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Alcatraz Escape — Part 6

120 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Jun 27, 1962 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 119 pages OCR'd
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ee FD-302 (Rev. 1-35-60) | FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGA 5 + i ‘ . vere 6/19/62 67 c. advised that he is presently the or ail personnel on Alcatraz Island. He ane ee hb ne Was novilriésda Go Lilc apeaker system.~ He advised he and after being advised of the basic deta eded to the north end of the cell block to the bakery smoke stack. He advised that they noted barbed wire sagging on the top of a cyclone fence located approximately ten feet from the base of the smoke stack. He stated they then noted a strand of cut barbed wire on the top of the catwalk on the outside yard wall fifty feet from the first fence. This spot is in the north east corner of the island, From this spot pe noted grass bent down near the water tower. This is about one hundred feet from the last fence crossing. This bent grass area is towards the beach and . there is a forty-five foot downward slope to the road level. He believed that the inmates then apparently crossed the road to the lumber and debris area to the edge of the slope leading to the beach. He noted muth torn and bent down grass on a Siope located in the northeast corner of the island. It was approximately a seventy-five foot drop to the beach seawall. The seawall is about four te six feet high down to the water's edge and rocks. He advised the found a one-half inch diameter black electrical extension cord about one hundred feet long rolled up in a coil near the rocks below the seawall. - i © escape at 7: 30 a = on 0/14/62 en SO Alcatraz Island File #_SF 76-2887 en Date dictated — $§/AR she This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It ia the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and ite contenta are not to be distributed quteide your agency, -
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