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Government to Auction "Unabomber" Belongings

By: Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski’s handwritten manifesto against industrialism, his typewriters and other items from his Montana cabin will be sold at auction to benefit his victims, authorities said on Thursday. Kaczynski, who became one of America’s most notorious criminals by killing three people and wounding 29 with homemade bombs sent by post from 1978 to 1995, had opposed the auction. But in August, a federal judge in California approved the sale, and on Thursday the U.S. Marshals Service said it had finished plans for an online auction, to run from May 18 to June 2. “We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against in his various manifestoes to sell artifacts of his life,” U.S. Marshal Albert Najera of the Eastern District of California said in a statement. “The proceeds will go to his victims and, in a very small way, offset some of the hardships they have suffered,” Najera said. A total of 60 lots will be for sale in the au