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Alcatraz Escape — Part 5
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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
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