What contemporaneous agency or fire-investigation records establish about the 1970 Alcatraz fire?

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Accounts differ on responsibility for the fire, and the File does not assign a cause beyond the reviewed evidence. Contemporaneous fire reports, agency communications, photographs with reliable provenance, or later archival analysis could establish what was documented without inviting accusation.

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