DENVER -- Convicted Unabomber Ted Kaczynski had a second cabin somewhere in the Montana wilderness where he tested explosives and which law enforcement officials never found, a Denver television station reported Wednesday.
CBS affiliate KCNC-TV reported Kaczynski admitted in a letter that he used a second hideaway in Montana to test explosives but that a cabin described in a book by his former neighbor, Chris Waits, is not the one.In "The Unabomber: The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski. His Twenty-Five Years in Montana" Waits described finding the Unabomber's secret cabin.
"Kaczynski told me that he did in fact have a second cabin but that Waits' got the wrong one," a KCNC reporter said.
The first report of a four-part series was broadcast Wednesday night.
Kaczynski is serving a life term in a federal prison in Colorado after pleading guilty to three murders during a 17-year bombing campaign. Twenty-nine people were injured in the Unabom attacks.
Kaczynski was arrested in May 1996 in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Mont. That cabin became a key piece of evidence in the government's case against him.
The reporter said he received nine letters from Kaczynski, beginning last spring. He said the letters described the bomber's activities while he was the subject of a federal manhunt, including alleged crimes.
The reporter said Kaczynski admitted to engaging in so-called monkey-wrenching activities, or acts of sabotage used by environmentalists to block development or urbanization.