attention to himself with softball questions and inaccurate quotes,
Gannon became a topic on Rush Limbaugh's radio talk show. The bloggers then
dug up erotic photos of him and a connection to the escort sites.
Now bloggers, reveling in the notion of political hypocrisy, say they won't
let the story die until Gannon's DNA has been compared to genetic material
from the Gosch family.
Skolnick's stories on Rense.com were a frequent source for many of the
bloggers who posted about Gannon-Gosch. Most blogs ran condensed versions of
his long-winded reports.
Skolnick wrote six articles on the subject, the first titled "The Gannon
Cannon - Part 1: Bush Treason in Spy Whorehouse," which accused Gannon of a
personal connection to the president of the United States and other dastardly
deeds involving the "Chinese Secret Police."
Skolnick's biases are readily apparent. He bemoans, for example, that a
doctored photo showing Gannon and Bush naked together is "too good to be
true."
Among other things in Skolnick's stories - which have little in the way of
verifiable sources - are rumors that Gannon was trained by a secret D.C.
escort service operation.
Gannon has minimal journalism education, but Skolnick proposed that he was
trained in Central America, learning the latest in torture tactics, and that
he has consulted with the management at the U.S. military's Guantanamo
facility.
Total Information (www.total411.info), a site devoted to political paranoia
about 9/11 and topics like Freemasonry, is another place for a surfer to run
across the story. Blogger James G. Truth, a pseudonym for the site's operator,
posted information about Gosch/Gannon/Guckert, but added little in the way of
additional rumor - or reporting.
"I watched the Gannon-is-Gosch story percolate for about a week on the 'net,"
Truth wrote in an e-mail to The Des Moines Register. "The synchronicities in
the case were and are stunning."
What convinced Truth was a chain of similar names. James Gannon is the name of
the former Des Moines Register editor who ran the paper at the time Gosch was
abducted. Too close, in Truth's page, to be a coincidence.
"Things can be changed"
Despite the story's more ludicrous subplots, a few coincidences seem eerie -
the matching cheek marks, the coincidental names, the sexual overtones of the
scandals. Add in the rumor that Johnny Gosch's mother, Noreen, declared Gannon
was her son, and it's no wonder that some bloggers stuck by the story.
In reality, she says she's not convinced either way.
Several facts, however, do not add up. Gosch and Gannon/Guckert would be 12
years apart in age. Gannon is 48, and Gosch would be 35.
Noreen Gosch said some Web sites have reported Gannon as being 31 or 35. "Most
people think he looks younger," she said to the Register.
Conneaut Lake High School in Pennsylvania confirms, however, that a James D.
Guckert graduated in June 1975. His college, West Chester University of
Pennsylvania, reports that he graduated in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in
education and a concentration in social studies.
Gannon himself told the New York Times that his mother is 72. Noreen Gosch
wouldn't say her age, but said she is not 72. According to previous reports of
her age, she would be approximately 61.
But if you want to believe something, and you've got the catchall reasoning
that the CIA can alter anything, it's not hard to brush aside such
discrepancies.
Ted Gunderson, a retired FBI agent and longtime Gosch investigator, insists
that the CIA can change ages, adjust work and school records and construct
entire lives for people. It doesn't make a lot of sense either that someone
living underground would choose to work in the pressure-cooker of the
Washington media, but there are multiple rationales for that inconsistency.
Several bloggers suggest Gosch was brainwashed or has multiple personalities.
"He may not have any idea," observed a visitor using the tag "ohmygosch" on
http://mparent777.blog -city.com.
Jim Rothstein, a retired New York City police officer and longtime
investigator on the Gosch case, said becoming a White House reporter is
completely in character for a former victim of the pedophilia ring.
In fact, Gannon/Guckert may have orchestrated the scenario for a greater
purpose.
"Is it possible he drew attention to himself during that Jan. 26 press
conference to pique the curiosity of citizen investigators?" posited one
blogger.
At Tyranny Response Unit news (trunews.blogspot.com), the sex scandal is cast
as an act of revenge.
"It appears that Gannon is the good guy - he might be getting back at his
abusers," observed the Tyranny Response Unit blogger.
Gosch gets a blog?
Another category of bloggers takes more interest in the apparent foolishness
of the matter than any possible evil. There are bloggers mocking other
bloggers.
Take the writer(s) behind the Johnny Gosch Blog, who satirically use the
persona of Gannon, keeping a log of new rumors that are enthusiastically
mocked. "One of Gannon's escort pages lists his age as 31 in 2001. Golly. I
can't imagine why a gay male prostitute would lie about his age," said Joseph
Cannon, who blogs on Cannonfire (cannonfire .blogspot.com).
In the blogging world, circulating such rumors is considered a democratic
pursuit, according to Jane Singer, an assistant professor in the University of
Iowa School of Journalism. More than 20 percent of Internet users read or
contribute to blogs, Singer said.
"The bloggers have a view of truth that is collective," she said. "Everyone
contributes their ideas and truth emerges. . . . Their role is to find things
they think are interesting and important or need to be brought to attention."
Of the Gosch-Gannon connection, she said, "It doesn't surprise me that
bloggers ran with that. Some things pan out and some things don't."
Some bloggers, however, feel unappreciated and overworked.
One outraged Web surfer, using the tag "former Iowan," responded to a post on
the Cannonfire site, wondering, "Where is the major media interest in
following up this story - especially The Des Moines Register which should have
a curiosity in any Johnny Gosch sightings."
But the Internet always has answers. White, for instance, explains why
newspapers aren't interested in this story.
"Have you ever heard of Operation Mockingbird?" he asked.
It's another theory. It argues that the press is being controlled by the CIA.
Who is Jeff Gannon?
The adopted name of James D. Guckert, 48. He attended high school and college
in Pennsylvania.
Gannon got a job as a White House correspondent for online conservative news
service Talon News and GOP USA, owned by Texas GOP activist Bobby Eberle.
In February, his softball questions raised the ire of liberal bloggers.
Writers on Daily Kos, Atrios and World O'Crap discovered ties between James D.
Guckert and gay escort Web sites, and provocative nude photos of Guckert.
Gannon was outed as Guckert online.
Who is Johnny Gosch?
Gosch was 12 years old when he was abducted in 1982 as he delivered newspapers
in his West Des Moines neighborhood. His mother, Noreen Gosch, and her hired
private investigators later concluded Johnny was kidnapped by a
pedophilia/child pornography ring. Noreen claimed in 1997 that Johnny visited
her apartment but was scared to come forward.
How do they connect?
In March, a frequent poster on the Democratic Underground's message boards
observed that Gannon and Gosch might be the same person. The theory quickly
exploded into a massive intrigue, as bloggers, conspiracy Web sites and
political activists added their ideas on who else was party to this plot. The
final story supposes Gosch was kidnapped into a pedophilia ring, trained by
the CIA to be a male escort/spy, then given a job as a White House escort to
reward him for his service and/or silence him.
The conspiracies:
• Gannon was cleared to attend press conferences in the White House as a
propaganda tool.
• Gannon was cleared to attend press conferences in the White House to silence
him about his knowledge of the government's sex spying rings.
• Gosch was pimped out to high-level diplomats and American politicians.
• The two are also linked to the following parties: Both Bush presidents,
Hunter S. Thompson and Central American generals specializing in torture.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050405/LIFE04/504050376/1044&template=printart
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SEE:
Ex-FBI Gunderson: Gannon is Gosch
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Ted Gunderson, formerly the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angles
office, and for more than 25 years a private investigator, appeared on the
"Mysteries of the Mind" radio program March 8 where he confirmed that he has
"a credible, reliable source" that says "Jeff Gannon" is indeed kidnapped
paperboy Johnny Gosch.
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