Joe Edmonds was an American intelligence agent. Tall, with red hair, he was part of Army Intelligence, but later shifted over to the OSS by early 1942, when he met Indiana Jones in Washington DC.
In 1943, Edmonds was stationed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, pretending to be a sisal buyer. Marie Arnoux was aware of his true identity. When Indiana Jones and George McHale arrived in the city, looking for a guide to lead them to Zile Muri-yo, Jones spotted Edmonds, wearing a Panama hat, near a shoeshine stand in front of a hotel, and decided not to make contact with him, as he and McHale had their own mission, outside of their intelligence duties.