Before joining TEC, Murrer was Chairman of the Board of the Gleason Works, with 42 years service. The Gleason Works is a long established prescision tool maker specializing in precision machine tools for cutting and grinding straight, zerol, spiral, bevel, hyphoid gears and curvic couplings with associated tooling and equipment. It is vital to note that Gleason Works is in bad financial shape, with heavy losses during the past few years. Every last machine tool produced by Gleason Works has military applications . We know from experience that there is no purely civilian industry in the Soviet Union.
All plants are first and foremost military plants.
All technology is examiend first and foremost for military applications. This thesis is accepted today by Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency. At end 1985 Gleason had a gear-cutting machine population in the Soviet Union in excess of 2500 units, including over 300 at the Kama River Truck Plant, which produces military vehicles for Afghan genocide. Their end use is preeminently military. Gleason services this 2500 machine tool population out of its Rochester, New York and Badour, Belgium plants.