--- title: Hanoi Officials Propaganda Poster (Cán bộ ... thì do Hà Nội huấn luyện và gửi xuyên qua các đường xâm nhập) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hanoi-officials-propaganda-poster-cadres-1965/ description: A red banner headed 'CADRES' says that cadres are trained by Hanoi and sent south along infiltration routes, showing how Hanoi commands the Viet Cong. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Hanoi Officials Propaganda Poster [![Hanoi Officials Propaganda Poster, 1965 US poster: A red banner headed 'CADRES' says that cadres are trained by Hanoi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hanoi-officials-propaganda-poster-cadres-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hanoi-officials-propaganda-poster-cadres-1965.jpg) # Hanoi Officials Propaganda Poster (Cán bộ ... thì do Hà Nội huấn luyện và gửi xuyên qua các đường xâm nhập) A red banner headed 'CADRES' says that cadres are trained by Hanoi and sent south along infiltration routes, showing how Hanoi commands the Viet Cong. Below are a portrait of a named second lieutenant and a photograph of a North Vietnamese lieutenant, who the text says rallied in the South in November 1965, sitting laughing with a Vietnamese officer and a Westerner. The tell is two named individuals standing as testimony for the claim that the Viet Cong are directed from the North, with the ralliers' own words not quoted. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CÁN BỘ .. thì do Hà Nội huấn luyện và gửi xuyên qua các đường xâm nhập để vào Miền Nam, cho thấy Hà Nội dùng quyền chỉ huy Việt Cộng như thế nào. Bùi Văn Cương Thiếu úy, Uỷ viên Chính Trị của Trung Đoàn 33, Sư Đoàn 325-B mới của Quân Đội Bắc Việt. Đã đầu thú tại Miền Nam vào tháng 11 - 1965 . Lai Văn Cư Cựu Trung Uý ( Tiểu Đoàn Trưởng ) trong Trung Đoàn 101, Sư Đoàn 325 của Quân Đội Bắc Việt tác chiến ở Nam Việt . Trung Uý Cư đã bắt đầu giác ngộ về hành động tội lỗi giết hại đồng bào của anh. Sau đó anh ra đầu thú tại Miền Nam vào tháng 11 - 1965 . 6-745 (16) ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` CADRES .. are trained by Hanoi and sent through the infiltration routes into the South, showing how Hanoi uses its power of command over the Viet Cong. Bui Van Cuong Second Lieutenant, Political Commissar of Regiment 33, the new Division 325-B of the North Vietnamese Army. Surrendered in the South in November 1965. Lai Van Cu, former Lieutenant (battalion commander) in Regiment 101, Division 325 of the North Vietnamese Army, fighting in South Vietnam. Lieutenant Cu began to realise the guilt of the act of killing his compatriots. Afterwards he came forward to surrender in the South in November 1965. 6-745 (16) ``` Text read from the image; the layout places the two name blocks beside the portrait and the lower photograph, and it is not certain from the sheet which caption belongs to which picture. 'Cựu Trung Uý (Tiểu Đoàn Trưởng)' is rendered 'former Lieutenant (battalion commander)' as printed. Translation is FRAME's literal rendering and is not verified by a fluent reader. [← Hands That Help the People](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hands-that-help-the-people-binh-dinh-1965-1969/) [Happy Cham Mother Bathing Her Baby →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/happy-cham-mother-bathing-her-baby-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial) - [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial) - [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)