Đừng cho ai biết việc mình làm (Let no one know what you are doing) (Vietnamese poster distributed in Vietnam)
A Vietnamese-language poster in orange, grey and black. Three uniformed men, two in berets, talk over drinks at a table while a woman in a long dress watches from behind a curtain. The slogan tells soldiers not to let anyone know what they are doing. The tell is fear-appeal: an eavesdropper at the curtain is the visual threat attached to careless talk about military matters.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 28, 1953
- 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
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, War and the military
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia (NAID 1767935), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 28, 1953. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5730055, 306-PPA-155).
Text on the object
ĐỪNG CHO AI BIẾT VIỆC MÌNH LÀM TRẦN-THỜI
Don't let anyone know what you are doing.
Signature 'TRẦN-THỜI' printed in the lower right of the image.
