Would
You Describe
This Man
As “Meticulous?”
For more on the Unabomber bust see Conspiracy Currents No. 22
The American Heritage Dictionary defines "meticulous" as "extremely careful and precise," or "extremely or excessively concerned with details." No adjective could better be used to describe Theodore J. Kaczynski, the Montana mountain man arrested as the notorious environmentalist-radical terrorist known as the "Unabomber," and who lived in a rundown shack with no running water and no bathroom and who witnesses describe as smelling like, in the words of one reporter, "ripe garbage." According to our major news media, this is one meticulous man. To wit...
USA Today, April 4:
Officials say Kaczynski bears startling similarities to the profile drawn by the FBI of the Unabomber: highly educated, quiet, antisocial and meticulous.
San Jose Mercury News, April 5:
He described the Unabomber as the ''most proficient bomber of this century'' for the meticulously constructed bombs he devised.
Daily Telegraph, April 4:
The FBI has had the profile of its suspect almost from the beginning: a clever, meticulous loner, a white man with a background in academic science...
Associated Press, April 5:
Federal agents already have found a bomb workshop in the cabin, including a partially assembled pipe bomb, chemicals and 10 three-ring notebooks filled with meticulous notes and sketches of explosives and electrical circuitry.
New York Times, April 5:
As in his later life, Mr. Kaczynski veered between the meticulous, manifested in his schoolwork, and the sloppy, as shown by his room.
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 5:
While Youderian said the room was “reasonably neat and tidy”, it was not meticulously clean.
Boston Herald, April 5:
In a 1993 psychological profile, the FBI tried to describe the 53-year-old man they seized in Montana Wednesday: They depicted a reclusive white male, well-educated, rigid and meticulous -- an arrogantly grubby intellectual.
New York Times, April 6:
In particular, as an F.B.I. affidavit set forth, searchers were astounded to discover at least 10 looseleaf binders that were filled with meticulous writings and sketches and that Mr. Kaczynski had made no attempt to hide.
New York Times, April 7:
From the outset, the bomber was thought to be an intelligent, meticulous loner who grew up in the Chicago area, a description that fits Kaczynski.
New York Newsday, April 8:
Duren described Kaczynski as a meticulous student, both in academia and in his personal style.
Boston Herald, April 8:
...the meticulous but socially incompetent math theorist whose college dorm rooms reeked of rotten food.
New York Post, April 8:
Federal authorities believe Kaczynski meticulously typed out the 35,000-word manifesto in his tiny shack here...
New York Times, April 8:
An innocuous-looking parcel mailed from San Francisco turned out to contain a meticulously hand-crafted bomb.
TIME Magazine, April 15 Cover Story:
The agents had expected a neat, meticulous man, someone who probably kept careful notes and lists.
New York Times, April 10:
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