Central Intelligence Agency
Exit the Silkmaker: The CIA and Jim Thompson (Studies in Intelligence, 1993)
Official history · written 1993 · released 23 March 2026
Why this matters
A 1993 article by historian Nick Cullather in the CIA's internal journal about Jim Thompson, the former OSS officer who revived the Thai silk industry and vanished in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands in 1967. One of the great unsolved disappearances of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, in the agency's own words.
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Central Intelligence Agency. "Exit the Silkmaker: The CIA and Jim Thompson (Studies in Intelligence, 1993)." 1993. Released 23 March 2026. https://www.governmentattic.org/62docs/CIAetstcajt1993.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0124).
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