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.
- Date
- 1971
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- MACV-SOG, in the name of the notional Sacred Sword of the Patriots League Southern Committee
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Document
- Issuer type
- Intelligence
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Deceive or deny
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Astroturfing
- Source
- Impersonated Source falsified: fake personas, outlets or documents
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (MACV-SOG specimen card, after Plaster 2000), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- PD-USGov per Commons page (17 U.S.C. 105 federal work); Public Domain Mark 1.0
MACV-SOG; Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
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
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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