Thinking Sideways: Jim Thompson

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

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🗓️ 2 October 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In 1967 Jim Thompson, a former spy with the OSS, more recently a very successful businessman in Bangkok, left the house where he was staying (in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia)… and never returned. And no trace of him was ever found.

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0:00.0	I don't understand.
0:07.0	You never know.
0:10.0	It's a big mistake to put you to the spot.
0:15.0	What?
0:16.0	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:21.0	Well, hello there, and welcome to another episode of thinking sideways.
0:24.0	I'm Joe.
0:26.0	Join us always by Steve and Devon.
0:30.0	And in this episode we're going to do the usual thing and solve a mystery.
0:34.0	So if you're already, let's get this underway.
0:37.0	I love solving mysteries.
0:39.0	That's right.
0:40.0	We're so good at it.
0:43.0	Almost an unblemished record.
0:46.0	So we're going to be talking this episode about Jim Thompson.
0:49.0	And if you've never heard of Jim Thompson, well, he was a dude.
0:52.0	Yeah, he was an American.
0:55.0	He wore 1906.
0:57.0	He was a spy for a while in World War II.
1:00.0	He worked for the OSS.
1:02.0	He spoke for the...
1:03.0	What's the OSS?
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