![]() RULES: Rule 1: Top level comments must contain a genuine attempt at an answerĪll direct answers to a post must make a genuine attempt to answer the question. This subreddit was inspired by this thread and more specifically, this comment. r/explainlikeimfive (check their rules before posting) r/OutOfTheLoop (check their rules before posting) Thanks for reading all of this, even if you didn't read all of this, and your eye started somewhere else have a cookie. All questions are welcome - except clear trolls, please don't be that guy. All questions are welcome such as to how to change oil, to how to tie shoes. (The report is 228 pages long.There is no such thing as a Stupid Question!ĭon't be embarrassed of your curiosity everyone has questions that they may feel uncomfortable asking certain people, so this place gives you a nice area not to be judged about asking it. Transcripts of interviews with islanders are provided on these topics, as are relevant pictures and maps. A particular focus is solving the mystery of a WW II air wreck on the north shore of Ambae - the previously unknown pilot is identified, the plane type is provided, and the family of the pilot is tracked down. Recommendations are made to improve the emergency preparedness of the island. This island is proven in the report to be the real "Bali-ha'i" (or Bali Hai) of James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific." (However, a possibly secondary inspiration, namely Wala island, is identified.) The report describes Ambae, its WW II air wrecks, the bizarre ethnographic practices on the island, especially the pig-killing chiefly cult and the chief's stone moving ceremony (never before described), and the island's dangerous volcano and poor emergency plan. This Explorers Club Flag Expedition report covers a 2013 expedition to Ambae (or Aoba) island in north central Vanuatu. ![]() The report's analytic section consumes about 100 pages, then 500 pages of annexes provide original documents on the case obtained from the FBI, CIA, Department of State and others never before published letters from Jim Thompson timeline analysis of the original search pros and cons re various theories documents related to the murder of Jim's sister news clips about both cases photos of the major actors and other related matters. ![]() The report also covers the murder of Jim's elder sister in Pennsylvania several months after his disappearance, and concludes that the two mysteries are likely not connected. This analysis shows that the original search likely only covered between 2 and 40 percent of the area that needed to be searched, that specific search tactics were inadequate and inappropriate, that Thompson was a very unusual search subject, and that the probability is that his body still remains in the jungle. ![]() The report then contributes a new, never before done analysis of the 1967 search, evaluating it using modern principles promulgated by the US National Association for Search and Rescue. This report covers the exotic life of Jim Thompson, OSS officer and CIA asset, his disappearance in 1967 in the high jungle of Malaysia, the search for him (likely the largest land search in SE Asian history), and theories and numerous rumors about the disappearance. ![]()
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