More Details Emerge About Unabomber Ted Kaczynski

More details have emerged about the capture of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.

In a new tell-all podcast, the Unabomber’s sister-in-law Linda Patrik stated she could always tell something was off about her brother-in-law.

Patrik stated that when she and Ted’s brother David announced they would get married, Ted wrote irate letters to the couple condemning their future marriage.

Another rare fact revealed about the Unabomber is that he was part of Harvard’s LSD experiments.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the Unabomber, he was an environmental terrorist convicted of killing three people and injuring over 20 others.

CATCHING A KILLER: FBI agents reveal key witness who helped them nab notorious Unabomber https://t.co/abS52g0xD5

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Fox News had more details to add:

Linda Patrik always believed there was something off about her brother-in-law, Ted Kaczynski, the Montana recluse who would be known as the Unabomber.

When Kaczynski learned of his brother, David’s, impending nuptials, he quickly wrote a series of scathing letters criticizing the bride-to-be despite never meeting her. Patrik suspected he was struggling with mental health issues and voiced her concerns to David.

And it was Patrik who first suspected that Kaczynski was behind what would become one of the most exhaustive manhunts in FBI history.

The story of the domestic terrorist who was convicted of killing three people and injuring 23 with 16 bombs is chronicled in an Apple original true-crime podcast titled “Project Unabom.” The series, which concludes Monday, explores how Kaczynski terrorized a nation for nearly a decade, as well as how he was finally captured.

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So the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski was a subject of the CIA’s MKUltra LSD experiments? Figures. https://t.co/6xYcrcOksH

— Stilgherrian (@stilgherrian) November 28, 2015

The HuffPost had more on the story:

The news that Ted Kaczynski was included in the 50th anniversary alumni directory has roiled the class reunion. Better known via his nom de plume (or “guerre,” as he might have it) as the “Unabomber,” Kaczynski listed his occupation as “prisoner,” his awards as “eight life sentences” and his publication as his 2010 manifesto “Technological Slavery.” How and whether his responses to the class questionnaire should have been published has caused a lot of finger-pointing and reflection in Cambridge. But his crimes were no joke. Kaczynski’s letter bombs killed three people and maimed another 23.

For all the reporting about the 50th anniversary reunion dustup, an odd twist to the Harvard Unabomber story has not been mentioned: During Kaczynski’s sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. The experiment involved psychological torment and humiliation, a story I include in my book Mind Wars: Brain Research and the Military in the 21st Century.

The Harvard study aimed at psychic deconstruction by humiliating undergraduates and thereby causing them to experience severe stress. Kaczynski’s anti-technological fixation and his critique itself had some roots in the Harvard curriculum, which emphasized the supposed objectivity of science compared with the subjectivity of ethics. Before his arrest, he demanded that the Washington Post and the New York Times publish a 35,000-word manifesto called “Industrial Society and Its Future,” a document that expressed his philosophy of science and culture.

In yet another odd twist that shows why history is stranger than fiction, while Kaczynski was undergoing those humiliation experiments a young Harvard researcher named Timothy Leary was beginning his research career on psychedelics. In 1960 Leary returned from a vacation in Mexico with a suitcase full of magic mushrooms. Murray himself is said to have supervised psychoactive drug experiments, including Leary’s. According to Alston Chase, author of Harvard and the Unabomber, Leary called Murray “the wizard of personality assessment who, as OSS chief psychologist, had monitored military experiments on brainwashing and sodium amytal interrogation.”