CIA'S MCCONNEL MAKES FILTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300500035-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: December 31, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA's McConn~l Makes Filters
Yo bR . lOit,s rprised
to.fi d that the } ier, deputy,.
In$4iligenc A&` cy ow- .t,unS
*gest
the countly's , thirder
maker of industri f s.'nut
a talk with Murray: cColmel-
this week madesome ,of the
reasons clear.
Cuneo Engineering,he will
observe, "is still, a small com-
pang; 1954 sales were,3ust a
bit..above?$4 million.' y$ut;,he
notes'. that this comp res with
some $2.G.mjllion ini950 and
adds ,
`
260 com-
"This in ustry has
panies, yenone df them gets
close to duplkating the type of
ally intended for-the food, bev 1
erage and drug fields. "I can i
see the day coming when this
branch will do a bigger busi-
ness than we do altogether',
now.".
Whisky Like Gin.
A slight, trim, clipped-speech
type of executive, Mr. McConnel
recalls with interesting detach-
ment "some of the inevitable
fiascos we've had in developing
the new filters," One filter, he
said, was tried out by a whisky
producer. It worked too well. It
not,only removed every impur-
ity; it. also relieved the whisky
of its color, making it look
much like gin.
But he's used to solving prob-
while ther'e's competition there's MURRAY McCONNEL ord: He's headed Cuneo for six
room fir making,#a profit and in filters for the auto industry,,, years, working out of its main
for.,,growhig.' he says, "but 80 percent of our plant in Meriden, Conn.; he's
I The growth, he ssys, stems a director of American Machine
from the fact ?thr'at the e o total production now, goes a
~~ . ~ - broad group of ? industries. In & Foundry and Dixie Home,
filter foreign objects au of fact, we make filters for any Stores.
both raw materials and.fin shed fluid, gas or light, that can be He's a former partner. in
products ,provides other" grtiw? pumped.". Hayden, Stone & Co. and ' hg lag mar-kets, - feels,. ' Filtering, he notes, is an es- handled the financing of Julius''
Filter for Any Fluid. sential in small precision; parts, Garfinckel & Co., leading Wash-
i current, production is heavy equipment, milk, 4?Ugs ington, D. C. retail operation.;
!divided between industrial and ."and almdst any kind of item." Earlier he financed Dixie-Howe!
stage" on a filter that's especi- ness and part of Winn & Lovett.!,
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