Ted Kaczynski's Journals

    Short List of Available Journals

      Daily Journals

      Journals Detailing His Crimes

    The Full List

      Series I

      Series II

      Series III

      Series IV

      Series V

      Series VI

      Series VII

      Series VIII

      Notes on my Journals

      Baby Book

      Crime Journals

Most of these journals are not publicly available as they were sold at auction into a private collection.[1]


Short List of Available Journals


Some of these texts are only short extracts or only partially typed-up copies.


Daily Journals



Journals Detailing His Crimes



The Full List

Quoting Ted:[2][3][4][5]

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]

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]

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


Journals #2-7

Private collection.


Series II


Journal #1

Private collection.


Journal #2


Journals #3-6

Private collection.


Series III


Journals #1-4

Private collection.


Journal #5 - May 31, 1974 to Sept 14, 1975


Journals #6-8

Private collection.


Series IV


Journals #1

Private collection.


Series V


Journal #1

Private collection.


Series VI


Journal #1 (1972)


Journal #2 (1978)


Journal #3

Private collection.


Journal #4


Journal #5


Series VII

Journal #1


Journals #2-4

Private collection.


Series VIII


Journal #1

Private collection.


Notes on my Journals



Baby Book



Crime Journals


Ted Kaczynski's Journal of Early Crimes


Notebook X


Fully Coded Notebook of Crimes


Ted Kaczynski's Notebook

  • The Ted K Archive - Ted Kaczynski's Notebook

  • California Uni. - 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.



[1] The rare Unabomber documents being kept hidden by a few zealots and rich people

[2] Truth versus Lies

[3] Ted's Notes on his Journals (Feb. 1996)

[4] Truth versus Lies

[5] Ted Kaczynski's Journal of Early Crimes

[6] Kaczynski's Ciphers

[7] Ted Kaczynski's Notebook