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Alcatraz Escape — Part 5

120 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Prisons & Escapes · Topic: Alcatraz Escape · 118 pages OCR'd
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2 SF ee 7S a EE 56st M. P. Detachment, San 7 Francisco Presidio, arranged for patrol of the Fort Cronkhite and Kirby Beach areas during the evening of June 15, 1962, and during the daylight hours of June 16, 17, 1962. This area is cn the ocean side of Marin County about 3-4 miles northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge. GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE Special Agents of the FBI conducted a visual search of the San Francisco coastline from the Golden Gate Bridge encom- passing the shore from Old Fort Point to the east end of the San ?ranecisco Yacht Club on June 13, 14, 1962. ANGEL ISLAND Angel Island is located 41n San Francisco Bay about one and one-quarter miles north of Alcatraz Island, between Alcatraz and the Marin County Bay shoreline. It is rugged terrain, parts of which are 750 feet above the water. Only a small part of this island 1s used as a picnic area and is main- tained by the California State Park Service. es) e ,, 561st M. P. Detachment, San Francisco Presidio, led a detachment of 35 Military Police and soldiers in a search of Angel Island on June 12, 1962. A small group of Milita olice ft on this island overnight. On the following day,| made available 134 soldiers who worked with S$ al Agents of the FBI in a massive detalled search of Angel Island, including more than 100 deserted buildings. Coupled with this search was a search by Special Agents in small boats of the Angel Island beaches, some of which were inaccessible from the ground. No evidence was found to indicate the Escapees ever reached this island. DEBRIS BOATS When this investigation was instituted on June 12, 1962, it was arranged that the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers debris boats, which constantly sweep the Bay of flotsam, would report any suspicious objects retrieved. On June 14, 1962, one of these boats picked up two olive drab wallet type packets from a whirlpool approximately one-half mile east of Alcatraz Island -8-
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