Items That Were Auctioned From Kaczynski Cabin
Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:04 pmDoug Oswell made this observation at http://www.unazod.com:
The Wagnerian Connection: New Information and a Vindication
by Doug on Sun May 15, 2011 6:59 am
As all may be aware, the U.S. government is prepared to auction off the possessions found in Kaczynski's cabin, and has established May 18 as the date when the auction will begin. Prior to the auction, the government provided a "sneak peak" at some of the auction lots on its Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/ . Some of these images afford glances at pages from Kaczynski's writings that have not as yet been publicly seen. Among them is one which I believe vindicates my theory that Kaczynski leaned heavily on the elements of Wagnerian opera in making literary allusions to himself and his motivations.
On page 111 of The Unabomber and the Zodiac, I wrote:
Moreover, this theme of sexual renunciation, so manifest in Parsifal, has its parallel in The Ring. In Das Rheingold, the dwarf Alberich is obliged to forswear love in order to take possession of the golden treasure and master the magic by which he may forge it into the Ring. Mocked and humiliated by the Rhine Maidens, whom he tries in vain to woo, the ugly Alberich immediately makes the deal, renouncing love in favor of the power that the Ring will confer. For Alberich, the bargain is an easy one to make, not only because he is both inwardly and outwardly unlovely, but because his amorous advances have been thoroughly scorned by the beautiful objects of his desire. Like Klingsor, his supposed virtue is nothing more than a necessity.
This parallels the words of Kaczynski on page 102 of his biography:
To take just one example, from Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, Scene One: 'He who should shape, from the Rheingold, a ring that would give him measureless power, would win for his own the world-inheritance (or, would inherit the world for his own?) ... [But] only he who forswears the power of (sexual) love, only he who drives out the joy of (sexual) love, only he attains the magic to overcome the gold so as to make it into a ring.'
Not only does this passage vindicate my belief that Kaczynski was strongly influenced by the text of Wagner's operas, but it serves to strongly buttress my theories that (1) Kaczynski used Wagnerian symbolism to offer teasing clues to the authorities as to his personal motivations; and (2) shows that such clues contained a strong theme of sexual frustration. If we take these as granted (as we certainly may) it requires no stretch of the imagination, as outlined in The Unabomber and the Zodiac, to favorably contrast Kaczynski's Wagnerian themes with those of Zodiac in his use of The Mikado and The Exorcist, with their own strong themes of sexual renunication.
And of course, it goes without saying (although many still need it stated) that both The Ring and The Mikado are forms of OPERA.
Here's hoping that whoever is fortunate enough to purchase these materials at auction will deign to make their complete texts available to the public.
AK WILKS: I have heard that a publisher may try to buy all the Kaczynski writings, then release it in the form of a book. I hope it happens.
Ted has fought against this auction for 2 years. Perhaps there will be some interesting evidence in there he does NOT want to come out.
For 2 years I have told the detectives I was communicating with that this was going to happen, and that they should request certain items (like rope and masks) before they are sold. I don't know if they did.
I very much want to see the black hood that is listed among Ted's effects (Zodiac prototype?), also the green canvas face mask (matches description of EAR/ONS mask).
This newly released info from Ted's journals does indeed confirm that Doug Oswell was totally right about his theory that Ted was influenced by the Wagner opera cycle.
And the Wagner opera Ring Cycle was heavily influenced by and basically based on NORSE MYTHS AND LEGENDS.
This confirms the ideas of Doug, myself and others, about Ted being influenced by NORSE.
Zodiac wrote a letter about the Norse word "SLA".
The NORSE legends emphasize NATURE, in particular TREES, WOOD, MOUNTAINS, WATER and ANIMALS like the RAVENS OF THE WOODS.
Ted used RAVENWOOD as an address on a letter to a victim, and whoever killed Judge Vance with a mailbomb (designed exactly like Unabomber bombs) also used RAVENWOOD as an address.
In the picture below, labeled by the newpaper as Zodiac sketches on a SFPD detectives desk we see dark wrap around type glasses. They must either be unreleased Zodiac sketches, or sketches of another murder suspect perhaps thought to be linked to Zodiac? Or maybe even just another murder suspect in that time frame.
Compare to dark wrap around type glasses found in Ted Kaczynski's cabin.
One would hope...
The FBI just turned down my request for the report on the DNA from stamps in the Judge Vance mailbomb murder. Well, they didn't exactly turn it down. Despite giving them the date of the report and despite even giving them the FBI file number, their response to me is "it cannot be located".
I have encountered obstacles from the start on anything related to Kaczynski. They have for two years refused to do a DNA draw on him, despite it being required by federal law, despite requests from Zodiac and EAR/ONS detectives, despite letters from US Congressman.
Now all the evidence is being sold to the public, rendering it useless in court.
We will learn a lot from this material. But no justice. I tried.
Kaczynski Items Notes Raw Code and Code Key Also Destruction List
Kaczynski Items Licenses and ID Cards
Noted by our member Ricardo Gomez at unazod:
In viewing the auction items, I saw Theodore Kaczynski’s passport photos dated March 27, 1971, according to the description.
Douglas Oswell’s essay refers to Kaczynski’s activities during this 1971 time period.
http://unazod.com/essay2.html
In the book “Unabomber: A Desire to Kill”, Robert Graysmith mentions that Kaczynski had a passport around that time.
It is known that after Kaczynski resigned from his job as assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley on June 30, 1969, he was thinking about moving to Canada.
At that time, a passport was not required for a U.S. citizen to travel to Canada or Mexico.
The existence of the passport photos dated March 27, 1971, raises the possibility that Kaczynski may have been planning to travel to a country other than Canada or Mexico sometime around the end of March, 1971.
This may be an interesting coincidence because the time would have been not too long after the March 13, 1971, letter to the Los Angeles Times (which was mailed from Pleasanton) and the March 22, 1971, postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle.
AK: Good find by Ricardo Gomez!
Can you provide a link to the page that has the passport photo? And any other info visible on it? Is it in the picture above? Where?
Is there anything to indicate WHERE the passport photo was taken, or where the passport itself was issued? If it was in Los Angeles or San Francisco, that would be of great interest, because as you note, the date itself is between two Zodiac letters, so if Ted Kaczynski can be placed on the west coast, it is very relevant and telling IMO.
Ricardo Gomez: The passport photos are listed with the other auction items at gsaauctions.gov.
The website does not seem to allow linking directly to each item.
The description states that the passport photos are dated March 27, 1971, which is after the two Zodiac-related correspondences of March, 1971.
The description does not mention where the passport photos were taken, so maybe that is unknown.
Wish we had more information!
LINDA:
LUKE 68:
Linda and Luke, I agree! I can think of NO USE for this hood for Ted as the Unabomber or as a hunter. Makes no sense.
Azazel, it does look flat on top!
Ricardo, I saw this listed in the FBI inventory 2 years ago, but this is the first time the image has been released to the public. The inventory also lists a BLACK "face mask" but says it is similar to a "Ski Mask", thus it would be like a hood as in it covers the whole head. No image on that one yet, that I have seen.
And yes the iconic sketch image of Ted in glasses and sweatshirt hoodie conjures up images of the Zodiac at Lake Berryessa, with his dark glasses and hood, doesn't it?
The existence of the hood found in Kaczynski's cabin shows that Ted, like Zodiac, wanted and could make a decent hood.
There is also a BLACK HOOD reported as found in Ted's cabin, but as yet no image I have seen.
NOW...
I am going to engage in a little speculation here, just exploration and asking a question.
Looking at the pictures of Zodiac in costume, it appears the hood has a box shape, like there might be a welding mask type structure. It also appears the hood is connected to the dickey that comes over the chest. So that it is one unit. It also appears in the police drawing that the hood has RECTANGULAR EYE SLITS.
Is it POSSIBLE that he may have wanted to wear a partial face mask hood UNDERNEATH the bulky hood-dickey structure? Perhaps in case it got knocked off during a struggle, so his face would still be partially covered?
Because it does look like the rectangular eye slits on the Kaczynski hood line up quite well with the Zodiac hood.
And they are both flat on top.
This item is being sold to the public. If there is even a 1% chance this could be something Zodiac wore, I wish it could be tested for DNA. With the bloody scene at Lake Berryessa, when Zodiac removed his hood with his hands, tiny microscopic specks of blood from the victims could have got on the hood.
At the Stine murder scene, Zodiac was also described wearing a "dark blue waist length zipper type jacket (navy or royal blue)".
Try to contact Mr. Hartnell and show him the hood.
Ted did own a navy blue windbreaker, a dark blue waist length zipper jacket and a blue ski jacket parka. Show those to him as well.
Saw some other interesting things in the video Cimm alerted me to.
VR/EAR/ONS was described as wearing green Army style fatigues as well as camo. Compare the camo shirt/jacket of the VR/EAR/ONS with one owned by Ted Kaczynski. Also see Ted wore fatigues.
This is described as a list of names. I think it is what Ted called his "Hit List". This may have been made fuzzy intentionally by US Marshall's or FBI. Can anyone get a blow up of this, or clarify image, so we can read the names??????
The Wagnerian Connection: New Information and a Vindication
by Doug on Sun May 15, 2011 6:59 am
As all may be aware, the U.S. government is prepared to auction off the possessions found in Kaczynski's cabin, and has established May 18 as the date when the auction will begin. Prior to the auction, the government provided a "sneak peak" at some of the auction lots on its Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/ . Some of these images afford glances at pages from Kaczynski's writings that have not as yet been publicly seen. Among them is one which I believe vindicates my theory that Kaczynski leaned heavily on the elements of Wagnerian opera in making literary allusions to himself and his motivations.
On page 111 of The Unabomber and the Zodiac, I wrote:
Moreover, this theme of sexual renunciation, so manifest in Parsifal, has its parallel in The Ring. In Das Rheingold, the dwarf Alberich is obliged to forswear love in order to take possession of the golden treasure and master the magic by which he may forge it into the Ring. Mocked and humiliated by the Rhine Maidens, whom he tries in vain to woo, the ugly Alberich immediately makes the deal, renouncing love in favor of the power that the Ring will confer. For Alberich, the bargain is an easy one to make, not only because he is both inwardly and outwardly unlovely, but because his amorous advances have been thoroughly scorned by the beautiful objects of his desire. Like Klingsor, his supposed virtue is nothing more than a necessity.
This parallels the words of Kaczynski on page 102 of his biography:
To take just one example, from Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, Scene One: 'He who should shape, from the Rheingold, a ring that would give him measureless power, would win for his own the world-inheritance (or, would inherit the world for his own?) ... [But] only he who forswears the power of (sexual) love, only he who drives out the joy of (sexual) love, only he attains the magic to overcome the gold so as to make it into a ring.'
Not only does this passage vindicate my belief that Kaczynski was strongly influenced by the text of Wagner's operas, but it serves to strongly buttress my theories that (1) Kaczynski used Wagnerian symbolism to offer teasing clues to the authorities as to his personal motivations; and (2) shows that such clues contained a strong theme of sexual frustration. If we take these as granted (as we certainly may) it requires no stretch of the imagination, as outlined in The Unabomber and the Zodiac, to favorably contrast Kaczynski's Wagnerian themes with those of Zodiac in his use of The Mikado and The Exorcist, with their own strong themes of sexual renunication.
And of course, it goes without saying (although many still need it stated) that both The Ring and The Mikado are forms of OPERA.
Here's hoping that whoever is fortunate enough to purchase these materials at auction will deign to make their complete texts available to the public.
AK WILKS: I have heard that a publisher may try to buy all the Kaczynski writings, then release it in the form of a book. I hope it happens.
Ted has fought against this auction for 2 years. Perhaps there will be some interesting evidence in there he does NOT want to come out.
For 2 years I have told the detectives I was communicating with that this was going to happen, and that they should request certain items (like rope and masks) before they are sold. I don't know if they did.
I very much want to see the black hood that is listed among Ted's effects (Zodiac prototype?), also the green canvas face mask (matches description of EAR/ONS mask).
This newly released info from Ted's journals does indeed confirm that Doug Oswell was totally right about his theory that Ted was influenced by the Wagner opera cycle.
And the Wagner opera Ring Cycle was heavily influenced by and basically based on NORSE MYTHS AND LEGENDS.
This confirms the ideas of Doug, myself and others, about Ted being influenced by NORSE.
Zodiac wrote a letter about the Norse word "SLA".
The NORSE legends emphasize NATURE, in particular TREES, WOOD, MOUNTAINS, WATER and ANIMALS like the RAVENS OF THE WOODS.
Ted used RAVENWOOD as an address on a letter to a victim, and whoever killed Judge Vance with a mailbomb (designed exactly like Unabomber bombs) also used RAVENWOOD as an address.
In the picture below, labeled by the newpaper as Zodiac sketches on a SFPD detectives desk we see dark wrap around type glasses. They must either be unreleased Zodiac sketches, or sketches of another murder suspect perhaps thought to be linked to Zodiac? Or maybe even just another murder suspect in that time frame.
Compare to dark wrap around type glasses found in Ted Kaczynski's cabin.
One would hope...
The FBI just turned down my request for the report on the DNA from stamps in the Judge Vance mailbomb murder. Well, they didn't exactly turn it down. Despite giving them the date of the report and despite even giving them the FBI file number, their response to me is "it cannot be located".
I have encountered obstacles from the start on anything related to Kaczynski. They have for two years refused to do a DNA draw on him, despite it being required by federal law, despite requests from Zodiac and EAR/ONS detectives, despite letters from US Congressman.
Now all the evidence is being sold to the public, rendering it useless in court.
We will learn a lot from this material. But no justice. I tried.
Kaczynski Items Notes Raw Code and Code Key Also Destruction List
Kaczynski Items Licenses and ID Cards
Noted by our member Ricardo Gomez at unazod:
In viewing the auction items, I saw Theodore Kaczynski’s passport photos dated March 27, 1971, according to the description.
Douglas Oswell’s essay refers to Kaczynski’s activities during this 1971 time period.
http://unazod.com/essay2.html
In the book “Unabomber: A Desire to Kill”, Robert Graysmith mentions that Kaczynski had a passport around that time.
It is known that after Kaczynski resigned from his job as assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley on June 30, 1969, he was thinking about moving to Canada.
At that time, a passport was not required for a U.S. citizen to travel to Canada or Mexico.
The existence of the passport photos dated March 27, 1971, raises the possibility that Kaczynski may have been planning to travel to a country other than Canada or Mexico sometime around the end of March, 1971.
This may be an interesting coincidence because the time would have been not too long after the March 13, 1971, letter to the Los Angeles Times (which was mailed from Pleasanton) and the March 22, 1971, postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle.
AK: Good find by Ricardo Gomez!
Can you provide a link to the page that has the passport photo? And any other info visible on it? Is it in the picture above? Where?
Is there anything to indicate WHERE the passport photo was taken, or where the passport itself was issued? If it was in Los Angeles or San Francisco, that would be of great interest, because as you note, the date itself is between two Zodiac letters, so if Ted Kaczynski can be placed on the west coast, it is very relevant and telling IMO.
Ricardo Gomez: The passport photos are listed with the other auction items at gsaauctions.gov.
The website does not seem to allow linking directly to each item.
The description states that the passport photos are dated March 27, 1971, which is after the two Zodiac-related correspondences of March, 1971.
The description does not mention where the passport photos were taken, so maybe that is unknown.
Wish we had more information!
LINDA:
This does give you a few chills thinking how much this home-made hood reminds of you of another... Wonder what Ted used this for... It looks quite old to me. Stitching around the eyes is interesting. Hand stitches maybe? How about the lining...wonder what that's made of.
LUKE 68:
What the hell would a distance killer like the Unabomber, need a hood like that for? It's not like he would have used it to hunt his favourite snowshoe rabbits.
Linda and Luke, I agree! I can think of NO USE for this hood for Ted as the Unabomber or as a hunter. Makes no sense.
Azazel, it does look flat on top!
Ricardo, I saw this listed in the FBI inventory 2 years ago, but this is the first time the image has been released to the public. The inventory also lists a BLACK "face mask" but says it is similar to a "Ski Mask", thus it would be like a hood as in it covers the whole head. No image on that one yet, that I have seen.
And yes the iconic sketch image of Ted in glasses and sweatshirt hoodie conjures up images of the Zodiac at Lake Berryessa, with his dark glasses and hood, doesn't it?
The existence of the hood found in Kaczynski's cabin shows that Ted, like Zodiac, wanted and could make a decent hood.
There is also a BLACK HOOD reported as found in Ted's cabin, but as yet no image I have seen.
NOW...
I am going to engage in a little speculation here, just exploration and asking a question.
Looking at the pictures of Zodiac in costume, it appears the hood has a box shape, like there might be a welding mask type structure. It also appears the hood is connected to the dickey that comes over the chest. So that it is one unit. It also appears in the police drawing that the hood has RECTANGULAR EYE SLITS.
Is it POSSIBLE that he may have wanted to wear a partial face mask hood UNDERNEATH the bulky hood-dickey structure? Perhaps in case it got knocked off during a struggle, so his face would still be partially covered?
Because it does look like the rectangular eye slits on the Kaczynski hood line up quite well with the Zodiac hood.
And they are both flat on top.
This item is being sold to the public. If there is even a 1% chance this could be something Zodiac wore, I wish it could be tested for DNA. With the bloody scene at Lake Berryessa, when Zodiac removed his hood with his hands, tiny microscopic specks of blood from the victims could have got on the hood.
linda wrote:Just re-read the description that Bryan Hartnell gave regarding what Zodiac was wearing.
"...Man wore a light weight blue-black windbreaker over a reddish-black wool shirt..."
Windbreakers have hoods... Could this blue-black lining from the hand-made hood be the hood of a windbreaker?
At the Stine murder scene, Zodiac was also described wearing a "dark blue waist length zipper type jacket (navy or royal blue)".
Try to contact Mr. Hartnell and show him the hood.
Ted did own a navy blue windbreaker, a dark blue waist length zipper jacket and a blue ski jacket parka. Show those to him as well.
Saw some other interesting things in the video Cimm alerted me to.
VR/EAR/ONS was described as wearing green Army style fatigues as well as camo. Compare the camo shirt/jacket of the VR/EAR/ONS with one owned by Ted Kaczynski. Also see Ted wore fatigues.
This is described as a list of names. I think it is what Ted called his "Hit List". This may have been made fuzzy intentionally by US Marshall's or FBI. Can anyone get a blow up of this, or clarify image, so we can read the names??????
