Story from Apr 15, 1996 at 6:41 PM EDT.
By Michael Miller
HELENA, Mont. (Reuter) - FBI agents have seized more than 700 items including a bomb and bomb parts from the remote cabin of suspected Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, records released by a federal judge Monday showed.
A long list included such items as ``Improvised explosive device contained in a cardboard box, wrapped in plastic bags with various tape and rubber bands''; ``Bomb parts'' and ''Improvised detonator and filler.''
The agents, who used an X-ray machine to detect the bomb and bomb parts, also found three typewriters, one of which the the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes Kaczynski used to write the rambling, 35,000-word anti-technology ``manifesto'' he sent to The New York Times and The Washington Post with a letter promising to end his 17-year reign of terror if they published it. The newspapers published the piece last year.
The FBI confirmed last week that agents had also found a draft of the manifesto in Kaczynski's tiny shack. There was no specific mention of the manifesto in the FBI's inventory of items seized but there were several references to documents.
The Unabomber, so named because he originally targeted universities and airlines, killed three people and wounded 23 with sophisticated mail bombs from 1978 to 1995. Kaczynski's April 3 arrest came after his brother, David, recognized some of the phrases in the manifesto as being identical or similar to ones Kaczynski had used in letters to him.
Agents also found a bottle of Trazadone, an anti-depressant medicine, indicating Kaczynski may have been undergoing treatment for depression. A local pharmacist told Reuters Trazadone can only be obtained with a doctor's prescription.
Details of the FBI seizures from the mountain cabin, located on the Great Divide outside the small town of Lincoln 60 miles north of Helena, Montana, came when U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell unsealed the search warrant and the return, as the FBI inventory is known.
He did not unseal the affidavit in support of the search warrant, but the warrant refers to the affidavit as containing information the FBI says ``establishes a continual and consistent pattern of conduct between 1978 and the present date.''
The FBI had submitted the inventory to Lovell on Monday morning and the judge released it shortly afterwards.
Agents said they also found four rifles and a pistol in the shack. One cardboard box contained ``newspaper clippings, bus schedule, addresses of corporate officials and maps of San Franciso,'' according to the list.
Among the chemicals listed in the inventory are saltpeter, ammonium nitrate, abietic acid, ground aluminum, manganese dioxide, boric acid, ammonium alum, a copper compound, lye, lead acitate, lead hydroxide, lead carbonate.
Those were in jars labeled by Kaczynski in his handwriting. Everything seized from the cabin has been trucked to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, where it is undergoing microscopic examination.
Agents also found several pieces of pipe and tools that could be used in bomb making, such as ``triggering devices.'' The agents also found a green hooded jacket and two pairs of plastic sunglasses. The only sketch ever made of the Unabomber following a rare sighting depicts him wearing a hooded jacket and aviator-type sunglasses.
Agents also carried away more than 100 books, some of which may give an insight into Kaczynski's thoughts, such as ``Eastern Mysticism'', ``Basimov's Guide to the Bible'', ``Les Miserables'' volumes I and II and ``Growing Up Foolish''.
In addition, they seized several spiral-bound notebooks containing Kaczynski's writings as well as an envelope stuffed with paper with the word ``autobiography'' written on it.
In a related development, Judge Lovell granted Kaczynski's public defenders permission to visit their client's cabin.
