Border Police Serve the People poster, PPB-367 (Thai, Bangkok)
A Thai-language photo poster on the Thai Border Police. A blue-toned village road with huts leads under the headline 'Border Police Serve the People'. Smaller photographs show uniformed men with villagers and medical work, a classroom lesson, men leading buffalo and a helmeted man at a border sign. The text says the force acts as peacekeeper, doctor, teacher and development worker. The tell is card-stacking: only helping roles appear, and the law-enforcement role is shown only as guarding the border.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- August 14, 1964
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Posters in Asia, Latin America, Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, August 14, 1964. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6949292, 306-PPB-367).
Text on the object
ตำรวจชายแดน บริการประชาชน เพื่อความผาสุกของประชาชนและความมั่นคง ตำรวจชายแดนเป็นทั้งผู้อารักขาความสงบ หมอ ครู และพัฒนากรช่วยจัดระเบียบหมู่บ้าน เช่นที่บ้านคำไผ่ในป่า ท้องที่อำเภอโพนพิสัย จังหวัดหนองคายในภาพใหญ่ ทำให้ชุมชนมีความสงบสุขทั่วไป [five photo captions in small Thai type, not transcribed in full] BORDER PATROL POLICE PLATOON 26 [sign in photo, partly legible] 6-797 (12)
Border Police Serve the People For the well-being and security of the people, the Border Police are at once keepers of the peace, doctors, teachers and development workers, helping to put villages in order, as at Ban Kham Phai, Phon Phisai district, Nong Khai province, in the large picture, so that the community is generally peaceful and content. [photo captions not translated]
Some words in the body paragraph are small and uncertain; photo captions are not transcribed in full.
