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me A camara. — nimat pin mer de al ss a Re rent mr rar on ES olla a “grnoMA Foam HO. 19 oy 4s rie 7 UNITED STATES GOY=RNMENT : ) . she ° * Memorandum ~ to : DERECTOR, FBI (76-26295) pate: 10-15-63 p . o —— CERO : 8a Ga weawrronn 7&~2887} =P. \ rf Ye ad WAR FORANVANYY J vomer( Pass 7 SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION At 7:15 AM, June 12, 1962, officers of the United States ee ener Alcatraz, California, discovered that FRANK LEE MORRIS, JOHN WILLIAM ANGLIN and CLARENCE ANGLIN, all inmates, had. escaped from their cells, leaving flesh- colored diumsy faces in their beds. The escape route consisted of holes dug through the back of their cell walis near the _Ventilator area, climbing plumbing pipe in the utility . eorridor behind the celis to the top of the cell block, where they broke through the bars and ventilator 11d onto the roof, They apparently climbed down from the roof by way of the bakery smokestack at the rear of the ceili house. went over the chain-link fence and to the northeast shore ° of the island. Investigation indicated that the eacape 8 ag t+ evidently occurred around 10:00 PM the preceding evening. A ainmttlan hole .—. FY fomd in the sali ~_ as “well as a a flesh-colored dummy face. nte that Escapees had left him at about PM on June 11, 1962, supposedly to return and finis hele in the rear rear of bis cell, b but he had not seen. t . Later that might omplisted ths hole in his scsi, proceeded to the roof, and ascertained they had gone. He returned to hia cell and went to bed. laimed that the Escapees had taken a six- foot by rourteen-root ralt made from rubperized raincoats or inmates and three yolk life preservers similarly nade. These articles had been made and stored on top of the cell dlock immediately under the cell house roof, and Bscapeen/ had worked on same in the evening after breaking out peea/ oelis, They planned to escape to Angel Island in San Francisco Bay P and then to the mainland, where they would 6 commit burglary to obtain guns and clothing, steal a car, and ieave the area. | 2102, REC- Sa 7b, - 2LAFE as powe cs a. Py a oy ur" . a Bureau See ad un S ecial Investigative Divis on 2-San Francisco 7 = -_ vag Ce.