THOMPSON, JAMES HARRISON WILSON

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06913781
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: December 21, 2022
• Case Number: F-2019-01172
• Publication Date: February 3, 1961

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CENTRAL. INTELLIGENCE AGENC
WASHINGTON 25, D. �C.
'3 February 1963.
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SUBJECT: ...THOMPSON, &Ines' Harrison Wilson (SD 5345-C) (recheck)
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name you -desired .checked egainsVithe.filea�of this cpffice......The' tiles
:Contain the follOing biographic information concerning the. subject
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' Subject:vaa born in dreenville,. iDeleware, on 21 March 1906.
, .He received' a Bachelor of Arts Degree- from Princeton Univereity and .
completed two years of graduate. work at thei University of Pennsylvania. ,
at =known dates.. Subject 'served from 1941 to Noirember 1943 in the
2 United Stetted. Arm' and from 1943 .to 1946. with the pffice a Strategic
� Services. in Bangkok, Thailand,. and Calcutta, India, 4th. the rank ot. - � �
..� Major land Lt. Colonel. In 196.:Sub3eet was atteched�to..the.pffide of
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the Military Attache As Assistant Attache in 130E14,0Ic;.-
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3. .4.1�Opor'4 of. 17 July 3:952, from a reliable 'finurCei's indicated
that *Subject returned te the United'Statett in November 4.946 and
severed his connections .With the United States Government in order to
engage in private businesa. He returned to Thailand in 194.7;.where
.he established a*Successful and unusual businees (silk weaving). As
the years passed subject 'a business enterprises bronght him' more and �
. more clode3y 'into the activities of indigenous 'bodies of Thailand and. ' �
. Indochina, Whose variono nationalist causes Subject sponspred. :In' 1951,
during a trip, to the atea, lie cello On, several :high' official's in.
Washington to urge that certain activities be sponsored by the �Government.
Subject was regarded as a pittrfatio and 1ccra1 American Aungtually endowed
ability. to blend itato- the indigenous acme, anti capable of winning'.
� 'friends and �influencing � people 'An a 4.01 degree. However,.was-, .:an. �
. outspoken critic of American policy, as he saw it, and had 'a strong'.
�streak � of independence which would lead hit in .arr, .diretston whicja ifl
his Opiaort-.1ragi best for the loca1' people' in whom he -took- an 'interest. �
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This tendency may have manifested itself in Burma. Subject was
known to call on the Ambassador of the country in which he was
residing to convey his opinions and impressions of local circumstances
and affairs which came to his attention.
4.� In a report of 18 Oily 1952, from, a reliable source, it was
indicated that Subject had been a prominent American businessman in
Thailand from 1947 to time of the report. He was the managing director
of the Thai Silk Company, which he created by organizing Thai and Laos
weavers in Thailand into a producing cooperative. Source was informed
that Subject had been employed periodically by the Economic Commiesion
for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE-a United Nations organization) as a
consultant for the development of cottage industries, weaving and
textile Services, marketing and distribution of home industries
products, etc. In this capacity, he visited in India and Burma during
the past several months and he had recently been appointed by ECAFE
as a consultant to advise the Burmese on the development of cottage
industries and the like. This appointment appeared to be of indefinite
'duration. �
5. Subject is rated "good" in reading, speaking and understanding
of' French.
6. The Interagency Source Register has no record of a current
operational interest in Subject.
7. To date, CD/00 has not submitted a reply to this request.
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