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LA 76-2512 At approximately 2:20 PM on April 10, 1957, Associate Warden ROBERT I, MOSELEY, Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, California, advised SA EDWARD L. OLSEN telephonically that CHARLES MILLES MANSON, Federal Correctional Institution No, 3845-CAL, FBI No. 643369A, was discovered missing between 1:45 PM and 2:00 Pm this date from the premises of the United States Coast Guard, Terminal Island, California, where subject was assigned in a work detail doing landscape work. MOSELEY advised that he found the subject at approximately 2:10 PM on this date in a 1949 Chevrolet convertible parked north of the United States Coast Guard enclosed premises. He stated that apparently the subject was endeavoring to escape by the use of the above vehicle. On April 10, 1957, ROBERT I. MOSELEY, Associate Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Long Beach, California, advised that about 1:45 PM on April 10, 1957, he received information from an inmate to the effect that CHARLES MILLES MANSON was going to escape from the United States Coast Guard Detail that afternoon. MOSELEY advised he immediately endeavored to locate MANSON, with negative results. He then went to the front tower and notified the tower officer that he was of the opinion that MANSON had escaped, and asked that the officers be alerted. Associate Warden MOSELEY then decidedto check the vehicles on the north side of the United States Coast Guard premises, While doing this, MOSELEY stated he found MANSON in a 1949 convertibie, California license number KZBO99, with his head underneath the dashboard, apparently trying to wire the starter with the ignition switch. MOSELEY stated that when MANSON saw him he got out of the car and offered no resistance. Associate Warden MOSELEY advised that he then took the subject back to the Federal Correctional Institution at Terminal Island, California. MOSELEY stated that he searched the subject and found that he had approximately: - $3.00 and some odd cents in his possession which the subject explained by saying he had sold a camera at the United States Coast Guard Station and that this camera had been given to him by one of the Coast Guard employees, MOSELEY stated that underneath the subject's work clothes, the subject was wearing civilian clothes, MOSELEY stated that he questioned the subject regarding these civilian