NATURAL DEATH CITED IN REPORT IN MCNELL CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404000002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 8, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 29, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Cited in Report
In McNeil case
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Autopsy on Exhumation
in tr'ase Tied to c.LA:
records of the death, he discovered that
attending physicians had suspected that
1'4r: McNeil had suffered a ruptured
spleen, which most commonly results
from an external blow. Dr. Gross then
requested the exhumation.
John J. Santucci; the Queens District
Attorney, said at a news conference yes-
terday that the autopsy carried out by
Dr. Gross in Augusta, Me., on Thursday
had found no evidence of a ruptured
spleen-
Dr.-Gross, who was with 16.'S'
said Mr. McNeil, died ot."shock and
hemorrhage broughto s by a liver condi
lion." Y 3. ~. ::r
Mr_ Santucci-" id:ibat some labors.,
tory tests were still incomplete, but that
L`lor all practical 'purposest' his investi44
When Dr. E[hot Iva.. Gross, the Chief
:Medical Examiner, reviewed, the
have been murdered'after receiving a
'report six weeks alter his death that he
had been beaten twice, possibly to dis-
courage his brothers from making state..
ments against Max Hugel, chief of cov-
ert operations for the C.I.A.
began to suspect that Mr. McNeil might
prevent the gravefrom being disturbed.
The Queens District !Attorney' and
New York's Chief; Medical Examiner.
of the Centeral Intelligence Agency, au.
I thorities said yesterday..
i The body ot the man, Dennis Me-Nell,
t who died nearly three months ago, was
exhumed Thursday after two days of
(courtroom pleading by his relatives to
ARTICLE !gyp?
NEW YORK TIMES
29 AUGUST 1981
No evidence of foul play was found in
an autopsy performed on a Queens man
whose two brothers made accusations
that led to the resignation of an official
Officiab exhuming thebody of Demnis McNeil at Forest Hills Annex Cemetery in BrtdgtonM j
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gattorr into Mr.. McNeil's death was is searching for Mr. McNeil's brothers, I
closed. - - Samuel and Thomas. They disappeared
Mr: Santucci said the "inquiry-was shortly after they accused Mr- Hbegun for the purpose of getting at the having earl of
truth," and, he added, "so .that any inforatgiven them. Illal ion. More than S3 stock is also I
doubts in. this area- could be resolved missing from a corporation that Samuel
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therthanleitlingering." McNeil founded and that had employed:
!ne Federal Bureau of Inve tination all three brothers.
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