Interesting patterns and ideas Jelberg.
What has also interested me about the Kaczynski code system, well many things actually, but one thing is that in one version, the unscrambling sequences involve not just horizontal, but vertical and diagonal sequences. The Raw Graysmith, before he mucks it up with forced word solves creating a baby talk gibberish wrong solution, I think has a lot correct about it. This Raw Graysmith proposed solution was devised by people like Claston, Ed, Obiwan and others. And unbeknownst to Graysmith and those individuals, it has a lot of vertical and diagonal words in it. Also a study by Prof. Knight of USC reveals that the 340 has a large number of repeat cipher bigrams in NE diagonals, and the Raw Graysmith has words revealed in a NE diagonal direction.
The other interesting thing is that the unsolved 340 starts off with H E R < U L, which is easy to read as HERCULES or HERCEAN. Kaczynski wrote a letter, never sent, using the alias HERCULES. I think the letter itself is a code or a puzzle of some kind.
I also think a "code" or hidden meaning of some kind exists in the HERCULES letter that Ted apparently never sent.
This was in 1985. I have a fragment of it. I don't know what it means but it is interesting!
It was addressed to Professor Louis De Branges. The FBI says the letter was never sent, as I guess they found this version in Ted's cabin, though I wonder if Ted may have sent a copy. De Branges is one of the greatest mathematicians in the world. He solved one of the greatest unsolved math problems in history in 1984 (the year before Ted wrote to him or thought about writing to him) when he proved the Bieberbach Conjecture. As a student at U of M a prof presented his class with a historically famous unsolved problem, and Ted solved it and won a prize, just like De Branges would with a harder problem 20 years later.
The fragment by Ted below is weird. Ted got outstanding grades and won prizes, so the story he relates here is to my knowledge made up. Maybe there was one teacher who gave him a bad grade, but I seriously doubt it.
I don't think Ted would have wanted to kill De Branges. De Branges like Ted was involved with pure math, not really technology. I don't know why he wrote him this letter or what it means. Did Ted want Prof De Branges to solve something? The first four letters/symbols in the unsolved Zodiac 340 are HER<, and the four letters in the Raw Graysmith proposed solution to the Zodiac 340 are HERC.
***** ***** *****
TO PROFESSOR LOUIS DE BRANGES
The teacher took out a book, leafed through it frantically, and found what he was looking for..."I'm putting next to your name," he continued, opening his booklet, "a very bad grade." Since then, this little error has always pursued me. It has ruined my career.
HERCULES
***** ***** *****Does anyone have any thoughts on this, what it means?
TRAVELLER1ST speculated that it could read that the name A VERY is AVERY. AVERY? Is Ted Kaczynski saying Paul AVERY, who investigated the Zodiac and connected him to the Cheri Bates murder, was a "bad grade" "little error" that always pursued him and ruined his (Zodiac?) career?
"The teacher took out a book, leafed through it frantically, and found what he was looking for..."I'm putting next to your name," he continued, opening his booklet, "
a very bad grade." Since then,
this little error has always pursued me. It has ruined my career. I.E. "AVERY has always pursued me. (He) has ruined my career". Interesting, but does it really fit, as Avery was probably no more than a pest - annoyance to Zodiac? But Avery did make the Zodiac - Riverside Bates murder connection and Zodiac did send Avery a threatening card. I think the Hercules letter written by TK is a code or puzzle of some kind, but I can't figure it out.
Graysmith's HERCEANB as a 340 opening he thought was an anagram for columnist HERB CAEN. I think Z may have just meant HERCEAN, like a Herculean task.
I have never been totally sold that Zodiac knew or cared about Herb Caen. One, he never mentioned him in any confirmed letters. Two, Z used no anagrams in the 408, and Doranchak, Glurk and others have shows that anagrams lead to way too many different possible solutions, and no way to tell what the creator really intended. Third, Ted K used HERCULES as an alias in his letter to the math professor. And four, the very letters and symbols Zodiac picked for his opening bring to mind the word HERCULES, in my opinion.
Heracles was the Greek god/hero, and Hercules the Roman version of that myth, adopted in the west. Hercules beat his enemies to death with a wood club. A man who may have been Zodiac tried to abduct a college girl in Riverside in November 1966. He mentioned the Bates case, said he was not Jack the Ripper but if he wanted to kill her he would beat her to death with a piece of wood. Ted later adopted Freedom CLUB as the name for Unabomber actions, and CLUB certainly has a double meaning.
Trav first noted a possible cryptic read with allusions to the Zodiac case, very speculative to be sure, but interesting:
NEXT TO YOUR NAME "AVERY BAD GRADE". THIS LITTLE ERROR ALWAYS PURSUED ME. RUINED MY CAREER.My thought now is that if there is a meaning here, if this is not just a joke, then it may have to do with the Zodiac codes. Think about this name:
HERCULES.
Now look at the first part, the opening 8 letters of the raw unsolved Zodiac 340 Code:
Let us "turn around" the fourth and sixth symbols, so they are: < and L
So what might we have?
H E R < _ L _ _ .
Just looking at that one possible code solution jumps to mind to fill in the blanks:
H E R C_ L _ _
H E R C U L E SH E R C U L E SH E R C E L S U ...or...
H E R C E A N----------------------------------------------------------------------
Because the Zodiac 408 unsolved 18 applied to a Caesar shift matrix of 0-3-6-9 produces THEODOREJ KACZYNSKI (have you seen this Jelberg, Quicktrader and others?), I applied the same 0-3-6-9 Caesar shift matrix to the Raw Graysmith 340 and got interesting results.
Particularly on the 3rd line, surrounding THEO (as is, left to right read, no anagrams), the letters KAC, ZYN and SKI appear, right before the 4th line SEE A NAME (as is, left to right read, no anagrams). Graysmith offered his proposed solution in the 1980's, long before the world knew that the serial killer, bomber and code designer dubbed the Unabomber was in fact Ted Kaczynski. And Graysmith, then and now, favored Lee Allen as a Z suspect. All the more interesting that THEO appears in the code, along with a Caesar shifted KAC ZYN SKI around THEO and before SEE A NAME, along with a possible code opening of HERC or HERCEAN (when TK would use an alias of Hercules).
The Raw Graysmith 3rd line and 4th line.
Based on these results regarding the 340 3rd line I can say I have a HIGH DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE that lines 1 to 8 of the Graysmith 340 solution are likely all correct or at least likely partially correct. What is interesting is that lines 1 through 8 show meaningful words and phrases DIAGONALLY like LIST and BOMBS but mostly HORIZONTIALLY, like I GIVE THEM HELL TOO, SEE A NAME, THESE FOOLSHALL SEE and horizontal backwards like HE SET BLAST, GAME.
But lines 10 through 20 show more meaningful words VERTICALLY, like DUEL SIR, BARS LEASH, TAKE LOSE.
As I mentioned, the TK unscrambling sequences involve not just horizontal, but vertical and diagonal sequences. The Raw Graysmith, before he mucks it up with forced word solves creating a baby talk gibberish wrong solution, I think has a lot correct about it. This Raw Graysmith proposed solution was devised by people like Claston, Ed, Obiwan and others. And unbeknownst to Graysmith and those individuals, it has a lot of vertical and diagonal words in it. Also a study by Prof. Knight of USC reveals that the 340 has a large number of NE diagonals, and the Raw Graysmith has words revealed in a NE diagonal direction.
Code expert Prof. Knight of USC, and his study of the Z 340:
The raw Graysmith proposed solution to the Z 340, with words marked, also unmarked in the last, far right vertical column are SEAT & TIES.
Zodiac mentioned Jack the Ripper in the attempted kidnapping of a girl in November 1966. Zodiac, like Jack the Ripper, gave himself a name, wrote taunting letters to the police and newspapers, sent physical proof of a claimed murder (JTR=Piece of kidney, Z=Piece of Stine shirt), killed women with a knife and used identical or similar words and phrases, like Yours Truly, good times, police shall never catch me, etc. .
Zodiac in his letter to Mr. Lusk gave it the heading "From Hell". In the RAW Graysmith Proposed Solution to the Zodiac 340, after introducing himself as Hercules and/or warning the reader they have a HERC(UL)EAN task to solve this code, Zodiac follows up on Jack the Ripper's statement that he is FROM HELL with the warning that I GIVE THEM HELL TOO.
