>>511417569the Finders were a lot more than a sting operation. people don't realize how successful most of the members were, especially in the intersection of IT and defense contractors in DC and Northern Virginia during that era.
here is an article i found in an old email group called "The Finder's Keeper" by Len Bracken where he interviews Marion Pettie, the spook who founded the Finders:
https://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg00344.html
>The Finders' Keeper: An Interview with Marion PettieBy Kenn Thomas and Len Bracken,�1998
A 1994 reference work- on utopian communities refers to the Finders as "a
rather spontaneous non-organization ... Their overall approach to life is to
make it into a game--a challenging and educational process where the rules
change from week to week, day to day, sometimes even by the hour." Contrast
that with investigator Ted Gunderson's handwritten description, attached to
Treasury Department memoranda on the Finders that Ted Gunderson circulates in
a info-packet about the group: "the Finders are a "CIA front established in
the 1960s. It has TOP CLEARANCE and PROTECTION in its ASSIGNED task of
kidnapping and torture-programming young children throughout the US. Members
are specially trained GOVERNMENT KIDNAPPERS known to be sexual degenerates who
involve children in Satanic sex orgies and bloody rituals as well as murders
of other children and slaughter of animals."