Musgrove
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| Gender | Male |
| Nationality |  American
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- "Now, we've got some information here, but we can't make anything out of it, and maybe you can. Tanis development proceeding. Acquire headpiece, Staff of Ra. Abner Ravenwood. U.S."
- ―Musgrove[src]
Colonel Musgrove was an intelligence agent for the United States government, in US Army Intelligence.
In 1936, after Army Intelligence's European section had intercepted a Nazi communique that had mentioned Abner Ravenwood and the Staff of Ra, Musgrove and Major Eaton sought out Indiana Jones to learn more information about Tanis, the staff of Ra, and Ravenwood. After Jones and Marcus Brody made the connection to the Ark of the Covenant and mentioned the Biblical powers ascribed to it, Musgrove was distressed over Hitler's interest in recovering it. He and Eaton decided to hire Jones to recover the Ark of the Covenant for the United States before the Nazis found it. As part of the deal, the Ark would go to Brody's museum after it was recovered.
After Jones survived the opening of the Ark on the secret Nazi island in the Mediterranean, Eaton and Musgrove met with Jones and Brody again, this time in Washington DC. Musgrove thanked Jones and Brody for their service to the United States. While Jones and Brody argued that the Ark needed to be studied, Musgrove remained quiet while Eaton told them that "top men" would be handling the further research into the Ark's powers. In fact, the Ark was put into an army intelligence warehouse as crate #9906753.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Don Fellows played Musgrove in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
