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"THE author attributes the' early progress of the university to the policy of Principal Dawson, who was the first to organize the teaching of scientific subjects. In connection with the support of the university by prominent Montrealersr Mr. Gibbon writes: "It is interesting to note that Sir WUliam Macdonald, Lord Strathcona, Sir Herbert Holt, J. V. McConnell and other donors of large sums were not graduates of McGill, many of them not graduates of any university at all."

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October 06, 1995|By Gary Marx and Jon Hilkevitch, Tribune Staff Writers. Tribune reporter John O'Brien contributed to this report.

"Are we trying to find a paper or document in that time frame and compare it to the manifesto? Yes," said Carroll. "Have we found a link? No."

Federal authorities have long suspected that the Unabomber-who has killed three people and injured 23 others in a series of bombings dating back to 1978-had some connection to Northwestern University in the late 1970s.

The return address on the Unabomber's first device was Buckley Crist, a material sciences professor at Northwestern's Technological Institute. (In an interview, Crist said he was not the professor who remembered the essay from the 1970s.)

The Unabomber's second device exploded in the Technological Institute in May 1979 and injured a graduate student from Canada.

Over the years, federal investigators have interviewed Crist and dozens of other Northwestern professors in an effort to identify the Unabomber, who authorities now believe lives in northern California. They have also compared student rosters at Northwestern with rosters at universities in Utah and northern California, where the Unabomber has planted or mailed other devices.

Along with the new "Robert V." lead, investigators are at Northwestern following other new avenues in their search for the Unabomber.

Federal agents have suspected for more than a month that the Unabomber may have culled some of the ideas for his manifesto from a series of widely publicized public lectures given at Northwestern in 1977 by Christopher Zeeman.

Zeeman, a retired professor from England's Warwick University, gave three lectures in February 1977 on the "catastrophe theory"-a mathematical theory that explains how minor variations can cause sudden and dramatic changes.

Investigators are now also asking Northwestern professors about other lectures given in 1978 by Joseph Needham. Needham, who was a world-renowned expert on Chinese technology, gave three lectures in April 1978 at Northwestern, including one talk comparing Chinese and Western science and another on the efficacy of acupuncture.

Academics familiar with Zeeman's and Needham's work say neither professor espoused the militant, anti-technological views expressed by the Unabomber. But they could see how an individual who held these radical views could manipulate and twist the two professors' ideas to fit his own agenda.

The Unabomber's manifesto describes how our seemingly stable technologically-based society could be headed for a sudden and castastrophic breakdown-an idea that appears influenced by Zeeman's catastrophe theory.

The Unabomber also wrote that Western science and technology is the cause of many of society's ills, from drug abuse to violent crime.

Needham, who died last year, rarely criticized Western science but spent his life espousing the virtues of Eastern science and medicine, which he often argued was more integrated into local culture and environment than its Western counterpart.


"The gist of Needham's acupuncture lecture was that this was not voodoo or witch-doctor medicine," said a Northwestern academic who attended one of Needham's lectures and was interviewed recently by federal agents. "At the time, acupuncture was not seen as absolutely scientific. But Needham said it works. He said that it comes from a very ancient culture that has a lot going for it."

Federal investigators have questioned Northwestern professors who attended the lectures about whether they remember anyone in the audience who espoused radical anti-technological views or caused a general disruption.

The professor who attended the lectures and who was recently interviewed by the FBI told investigators the kind of thing they've heard so many times in their long investigation.

"They asked me if I noticed anyone out of the ordinary-anyone who was conspicuous," said one professor who attended the lectures. "The lectures were full. I noticed no one. Nobody got up and shouted about technology ruining society.

Every once in a while I come across something that makes me laugh out loud. This one gem I found on the search engine listing. They pulled it down, but Google still had it cached.

This could be a possible Unabomber event, but the bomb threat came from a woman.
Nov. 24, 1974
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Kaczynski's Utah links span 15 years

SALT LAKE CITY - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski's Utah connection has proven a murky trail.

But USA TODAY on Wednesday found former associates of Kaczynski that place him in Utah as early as 1978 and as late as 1993.

The 53-year-old suspect appears to have followed a well-worn path traveled by day laborers on one of Salt Lake City's main downtown arteries.

Kaczynski has been charged with possessing bomb-making materials. Investigators say they've found substantial evidence linking him to the bombings spread over 18 years.

Authorities believe that Kaczynski staged four bombings on visits from his Montana cabin to Utah:

Oct. 8, 1981. An unexploded bomb was found at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

May 5, 1982. A bomb mailed from Brigham Young University in Provo exploded at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, injuring one.

Nov. 15, 1985. A bomb that was sent from Utah injured two at the University of Michigan.

Feb. 20, 1987. A bomb left behind a computer store in Salt Lake City injured owner Gary Wright.

Wednesday, the FBI took records from the Regis Hotel, where Kaczynski was believed to have stayed.

Rita Nyberg, 47, who works in a graphics supply store next to the hotel, recalled seeing Kaczynski in 1992 and 1993.

"When I saw those photos, I said, 'I know him.' I'd never forget those sunken cheeks," Nyberg said.

She remembers Kaczynski drinking coffee alone at a Hardee's restaurant near the hotel. He was usually "very polite, quietly sipping his coffee," Nyberg said. But on one occasion, she remembered Kaczynski slammed his fist on the counter after another man attempted to speak to him.

Greg Nance, 37, a day laborer, said he stayed at the Regis Hotel with Kaczynski. Nance also got jobs from SOS Staffing Associates, a temporary employment agency where he and Kaczynski sought odd jobs, such as painting and clearing rubbish.

"He was almost always a recluse," Nance said. "He wasn't much to talk at all. The guy was like a hermit, always by himself. Some people you can see they are crazy people, but not him."

Nance and others who frequented the Regis said Kaczynski would usually stay for a week at a time during 1978, drawing jobs unloading trucks, cleaning carpets, painting and clearing rubbish.

SOS Staffing, where Kaczynski sought work, had its computers maintained by Wright, the bombing victim who then owned a store near the job agency and hotel.

Wright couldn't be reached. He was seriously hurt when he picked up a bomb in an alley behind his store. Two of his employees saw the Unabomber leave the package and supplied details for the artist's sketch of the hooded Unabomber.

FBI agents have made repeated visits to the former site of the computer store, now occupied by El Centro Latino de Utah, a clothing store.

Also Wednesday, agents investigated whether Kaczynski did seasonal work in the nearby ski resort of Alta during the 1970s and 1980s.

By Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY

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ATTORNEY SAW ENOUGH TO ACT HE TOLD FBI ABOUT KACZYNSKI'S PAPERS
BY DAVE EISENSTADT , TIMOTHY CLIFFORD NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, April 8, 1996, 12:00 AM A A A
BROOKVILLE, Md. "Disturbing similarities" between the Unabomber's published manifesto and suspect Theodore Kaczynski's writings persuaded a Brooklyn-born lawyer to take the case to the FBI. "Two concerns were driving this: The possibility of saving innocent lives and protecting the life of a potentially innocent individual," Washington attorney Anthony Bisceglie told the Daily News in an interview yesterday at his home. The revelations by Bisceglie the intermediary between the Kaczynski family and the FBI came as federal investigators scoured fleabag hotels and bus depots around the nation to track the Montana mountain man's movements. They also came as two men reported multiple sightings of Kaczynski in Sacramento, Calif. the area where the Unabomber mailed his last four bombs. Kaczynski, 53, is being held on charges of possessing bomb-making materials as authorities scramble to link him to the bombing spree that began in 1978, killing three people and injuring 23. Kaczynski's brother, David, reached out to Bisceglie in early January after reading excerpts of the manifesto last October. The lawyer, who was introduced to David Kaczynski by a mutual friend, said David found items in the manifesto that reminded him of his brother. "When Dave came to me, they didn't know if he [Theodore] was the Unabomber or not," said Bisceglie, 43, stressing that the suspect still is presumed innocent. While helping his mother, Wanda, get ready to move earlier this year, David Kaczynski found his brother's letters in her suburban Chicago home. "There might have been similarities in the writings that were pure coincidences and to launch a full-scale investigation required looking at this very carefully," Bisceglie said. But after examining the writings and the manifesto, Bisceglie said, "There were disturbing similarities.

" The lawyer whose clients have included the Church of Scientology and "Fatal Vision" killer Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald added, "I brought it to the FBI.

" Bisceglie, who was reared on Long Island and in Connecticut, is a partner in the three-lawyer firm of Bisceglie & Walsh. A graduate of the University of Colorado and the Antioch School of Law, he is a specialist in white-collar crime and civil litigation. "We've done some sensitive investigations in the past involving the FBI," Bisceglie said. "That was one of the things that led them [the Kaczynski family] to me.

" Bisceglie declined to give full details about his involvement, such as when he first spoke to the FBI. The lawyer has scheduled a news conference today in Washington. On March 11, Wanda Kaczynski permitted FBI agents to search her home without a warrant, U.

S. News & World Report said in this week's issue. Among the passages that agents spotted in both the manifesto and letters was the twisting of a common phrase: "Well, you can't eat your cake and have it, too.

" The Sacramento Bee reported yesterday that David Kaczynski first tried to persuade prosecutors not to seek the death penalty against his brother. But when they refused, Kaczynski still informed them about Theordore's writings. Meanwhile, Justice Department officials were expected to meet today with federal prosecutors from across the country to decided how to proceed in the case. A federal grand jury in Great Falls, Mont., is set to begin hearing evidence against Kaczynski April 17. In addition to bomb-making components recovered Wednesday, a live package bomb was discovered under Kaczynski's bed Friday though the identity of its target wasn't revealed. A beat-up typewriter also found in the hovel appears to be the one the Unabomber used to peck out his screeds against society. Meanwhile, a hotel clerk and a manager of a Burger King who work next to downtown Sacramento's bus depot told The Associated Press they had seen Kaczynski. Clerk Frank Hensley said Kaczynski stayed at the Royal Hotel two or three times, in the late spring or summer, in the past five years. Restaurant manager Mike Singh also recalled seeing Kaczynski a few times in recent years, including one occasion when the disheveled man was carrying an armload of books. "He said he was doing research and he had a breakfast sandwich," Singh said. Kaczynski also reportedly made periodic trips into Helena, Mont., where he would stay at a $14-a-night inn and make bus connections. Four of those stays between 1982 and 1995 roughly coincided with five Unabomb attacks. Tom Stell, a driver for Helena's Rimrock Stages bus company, said he saw Kaczynski at least five times riding between Helena and Missoula. "He was greasy and dirty and never said anything to anybody," Stell told the Helena Independent Record. Stacie Fredrickson, a ticketing agent for Greyhound bus lines in Butte, Mont. where connections to buses traveling around the country are available said she recognized Kaczynski as a frequent passenger when the FBI showed her a photo last week. "They just asked if I recognized this guy and I said I did," she told Reuter, "because he looked like a geek.

" In another development, Newsweek magazine reported that a former Harvard classmate of Kaczynski's became suspicious after reading the Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto last September. The sharp-eyed classmate noted that the diatribe alluded to the works of 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant a favorite subject of Kaczynski's during bull sessions more than 30 years ago. GRAPHIC: HOW THE UNABOMBER CAST HIS NET Federal officials are tracing the travels of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in an effort to link him to the deadly, 17-year bombing campaign. Here is a list of his travels and whereabouts at time of the bombings. MONTANA From his remote mountain cabin in Lincoln, Mont., Kaczynski would take a local bus or hitch rides with the town's mailman to Helena, where he would stay atParker Hotel, located next to the main bus station. At least four of Kaczynski's 25 visits to the hotel over the last 11 years coincided with periods just before or after a Unabomber attack. From Helena, Kaczynski would take a bus to Butte, which provides connections to the rest of the country. A ticket agent in Butte said she had seen Kaczynski "about 15 times since 1991" taking buses to Salt Lake City, or to Missoula, where he could make connections to Washington state and the West Coast. 1. CALIFORNIA Eight of the Unabomber's devices were placed or sent from Berkeley, Sacramento, and Oakland. Kaczynski had taught mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley for two years before resigning in June, 1969 and moving to Montana. Yesterday, a hotel clerk in Sacramento said he had seen Kaczynski several times in recent years. Four of the bombing incidents coincided with periods that Kaczynski stayed at the Parker Hotel in Helena, where he presumably began his travel to California. They include: May 15, 1985: A bomb found in computer room at the University of California at Berkeley injures one person. Kaczynski stayed at the hotel on April 29. June 13, 1985: A bomb mailed from Oakland to Boeing Co. in Auburn, Wash. is safely defused. Kaczynski stayed at hotel on May 22. June 22, 1993: A bomb sent from Sacramento to a University of California geneticist injures the man in his San Francisco home. Kaczynski stayed at hotel June 6. April 24, 1995: California Forestry Association President Gilbert Murray is killed at his Sacramento headquarters opening a package sent from Oakland. Kaczynski stayed at the Parker on March 13. Other bombings linked to California included the Dec. 11, 1985 death of Hugh Scrutton, killed near his computer rental store in Sacramento; a package sent from Sacramento that injured a Yale University computer sceintist on June 23, 1994; and the Dec. 10, 1994 death of New York advertising executive Thomas Mosser, who was killed in his Caldwell, N.

J. home. 2. UTAH Salt Lake City: The Unabomber sends two bombs to the area: one on Oct. 8, 1981 to the University of Utah, where no one was hurt, and the second on Feb. 20, 1987, injuring a man in a computer store. Federal agents reportedly said that Kaczynski lived in Salt Lake City for a period during the early 1980s. A local hotel clerk said that the FBI has been searching the area since last month. The Unabomber also sent a bomb on May 5, 1982 from nearby Provo to a Vanderbilt University computer scientist in Nashville, Tenn. Another bomb sent to a University of Michigan professor was mailed from Salt Lake City. 3. CHICAGO AREA Three of the Unabomber's packages were mailed from the Chicago area, where Kaczynski was born and raised. The first bomb, sent on May, 25, 1978, injured a security guard at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill; the second wounded United Airlines president in his home in 1980; and a third injured 12 aboard an American Airlines flight to Washington, D.

C. on Nov. 15, 1979. A fourth bomb left at Northwestern's Technological Institute in 1979 wounded one person. Six weeks after the first bombing, Kaczynski reportedly obtained an Illinois driver's license using his parent's suburban Chicago address, although he lived in Montana. Authorities believe Kaczynski traveled to the Chicago area several times during that period, for a few months. While cleaning out the family's suburban Chicago home in March, relatives found writings similar to the Unabomber's that led them to turn Kaczynski in. Police also reportedly searched a shed near the family home and found potassium and phosphorous, which can be used in making bombs, as well as a mixing bowl with trace elements of gun powder and several boxes of wooden stick matches. The Unabomber's first four bombs contained wooden matches and gun powder. 4. MICHIGAN Michigan On November 15, 1985, a secretary is injured opening a package to a University of Michigan professor. Kaczynski earned his MA and PhD in math there from 1962-67.

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Defense Asks Judge to Bar Evidence in Unabomber Case
March 04, 1997|MARK GLADSTONE | TIMES STAFF WRITER
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SACRAMENTO — Attorneys for accused Unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski on Monday urged a federal judge to toss out evidence seized nearly a year ago at Kaczynski's Montana cabin, saying the FBI was "deliberately misleading" in obtaining a search warrant.

In several hundred pages of documents filed late Monday, defense lawyers Quin Denvir and Judy Clarke maintained that the FBI "simply failed to provide any trustworthy information that would convince a reasonably prudent person that Mr. Kaczynski committed the Unabomb crimes."

To buttress their argument, the defense lawyers provided a detailed critique of the 104-page search warrant affidavit that sought to establish links between Kaczynski and the Unabomber.

In particular, they contend that the government misrepresented DNA evidence, failed to disclose information that Kaczynski did not match the description of the Unabomber "in virtually any respect," and covered up evidence showing that Kaczynski had an alibi for a 1985 fatal bombing in Sacramento.



As a result, the defense lawyers are asking U.S. Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to exclude all evidence seized in April at Kaczynski's remote cabin.

That evidence includes a stack of documents that prosecutors have described as the backbone of the case against the former UC Berkeley mathematics professor, including entries in which they say he took responsibility for the deadly, coast-to-coast trail of 16 bombings.

An FBI spokesman declined to comment on the defense legal brief.

After Kaczynski's arrest, the government released a list of evidence removed by FBI agents from his cabin, including bomb components, notebooks and typewriters that allegedly tied him to the bombings that started in 1978 and killed three and injured 23.

In June, a federal grand jury indicted Kaczynski in four Unabomber-related explosions, including two fatal attacks--the 1985 death of Sacramento computer store owner Hugh Scrutton and the 1995 death of Capitol timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray. Kaczynski, 54, remains in Sacramento County Jail awaiting trial.

Seeking to poke holes in the government's case, Kaczynski's lawyers said that documents available to the FBI provided their client with an alibi for the 1985 Sacramento bombing.

"Specifically, bank records and information from bank officials all showed Mr. Kaczynski personally making a deposit in Helena, Mont., on the date of a Unabomb event in Sacramento," according to defense documents.

Another major point made by the defense was that the government's search warrant affidavit failed to reveal that DNA testing excluded Kaczynski as the source of DNA on two Unabomb letters and probably excluded him as the source of DNA on a third letter.

A third issue in dispute involves the description of the Unabomb suspect given in 1987 by an eyewitness who saw a man plant an explosive device in the rear parking lot of a Salt Lake City computer store.

In contrast to the witness' description, Kaczynski was 14 to 19 years older, 1 to 3 inches shorter and had a more muscular build, according to the defense team.

Authorities had been searching for the Unabomber since 1978, when his first attack came at Northwestern University, north of Chicago. The FBI gave the case the code name "Unabomb" because early targets included universities and airlines.

Interesting articles.

I find it hard to believe there were TWO anti-technology bombers in Montana. I wonder if Ted called in the threat using a female voice as a disguise?

Do you have a date/year for the article on the bomb found in Bozeman, Montana? Thanks.

Wait I see Sept 4 1970.

AK Wilks wrote:Interesting articles.

I find it hard to believe there were TWO anti-technology bombers in Montana. I wonder if Ted called in the threat using a female voice as a disguise?

Do you have a date/year for the article on the bomb found in Bozeman, Montana? Thanks.

Wait I see Sept 4 1970.

What do you make of this information? This sounds like there could be an accomplice to me.

"Another major point made by the defense was that the government's search warrant affidavit failed to reveal that DNA testing excluded Kaczynski as the source of DNA on two Unabomb letters and probably excluded him as the source of DNA on a third letter."