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SPECIAL INVESTIGATY _) DIVISION _— June 14, 1962 Background: | Intensive searches of the Alcatraz and Angel Island areas have failed to reveal any trace of the trio of escapees whose efforts over a year plus lax security apparently en- abled them to get into the Bay using a pontoon fashioned from fifty-five raincoats they had cole lected, The paddle recovered by the Coast Guard near Stuart Point lighthouse indicates the possibiliy \eron the trio traversed the treach- erous currents. Press conference of Bureau of Prisons,at which Warden of Alcatraz and Assistant Director of Bureau of Prisons wer present, not well received because) , of these officials' evasive atti- tude, refusal to allow photograph of agcape route, and refusal to answer questions concerning lax - administration. Se NO 344