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Thailand: Jim Thompson and a Cham weaver inspecting some silk, Ban Krua weaving community, Bangkok, c. 1962

Thailand: Jim Thompson and a Cham weaver inspecting some silk, Ban Krua weaving community, Bangkok, c. 1962

James (Jim) Harrison Wilson Thompson (born March 21, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware - unknown) was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former U.S. military intelligence officer, Thompson mysteriously disappeared from Malaysia's Cameron Highlands while going for a walk on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967.

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