Celebrities Who Are Still Missing To This Day

JIM THOMPSON

Thai silk became a precious resource thanks to Jim Thompson, a merchant. He relocated to Thailand and launched one of the most prosperous commercial endeavors in history, becoming a wealthy socialite by 1967. He was a former agent of the OSS. He left for a motorcycle journey in Malaysia in that particular year. He never came back.

Any number of things could have happened to him: He could have been taken out by other Bangkok businessmen, the Thai government, an Asian anti-CIA faction, or even by the actual CIA. He definitely didn’t just die in the wilderness, though, because he had survival training. Something fishy happened to him; it’s just that nobody is sure what. His huge home, pictured above, is now a museum in Thailand.