--- title: Police Seize VC Terrorist url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/police-seize-vc-terrorists-1966/ description: A photo-montage poster (code SP-1072) headline calls the captured men 'murderous Viet Cong terrorists' and reports that on 7 January 1966 a group brought section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Police Seize VC Terrorist **Content note:** Photographs of three named men presented as captured suspects, and of crates of explosive powder on a tricycle cart, as issued. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Police Seize VC Terrorist, 1966 US poster: A photo-montage poster (code SP-1072) headline calls the captured men 'murderous](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/police-seize-vc-terrorists-1966.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/police-seize-vc-terrorists-1966.jpg) # Police Seize VC Terrorist A photo-montage poster (code SP-1072) headline calls the captured men 'murderous Viet Cong terrorists' and reports that on 7 January 1966 a group brought 120 kg of explosives disguised as a water-carrying tricycle to blow up the Alabama apartment block in Saigon before National Police stopped them. It prints the faces and names of three men, photographs of the vehicle and boxes of explosive, and ends with an appeal to cooperate with the National Police. Named, photographed suspects and a loaded label ('murderers') make the case in one sheet. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` CẢNH SÁT ĐÃ BẮT ĐƯỢC BỌN SÁT NHƠN KHỦNG BỐ VIỆT CỘNG NGÀY 7 THÁNG 1 NĂM 1966 BỌN VIỆT CỘNG TOAN ĐEM 120 KÝ CHẤT NỔ ĐẾN PHÁ HOẠI CHUNG CƯ ALABAMA TẠI ĐƯỜNG CỐNG QUỲNH, SAIGON. CHÚNG DI CHUYỂN CHẤT NỔ TRÊN MỘT CHIẾC XE BA BÁNH ĐỔ NƯỚC. CẢNH SÁT QUỐC GIA ĐÃ KỊP THỜI CHẬN ĐỨNG HÀNH ĐỘNG SÁT NHƠN NÀY. CHÚNG BỊ BẮT NGAY TẠI CẦU BĂNG KY, GIA-ĐỊNH VỚI CHIẾC XE CHỨA CHẤT NỔ. Đây ba tên khủng bố: Võ Kế, tự Lê Thanh Vân, Trần Đình Hải tự Chín Nghề và tên Nguyễn Anh Tuấn. Chất nổ chứa trong xe ba bánh ngụy trang như một chiếc xe đổ nước. Nhìn số lượng 120 ký lô chất nổ di chuyển qua các đường phố Saigon ta thấy bọn Việt-Cộng coi rẻ tính mạng đồng bào thế nào! CHÚNG TA HÃY HỢP TÁC VỚI LỰC LƯỢNG CẢNH-SÁT QUỐC GIA CHẶN ĐỨNG MỌI HOẠT ĐỘNG VÔ NHÂN ĐẠO CỦA BỌN VIỆT CỘNG SP-1072 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` POLICE HAVE CAUGHT THE MURDEROUS VIET CONG TERRORISTS On 7 January 1966 a Viet Cong gang carried 120 kilos of explosives to blow up the Alabama apartment block on Cong Quynh street, Saigon. They moved the explosives on a three-wheeled water-carrying cart. The National Police were in time to stop this murderous act. They were arrested right at Bang Ky bridge, Gia-Dinh, with the vehicle holding the explosives. These are the three terrorists: Vo Ke, alias Le Thanh Van, Tran Dinh Hai, alias Chin Nghe, and a man named Nguyen Anh Tuan. The explosives were contained in a three-wheeler disguised as a water-carrying cart. Looking at the 120 kilograms of explosives moved through the streets of Saigon, we see how cheaply the Viet Cong hold the lives of our compatriots! Let us cooperate with the National Police force to stop all inhumane activities of the Viet Cong. SP-1072 ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at the image resolution. [← Meeting to Discuss the Course of the Vietnam War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pleiku-honolulu-summit-rally-1966/) [Trung tâm huấn luyện và trình diễn nông ngư mục tại Quảng Trị (Quang Tri's Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Pisciculture Center) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/quang-tri-agriculture-training-centre-1966/) ## 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). 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