MUSGROVE, JOE BAILEY

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06485486
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-02055
• Publication Date: May 6, 1968

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY �
iNASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
6 MAY 1968
TO �
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attention: Mr. S. J, Papich
FROM Deputy DirectOr for Plans
SUBJECT: MUSGROVE, Joe Bailey .
� 1. The following paragraphs summarize informa-
tion relayed telephonically to the Bureau, and are.
forwarded to you for confirmation and for your files.
2. On 28 April 1968; representative in
Addis Ababa reported that Doctor Klaus Steer, a �
West German citizen and Director of the African.
Scientific :Department, E. Merck Aktiengesellschaft,
Karmstady, Germany, visited the American Embassy,
at the request of the local German Ambassador, and
reported that he had seen a man in Lagos Nigeria� -
on.23 April 1968 who strongly resembled newspaper
� photographs of Eric Stavro Galt, who is currently
� wanted in connection.with the assassination of, "
Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. .Steer said that he saw
� the -Subject-at the desk:of-the Bristol Hotel on the
afternoon of 23 April when both were checking.out
of the hotel. - Dr. Steer was accidentally given the
hotel accounting receipt for the Subject, on which
he noted "Name: . Job Musgaque, Room No: 403., Receipt
� No: D 52138, Account No: 08325." In a short con-
versation with.Subject; Dr. Steer learned that Subject
was employed by the "Wilder Oil Company" and was en-
route to Warn, Nigeria on an 18 month, contract.
Subject told Dr. Steer that he had recently arrived
in Lagos from Las Palmas via Accra on Nigerian.Airlines.
3, The above information was relayed to the
Bureau upon receipt by our duty o'ficer on 29 April
1968. We were advised that records did
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not contain information on Subj or the Wilder
- Oil Company. We then requested epresentative,
a os to investigate this matter through
means and through
4.--On'29 April, in Lagos checked. the
Iot Bristo,Hel and determined hat:a Joe Musgrove, .
-anAmerican:employee of McDermott OvorseaS Incorporated,
arrived in Lagos'on 23 April' from Las Palms and stayed--
in Lagos until' 26:April; when he.was-tor-leave:,for-the.
Midwestern State (Warn), . ,
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received
this information on 30 April 1968, and then visited
Mr. Ray Landry, a U. S. citizen, Acting Chief of the
McDermott Company, and obtained the following infor-
mation from a personnel file: Joe Bailey MUSGROVE
departed the U. S. on 9 October. 1967 for employment
with McDermott Nigeria.- He has been resident in
'Nigeria since that date, except for the period 10-23 April,
when he went to Las Palmas on leave. Date of Birth: .
24 April 1933. Occupation: - Welder. Home Address: .
P.O. Box 1002, Farmington, New Mexico. Married, wife
in U. S. Father: Banks Mbsgrove, 1017 East Garden
(city and state not recOrded).
5. representative also obtained a passport
photograph o the Subject from the McDermott Company
and is forwarding the photo to our Hpadquarters. .
Later on 30 April, liaison informed
that the Subject holds a U. S. Passport
Number H-1052048, issued in the U. S. and -valid until
4 OCtober 1970.
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