Unabomber items to be auctioned

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. authorities said Thursday the personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as the Unabomber, will be auctioned off online in the coming weeks.

The auction will include more than 20,000 pages of written documents, including the original handwritten and typewritten versions of Kaczynski's "Unabom Manifesto," in which he advocated worldwide revolution against the effects of modern society's "industrial-technological system."

The court-ordered sale will take place May 18-June 2, with profits going to Kaczynski's victims, the U.S. Marshals Office said on its Web site.

There are about 60 lots of Kaczynski's property. Besides his manifesto, there are driver's licenses, birth certificates, deeds, checks, academic transcripts, photos, his handwritten codes, typewriters, tools, clothing, watches and several hundred books.

"The U.S. Marshal's Service has been given a unique opportunity to help the victims of Theodore Kaczynski's horrific crimes," said U.S. Marshal Albert Najera of the Eastern District of California. "We will use the technology that Kaczynski railed against in his various manifestos to sell artifacts of his life. The proceeds will go to his victims and, in a very small way, offset some of the hardships they have suffered."

Photos of some of the items can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/(click on "Sets"). The catalog, photos and descriptions of all the lots will be available at www.gsaauctions.gov when the auction goes live May 18, the Marshal's Service said.

The Chicago native, now 68, sent 16 bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and wounding 23 others before he was finally tracked down at his Montana cabin, arrested and convicted. He is serving a life term in federal prison in Colorado.