Hồi Chánh Viên Nguyễn Văn Lệ (Returnee Nguyen Van Le), Chieu Hoi leaflet ATF-080-71
Front of a small leaflet: a black-and-white photograph of a young man in a work shirt, headed 'Hoi Chanh member' (returnee) and named NGUYỄN VĂN LỆ, between two Chieu Hoi emblems, with faint handwriting showing through from the reverse. The tell: a named, photographed rallier vouches for the amnesty, and the message on the reverse is written in his voice.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- February 8, 1971
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- 1st Psychological Operations Unit, 1st Australian Task Force (Nui Dat), for the South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi programme
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- Australia
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Gorton Government
- Leader
- John Gorton
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Australian War Memorial (Official Records, 1st Psychological Operations Unit leaflets), retrieved September 29, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain per holder (AWM: 'Copyright expired. Permission for reproduction not required'; issued 1971)
1st Psychological Operations Unit, 1st Australian Task Force, 1971; Australian War Memorial RC02902.
Text on the object
Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked
Hồi Chánh Viên [two Chieu Hoi emblems, lettered CHIEU-HOI] NGUYỄN VĂN LỆ 080-71
Hoi Chanh member (returnee) [two Chieu Hoi emblems, lettered CHIEU-HOI] NGUYEN VAN LE 080-71
Front side only. Faint handwriting from the reverse shows through the paper and is not transcribed; the reverse is summarised in the notes from AWM's English translation, not read by FRAME. The AWM identification strip 'AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL RC02902' at the foot of the image is part of the scan and is omitted here.
