CABLE - ON 28 APRIL DOCTOR KLAUS STEER, GERMAN DIRECTOR SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT AFFRICA.
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Document date: 04/28/1968
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La ON 28 APRIL DOCTOR KLAUS STEER,

GERMAN DIRECTOR SCIENTIFIC

DEPARTMENT AFRICA, E. MENCK AKIIENGESELLSCHAFI, KARMSTADY

GERMANY, REPORTED THAT HE SAW MAN IN LAGOS 23 APRIL WHOM HE

SAID HAS STRONG PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCE TO NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHS OF

ERIC STAVRO GALI, WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH MURDER OF MARTIN LUTHER

KING. HE WAS SENT TO AMERICAN EMBASSY BY GERMAN AMSASSADOR TO WHOM

HE FIRSI RELATED HIS STORY.

Z0 HE SAW THIS PERSON AT DESX OFBRISTOL HOTEL IN LAGOS

AFTERNOON OF 23 APRIL WHEN THEY WERE BOTH CHECKING OUT OF HOTEL.

STEER WAS ACCIDENTLY GIVEN ACCOUNTING SLIP OF THE SUSPECI ON WHICH

STEER NOTED FOLLOWING: NAME, JOE MUSGAQUE REPEAT MUSGAQUE.

ROOM NUMBER 403, RECEIPT NUMBER D 52138 ACCOUND NUMBER 08325. STEER

NOT CERIAIN WHETHER MUSGAQUE REGISTERED AS AMERICAN CITIZEN.

3. IN SHORT CONVERSATION WITH SUSPECT, STEER LEARNED THAI MUSGAQUE •

WAS EMPLOYED BY WILDER OIL COMPANY AND ENROUTE TO WARRI OIL FIELD IN

NIGERIA UNDER A $4D, DOD PER YEAR CONTRACT. HIS TOUR WILL BE

"EIGHTEEN MONIHS. MUSGAQUE REPORTEDLY HAD ARRIVED RECENTLY FROM LAS

PALMAS VIA ACCRA ON NIGERIAN AIRLINES.

4. STEER WILL BE IN ADDIS ABABA UNIIL THURSDAY 2 MAY IF THER ANY

NEED QUERY HIM FURTHER.

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