Ted Kaczynski is said to have one of the brightest minds today. Between 1976 and 1995, however, he sent 16 homemade bombs to protest technological advances. The FBI met him as Unabomber, a terrorist who participated in a Harvard experiment on CIA-supervised psychological control, known in turn as MK Ultra.
Ted Kaczynski has been serving time since 1996 in a maximum security prison in Colorado. In prison, he performs intense writing work through letters that serve him to spread his ideas, the same ones he published in the “Manifesto on Industrial Progress and Its Future”. This book was published by one of America’s most prestigious newspapers a year before his capture, in a desperate FBI attempt to identify him. With a mass publication, someone could recognize their radical and particular ideas about society and denounce it That’s what happened.
- The strategy achieved its goal and after more than 20 years of investigation.
- 3 dead and 11 wounded.
- Kaczynski was tried and convicted.
- However.
- His commitment to get his message across has not diminished.
- This Harvard mathematician and philosopher continues to convey his sophisticated All his letters are preserved and studied at the University of Michigan.
- As well as his famous manifesto.
- Which has already been translated into several languages and remains a very fascinating material for the community of psychology.
- Economics and sociology.
However, it was not until 2003 that an unknown but very important aspect of Unabomber appeared. Historian Alston Chase has published a revealing research announcing a painful truth: this brilliant terrorist and mathematician was part of a Harvard experiment that lasted nearly three years. , the MK Ultra.
The FBI took more than 20 years to find out who this terrorist was, who patiently managed to plant 16 bombs during this time at specific and well-studied points, the name given to him, Unabomber, was due to his specific methodology and objectives. : “University and Airline Bomber”. The English name means terrorist of universities and airlines, in Portuguese.
The investigation is rumoured to have been one of the most expensive in America and had had no results in years, only with the arrival of a brilliant criminal lawyer, Sheriff James R. Fitzgerald, whom Kaczynski himself has seen denounce his footsteps. , with the agent behind him until he finally discovers his identity. Now, when people discovered the name behind all these acts, they were all bewildered. No one could understand why a Harvard math teacher who had received several awards and distinctions for his work. had crossed the line between a well-educated citizen and a criminal wanted by the FBI.
Schizophrenia, paranoia, antisocial personality disorder . . . for several years these diagnoses roamed around Kaczynski, they were ideas to reassure the public, to give a reason to something that no one could understand, however, in 2003 several news were published that attracted the attention of all those who were still interested in the Unabomber case.
Theodore Kaczynski entered Harvard University at the age of 15. He was a talented child, but also emotionally vulnerable and too young to deal with what was to come. The CIA took its mind control study program to the same university, using various techniques to study the subject: substance management, hypnosis, electric shock and the most sophisticated psychological control techniques.
This Harvard experiment lasted almost 3 years, with Kaczynski being one of many experimental subjects, chosen for its ease of manipulation, because he was still very young and because of his high IQ.
The question of whether Harvard’s experience influenced its antisocial and reactive behavior that led to the manufacture of several bombs to attack progress and technology cannot be solved by assigning responsibility for cause and effect; in fact, many causes have led Unabomber to his behaviors.
Kaczynski was a remarkable boy, but never enrolled in any scenario in his life, he was always the youngest student to study, a boy who came to college as a teenager and faced abuse, contempt, intimidation and even this government program, which until now brought him some academic benefit and other students, left him traumatized.
The theory that this philosopher and mathematician ended up developing after going through this experiment at Harvard and also through other experiments is that technology, far from being a facilitator, attacks humanity itself, according to him people are slaves to all technological advances, becoming entities manipulated by a consumer society in which we all lose our capacity and our choice.
After leaving the university where he worked as a professor, Kaczynski built a cabin in the woods near the American city of Lincoln, to live as a hermit, it was there that he put into practice his ideals, where he wrote his manifesto with an old typewriter and where he manufactured the sophisticated bombs with which he murdered three people and wounded so many others.
Today, his figure continues to inspire books and television series. Although he is 75 years old, his mind is said to be more active than ever and that he remains committed to his personal project of revolution: ending the techno-industrial society.