Different color sample from eyedropper with linked image

I have an RGB image Adobe RGB 1998 Embedded photoshop file linked into an RGB illustrator document. Illustrator color settings are set to Adobe RGB 1998. Eye dropper is set to point sample. When photoshop linked file is eye drop sampled, the RGB numbers that are read with the eye dropper are not producing the same color that the Photoshop file has in it's native app. When the same task is tried in Indesign, the numbers read perfectly. What is happening in illustrator? Same color settings in all three applications.

I don't use Lightroom, but on the Photoshop display side
You need to determine how your apps deal with tagged and untagged images, especially what Default profile they apply-assume-assign when the profile is absent, stripped and/or ignored.
If a thumbnail in OSX Finder shows the problem, that is a big clue because Finder thumbnails are not color managed (Finder is assuming Monitor RGB).
I recommend going here
www.gballard.net/photoshop/pdi_download/
and downloading the iPhotoTESTfolder.zip
That series contains tagged and untagged verisions of AppleRGB, AdobeRGB, sRGB, ProPhotoRGB.
First, look at the image icons in finder (they are all over the place).
Next, drag the download folder into Bridge and observe the thumbnail colors (Bridge assumes sRGB on untagged images)...
+++++++
If your problem apps are displaying color the same as image icons in Finder, then either your app is not colormanaged or the file does not contain an embedded profile.
+++++++
PS:
OSX Safari is a great app for testing JPEG files because it will either read an embedded profile or it will apply the default monitor profile (exactly where I am pointing you to) -- just drag your icon into an open Safari window...

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