The Jim Thompson House museum in Bangkok was once the home of its eponymous owner, a US spy and businessman whose disappearance in 1967 remains shrouded in mystery. Over cocktails at the adjoining O.S.S. Bar, Intelligence Online looks back at the life of the man once known as the Thai Silk King.
The unresolved disappearance of Jim Thompson, an American businessman known as Bangkok's Silk King, almost 60 years ago to the day in Tanah Ratah in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands, remains one of the great mysteries in Thailand's recent past. Over a drink in the sleek O.S.S. Bar, Intelligence Online pondered over documents about the case, which the CIA declassified in 2022.
The confidential documents dated July 1968 and which we were able to consult, reveal that in April of that year, Thompson was
