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Wednesday, September 20, 1995
7A
Washington Post publishes Unabomber's full manifesto
Investigators hope to discover new clues to killer's identity
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Washington Post and The New York Times cited "public safety reasons" in their extraordinary agreement to publish in yesterday's editions of the Post the so-called Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto.
The bomber had said in June he would kill again unless the Post or the Times printed his densely written treatise within three months. The deadline is Sunday.
The Justice Department hopes the publication finally will lead investigators to the man whose 16 mail bombs have killed three and injured 23 others since 1978.
The newspapers said that their decision to print the manifesto, which calls for a worldwide revolution against modern industrial society, followed a meeting with Attorney General Janet Reno.
A Justice Department representative said that Reno and FBI officials recommended publishing the full manuscript because investigators were encouraged by the leads generated from earlier-published excerts.
"Recent publications of excerpts by newspapers and other publications, as well as the review by selected academicians, have resulted in numerous investigatory leads which continue to be followed," Justice Department representative Lee Douglass-said late Monday.
Michael Rustigan, a criminologist at San Francisco State University and an expert in serial killers who has studied the Unabomber for almost two decades, agreed that yesterday's publication may be the only hope investigators have for breaking the case.
"Basically, it's going to be the public that solves it — a neighbor, maybe a former professor, or employer, saying "Yeah, I remember that phrase." Rustigan said.
Still, he was skeptical that the publication would silence or stop the bomber, adding: "The Unabomber has already said that he's going to ask for follow-up articles. Now he's in control, and how do we know what he's going to ask for next?"
Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. acknowledged that risk and said that any decision on printing future works by the Unabomber would depend on his refraining from violence.
"It's difficult to put complete faith in the word of someone with the record of violence that the Unabomber has," Sulzberger said of the decision to publish the document under threat of continued terrorism.
"But the best advice available, from the FBI and others, is that the Unabomber may well not bomb again if his material is published. I'm convinced we're making the right choice between bad options," he told the Times.
Excerpt from the Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto:
"The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human beings to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in "advanced" countries.
We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can't predict any of that. This is not to be a POLITICAL REVOLUTION. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society."
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