Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Bryan Denson: My Letter From The Unabomber


Bryan Denson, the author of The Spy's Son, offers a piece on a letter the Unabomber wrote him.

Sixteen years ago, I wrote to convicted serial killer Theodore Kaczynski seeking an interview. It wasn’t my proudest moment as a journalist, as I’ll explain below. But my interest in talking with the Unabomber was serious and heartfelt. 
At the time, I was working for The Oregonian newspaper. I had just co-authored a multi-part series on ecoterrorism, a subject I knew would be near and dear to Kaczynski. His anarchistic manifesto on industrialized society heralded a wave of firebombings by the Earth Liberation Front and its like-minded cousins.
Last Thursday, I got an email from my former editor at The Oregonian with an intriguing subject line: “You have a letter here from Ted Kaczynski.”
I couldn’t imagine why the Unabomber had reached back in time to find me. I left my job at The Oregonian in December to write more books and magazine pieces. I thought perhaps Kaczynski had read The Spy’s Son and was writing to offer his thoughts about Jim Nicholson, one of his fellow inmates at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.bryandenson.com/blog/2016/4/17/my-letter-from-the-unabomber


You can also read my Counterterrorism magazine interview with Bryan Denson via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2015/11/my-q-with-bryan-denson-author-of-spys.html

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