LETTER: MUSGROVE, JOE BAILEY

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00549546
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: July 16, 2025
• Publication Date: May 6, 1968

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2021 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WAsHiNGTora, D.C. 20505
: Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attention: M. S. J. Papich
FROM : Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT: M(JSGROVE 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 1968,1-6-nr 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 del-man 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: Joe Musgaque, Room No: 403, Receipt
No: D 52138, Account No: 0832-5-7--17 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 officer on 29 April
1968. We were advised that the Bureau records did
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4. On 29 April,rliaisonin Ln_gos checked the
Bristol Hotel and determined that a Joe Musgrove, -
an American employee of McDermott Overseas Incorporated,
arrived in Lagos on 23 April from Las Palmas and stayed
in Lagos until 26 April, when he was to leave for the
Midwestern State (Warn). (Our representatireceived
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 Musgrove, 1017 East Garden
(city and state not recorded).
5. LOur representative also obtained a passport
photograph of the Subject from the McDermott Company
and is forwarding the photo to our Headquarters.
Later on 30 April, liaison informed,our-Lagos-rePte--_
c,16eAtatithat the Subject holds a 177,--S. PassPdrt - -_
Nukber H-1052048, issued in the U. S. and valid until
-4 October 1970.
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2 3 APR 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: TSD
Attention: Mr. Whitman
SUBJECT jaznes Earl Ray
L Attacked are six copies each of two photographs
of Subject. These photographs are for the use of your analysts
for processing passport photographs.
Z. We, appreciate your suggestion for assisting in
tbie nsatter.
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