Bomber Kaczynski Is Again Published

The last time Theodore J. Kaczynski had a lengthy article published, his 35,000-word manifesto led his brother to identify him as the Unabomber, the man who had killed three people and injured 23 during a 17-year mail-bomb spree that authorities had not yet been able to solve.

Seven years later, locked behind the walls of a federal maximum security prison in Colorado, Kaczynski has apparently managed to get his controversial views in print again.

In an article published this spring by Green Anarchy, a radical environmental newsletter, Kaczynski calls on revolutionaries to “eliminate the entire techno-industrial system” by “hitting where it hurts” and disparages the activities of most radicals as “pointless.”

The essay, which repeats Kaczynski’s contention that modern society must be destroyed, has disturbed Unabomber survivors as well as prison officials, who are investigating whether the article violates rules that prohibit prisoners from publishing under their own names. Even the newsletter’s editors objected to some of Kaczynski’s views.

“I’m surprised that he’s able to write these things,” said Charles Epstein, a California physician and researcher who lost fingers from one hand when he opened a mail bomb sent by Kaczynski in 1993. “To the extent that his message potentially influences malleable people, it’s a concern.”

Authorities are still reviewing the case, but they said they believe the essay is authentic.

One of the newsletter’s editors, John Zerzan of Eugene, Ore., said he corresponds regularly with Kaczynski and received the essay from him.