HUGEL ACCUSERS' BROTHER DIES AMID PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404000019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 30, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON STAR (GREI G LTN )
30 JULY 1981
CHICAGO (AP) -The FBI is inves- Washington, said yesterday that the Triad and a second company they j
tigating the death of a New York bureau was -`not investigating ran, according to the newspaper.
businessman whosetwo brothers re- McNell's death. He said the FBI is in- Dennis McNeil also worked for Tri-
cently vanished after accusing a top .- vestigating the, possible disappear- ad:
CIA official of joining them in an il- `ance of securities in connection
legal stock- manipulation deal, ac " with Triad Energy Corp., and that is Around Easter, Dennis McNeil STAT
cording to/ a. published report.. An what Webster is briefed on - not the took his 16-year-old son into an up-
FBI spokesman denied the=report.:,: - death of-Dennis McNelLcz.= ;--: ' stairs bedroom': in his family's.:
In a -copyrighted story in. today's Queens home. and gave him several
.
editions, -the Chicago' Tribune. said - McNeil s death came aweek after thousand dollars in "emergency
money," the Tribune said. it said that
the FBI has expanded its investiga- - his' two brothers contacted a.news- McNeil told the teen-ager to give the--
tion of-ex-CIA spychief Max Hugel'- ,paperto accuse Hugel: of the stock money` to his mother if anything:
and the, disappearance of. Samuel i manipulation deal in 1974. the Tn = happened to the father, the Tribune.
and Thomas McNeil to'include tfie- bune said. , said
i sterious death of Dennis McNeil-. - ; ~
in New York on June 1.0- . Huge}, asewing machineimporter On-the evening-of May 31, said the
appointed by Casey to head the CIA's newspaper, the 41-year-old McNeil;;
The Tribune quoted an FBI spokes- returned from jogging suffering-
man assaying on Tuesday that agen= clandestine operations, immediately from severe abdominal pain. McNeil'
} resigned when the accusation was,
cy director William Webster is now, was rushed to City Hospital Center'.,
published two weeks ago: However,. ,
getting regular reports on, the- in- Hugel denied the charges, saying in New York, but died the next morn-
getting into Dennis -.McNeI1's death., -McNells were t tryin ryin shck the ing as he wasbeing prepared for sur?
g to blackmail According to the newspaper, the Sen gery, the Tribune, said.
ate Intelligence Committee,: now in~_ :: r ?
vestigating the affairs of CIA Direc-~u,, Just before McNeil died, his wife;
tor William Casey, was "known to '.'- ' When the charges came to light, Jean, said doctors told her they be-
have heard that McNeI1 died violent- the. McNeil brothers -disappeared, lieved he had a ruptured spleen, ac
ly,,, the Tribune said. Directors of Triad cording to the Tribune. It said that 1
Energy Corp., a New. York firm con- the New York medical examiner's of-
However, Ed, Gooderham, a trolled by the brothers, said that fice was informed by the ;hospital
spokesman at FBI ' headquarters in-- about S3.3 million was missing from -S that McNeil died possibly from a rup-
tured spleen along: with intestinal
bleeding and shock.
-However, a City. Hospital Center'
doctor interviewed .by the Tribune-
said a rupture of a non-diseased
spleen is almost always caused by a
"trauma" - that is;,by someexteraal'
blow. The physician. Dr Stewart,
Resch, chief of emergency room ser-i
vices at'the hospital, said death- from-
=.a ruptured spleen -'would be; suspi
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The Tribune quoted other doctors
.as saying that an autopsy could have..
determined the exact cause of death'
but, the paper said, no autopsy was'
_performed. the medical ex.
aminer's office accepted. that McNe
died of natural causes:: -'"
' However, the'Tribune said,-one of~
the Triad directors, Stanley Kielmar,F
-'told the FBI that McNeil was "ab-
ducted and beaten":twice this year-t:
Kielmar. said he' ' assumed", the al=
leged beatings :were. linked to'thw),
two other McNeil'. brothers''dealings'l.
with Hugel, and Interpreted them as
"a- warning for the' McNells to coop
'it-with -Hugel,the Tribune said) -
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