unibomber-manifesto

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INDUSTRJAL SOCIETY AND rrs A/T1JRE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The Unabomber is at the lop of America's MoSl Wanted list, .. $1 million reward on his head for 16
bombings since 1978. A specialist team of 150 FBI offic:en have interviewed over 10,000 suspects
and speDt $50 million in an unsuccessful anempt to Slop him. They admit he'. ''very clever" and ".
craftsman", exhaustively familiar with explosivu 'cookboob' boIb commercial and underground,
new and old, and individually f&sWoning the parts of hb devices from SCflIp metal, right down to
screW," to make himseU more difficult 10 trace.
He also won celebrity in the US a.s the "Swiec Pimpernel of mailbombers" and spectacular
publicity for primitivist ideas worldwide during the evenu: that led up to the publication of Industrial
Soci,ry 4< lu FI/.IIiU in September 1995, forcing even technocrats targeted by him to concede
"there', a linIe bit o(the Unabomber in each of us " ,
The Unabomber'l first device. .. cigar box with match-head charge and elastic band detonators
within. was found In the ear park of the Univemy of filinoit, Chicago, on 2S May 1978. Instead of
reaching the professor at New Yorlt's Rensselaer Polytecilflic Institute il was addre,used 10, the
device was posted back to Northwestern University where it slightly injured a campus cop that
became suspicious enough 10 open it.
A second device ignited at Northwestern Univemry almost a year later, 9 May 1979, slighly
injuring a nudent but it was the explosion of a third device in the belly of a Boeing 727 on a
domestie flight between Chicago and WlUhinglon on IS November 1979, injuring 12, thllt got the
FBI involved. This tllird action bought the previous two to light, setting the reds on their long and
fruitJeSi SUlCh for Amenka's "1er.haI Luddite". This new development didn't deter him from posting
Perey Wood, president of United Airlines, .. book bomb that injured him in We f"On, filinois, on 10
June 1980. The attack on Wood led the FBI to file their elusive serial bomber II.'; 'Vnabom' - 'Un-'
standing for 'univemty' as much as 'United Airline5'.
In his lint 1995 oommunique to the Nt"" York TiI, the Unabombtt oonceded planting his next
device In a classroom of the University of Utah's Business school on g November 1981 was "a
mistake". It injured no-one.
Two montJu after a S May 1982 pipebombing injured an unidentified academic at Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, the Unabomber struck for the first time at the University of California on 2
July 1982. During the national holiday weekend, a parcel. bomb was found on the floor of the coffee
Joungue or lhe Berkcley campuses engineering department. An electroruu professor's face and
hands were severely damaged as he unwnppcd the package, which he mistook. for a "measuring
instrument". Some fuewor:k.! Three years laler, the Unabomber got right to the bcny of the Berkl:ley
beast,leaving a parcel bomb in its computer room on IS May 1985 thai cost the maths graduale that
opened it the fingers ofhiJ rigbt hand.
Leas than a month later, on 13 June 1985, the Boeing Corporation was hit a second time. I bomb
being sent to the Wuhington office but getting inlercepled before it could do harm. ss fOI1unale
wu the rcsearch. assUtant of a University of Mlehigan professor. Although sent to his home on 1 S
November 1985, the assistant wu injured operung the parcel for him. Homan shield tactics or what?
The Unabombcr changed tactics too the next month, concealing his next device under wooden
boardJ in the ear park of I Sacremen\o, California, oomputer store on 11 December 1985. The store
manager foundl: the device and, bending to pick it up, had his hurt shredded by the ensuing
explosion. the first of the Unabomber's targds 10 die. Oearly encouraged. he tried to repeat this
tactic outside a Salt Lake City computer store on 20 February 1987. Again the store manager
concerned was injured but somtOne wl:aring a hood and big, dark: shadCJ thl: FBI believe may be the
Unabamber was spotted in the ear parle by a woman clerk. This was the closest he ever got to being
caught and the FBllhemse\ve5 admit the stlLlldaro artiJl's skdCh arising from the witness description
is so "crappy" they can't even decide on his hair colour or estimate his age more lICCunuely than II
111 _In 17 V .. .. The nUlli bomber'.InIH
Date Location What Happened
THE UNABOMBER
May 25, '1$178 Northwestern Univ Package bomb. 1 injured
Evanston, III
lIay I, 1178
Nov 1S, 1878
Northwestern Univ
American Airlines
Chicago to
Washington
.June 10, 1880 Lake Forest, 1/1
Oct 8, 1181
lIay 5, 1882
.July 2, 1182
May 15, 1885
Univ of Utah,
Salt Lake City
Vanderbilt Univ,
Nashville
Univ of CaliJomia
81 Beri(eley
Univ of California
al Berkeley
.tune 13, 1885 Boeing Company
Auburn. Wash.
Nov 16, 1185
DK 11, 1185'
Feb 20, t887
Ann Arbour. Mich.
Sacramento, Calif
Salt Lake C;ty
.June 22, 18D3 Tiburon, Calif.
.Nne 24, 1883 Yale Univ.
New Haven
Dec 10. 1884
North Caldwell, NJ
April 24, 1885 Sacramento, Calif.
Bomb in a box. 1 injured
Bomb lor delivery to .
unknown location explOdes
aboard Boeing 727.
12 injured
Package bomb. 1 injured
Bomb in classroom
No injuries
Pipe bomb. 1 injured
Pipe bomb. 1 injured
Bomb in computer
room. 1 serious injury
Package bomb. No injuries
Package bomb mailed to
home of Univ of Mich.
professor. 1 Injured
80mb explOdes outside a
computer store. 1 dealh
Bomb outside a computer
store. 1 injury
Package bomb', mailed 10
well known geneticist.
1 severe injury
Package bomb, mailed to
offic of a professor.
1 severe injury
Package bomb mailed to
home of Thomas Mosser,
NY advertising executive.
1 death
Package bomb mailed to
iobbying offices of Cah1
Forestry As&oc. 1 Death