Did Unabomber Pick Targets From Environmentalist `Hit List'?
The name "T. Casinski" - phonetically identical to that of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski - appears on a list of those who attended a November 1994 conference of environmentalists in Missoula, Mont.
A Seattle private detective gave the list to the FBI last year after he concluded that the Unabomber targeted New Jersey advertising executive Thomas Mosser and California Forestry Association head Gilbert Murray because they had worked for organizations on a "hit list" circulated by radical environmentalists.
The FBI is investigating whether Kaczynski attended the meeting, which took place about 60 miles from his remote mountain cabin, according to a federal source. Kaczynski, 53, remains in custody in Helena, Mont., while the FBI searches his cabin.
The Unabomber's bombs have killed three people and injured 23 others over nearly 18 years.
On Dec. 10, 1994, a month after the November environmentalists' meeting, Mosser was killed by a package bomb mailed to his North Caldwell, N.J., home.
Mosser had worked for Burson-Marsteller, a public-relations firm attacked by the environmentalist group Earth First because it worked for Exxon. Exxon's name also was near the top of the environmental hit list.
In letters to newspapers last year, the Unabomber said he targeted Mosser because "among other misdeeds, Burson-Marsteller helped Exxon clean up its image after the Exxon Valdez incident," the huge oil spill in Alaska in 1989. Burson-Marsteller, however, has said it did not work on the spill.
"Based on all the information we have, it does appear he (Kaczynski) was a follower of Earth First," said Barry Clausen, a former Seattle private investigator who now serves as a consultant to businesses.
But Judy Bari, a longtime leader of Earth First, said that Kaczynski is not on the organization's subscription lists and that the group does not have a membership list. Environmentalists have criticized Clausen as biased because he worked for timber-industry groups.