---
title: SSPL Membership Card (Chứng minh thư), Sacred Sword of the Patriots League Southern Committee
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sspl-membership-card-1971/
description: Bilingual identity card, Vietnamese above and English below, with the English heading 'SSPL Membership Card' and the word SECRET crossed out at the top.
section: Collection
---

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# SSPL Membership Card (Chứng minh thư), Sacred Sword of the Patriots League Southern Committee

Bilingual identity card, Vietnamese above and English below, with the English heading 'SSPL Membership Card' and the word SECRET crossed out at the top. A seal and a signature block name the League's Southern Committee and a 'member for current affairs', and the card certifies the bearer as a military cadre with a secret number left blank. The tell: an apparatus of seals, serial numbers and ranks for an organisation that existed only as a MACV-SOG creation.

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese and English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SECRET [struck through]
SSPL MEMBERSHIP CARD

MẶT·TRẬN GƯƠM·THIÊNG ÁI·QUỐC
XỨ ỦY NAM·BỘ
Số 1109/CMT/NB
CHỨNG MINH THƯ

XỨ ỦY MẶT TRẬN GƯƠM THIÊNG ÁI QUỐC NAM BỘ
Chứng nhận: Người mang giấy này là đồng chí có bí số......, cấp bậc Cán bộ Quân sự nòng cốt của Xứ Ủy Nam Bộ có nhiệm vụ Liên Lạc, phát triển và sinh hoạt với các Tổ Tỉnh trên toàn Xứ.
Yêu cầu các Bộ phận [illegible] để giúp đỡ đồng chí mọi phương diện để hoàn thành nhiệm vụ.

......tháng......năm 1971
T.M. BCH. XỨ ỦY NAM BỘ
ỦY VIÊN THƯỜNG VỤ
Lê-hùng-Cường
[circular seal]

The SSPL Southern Committee    Nbr 1109/CMT/NB

IDENTITY CARD

The SSPL Southern Committee Certify: The bearer is a member having the secret number...............grade hardcore military cadre of the SSPL Southern Committee entrusted with the mission to take relations, develop and coordinate activities with diverse secret cells in the whole Southern region. The strict assistance on all aspects from our agencies to him will be warmly welcomed.

Date...............1971
FOR THE SSPL SOUTHERN
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MEMBER FOR CURRENT AFFAIRS
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
SECRET [struck through]
SSPL MEMBERSHIP CARD

SACRED SWORD PATRIOTIC FRONT
SOUTHERN REGIONAL COMMITTEE
No. 1109/CMT/NB
IDENTITY CARD

SOUTHERN REGIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE SACRED SWORD PATRIOTIC FRONT
Certifies: the bearer of this paper is a comrade with secret number......, rank core military cadre of the Southern Regional Committee, with the task of liaison, development and activity with the provincial cells throughout the region.
Requests that [illegible] help the comrade in every respect to complete the mission.

......month......year 1971
FOR THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, SOUTHERN REGIONAL COMMITTEE
STANDING MEMBER
Lê-hùng-Cường
[circular seal]

[English half as printed, identical to the original text above]
```

Seal text and one phrase in the last Vietnamese sentence are illegible at 500 px. The English half is printed on the card and is transcribed as printed. Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader.

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