056: Max Noel - Unabomber Terrorist Ted Kaczynski (Part 2)
FBI Case File Review
Jerri Williams
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🗓️ 24 February 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Part two of a two-part episode. Retired agent Max Noel reviews the Unabomber Terrorist Ted Kaczynski case. For 15 years, multiple agencies, including the FBI, AFT, the Postal Inspection Service and numerous state and local police departments, worked mostly independently to identified and arrest the person responsible for setting off 16 bombs throughout the United States that killed three and seriously maimed and injured several victims. Noel, who was planning to retire just prior to being hand-picked for the assignment, was selected as the investigative squad supervisor for a new task force created by then Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louie Freeh. Noel and other members of the taskforce received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguish Service for their efforts. Noel, along with Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Jim Freeman and Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Terry D. Turchie, wrote a book, Unabomber: How the FBI Broke Its Own Rules to Capture the Terrorist Ted Kaczynski, about how, after 17 years, they finally identified, captured, and convicted the notorious Unabomber.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 56 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by actual true crime |
| 0:16.6 | FBI cases. In this episode, we are again speaking with Max Noel about the Unabomber terrorist Ted Kaczynski case. |
| 0:27.7 | This is part two. |
| 0:29.5 | As you recall in part one, we got to the point where the FBI had been able to finally identify the true |
| 0:39.4 | name of the Unabomber, and that this was done primarily through a comparison of his |
| 0:47.0 | manifesto to his known writing supplied by his brother, sister-in-law, and his mother. |
| 0:56.0 | As a reminder, retired agent Max Noel served nearly 31 years with the FBI, |
| 1:02.0 | as he was nearing retirement, he was asked to take over as the |
| 1:08.3 | supervisor of the investigative task force for the Unabomber. This task force was made up of FBI employees, |
| 1:17.5 | ATF, postal inspectors, and a number of local and state police departments. |
| 1:24.3 | Before this task force have been created by |
| 1:28.4 | then attorney general Janet Reno and FBI director |
| 1:32.2 | Louis Freee. |
| 1:34.0 | For approximately 15 years, |
| 1:36.5 | all of these different agencies |
| 1:38.7 | have been trying on their own, |
| 1:40.8 | working mostly independently to identify the person responsible for all of these bombings. |
| 1:47.0 | In part two, we are now going to find out how the FBI and other members of the task force were able to arrest |
| 1:56.5 | Ted Kaczynski because remember now he has been able to blow up and booby trap |
| 2:06.2 | airplanes and packages how do you go into his cabin and take him out and search for the evidence you need when bombs could be |
| 2:11.4 | packed inside that tiny space. |
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