Germ Warfare: Khmer-language headline, approximately 'The Communists' Lie Was Caught on the Spot' (Communist germ-warfare charge rebutted) (Khmer poster distributed in Asia)

A photo sheet in Khmer answering the 1952 Communist charge that UN forces used germ weapons in Korea. Portraits of Acheson, Trygve Lie and Jacob Malik head the page, above photographs of a UN-flagged field hospital, Red Cross delegates, a prisoner being inoculated, a wounded man on a stretcher and a man spraying a shed. The layout is the same as the other editions. The tell is testimonial and transfer: UN and Red Cross standing is attached to the US-UN side, and officials' denials stand as the rebuttal.

Propaganda techniques used in this poster

Testimonial Transfer

Date: May 8, 1952
Period: Cold War
Made by: U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Truman Administration
Leader: Harry S. Truman
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Health, Media and information
Event: Korean War
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, May 8, 1952. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729960, 306-PPA-60).

Text on the object

Original (Khmer) · read from the image, not independently checked

សេចក្តីភូតភររបស់ កុម្មុយនិស្ត ត្រូវគេចាប់បានពេញទី

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English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

Headline (approximate): The Communists' deceit was caught in the act. Body captions: not transcribed; the Khmer script at this scan resolution could not be read reliably. The photographs and layout match the other language editions of this sheet.

Only the headline and the edition letter were read. The numbered Khmer caption blocks are in small script that could not be read reliably from the scan, so they are marked [illegible] and not translated; translation of the headline is approximate.