Posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:19 PM PDT by ETL
Jim Thompson, born March 21st, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware, was an American architect who helped revitalize Thailand's silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s.
Thompson, previously a member of the CIA, disappeared mysteriously after going for an afternoon walk on Easter Sunday in Cameron Highlands on March 26th, 1967.
Jim Thompson was on a quiet sojourn to the highlands to visit some friends and the fact that he left his cigarettes and a small silver 'jungle box' on the chair outside Moonlight Cottage where he was staying suggests that he had not planned to be gone for long.
Thompson was never seen again, and the theories for his disappearance are many, some plausible and others complex and far-fetched.
Many believe that he was kidnapped for his previous involvement in spying activities. However it is more likely that he was eaten by a tiger, murdered in a botched robbery or fell into an aboriginal animal trap (a pit with a spike) and buried by the Orang Asli when they discovered what had happened. Many hypotheses have been put forward to explain Thompson's disappearance, and there were some reported sightings of him after his disappearance, but what happened to him still remains one of the greater unsolved mysteries of Southeast Asia.
http://www.cameronhighlandsresort.com/jimthompson.htm
I thought he went on to live in the Doonesbury comic strip?
mark
The founding father of FR running it at the ripe old age of 103 with the secret help of his old former OSS buddies in the jungles of Thailand.
Or..maybe it is another Jim Thompson....
Ask Keith Olbermann what happened to him. He’s a great newsman. I’m sure he knows.
Jim Thompson a former CIA agent?? I thought he was the founder of Free Republic.
And how he got to Fresno we’ll never know!
Why does Keith Olbermann hate Jim Thompson so much?
hee hee
Heh-heh. Good one.
JimThom for President.
:)
I can’t understand why Keith Oberman hates this man so much.
I don’t know which is funnier. Olbermann being wrong, or the news articles following also using the Jim Thompson name.
This is supposed to encourage people to go to that resort? Tigers? Animal pits? Bungled robberies? I could just go to Jamaica and avoid the long flight to Malaysia if I want to disappear.
Do Freepers get a discount at his silk stores? Do DUmmies get charged a
“ clown” excise tax?
I thought he was hunting spork weasels with a beeber.
Oh wow. I posted and then scrolled and saw your post.
I must be psychotic.
I’m pretty sure he outed Valerie Plame, stole the 7 minute Nixon tapes and lied to Nancy Pelosi about what Dick Cheney was doing with the CIA.
I believe that was “Hunter” Thompson.
Actually, I saw Jim Thompson in Los Angeles last week at Michael Johnson’s funeral.
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