--- title: Partners in Crime url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/partners-in-crime-undated-1965-1969/ description: A portrait sheet headed 'Partners in Crime!' puts three caricatured heads at the centre, labelled Liberation of the South, Hanoi and Peking. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Partners in Crime **Content note:** Drawn caricatures of three heads, one in the likeness of Ho Chi Minh, and cartoon scenes of armed fighters abusing villagers, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Partners in Crime, 1965 US poster: A portrait sheet headed 'Partners in Crime!' puts three caricatured heads at the centre](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/partners-in-crime-undated-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/partners-in-crime-undated-1965-1969.jpg) # Partners in Crime A portrait sheet headed 'Partners in Crime!' puts three caricatured heads at the centre, labelled Liberation of the South, Hanoi and Peking, under the words 'the 'Three Togethers' commit evil'. Six surrounding panels, each labelled in red, show armed communist fighters forcing conscription, forced labour, killing and wounding, 'people's justice' in the dark, seizure of food and property, and terror and destruction. The tell is the linking of the Viet Cong, Hanoi and Peking as one criminal body, with the closing line calling on the viewer to help the government 'wipe out the communist plague'. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` BỌN CHÚNG ĐỒNG PHẠM ! "TAM CÙNG" GÂY ÁC GIẢI PHÓNG MIỀN NAM HÀNỘI BẮC KINH CƯỠNG BÁCH TÒNG QUÂN CƯỠNG BÁCH NHÂN CÔNG GIẾT CHÓC VÀ ĐẢ THƯƠNG THI HÀNH CÔNG LÝ MỜ ÁM TỊCH THU THỰC PHẨM VÀ TÀI SẢN KHỦNG BỐ VÀ PHÁ HOẠI HÃY TIẾP TAY VỚI CHÁNH QUYỀN ĐỂ DẸP SẠCH CÁI DỊCH CỘNG PHỈ KHỎI MIỀN NAM THÂN YÊU CHÚNG TA ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THE ACCOMPLICES! The "Three Togethers" commit evil Liberation of the South Hanoi Peking Forced conscription Forced labour Killing and wounding Carrying out "justice" in the dark Seizing food and property Terror and destruction Join hands with the authorities to wipe out the communist plague from our beloved South ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the Vietnamese printed text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; a few diacritics are faint at this resolution. 'Bọn chúng đồng phạm' is rendered 'The accomplices' (title in the NARA catalogue is 'Partners in Crime'); 'cộng phỉ' is rendered 'communist' with the pejorative sense of 'bandit' noted here; 'công lý mờ ám' is rendered 'justice in the dark' (shady or covert justice). [← Open Letter from the Commanders of the 25th Infantry Divisions](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/open-letter-25th-division-1965-1969/) [People Protest (Dân chúng phản đối!) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/people-protest-trang-bang-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. - [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking) - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling) - [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer) - [The North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/north-briton-no-45-wilkes-1763/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Apr 23, 1763 · Name-calling) - [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd. - [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)