Iran News poster 52h, Qom oil well, Kinley (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A Farsi 'Latest News' cinema sheet in magenta and yellow with three photographs of an oil-well blowout. Captions name the 'Alborz No. 5' well at Qom as a gusher of 'black gold' and present Kinley as a well-known American expert. The tell is testimonial: a named foreign specialist is offered as the authority behind the news item.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- September 26, 1956
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Media and information
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, September 26, 1956. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948848, 306-PPB-52h).
Text on the object
آخرین اخبار فوران طلای سیاه از چاه شماره ۵ البرز در قم کینلی کارشناس معروف امریکائی آخرین اخبار ایران و جهان امشب در این سینما مشاهده فرمائید اخبار ایران
Latest news The gushing of black gold from well number 5 Alborz at Qom Kinley, the well-known American expert Latest news of Iran and the world Tonight see it in this cinema Iran News
