CIA CHILD ABUSE circa 1959: Ted Kaczynski was a 3 year victim of MK Ultra starting at age 17

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13. there's no evidence that LSD and belittling him 'created him'

...or is responsible for his 17 year terror campaign.

Kaczynski described it as “the worst experience of my life,” but he stayed in the study for three years. As he later explained, “I wanted to prove I could take it, that I couldn’t be broken.”
https://allthatsinteresting.com/ted-kaczynski-unabomber

The conclusions in the articles which associate his delusions with that silly experimental program sound as looney as as he was. Besides, he wasn't held there, he was a volunteer.

It's much more likely that his regression and resentments began at the University of Michigan:

After graduation, Ted Kaczynski attended the University of Michigan to pursue a master’s and then a Ph.D. in mathematics. It was here that he started to come undone. He hated his fellow students and his teachers.

In his bedroom, he thought he could hear his neighbors whispering about him. Once, in a manic fit of sexual frustration, he decided the only way he could touch a woman was to become one. He made an appointment with the campus health center to discuss a possible gender reassignment surgery but in the waiting room, he had a change of heart.

He later wrote:

Like a Phoenix, I burst from the ashes of my despair to a glorious new hope. I thought I wanted to kill that psychiatrist because the future looked utterly empty to me. I felt I wouldn’t care if I died. And so I said to myself why not really kill the psychiatrist and anyone else whom I hate. What is important is not the words that ran through my mind but the way I felt about them. What was entirely new was the fact that I really felt I could kill someone. My very hopelessness had liberated me because I no longer cared about death. I no longer cared about consequences and I said to myself that I really could break out of my rut in life and do things that were daring, irresponsible or criminal.

Eventually, he decided, “I will kill but I will make at least some effort to avoid detection so that I can kill again.” But he wouldn’t start just yet.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ted-kaczynski-unabomber

...his life experiences before he devolved into a serial killer weren't isolated to that voluntary program.

I don't believe whatever mental affliction he suffered from gave him any special insight into anything other than his deluded mind. And I don't believe the silly program that used LSD amounted to anything more than a series of bad trips.

I stood up to the murderous prick before he was caught, with a letter to the editor published prominently in a nice little box on the WaPo editorial page.