Feds Release Unabomber Letter

Federal agents Wednesday released a second letter written by the mysterious Unabomber and said 100 additional agents have been deployed to follow hundreds of leads that have poured in since a Sacramento timber industry lobbyist was killed by a bomb on Monday.

“We’re going to put all of our investigative efforts into bringing this guy to justice,” said Ed Gleba, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, one of the agencies participating in the UNABOM task force.

In the latest letter, sent to one of his previous victims, the serial bomber lashes out at computers and high-tech professionals, and hints that there may be more letters to come. He mocks the victim, Yale University computer scientist David Gelernter, for falling prey to a bomb sent in June 1993 and vents his frustration for people with college degrees. The blast left Gelernter blind in one eye, deaf in one ear, and tore off part of his right hand.

“People with advanced degrees aren’t as smart as they think they are,” he wrote. “If you’d had any brains you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world and you wouldn’t have been dumb enough to open an unexpected package from an unknown source.”

The explosion that killed California Forestry Association lobbyist Gilbert Murray on Monday marked the 16th time the UNABOM suspect has struck and the third fatality, authorities said. The blasts have injured 23 other people. Investigators say at least half of the attacks are linked to Northern California.