40-year mystery of missing 'Thai Silk King' -- and spy? -- Jim Thompson
It was an Easter Sunday on 26 March 1967. At around 3pm that day Jim Thompson, already well known as the "Thai Silk King", walked out of Moonlight Cottage where he was holidaying with friends in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands and was never seen again.
It was not simply Thompson's fame and wealth that guaranteed his disappearance would become one of South East Asia's greatest modern mysteries -- it was his past.
He had spent World War II with the OSS, the US intelligence agency that was the precursor to the CIA.
After the war he settled in Bangkok and in 1948 started the Thai Silk Company...
It made Thompson a millionaire.
But it was also rumoured that Thompson maintained his links with American intelligence.
So when he vanished it was front page news and the theories about his disappearance started to multiply...
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It was not simply Thompson's fame and wealth that guaranteed his disappearance would become one of South East Asia's greatest modern mysteries -- it was his past.
He had spent World War II with the OSS, the US intelligence agency that was the precursor to the CIA.
After the war he settled in Bangkok and in 1948 started the Thai Silk Company...
It made Thompson a millionaire.
But it was also rumoured that Thompson maintained his links with American intelligence.
So when he vanished it was front page news and the theories about his disappearance started to multiply...