ترجم إلى العربية باحتراف of their cells in each cell there was a
small ventilation opening but it was so
small that no one could go through it
however Frank Morris who became the
operation leader and The Mastermind of
the plan noticed that the long years
without repairs had weakened the Prison
Walls in addition to the Salty seawater
that affected them therefore it was easy
to dig in the walls but they needed
tools to dig they had managed to get
spoons which they kept digging from day
to day just like you may imagine it took
them months to widen the openings in
order to get through them easily during
the digging process no one of the guards
should see or hear them
they should keep their work secret it
was claimed that they used to work while
the inmates were playing their musical
instruments
every night it was allowed for the
inmates to play on their instruments for
one hour so it was believed that they
most likely used to work during that
period
taking advantage of the loud sound made
by the instruments to remain unnoticed
besides sometimes there was maintenance
work inside the prison which made some
noise so they started digging
immediately
four inmates used to date every time
they felt that they were out of the
Guard site and they also used to assign
one of them to keep his eyes on the
corridor to see whether a guard was
coming or not because of the large
number of guards in alcatra's prison it
had the biggest number of guards more
than any other prison in the United
States the prison guards used to make a
sudden count of all prisoners at any
time moreover the other inmates that
were in the nearby cells knew about the
Escape Plan
they were able to see them digging the
ventilation openings but no one had
snitched on them on the contrary they
used to help them myself when I was a
prisoner here anyone that attempted
escape and wanted to escape I'd help
them all I can that's the way a good
inmate does he helps another inmate any
way he can
uh whether you want to go or not if you
can help him you'll help him according
to the FBI report the number of inmates
who knew about the Escape Plan was
almost 80 and no one of them spoke about
it
this number was almost half of the
prisoners that were at Alcatraz during
the digging process they needed to hide
the openings so they made Cartoon planks
in the prison Workshop painted them the
same color as their cell walls and
placed them on the openings using a bit
of cement they also used to put some of
their items in front of the hole like
their instruments clothes or anything
else to keep the hole invisible to the
guards
eventually after several months of work
they managed to make the opening
suitable for their body shapes but the
digging process was only the first part
of the plan their goal wasn't only to
find a way to get out of a prison they
also aimed at getting out of the island
and this was the toughest part seeing
that they needed to cross the sea they
had to find a way to make a boat by any
possible means
at that time in one of the mechanic
magazines that were in the prison they
found an article that showed how to make
a rubber boat and life jackets using
raincoats which were abundant inside the
prison so they started collecting and
stealing them from everywhere in the
prison and the other inmates used to
help them they had managed to get 50
raincoats but the problem was where to
store them and where to work on the
rubber boats and the life jackets
they needed a space like a workshop the
only space they found was on the roof of
their cells the place where Alan West
discovered the ventilation duct opening
but there was another problem that place
was visible to the guards and there were
always guards there monitoring the
inmates doing the prison work Alan West
instructed by Frank The Mastermind made
a very clever trick and this could be
the most important trick in the whole
Escape operation
Alan West was in charge of cleaning that
area above the cells constantly so he
managed to convince the guards to attach
blankets and sheets to those space bars
so the dust wouldn't get down while
cleaning
he even kept throwing the dust to show
them that it's a big problem and must be
solved by covering the bars the plan
worked and the guards allowed him to
attach blankets and sheets on the bars
so they got a very nice space covered in
and out of the Guard sites which they
could use as a workshop this was
absolutely an extremely fatal security
error this was a scandal for Alcatraz
prison which is supposed to be one of
the most fortified and secured prisons
in the world that was shameful to the
point that this incident wasn't
mentioned in the primary reports and it
appeared only in 1990 meaning 20 years
after the incident the blankets and
sheets remained attached to the bars
covering the space for two months during
this period our guys took turns going up
to that area and working on making the
rubber boat life jackets and cutting the
rods on the ventilation duct opening