Douglas Lenat and the Unibomber

Douglas Lenat is the president of a defense contracting corporation in Austin, Texas.  Cycorp, his corporation, does work for DARPA.  However, Cycorp also does business with the CIA and the NSA.  Until the Total Information Awareness project was cancelled and re-parceled out under various covers, Cycorp was a major recipient of funds for the TIA - a project tasked to create a large and universal database, providing the Government the opportunity to track the activities of Americans.  Mr. DeVoy, a target of relentless online stalking since working for Cycorp, played a leading role in exposing the TIA to the public (listen to radio interview).  The TIA project was directed by John Poindexter, of the Iran/Contra scandal fame.  Poindexter was convicted of lying to Congress under oath, a felony.  Later, his conviction was dismissed, not on the grounds that he did not lie to Congress, by on the grounds that he was given immunity for the testimony.  The judge's decision is highly questionable.

John Poindexter has also been implicated in the CIA/Drug ring alleged to have operated to fund the Contras.  The Government of Costa Rica is sufficiently convinced of Poindexter's involvement that they have barred him from entering Costa Rica for life.

For a period of time spanning more than a decade, the Unibomber bombed various individuals he perceived to be technological leaders.  Theodore John Kaczynski was convicted for the crimes of the Unibomber in the mid-1990s.  After his arrest, the FBI informed Douglas Lenat the he had been on the Unibomber's list.  Several individuals were notified of their disposition regarding Kaczynski's list.  Lenat himself told the author of this piece that he was on the Unibomber's list and that several technologists consider it a mark of honor.  Kaczynski is a self declared anarchist.

Anarchist Stephen DeVoy worked for Douglas B. Lenat as the leader of the programming department.  In the wake of 9/11, Lenat learned the DeVoy was an anarchist and maintained several anarchist websites.  Douglas Lenat called Mr. DeVoy into his office to question him about his political beliefs.  DeVoy confirmed that he was an anarchist.  Mr. Lenat then told Mr. DeVoy that he considered Anarchism to be a very dangerous political philosophy.  Following this event, three more managers at Cycorp harassed Mr. DeVoy for being an anarchist.  The topic came up in management meetings where Mr. DeVoy was present.  Upper level manager, Michael Whitbrock, stated that Mr. Lenat could fire Mr. DeVoy for being an anarchist because being an anarchist was a choice.

During this period of time, Mr. DeVoy began to receive anonymous online death threat threats.  The online terrorists announced that he would soon be fired from his job for being an anarchist.  Shortly thereafter he was fired from his job.  The online harassment continues today.  Additional stalking has occurred at political events and has been documented.

Information held only by Cycorp has found its way into the hands of the harassment group.  The harassment group claims to have connections to the U.S. Government and access to U.S. Government databases.  The leader of the harassment group has targeted other anarchists with websites.  One of these is Sherman Austin of Raise The Fist.  The harassment group takes credit for turning him into the FBI and having him arrested and jailed.

Recently, Mr. DeVoy opened a website to provide materials to anarchist parents.  Mr. DeVoy is a parent himself and wanted a collection of stories that he could share with his child.  Since few anarchist children stories were available, Mr. DeVoy began writing them himself and publishing them on the website.

Immediately following the publication of these stories, the leader of the harassment group became incensed and engaged in an online campaign to harass any website publishing the stories.  He has declared his belief that children should not be taught about anarchism and that the children of anarchists should be taken away from them by the state.  He became so upset about the idea of children learning about anarchism that he personally called the host of the website and promises that it will be shut down by Friday of this week.  There is no illegal content on the website.  In fact, the website is a philosophy website, not a political website.

I believe that the parallels between Mr. Lenat and the harassment organization cannot be ignored.  I ask anyone in the press interested in this story to investigate it.