Stoo said:
Can anyone with the Storybook give us the skinny on his dialogue, the payment, etc.? As the 3rd draft description which Montana quoted says, he is government (and not army or otherwise). Maybe he works for the War or Treasury Departments? Into which branch would The Bureaucrat fit c.1936/37?
I don't have the story book, andte WEG Raiders Sourcebooks offers nothing on the 'third man'. What it does say about Major Eaton and Colonel Musgrove is that they are
"...of fairly low importance on the Defense Department's list. A.I. [Army Intelligence] is more interested in breaking German codes, checking on the status of weapons' development, and pursuing 'more important' investigations than looking into Hitler's 'nutty' fascination with the occult. When Indy finds the Ark and brings it back to the U.S., part of the reason it is not investigated immediately is probably because of their recommendation. They both are 'skeptical' of any reports of 'mystical fires' and 'the wrath of God,' and they don't want to get branded 'nuts' by their own superirors."
Campbell Black's novelization offers little more on the mystery man in Musgrove's office:
"There was another man, a man who stood leaning against the wall and who hadn't uttered a word; he had the sinister anonymity of a bureaucrat. He might have been rubberstamped himself, Indy thought,
Powerful Civil Servant in thick black letters on his brow.
"'We appreciate your service,' Musgrove said. 'And the cash reimbursement - we assume it was satisfactory?'"
So, the best I can offer at the moment is that the Bureaucrat is either their boss in their Army Intelligence bureau, or he is another 'suit' from higher up in the Defense Department. In the Sourcebook Eaton himself is described as a "bureaucrat", whilst Musgrove is a much more "practical" man. Together they from an Army Intelligence team specializing in following leads on Hitler's international activities.
