I have seen this theory that TK was a gov agent and its a nonstarter.

Ted had a ball trigger in his cabin. Same type as in Bari bombing. I did research on the Bari case with Ted as a suspect. I will post it in a thread. It may also be related to the Vance case which I am taking a new look at very seriously.

Ted hated Bari who he said was "emasculating" the radical environmental movement.

Ted, in the letter to Live Wild or Die (LWOD), mentions COINTELPRO by name.

"CONFIDENTIAL NOTE
Enclosed is a letter that presumably will require general discussion by the LWOD staff. But this confidential note contains material that should be known to as few people as possible. So whichever LWOD person opens this envelope, he or she should hide this note and reveal its existence to no one, except when absolutely necessary. Read the other material in this envelope before reading the rest of this confidential[crossed out] note.

Some more connections between CIA and universities:

Kaczynski graduated from Harvard University in 1962, at age 20, and subsequently enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in mathematics.[16] Kaczynski’s specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory. His professors at Michigan were impressed with his intellect and drive. "He was an unusual person. He was not like the other graduate students", said Dr. Peter Duren, one of Kaczynski’s math professors at Michigan. "He was much more focused about his work. He had a drive to discover mathematical truth." "It is not enough to say he was smart", said Dr. George Piranian, another of his Michigan math professors. Kaczynski earned his PhD with his thesis entitled "Boundary Functions" by solving a problem[20] so difficult that Piranian could not figure it out.[21] Maxwell Reade, a retired math professor who served on Kaczynski’s dissertation committee, also commented on his thesis by noting, "I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 men in the country understood or appreciated it."[22] In 1967, Kaczynski won the University of Michigan’s $100 Sumner B. Myers Prize, which recognized his dissertation as the school’s best in mathematics that year.[22] While a graduate student at Michigan, he held a National Science Foundation fellowship and taught undergraduates for three years. He also published two articles related to his dissertation in mathematical journals, and four more after leaving Michigan.[23]

https://www.si.umich.edu/careers/centra … cy-library

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/nsa-w … ummies-ii/

"Ramparts"’ problems with the CIA started in spring 1966, when a whistleblower named Stanley Sheinbaum gave Hinckle and Scheer a bombshell story on how the CIA had been paying Michigan State University to act as the Agency’s front in South Vietnam. There had never been an investigative article quite like this, at least not since the start of the Cold War — exposing a top secret program in America’s war zone, implicating the American intelligentsia in serving the empire (MSU "advisors" trained and armed South Vietnam’s internal security forces, helped write South Vietnam’s Constitution, and provided cover for CIA officers posing as MSU academics, all in violation of UN agreements signed by the United States).

The whistleblower, an MSU Economics professor named Stanley Sheinbaum, first joined the Vietnam Project to advise South Vietnam’s corrupt president Diem in 1955. In 1957, Sheinbaum was promoted to coordinator for the Vietnam Project, where he soon learned the real scope of his work there. One story Sheinbaum told: He and four top Saigon police officials came to the US for a training junket. While in the US, one of the four, the nephew of Diem, pulled Sheinbaum aside and let him in on a secret: They were planning to bump off the eldest of the four Vietnamese guests while in the US, since it would be easier to pull off in the US. Sheinbaum was horrified; he managed to create a diversion and get the intended victim sent to a hospital. A few years later, the target was executed in Vietnam anyway.

Sheinbaum soon learned about all the CIA officers under Michigan State University academic cover. In 1959, feeling used and drawn deeper into an increasingly violent and corrupt situation in Vietnam, Sheinbaum and another professor both quit the program. In the 1960s, Sheinbaum watched the US get sucked deeper and deeper into the war, and it weighed on his conscience. If academics were taking funds from the CIA to do work like keeping inventories on grenade launcher ammo, Browning automatics and .50 caliber machine guns — as MSU had been doing in Vietnam — then "where is the source of serious intellectual criticism that would help us avoid future Vietnams?" Sheinbaum asked.

In early 1966, he went to "Ramparts" and told them what he knew. Right down to the names of CIA agents he provided cover for:

Central Intelligence Agency men were hidden within the ranks of the Michigan State University professors. They were all listed as members of the MSU Project staff and were formally appointed by the University Board of Trustees. Several of the CIA men were given academic rank and were paid by the University Project. The CIA agents’ instructions were to engage in counter-espionage and counter-intelligence.

The head of the "Internal Security Section" … under the Michigan State operation was Raymond Babineau who was in Saigon from the outset of the MSU Project. The other men were hired later by the University and listed on its staff chart as "Police Administration Specialists." All four — Douglas Deed, William Jones, Daniel Smith, and Arthur Stein — gave their previous employment as either "investigator" or "records specialist" in the Department of the Army.
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http://www.namebase.org/campus/witanek.html
The CIA on Campus

by Robert Witanek

Copyright © 1989 by Covert Action Publications, Inc., Washington DC,
and Institute for Media Analysis, Inc., New York NY. All rights reserved.
Professors and CIA operatives with academic cover have worked extensively on campuses around the world. As we will see in this article, they have written books, articles, and reports for U.S. consumption with secret CIA sponsorship and censorship; they have spied on foreign nationals at home and abroad; they have regularly recruited foreign and U.S. students and faculty for the CIA; they have hosted conferences with secret CIA backing under scholarly cover, promoting disinformation; and they have collected data, under the rubric of research, on Third World liberation and other movements opposed to U.S. intervention.1
The nature of the relationship between the CIA and the academic community is best seen in a 1968 memo from Dr. Earl C. Bolton who, while serving as Vice President of the University of California at Berkeley, was secretly consulting for the CIA. The memo, widely circulated among U.S. universities, advises the use of duplicity and deception to hide CIA connection to the campuses. It also suggests lying about CIA involvement in university projects stating, "The real initiative might be with the Agency but the apparent or record launching of the research should, wherever possible, emanate from the campus." The memo continues:

Follow a plan of emphasizing that CIA is a member of the national security community and stress the great number of other agencies with which the agency is allied [and] … stress in recruiting articles and speeches that the agency is really a university without students and not a school for spies. There is as much academic freedom within the walls of the building and among those competent on the subject as on any campus I know. (I haven’t detected the slightest tendency on the part of anyone to resist saying what he thinks.)2
Bolton’s memo also recommended setting up programs with CIA funds "to establish the study of intelligence as a legitimate and important field of inquiry for the academic scholar." Under Bolton’s plan the CIA was to fund one-year post doctoral programs for selected scholars.

Ironically, the memo also stated that doctoral students spending a year at the CIA working on their dissertations "would of course have to recognize the agency’s right to review the finished document for accidental leaks." The contradiction between CIA secrecy and the academic ideal of encouraging the open exchange of information seems to have posed no dilemma for the vice president of one of the country’s most prestigious universities.

A Few Examples

The CIA has a long and sordid history of activity on U.S. university campuses. The examples below list just a few of what are doubtlessly hundreds of CIA operations on college campuses.

From 1955-59, Michigan State University had a $25 million contract with the CIA to provide academic cover to five CIA agents stationed in South Vietnam who performed such jobs as drafting the government’s constitution, and providing police training and weapons to the repressive Diem regime. The constitution included a provision requiring the South Vietnamese to carry voter identification cards. Citizens without such cards were assumed to be supporters of the Vietcong, and faced arrest or worse by the regime’s police.3
In 1956, while the MSU operation was in full swing, the CIA established the Asia Foundation, providing it with approximately $88 million in funding each year. The foundation sponsored research, supported conferences, ran academic exchange programs, funded anti-communist academics in various Asian countries, and recruited foreign agents and new case officers.4 Large numbers of American academics participated in the program.
The CIA started the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies (MIT-CIS) in 1950. By 1952, former Director of the CIA’s Office of National Estimates Max Millikan became director of the center.5 In 1955, the CIA contracted "Project Brushfire" with Millikan to study the political, psychological, economic, and sociological factors leading to "peripheral wars."6
In the mid 1950s, professors at MIT and Cornell launched field projects in Indonesia to train an elite of Indonesian military and economic leaders who later became the impetus behind the coup that brought Suharto to power and left over one million people dead. The elites were trained at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley by Guy Pauker who had moved there from MIT-Center for International Studies.7

Academics and Africa

The CIA is especially interested in inspiring university African affairs programs. Again, MIT played an important role in promoting CIA interests. In 1956, when former CIA official Max Millikan was director of MIT’s Center for International Studies, he appointed Arnold Rivkin from the State Department to head MIT’s Africa Research Program. Together, the two supervised studies for CIA use.8

That the CIA had a keen interest in academics with expertise in African Studies was evidenced in a Ford Foundation study. In 1958, the Ford Foundation’s Committee of Africanists commenced to "survey the current condition and future prospects of African studies." According to its report, the CIA said it would need "a constant level of … seventy people specializing in the African area; they particularly desire those who have training in economics, geography, or political science."9 Other examples of the CIA’s "academic" interest in Africa include:

In 1965, Rene Lemarchand, a nontenure professor at the University of Florida, returned from a trip to Burundi. Shortly thereafter, Justin Gleischauf, the Miami CIA station chief contacted Lemarchand, asking him for an interview. Manny Dauer, Lemarchand’s department chair, advised him to cooperate fully in answering the questions the CIA had for him. Lemarchand, however, turned down the invitation.10
In 1968, George Rawick, a sociology professor at Oakland University was approached by James R. Hooker, of Michigan State University’s African Studies Center for recruitment into the CIA. Hooker, a professor with a liberal-left reputation, used an interesting argument. Hooker’s rationale for working with the CIA was, "None of us are ever going to get an intelligent approach unless we get trained intelligent people in there to tell us what’s going on. If we rely on yahoos, look what we’re going to get."11

Democracy: Rutgers Style

In 1968, the CIA used the Eagleton Institute for Research at Rutgers University in a plan to influence the outcome of the presidential election in Guyana. Through the Eagleton Institute, the CIA helped amend the Guyanese constitution to allow Guyanese and relatives of Guyanese living abroad to vote by absentee ballot. Then 16,000 votes were manufactured in New York City, giving the CIA’s candidate, Forbes Burnham, a narrow margin over socialist Cheddi Jagan.12

Another operation involving Rutgers University was run by Political Science Department Chair, Professor Richard Mansbach, who used an undergraduate class (without the students’ knowledge) as cover for a CIA project entitled the "European Non-State Actors Project" (ENSAP) in 1984.13

When Europeans were up in arms over U.S. deployment of Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Western Europe, Mansbach assigned his students to each focus on one component of West Europe’s political culture including disarmament, religious, labor, media, left, environmental, and various other groups. They were to produce data-intensive reports to Mansbach who would in turn, and in secret, incorporate the data into a report to the CIA. While the study was initially to result in a book, it is believed to have been abandoned after it was exposed.14

CIA "Scholars" on Campus

The CIA recently initiated an "Officer in Residence" program to increase their presence and prestige in the U.S. academic community. According to a CIA official, "about ten" major universities across the country host CIA "Officers in Residence."15 Stanley M. Moskowitz, chair of the CIA Training Selection Board, wrote that the Resident Officers program, "allows senior-level officers to disengage from their normal duties by fully participating in the academic life, including research and teaching." He also stated that the CIA officer,

will demonstrate the quality of CIA people and [the CIA’s] commitment to providing U.S. leaders with the very best intelligence we can. The program also serves to strengthen our professional ties to a fertile and indispensable source of ideas and technical expertise and to enhance CIA’s recruiting efforts by providing an opportunity for experienced officers to serve as role models, to counsel interested students on career opportunities with the CIA, and to respond to concerns students may have about the agency and the intelligence profession.16
The letter makes no bones about the fact that the CIA is on campus to recruit the "fertile and indispensable source of ideas," namely university professors, and to look for recruits among students as well.

An October 9, 1987 memo from the Office of the Associate Dean at the University of Texas to the faculty shows how eager university officials are to cooperate with the CIA’s Officer in Residence program. The memo describes Resident Officer James McInnis as having "extensive experience in national security policy and international affairs, especially Latin America and the Middle East" and states that "He [McInnis] might prove a valuable resource to you in your teaching and research. I invite and encourage you to seek him out and explore mutual interests [author’s emphasis]."

Recruiting on Campus

Campus recruitment by the CIA is as old as the Agency itself. In the late 1940s, Frank Wisner was director of the CIA’s Office of Policy Coordination (OPC), which was then the CIA’s operational component. He used 500 OSS World War II veterans who had returned to their careers as academicians after the war, as well as other faculty members, to form "selection committees" which became the OPC’s unofficial recruitment arm.17 Known as the OPC’s "P-source," or professor source, these committees provided ideal means for screening potential recruits because they could observe the students over periods of time in a classroom setting.

By early 1950, the program had been expanded to include the recruitment of foreign students attending college in the U.S. to serve as CIA agents in place or moles when they returned to their respective countries.18 The recruitment of foreign students had its roots in earlier programs in the late 1930s and through the 1940s when students of countries friendly to the U.S. were admitted to U.S. military academies. Their services were especially desired by the U.S. as they would return to their countries to become part of the nation’s military elite. Through them, the U.S. hoped to influence events in these countries and to gain information on the inner workings of their governments.

By the late 1970s about 5000 academicians were doing the bidding of the CIA: identifying and recruiting American students and providing fulltime screening committees designed to select 200-300 future CIA operatives from among the 250,000 foreign students who come to the U.S. to be educated each year.19 Around 60 percent of these professors, researchers, and administrators were fully aware of and received direct compensation from the CIA as contract employees or from research grants for their role as covert CIA recruiters.20

In 1975, the CIA attempted to secretly recruit Ahmad Jabbari, an Iranian student working on his Ph.D. in economics at Washington University in St. Louis. At his interview with the CIA agent, which he taped, the recruiter asked him to spy on other Iranian students, offering an immediate $750 payment, and American citizenship, if he proved reliable. Jabbari refused all offers.21

After recruiting a foreign student, the CIA often uses coercion by threatening to expose the student as a CIA agent while demanding his/her continued cooperation. Since 1948, more than 40 foreign agents recruited on American campuses have committed suicide out of fear of exposure.22

In 1977, a federal appeals court ruled that the CIA had no right to secretly investigate Gary Weissman, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, "for recruitment purposes." Weissman sued the CIA after learning of the investigation.23

In June of 1986, David Wise reported that the CIA had made recruiting of new personnel a key priority. The effort has included the opening of 11 recruiting centers around the U.S. Wise wrote that the effort involved a major advertising campaign and that student inquiries have been steadily rising. John P. Littlejohn, the CIA’s deputy director of personnel, described the recruitment procedure as follows: The recruiter receives resumes in advance, courtesy of the campus placement offices, and selects candidates for a screening interview. The interview usually takes place on campus but some colleges, like Harvard University, require that the interviews occur off campus.24

Potential CIA recruits must complete a 12-page personal history, undergo a lie detector test, and be subject to physical, psychological, and sometimes psychiatric testing, and a background clearance test of at least four months in duration. According to Littlejohn, approximately 150,000 people inquire about jobs each year, 10,000 submit applications, and 1000 employees are hired. Littlejohn estimates that two to three hundred of these become clandestine officers.25

The CIA at Harvard

While information about CIA campus recruitment is a closely guarded secret, these programs are obviously known by college administrators. Details about the CIA’s covert campus recruitment program were presented to eight presidents of America’s most prestigious colleges at a secret meeting in Washington, DC’s Mayflower Hotel in the spring of 1976. The administrators were told that the Senate would not expose these programs but that information would be provided to assist the college administrators in cleaning up their respective colleges. Ironically, none of the presidents requested the additional information.26

Harvard President Derek Bok convened a committee to draft a report on CIA operations at the college and guidelines regulating such activity. In return, the CIA launched a massive campus lobbying effort against the adoption of similar measures. During this effort, from June 1978 through 1979, the CIA held a series of "special briefings" with various University presidents in an attempt to work out secret arrangements for campus recruiting.27

The CIA promised that Harvard’s rules would be ineffective, as the Agency would simply ignore them. To that effect, CIA Director Turner sent a letter to Bok proclaiming the right of every American to assist the CIA as they chose. He also said that "all recruitment for CIA staff employment on campus is overt" conveniently avoiding the topic of its recruitment of "agents" and other CIA "assets" not considered as CIA staff.28

The CIA has kept its promise to violate Harvard’s guidelines, with at least two known cases being recently brought to light. In 1986, professor Nadav Safran resigned as head of Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Affairs after revealing that he secretly received payment from the CIA to write a book about Saudi Arabia and to stage a conference about the Middle East at the University.29

In 1985, an official of the Harvard Center for International Affairs was embroiled in a similar controversy when he conducted research secretly funded by the CIA.30

The Bok report documented CIA use of campus "spotters" to provide names to the CIA of prospective CIA recruits. When a spotter finds a potential recruit, the CIA conducts a background investigation of the student. If the CIA decides to approach the student, the spotter is often called upon to make the introduction. Otherwise, the results of the background inquiry go into a permanent dossier on the student without his/her knowledge.

Conclusion

It’s never easy to discover what the CIA is up to, even on our own college campuses. However, many CIA covert academic operations have come to light (usually years after the fact) because of unauthorized leaks, building takeovers resulting in the seizure of documents, or Freedom of Information Act requests.

As it has become clear that university administrators will not keep the CIA off campus, students have once again taken to mass protest to stop CIA activities. All across the country, CIA recruiters have been confronted with angry students and faculty demanding their ouster and an end to university recruiting. At the University of Colorado over 500 students were arrested during several days of anti-CIA recruiting protests.

As more covert CIA academic operations are exposed, the CIA will develop more effective means of protecting its secrecy when it goes to college. Regardless, many dedicated students are seeing to it that the CIA must operate in a campus environment that is less than ideal for the maximum exploitation of its university assets.31 This is a hopeful sign.

note to self..add DJ to the "do not argue with these persons list" very good write up and background info DJ..
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I don’t think me and Darla or anyone else are arguing. Darla has brought forth some great new information and ideas. I am very thankful for her efforts.

I think what Murray did to Ted in the Harvard experiments was horrible. It no doubt contributed to his already growing social alienation and mental health issues. The CIA was probably the sponsor of t hose experiments as part of MK-ULTRA. Though we don’t know that for sure since most of the evidence has been destroyed. The whole record of MK- ULTRA is shameful and includes the murder of Frank Olson. I will star a seperate thread for it.

But IMO it is another matter entirely to say Ted was an agent of the CIA. I just don’t see the evidence for that but people are fres to explore it if they wish.

Ted’s code name in the Harvard experiment was, irony of ironies, LAWFUL.

note to self..add DJ to the "do not argue with these persons list" very good write up and background info DJ..
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I find this idea that TK worked for the CIA as a hit man fascinating. It also ties into a ton of research I did in the past year on CIA’s connections to the ONS murders in Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara was a hot bed of CIA activity and COINTELPRO as well (aka the Burning of the Bank of America building incident).

There is some evidence that the ONS Smith murders in Ventura were a hit. Lyman Smith was partial owner of Maverick Airlines. One of the pilots who flew for Maverick was Morgan Hetrick famous for being a drug/Gun runner for the CIA and being busted with DeLorian. ONS was defiantly the Killer as known through DNA evidence, but was this one a hit or another random murder?

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N4430U.html

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Look what this paranoia website talks about. The Symbionese Liberation Army, like the People’s Temple, was a creation of the CIA. It mentions the Vacaville site, which we just learned was the home of the MK ULTRA experiments. Why does the Zodiac mention the SLA? This information, seemingly connects TK to Zodiac via MK-ULTRA.

STANFORD, SCIENTOLOGY AND THE CIA

"Many of the SRI "empaths" were mustered from L. Ron Hubbard’s Church of Scientology, Harold Puthoff, the Institute’s senior researcher, is a leading Scientologist. Two "remote viewers" from SRI have also held rank in the Church: Ingo Swann, a Class VII Operating Thetan, a founder of the Scientology Center in Los Angeles, and the late Pat Price. Puthoff and Targ’s lab assistant was a Scientologist married to a minister of the church. When Swann joined SRI, he stated openly that fourteen "Clears" participated in the experiments, "more than I would suspect." At the time he denied CIA involvement, but now acknowledges, "it was rather common knowledge all along who the sponsor was, although in documents the identity of the Agency was concealed behind the sobriquet of ’an east-coast scientist.’ The Agency’s interest was quite extensive. A number of agents of the CIA came themselves ultimately to SRI to act as subjects in "remote viewing" experiments, as did some members of Congress."

Since this thread is about the newspaper articles about TK, I started a new separate thread to discuss Ted and the Harvard experiments, the MK-ULTRA program in general and related topics. I transferred most of the discussion here about the topic over there.

I included a very interesting video of David Kaczynski discussing what they found out about the Harvard experiment and Ted. I think you would find it interesting Darla, as would all others who are interested in this topic.

That new topic thread with the video is here: viewtopic.php?f=102&t=2025

The code name in the Harvard experiments for Ted was, irony of ironies, LAWFUL.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/na … ictims.htm

To Unabomb Victims, a Deeper Mystery

By George Lardner and Lorraine Adams
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 14, 1996; Page A01

"Why me?" Patrick Fischer, chairman of the computer sciences department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, keeps asking himself in the days after the arrest of the man authorities believe was the elusive Unabomber. "Why was I selected?"

Across the country, at Brigham Young University, LeRoy Bearnson, an electrical engineering professor, asks the same question. Bearnson has never met Patrick Fischer, yet the Unabomber somehow found his name and used it on the return address of the explosive package that ended up in Fischer’s office 14 years ago.

Only recently, FBI agents hundreds of miles apart went to visit both men with a photograph of the bearded recluse Theodore J. Kaczynski, still looking for answers to the puzzle that has baffled investigators for more than 17 years.

The Unabomber’s victims were scattered around the country, unknown to each other and probably unknown to the Unabomber himself, except as names culled in outdated directories, newsletters and other publications. Some of the victims’ names have been found on handwritten notes and other documents in Kaczynski’s tiny Montana cabin, an isolated shack where FBI agents also have found a live bomb ready for shipment and what they believe is a draft of the infamous "manifesto" the Unabomber wrote trying to justify the attacks. Warnings went out only last week to forestry officials and current and former University of California-Berkeley professors whose names were found among Kaczynski’s papers.

If Kaczynski carried out the crimes, as authorities now seem confident, investigators still have not found a method to the madness. Interviews with a number of the more than two dozen Unibomb victims show they too are still grasping for clues and more mystified than ever now that the suspect has a name. They never met him. They never even heard of him. And the FBI has shared so little information with them that they can’t begin to understand why he picked them out.

"I suppose the guy didn’t care which way it went or who got blown up," Bearnson, 61, said of the package that listed him as the sender.

Neither Fischer nor Bearnson thinks there was anything personal about the Unabomber’s animosity. To him, they were just symbols in his hate-filled crusade against modern technology and its practitioners.

"He might pick out an individual, but the person was still a symbolic target to him," said Oliver B. "Buck" Revell, a former high-ranking FBI official who oversaw early stages of the Unabomb investigation. "I suspect that once he targeted the university research system, it didn’t matter that much who received it. I suspect he felt the country would pick up the symbolism." Since the FBI visited him, Fischer, 60, has thought of several things that could have brought him to Kaczynski’s attention. He was a graduate student in Cambridge, Mass., between 1958 and 1962, studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while Kaczynski was a Harvard math major. At one point, Fischer took a math course at Harvard. Perhaps Kaczynski had been in the same class.

"I asked the FBI that. They wouldn’t tell me," Fischer told a reporter Friday. He ruled out the possibility himself a few days ago by contacting the professor who taught the course.

Fischer’s father, Carl, taught math at the University of Michigan when Kaczynski was a graduate student there, earning first a master’s degree and then a doctorate. But Patrick Fischer doubts they crossed paths. Carl Fischer specialized in statistics and actuarial science and spent most of his time at the business school. Kaczynski’s specialty was much more abstruse: complex variables analysis.

"I couldn’t have understood his thesis," Patrick Fischer said. He now thinks Kaczynski might have gotten his name out of journals that published Fischer’s academic papers.

"My original research was pure math," he said. "Maybe I was regarded as a turncoat by this guy. I went from pure math to theoretical computer science."

The bomb that arrived in Fischer’s office at Vanderbilt on May 5, 1982, was delivered in spite of itself. Based on outdated information as well as canceled stamps, it had been addressed to him at Pennsylvania State University. He had moved to Vanderbilt in 1980. Someone at Penn State sent the package on.

"I was in Puerto Rico that day, giving some lectures," Fischer said. His secretary, Janet Smith, opened it. It was a pipe bomb filled with smokeless powder and match heads. "She got some nasty lacerations. She made a full recovery, but it was very traumatic for her. She’d just as soon forget about it," he said.

Bearnson was told long after the attack that he was the likely target. The package bore canceled stamps when the Unabomber placed it in a Provo mailbox, a trick, authorities believe, to ensure that it would be sent back to the return address.

Bearnson wonders if his name was on the package because of his expertise in technology or possibly because his middle name is "Wood." The Unabomber has always been preoccupied with wood, painstakingly carving bomb parts out of wooden pieces and boxing the videocassette-sized packages with different varieties of wood.

One of his earlier bombs was mailed to Chicago area home of Percy A. Wood, president of United Airlines, seriously injuring him. In April 1995, the bomber killed the president of the California Forestry Association in Sacramento, and a year before a prominent New York public relations executive who lived on Aspen Drive in North Caldwell, N.J. The "wood" connection is tenuous but it is one of the few authorities have shared with the public.

In the 14 years after his name appeared on the bomb package, Bearnson said he was interviewed dozens of times by investigators, reviewing his entire life in a vain search for some connection between himself and the Unabomber. He remembered spending a lot of time doing consulting work in Salt Lake City, a city familiar to the Unabomber — and to Kaczynski — "but if I ran across him, I don’t remember it."

He did not learn until recently about the canceled stamps. Last month, the FBI told him the stamps had a green line running through them and that both the clerk at the Brigham Young University postal station where the package was deposited and the U.S. Postal Service worker who brought it downtown noticed the marks. He said he still has no idea why the package wasn’t returned to him for insufficient postage, but he thinks the Unabomber meant that to happen.

"The agents made it very clear that I was the target," he said. "I still have no idea why, except my feeling is that he chose names at random with certain associations."

Fischer, a close student of the case, said he was never told about the canceled stamps until a reporter called. "I don’t get anything directly from the FBI," he said. "I get it from the media, or other people." He said he might try to start a Unabomber victims’ association, to exchange information.

"The FBI has wanted to get us together, under their auspices," Fischer said, "but they never could pull it off because of scheduling problems. Some of us are talking to each other now, by e-mail."

The Unabomber’s first explosive device had an either-or flavor to it as well. A woman found it on the University of Chicago campus, addressed to a professor who was hundreds of miles away, teaching at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. The return addressee was a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

"The woman returned the package to the sender," the FBI has said, "but since he had not sent it and did not know the addressee, he contacted the campus police." A pipe bomb packed in a carved wooden box, it exploded when one of the police officers opened it, sustaining slight injuries.

Over the years, the Unabomber struck at least 16 times, killing three people and injuring 23. His first bombs were "not intended to kill, they were intended to maim or do property damage," Revell said. The Unabomber was disappointed in the results.

"Our early bombs were too ineffectual to attract much public attention or give encouragement to those who hate the system," he wrote in a letter to the New York Times last April, a few days after the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building eclipsed everything he had done. Striving for renewed attention, he said he had taken "a couple of years off to do some experimenting. We learned how to make pipe bombs that were powerful enough, and we used these in a couple of successful bombings as well as in some unsuccessful ones," he said.

The Unabomber struck places as well as people. His bombings at Berkeley, where he taught math for two years in the late 1960s, were among the least personal. They weren’t mailed or addressed to anyone. But they were intriguing: The bombs that injured Diogenes Angelakos in 1982 and John Hauser in 1985 were planted in the same University of California-Berkeley building: Cory Hall.

"Cory Hall is not far from where Kaczynski taught," said Capt. Bill Foley, of the Berkeley campus police, who has worked the case since 1985. "He taught in Campbell Hall, and had offices in one of our temporary buildings. If you did a triangle between Campbell and that temporary building you would hit Cory Hall at peak of the triangle."

Cory Hall housed the engineering and computer sciences departments in late ’60s, as it does today. It was the one place the Unabomber hit twice.

Angelakos, now retired, was an electrical engineering professor. The bomb that attracted his attention in a fourth-floor faculty lounge just before 8 a.m. on July 2, 1982, was cleverly innocuous. It looked like a turpentine can, something inadvertently left behind by a construction worker. It injured his right hand.

The bomb that struck Hauser three years later, on May 15, 1985, was much more powerful, made of a mix of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder.

Hauser was a graduate engineering student and an Air Force pilot at the time he walked into a computer lab where the bomb had been left, sitting atop some three-ring binders. Police say it had been there for two or three days. Hauser thought it was a file box for some other graduate student’s computer cards and wondered to whom it belonged.

When he picked it up, it burst four fingers off his right hand and severed arteries in his arm. By coincidence, Angelakos was down the hall, heard the explosion, and used a colleague’s tie to make a tourniquet for Hauser’s arm. Hauser’s Air Force career was over. He still does not have full use of his right arm.

Now an electrical engineering professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Hauser considers himself the Unabomber’s "most anonymous" victim. He hadn’t published any academic works at the time. "This was as much a target of opportunity as anything else," he said last week.

Foley said investigators were puzzled for years by the choice of Cory Hall. "Why pick a classroom building in a research area? Why not administrative? Now we’re wondering, why not target the math department? What’s interesting too is between the two Cory Hall blasts he really didn’t strike again," Foley said. "He did mail to Boeing Aircraft in Washington state. . . . It got lost in the internal mail system. They were in the process of returning it to sender because it had bounced around a while, and while they were in process of doing that, they had the bomb squad open it up." That June 1985 package bomb was safely disarmed.

The next bomb, unlike the others, may have been spurred by personal animosity. Its intended target, University of Michigan psychology professor James V. McConnell, seems to have embodied everything the Unabomber detested. He was rich, flamboyant, irreverent and controversial. His success came from expounding theories that could sound chilling, especially to someone obsessed with fears that technology and science were taking over modern society.

Like many proponents of "behavior modification," McConnell believed that people could be molded simply by deciding what they should be and then manipulating their behavior.

McConnell’s work originated from research with flatworms. After training some of the half-inch-long worms to navigate a simple maze, McConnell then ground up the trained worms and fed them to untrained worms, finding that they were able to negotiate the maze better than a "control group." Outspoken and popular, he was teaching on the Ann Arbor campus when Kaczynski was a graduate student in mathematics there. There is no evidence so far that he and Kaczynski crossed paths, but even so, McConnell would have been hard to miss. In 1964, he won attention when a Saturday Evening Post article described his work and suggested that someday humans might be able "to learn the piano by taking a pill, or to take calculus by injection." Two months later, McConnell took his celebrated flatworms on the Steve Allen show.

More fame, and fortune, came in the 1970s with publication of McConnell’s jaunty textbook, "Understanding Human Behavior." It was used on 700 campuses and sold more than a million copies. The FBI included the book on a list it gave to bookstore owners in Montana in trying to track Kaczynski’s reading habits.

A 1982 People magazine article pointed out that McConnell’s royalties of $250,000 a year had provided him with a $40,000 Mercedes, a 1,000-bottle wine cellar and a new $1 million house.

The Unabomber’s package arrived at that house, just outside Ann Arbor, three years later, on Nov. 15, 1985. Taped to the top was a one-page letter with a Salt Lake City postmark. "I’d like you to read this book," it said. "Everybody in your position should read this book."

McConnell asked his assistant, Nicklaus Suino, 25, to open it. Suino started wrestling with it on a kitchen counter and it exploded.

The blast blew a six-inch hole in the kitchen counter, and Suino suffered shrapnel wounds and powder burns on his arms and legs. McConnell suffered only a slight hearing loss, but the bombing shook him deeply, as he pointed out in a letter provided by a friend and co-author, Daniel Gorenflo. McConnell, who died in 1990, wrote, "I just wandered around the house, scared, angry and frustrated." Told by investigators that the bomber had never struck any victim twice, he concluded, "it’s the next name on the list that we need to give thought to."

The "next name" in the Unabomber case, Hugh C. Scrutton, 32, was the first one to be killed. A bomb that looked like a piece of debris killed him when he picked it up outside the back door of his Sacramento computer rental store. It was a crude device, filled with tiny pieces of nails for maximum effect.

Scrutton had Berkeley connections. He was a summer math student in 1967, the year Kaczynski started teaching there.

Capt. Foley said, "We’re trying to determine through old course catalogues whether Kaczynski taught at that time or started in the fall of ’67."

A friend of Scrutton, John Lawyer, said FBI agents were exploring that and other angles when they visited him in Plains, Mont., last month. The FBI asked about the extent of Scrutton’s travels through Montana and Salt Lake City. "They are setting out to reconstruct the lives of victims," Lawyer said, "trying to make any connection they can." Homicide detective Bob Bell of the Sacramento sheriff’s department, who headed the local investigation into Scrutton’s death, said the process is called "victimology," a chore that ranges over everything from girlfriends to tax forms.

Another possible tie-in to Berkeley concerns Gilbert B. Murray, the timber lobbyist from Sacramento, who was killed April 24, 1995. Murray graduated from Berkeley in 1975. But the package he opened was addressed to his predecessor at the California Forestry Association, William Dennison, a 1959 Berkeley graduate who lectured at Berkeley between 1971 to 1988.

Finally, there is the letter the Unabomber sent to Berkeley social psychology professor Tom Tyler last spring.

On May 1, 1995, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about the Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber. The first person quoted in it was Tyler.

Tyler said he was not at Berkeley when Kaczynski was. The envelope the Unabomber sent was addressed to him as "head of the social psychology group," the same incorrect title he was given in the Chronicle.

The letter, accompanied by the Unabomber’s manifesto, was straightforward.

"I said in the article that the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber were examples of people who had exaggerated feelings that the government was out to get them," Tyler said. "The Unabomber objected to that characterization of him."

He asked Tyler to read his manifesto, one of six copies he sent out at that time, including ones to the New York Times and The Washington Post, which published it last fall.

The Unabomber has expressed regret over some of his targets, such as the passengers of an American Airlines plane he tried to blow up in 1979 on a flight from Chicago to Washington. Placed in a mailbag, the bomb caught fire without exploding.

"The idea was to kill a lot of business people who we assumed would constitute the majority of passengers," the Unabomber said in a letter to the Times last June. "But of course, some passengers would likely have been innocent people — maybe kids or some working stiff going to see his sick grandmother. We’re glad now that that attempt failed."

The Unabomber also mentioned the injury done to Fischer’s secretary and said: "We certainly regret that." But he made clear that he had no compunctions about his most recent victims: Murray in Sacramento and public relations executive Thomas J. Mosser who died at his North Caldwell, N.J., residence in December 1994. "[W]hen we were young and comparatively reckless," he wrote, "we were much more careless in selecting targets than we are now."

Earlier last year, after the Oklahoma City bombing, he tried to regain attention, openly admitting that he killed Mosser.

"We blew up Thomas Mosser last December," the Unabomber said in the letter the Times received on April 24, 1995, "because he was a Burston[sic]-Marsteller executive . . . Burston[sic]-Marsteller is about the biggest organization in the public relations field. This means that its business is the development of techniques for manipulating people’s attitudes."

Once again, the Unabomber seems to have relied on an outdated publication or directory. Mosser had left Burson-Marsteller nine months before he was killed for its parent company, Young & Rubicam Inc.

But that may have made no difference to the Unabomber. To him, the public relations man was just "a symbol."

Staff writers Pierre Thomas in Washington, Jacqueline Salmon in Ann Arbor, William Claiborne in Salt Lake City, Benjamin Weiser in New York, and Thomas Heath in Sacramento contributed to this report; staff researchers Alice Crites and Margot Williams also contributed.

Moved to MK-ULTRA discussion

http://academic.reed.edu/biology/course … g_1996.pdf

There us a great Citation at the end of the article with all of McConnell’s articles and co-authors.

http://www.flavinscorner.com/cameron.htm

What was he thinking?” would be better answered by comparing his earlier writing with his comments during a 1962 lecture delivered before the Royal Medico-Psychological Association. Cameron said: “Intelligence may be the pride–the towering distinction of man; emotion gives colour and force to his actions; but memory is the bastion of his being. Without memory, there is no personal identity, there is no continuity to the days of his life. Memory provides the raw material for designs both small and great. Thus, governed and enriched by memory, all the enterprises of man go forward (Cameron 1963, p. 325).”

To understand how a renowned psychiatrist could praise the merits of memories after more than a decade of destroying them it’s essential to distinguish between a treatment for mental disease and research into the various origins and solutions to the problem of mental loss due to old age. In his 1962 lecture, Cameron conjectured about the basic processes and components of memory and extolled the benefits of oral and intravenous RNA therapy (a practice now discredited, though Cameron was mentioned as late as 1966 in a major newspaper article by teacher and science writer, Isaac Asimov; see Asimov 1966). Concerning RNA research, Cameron said, “For over twenty years we [at McGill University-RDF] had been working in an attempt to find some substance which would correct the memory deficit found in the aged (Cameron 1963, p. 329).

[1] Apart from Cameron being incorrect, and the irony of Hebb’s “cell-assemblies” model for memory gaining acceptance, a Twilight Zone coda of sorts developed with investigations into RNA, memory, and common flatworms or planarians beginning with the 1955 paper “Classical conditioning in planarian, Dugesia dorotocephala” by Drs. Robert Thompson and James V. McConnell (Thompson and McConnell 1955). The experimental psychologists sensitized flatworms to light, cut them in half, and observed that both regrown halves maintained a sensitivity to or “memory of” light conditioning. Pushing the boundaries of ethical science, several years later McConnell conducted more experiments in which he repeated the flatworm light training, then cut up the sensitized flatworms and cannibalistically fed them to other flatworms (McConnell 1962). A short-lived journal arose from these “efforts,” though the series is now considered more of a obscure oddity than an academic resource (McDonnell 1965). And, as only unchecked science can, boundaries were further pushed when researchers moved up the cannibal food-chain and began to feed mice and rat brains to other mice and rats (Frank et al. 1970; Frank et al. 1972). Unethical or just not for the squeamish? Forced cannibalism is a tough call, inherently controversial, and seems to have retreated back under the media radar. On November 15, 1985, Dr. McDonnell suffered permanent partial hearing loss when an assistant of his opened a package sent by the anti-modern technology domestic terrorist, Asst. Prof. Theodore J. Kaczynski, (mathematics, University of California, Berkeley), a.k.a. the Unabomber. "

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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
Kalispell Daily Inter Lake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colstrip,_Montana

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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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