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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski wants the U.S. government to return a pipe bomb and other items seized from his Montana cabin so that they can be used for "research," according to court papers made public on Monday.
Kaczynski, serving a life sentence for killing three people and injuring 23 others in a 17-year bombing campaign, also asked for his books, personal papers and chemicals used in making bombs.
He wanted most of the material sent to the University of Michigan where it could be studied by "serious researchers," the court documents, filed a week ago with the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, showed.
The court had no immediate response to the requests.
Kaczynski's eight-page list of books included "Controlling Knapweed," "Count Your Calories," "Elementary Chinese," "Growing Up Absurd," and classics like Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" and George Orwell's "1984," as well as several Montana phone books.
His papers, seized seven years ago, included titles like "On Being Sane in Insane Places" and "Studies of Stressful Interpersonal Disputations."
Kaczynski pleaded guilty in January 1998 to killing three people with bombs sent through the mail from the 1970s through the mid-1990s.
He said in a separate handwritten motion that he owes restitution of more than $15 million to his "alleged victims," and a total of $21 million as a result of civil judgments.
Under assets he listed a hunting rifle, which he estimated to be worth about $150, and said his other property might have "'celebrity' value."
America has a long tradition of preserving links to notorious criminals to promote tourism or museums. On other occasions, officials have auctioned off objects related to famous crimes.
Kaczynski, serving a life sentence for killing three people and injuring 23 others in a 17-year bombing campaign, also asked for his books, personal papers and chemicals used in making bombs.
He wanted most of the material sent to the University of Michigan where it could be studied by "serious researchers," the court documents, filed a week ago with the U.S. District Court in Sacramento, showed.
The court had no immediate response to the requests.
Kaczynski's eight-page list of books included "Controlling Knapweed," "Count Your Calories," "Elementary Chinese," "Growing Up Absurd," and classics like Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" and George Orwell's "1984," as well as several Montana phone books.
His papers, seized seven years ago, included titles like "On Being Sane in Insane Places" and "Studies of Stressful Interpersonal Disputations."
Kaczynski pleaded guilty in January 1998 to killing three people with bombs sent through the mail from the 1970s through the mid-1990s.
He said in a separate handwritten motion that he owes restitution of more than $15 million to his "alleged victims," and a total of $21 million as a result of civil judgments.
Under assets he listed a hunting rifle, which he estimated to be worth about $150, and said his other property might have "'celebrity' value."
America has a long tradition of preserving links to notorious criminals to promote tourism or museums. On other occasions, officials have auctioned off objects related to famous crimes.
