#title Ted Kaczynski's Journals #lang en #pubdate 2024-02-16T13:40:26.862Z #topics Ted's Journals, Original Texts, Primary Source Documents on Ted K Most of these journals are not publicly available as they were sold at auction into a private collection.[1] [1] [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/apollo-the-unabomber-documents-hidden-away-by-a-few-zealots-and-wealthy-people][The rare Unabomber documents being kept hidden by a few zealots and rich people]]
** Short List of Available Journals
Some of these texts are only short extracts or only partially typed-up copies.
*** Daily Journals
- [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1969-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1969 Journal]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-ted-kaczynski-s-salt-lake-city-journal-1972][Ted Kaczynski's Salt Lake City Journal (1972)]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1974-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1974 Journal]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1978-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1978 Journal]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1979-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1979 Journal]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-journal-1-of-4-from-series-vii-1984-1986][Journal #1 of 4 from Series VII (1984-1986)]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-ted-s-journal-on-his-plans-to-disfigure-the-face-of-a-romantic-interest][Ted Kaczynski's journal that included his plan to disfigure the face of a romantic interest]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-oakland-california-journal][Ted Kaczynski's Oakland California Journal]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-s-notes-on-his-journals-feb-1996][Ted's Notes on his Journals (Feb. 1996)]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-self-made-calendar-check-list][Self-made calendar check list]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-unknown-journal][Unknown Journal]]
*** Journals Detailing His Crimes
- [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-journal-of-early-crimes][Ted Kaczynski's Journal of Early Crimes]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-journal-in-1980-81][Notebook X]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-coded-notebook-of-crimes][Fully Coded Notebooks of Crimes]] - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-notebook][Ted Kaczynski's Notebook]]
** The Full List Quoting Ted:[2][3][4][5] [2] [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-truth-versus-lies-original-draft][Truth versus Lies]] [3] [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-s-notes-on-his-journals-feb-1996][Ted's Notes on his Journals (Feb. 1996)]] [4] [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-truth-versus-lies-original-draft][Truth versus Lies]] [5] [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-journal-of-early-crimes][Ted Kaczynski's Journal of Early Crimes]] These are journals that I kept over a span of more than twenty-five years. Some contain accounts of my personal experiences. Some are filled with my thoughts and ideas, and quotations from my reading. Some contain mixed materials. The journals are highly reliable, since they are completely honest and nearly all of the information about personal experiences was written down within a few days of the events. The journals are divided into eight series, as follows: - Series I, #1 through #7 - Series II, #1 through #6 - Series III, #1 through #8 - Series IV, #1 - Series V, #1 - Series VI, #1 through #5 - Series VII, #1 through #4 - Series VIII, #1 Series I. Contains ideas and quotations. #6 contains also some personal material, but not overly intimate. #1. June 7, 1969 to Jan 22, 1970 #2. Feb 1, 1970 to Nov. 19, 1970 #3. Nov 30, 1970 to May 14, 1970 #4. June 7, 1971 to Dec 6, 1972 #5. Dec 9, 1972 to Dec 9, 1974 #6. Jan 3, 1975 to May 19, 1975 #7. Dec 20, 1975 to May 3, 1997 Series II. Outdoor journal - camping out. #1. June 8, 1972 to Aug 7, 1972 #2. Sept 8, 1972 to Oct 26, 1972 #3. Feb 10, 1974 to Aug 28, 1974 #4. June 5, 1975 to Feb 6, 1976 #5. May 18, 1977 to Jan 26, 1978 #6. June 26, 1979 to Oct 23, 1979 Series III. Outdoor journal - at cabin, but #6 and #7 contain also some camping-out experiences #1. Dec 1, 1971 to April 22, 1972 #2. April 27, 1972 to Oct 1, 1972 #3. Oct 2, 1972 to Nov 4, 1972 #4. June 24, 1973 to May 28, 1974 #5. May 31, 1974 to Sept 14, 1975 #6. Sept 14, 1975 to Feb 25, 1977 #7. Feb 28, 1977 to April 22, 1978 #8. Jan 25, 1980 to May 18, 1980 Series IV. Outdoor stuff at cabin mixed with highly personal stuff. #1. June 9, 1979 to June 22, 1979 Series V. Personal experiences, outdoor or city; ideas and quotations; coded stuff (code probably breakable). #1 June 22, 1980 to Jan 16, 1984 Series VI. Highly personal stuff. #4 also contains ideas and quotations. #1. Sept 20, 1972 to Nov 12, 1972 #2. July 17, 1978 to Aug 23, 1978 #3. Letters of Aug 25, 1978 and Sept. 2, 1978 #4. Aug 29, 1978 to May 8, 1979 #5. Jan 6, 1975 to March 30, 1975 Series VII. Outdoor experiences, ideas and quotations. #1. Jan 23, 1984 to March 3, 1986 #2. Sept 14, 1984 to Jan 26, 1993 #3. April 1, 1986 to June 22, 1990 #4. Nov 24, 1993 to Jan 23, 1996 Map Autobiography Coded stuff (unbreakable code) Bb. Notes on My Journals. This is a set of notes commenting on Series I and II of the journals. Bc. Baby Book. This is a journal, kept by my mother, of the first nineteen months of my life. I think it is reasonably reliable. In the first place, the entries were all made soon after the events. In the second place, the Baby Book contains no indication of my mother’s characteristic exaggerations. In the third place, my mother seems to have been trying to be objective and “scientific” in recording her observations. And in the fourth place, something happened to my mother when I was about eight years old. I think that before that time she had better control over herself and would have been more careful to be truthful than she was after. Here I am going to confess to—or, to be more accurate, brag about—some misdeeds I have committed in the last few years. Quoting a cryptography journal:[6] [6] [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/jeanne-anderson-kaczynski-s-ciphers][Kaczynski's Ciphers]] The first and more complex encryption system, Code # I, is written in a notebook that Kaczynski called Notebook X. Notebook X is composed as a dated journal containing plaintext journal entries intermixed with portions of ciphertext. This system utilizes numerous safeguards, including the use of intentional misspellings and encryption errors, meaningless punctuation, nonsense words, and Spanish and German text intermixed with English plaintext and ciphertext. Kaczynski also chose to omit and add word breaks at random and use nulls throughout his enciphered text. ... Kaczynski’s second encryption system, Code # II, is significantly less complex than Code # I. Code # II involves two separate notebooks called Notebook A and Notebook B, each filled entirely of strings of comma-delimited ciphertext numbers. Code # II does not employ as many safeguards as Code # I. However, in order to decipher this system, one requires the entirety of both notebooks and a list of meanings similar to, but different from, the one mentioned in Code # I. This list of meanings was divided into three pages as seen in Figure 5. Quoting California Uni:[7] [7] [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-notebook][Ted Kaczynski's Notebook]] C-2: Checks papers for publication of manuscript; lists hiding places for various articles with maps; list of names at Orvana Mining; serial numbers of guns; location of telephone boxes.
*** Series I
**Journal #1** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1969-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1969 Journal]] - [[https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-kaczynski][University of Michigan Library]] - Box 82, Folder 1, Journal series I #1, 1969: K2046F.
**Journals #2-7** Private collection.
*** Series II
**Journal #1** Private collection.
**Journal #2** - [[https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-kaczynski][University of Michigan Library]] - Box 82 2 Journal series II #2, 1972 : K2046N
**Journals #3-6** Private collection.
*** Series III
**Journals #1-4** Private collection.
**Journal #5** - May 31, 1974 to Sept 14, 1975 - The Ted K Archive - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1974-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1974 Journal]] - California Uni.- [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A910][Day-to-day account of activities]], Missing page numbered 37 C-228 E
**Journals #6-8** Private collection.
*** Series IV
**Journals #1** Private collection.
*** Series V
**Journal #1** Private collection.
*** Series VI
**Journal #1** (1972) - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-ted-kaczynski-s-salt-lake-city-journal-1972][Ted Kaczynski's Salt Lake City Journal (1972)]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A913][“Highly Personal Info” C-230 B]]
**Journal #2** (1978) - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-ted-s-journal-on-his-plans-to-disfigure-the-face-of-a-romantic-interest][Ted's Journal on His Plans to Disfigure the Face of a Romantic Interest]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A912][C-230 A: "Women and sex"]], There are two page 28's [numbered by T. Kaczynski]
**Journal #3** Private collection.
**Journal #4** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1978-journal][Ted Kaczynski's 1978 Journal]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A936][Ideas and quotations C-230 E]]
**Journal #5** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-oakland-california-journal][Ted Kaczynski's Oakland California Journal]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A920][C-230: Death, Bomb references]] - [[https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-kaczynski][University of Michigan Library]] - Box 79, Folder 8, Journal series VI #5, 1975: K2003E
*** Series VII **Journal #1** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-journal-1-of-4-from-series-vii-1984-1986][Journal #1 from Series 7 (1984-1986)]] - [[https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-kaczynski][University of Michigan Library]] - Box 79 6 Journal series VII #1, 1984-1986: K2046T
**Journals #2-4** Private collection.
*** Series VIII
**Journal #1** Private collection.
*** Notes on my Journals
- The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-s-notes-on-his-journals-feb-1996][Ted's Notes on his Journals (Feb. 1996)]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A903][“Personal Papers” (Notes on journal); manifesto references, encoding references. C-3]]
*** Baby Book
- [[https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-kaczynski][University of Michigan Library]] - Box 68, Folder 10 “Bc: Baby book”
*** Crime Journals
**Ted Kaczynski's Journal of Early Crimes** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-journal-of-early-crimes][Ted Kaczynski's Journal of Early Crimes]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A1149][C-1: Bombs #1 and 2; vandalism; booby-traps, killing a businessman, government official, scientists.]]
**Notebook X** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-journal-in-1980-81][Notebook X]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A911][C-229: "Personal experiences, ideas, and quotations"]], Not all numbered pages are present.
**Fully Coded Notebook of Crimes** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-coded-notebook-of-crimes][Fully Coded Notebooks of Crimes]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A1212][A Review and Compilation of the Writings of Ted Kaczynski (Section 3)]]
**Ted Kaczynski's Notebook** - The Ted K Archive - [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-notebook][Ted Kaczynski's Notebook]] - California Uni. - [[https://harbor.klnpa.org/california/islandora/object/cali%3A1150][C-2]]: Checks papers for publication of manuscript; lists hiding places for various articles with maps; list of names at Orvana Mining; serial numbers of guns; location of telephone boxes.