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LA 76-2512 clothes and the subject told him he had stolen them from one of the civilian employee's lockers at the United States Coast Guard, Terminal Island, California. MOSELEY advised that in the trouser pocket of the clothes taken from the civilian employee of the Coast Guard, there was a set of car keys which apparently MANSON did not know were in this pocket, inasmuch as the car to which these keys belonged was approximately 20 feet from the car in which the subject was apprehended. MOSELEY advised that MANSON told him he attempted to escape and gave several reasons for this attempt, namely that he was nervous and upset because offamily conditions. MOSELEY stated that MANSON said that he was planning to escape and was putting his plans into effect when he was caught. MOSELEY advised that MANSON did not actually escape, although he did cut through the fence of the outer area of the United States Coast Guard perimeter. MOSBLEY stated that he would call it an attempted escape, rather than an escape. MOSELEY advised that he then returned to the United States Coast Guard parking lot and checked the 1949 Chevrolet in question and at that time found one pair of pliers and a pair of cutters on the floorboard, He advised that he had Officer EASTMAN remain with the vehicle while he went back to the institution and telephoned the FBI at approximately 2:20 PM, advising them of the unsuccessful attempted escape of the subject. Asso¢iate Warden MOSELEY advised that CHARLES MILLES MANSON, Federal Correctional Institution No. 3845, FBI No, 643369A, was received at the institution on May 2, 1956, based on a three-year sentence beginning April 23, 1956, for interstate transportation of a stolen motor vehicle. On April 12, 1957, Associate Warden MOSELEY furnished the following transcript of the recording made by him on April 10, 1957, of his interview with CHARLE MILLES MANSON: MANSON: "I took a camera and I sold it for Three Dollars--Two Dollars and some change-- and I got this old fellow's clothes out of his locker and I ....” -3-