CABIN'S INVENTORY PROVIDES INSIGHT

An F.B.I. inventory unsealed today by a Federal judge in Montana said that agents searching Theodore J. Kaczynski's Montana cabin found a wealth of potential evidence, including the addresses of corporate executives, explosive devices, five guns, street maps of San Francisco and hundreds of books.

The 600-item listing, the Government's first overview of what was found by agents who began their exhaustive search on April 3, did not say how the evidence might connect Mr. Kaczynski to the Unabom attacks, of which he is suspected, but with which he has not been charged. But the inventory was significant for its sheer volume and the insights it provided into Mr. Kaczynski's life and thinking.

For example, the agents disclosed that among the scores of books in his tiny cabin were volumes on eastern mysticism, a Bible and a book by Paul Goodman, the social critic whose works were deeply influential on college campuses in the 1960's.

The inventory also suggested that Mr. Kaczynski might have taken medication. The agents found a bottle of trazodone hydrochloride, an antidepressant usually used to treat agitation, restlessness or insomnia.

In many cases, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's descriptions seemed more tantalizing than informative. For example, none of the corporate officials whose addresses were found in the cabin were identified nor were their companies named. The entry that referred to the executives described only a box "containing misc. papers, newspaper clippings, bus schedule, addresses of corporate officials and maps of San Francisco."

The oblique references could be important. Four of the Unabomber's victims were executives of airline, advertising, forestry or aircraft manufacturing concerns. Moreover, three of the bombings occurred in the San Francisco Bay area and two in Sacramento. Five of the bombs were mailed from Northern California, including two from Oakland and one from San Francisco.

The F.B.I. list, a computer inventory printed last Thursday, was ordered released today by the judge who authorized the original search, Charles Lovell of United States District Court. The judge also released a copy of the search warrant for the cabin, which outlined what agents thought they might find, including explosives and books on Chinese philosophy that the Unabomber cited in his 35,000-word manifesto published in The Washington Post last September, with the cost of publication shared with The New York Times.

The listing does not mention the manuscript among the writings found at the cabin, but law-enforcement officials have said that an original typewritten version of it was discovered there.

Mr. Kaczynski has not been charged with any of the 16 Unabom attacks over nearly 18 years. He is being held without bail in a county jail in Helena, charged only with illegally possessing bomb components. But a Federal grand jury is scheduled to convene in Helena on Wednesday and law-enforcement officials have said they are certain that Mr. Kaczynski, a Harvard-educated former math professor, will be charged as the Unabomber.

Today's inventory listed a pipe bomb and an "improvised explosive device contained in a cardboard box, wrapped in plastic bags with various tape and rubber bands."

The search also turned up materials used in bomb making, like lengths of pipe, soldering wire and explosive chemicals, including "black powder and smokeless powder." There were also numerous entries referring to chemicals used in explosives, including potassium, sulfur, ammonium nitrate, aluminum and saltpeter. Inside the cabin were an assortment of firearms, among them a .25-caliber gun, a bolt-action .22-caliber rifle, a Remington model .30-06, a .22-caliber black-handled revolver and a hand-made gun.

The list also described a hooded jacket, a blue zippered sweatshirt and hood and two pairs of plastic glasses. The items appeared to be similar to the clothing and sunglasses described by a witness in Salt Lake City who saw the Unabomber in 1987. A sketch of the hooded man based on the witness's account was widely circulated, but failed to lead authorities to the bomber.

The listing included hundreds of objects that seemed like the tools of everyday rustic life. The agents found a yellow plastic bucket, a pair of hiking boots, a plastic bag with fishhooks, waterproof matches, a pocket knife, a metal pot and a backpack. The listing indicated that Mr. Kaczynski discarded as little as possible, saving hundreds of small metal parts in containers, like a "Calumet baking powder" cannister, a "Del Monte whole leaf spinach" can and a "Johnson & Johnson medicated Band-Aid" can.

The search suggested that as isolated as Mr. Kaczynski's life had become he had not forgotten his academic roots. The listing said they found "a Samsonite briefcase containing University of Michigan degrees," and "yearbooks in green plastic bag." In addition they found notebooks, paper, letters and three typewriters -- one of which law-enforcement officials have said matches the typewriting on the manifesto.

The agents found more than 200 books in the tiny cabin, among them religious works and books like "Basimov's Guide to the Bible." The agents were probably referring to "Asimov's Guide to The Old Testament," or "Asimov's Guide to the New Testament," a commentary in which Isaac Asimov, the highly popular science fiction writer, described the Bible not as a theological work, but as a historical account incorporating fact, propaganda and myth.

The agents found copies of "Les Miserables, Volumes I and II," the famous Victor Hugo novel about Jean Valjean, a victim of social injustice whose goodness is unshaken by the corrupt society in which he lives.

The agents also found a copy of "Growing Up Absurd," by Paul Goodman, the most famous of the books by the psychotherapist and social commentator, who often wrote about how institutional society forced people to suppress their humanity. The book applauded youths who dropped out rather than submit to the constraints of organized life.