Vinh Binh Chieu Hoi Center Completed
A bilingual Vietnamese and Khmer sheet under an orange headline announces the completion of the Chieu Hoi (Open Arms) centre in Vinh Binh province, with three photographs: the centre's entrance, an official party cutting a ribbon, and the same party inspecting captured Viet Cong weapons and the ralliers' bunks. The text says the centre is always ready to receive those who 'went astray' and let them rejoin their families for 'a new life'. The tell is selection: only the facility, officials and welcome are shown, and nothing of conditions inside or the experience of those who rallied.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Enemy forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-3-1584.
Text on the object
TRUNG TÂM CHIÊU HỒI VĨNH BÌNH VỪA MỚI HOÀN THÀNH [Khmer-script headline, not transcribed] TỈNH VĨNH-BÌNH TRUNG-TÂM CHIÊU-HỒI Trung tâm Chiêu Hồi tỉnh Vĩnh Bình lúc nào cũng sẵn sàng tiếp đón những người đã lầm đường lạc lối, trở về với chính nghĩa quốc gia, xum họp với gia đình để lập lại một đời sống mới. [Khmer-script caption, not transcribed] Ông Thứ Ủy Chiêu Hồi và phái-đoàn đang cắt băng khánh-thành Trung-Tâm Chiêu-Hồi tỉnh Vĩnh-Bình. [Khmer-script caption, not transcribed] Ông Thứ Ủy Chiêu Hồi và phái-đoàn lần lượt đến quan sát hội-trường, vũ-khí tịch thu của Việt Cộng và phòng ngủ của nam hồi-chánh-viên. [Khmer-script caption, not transcribed] KỶ-LUẬT TRẠ[partly cropped sign] SP-1584
CHIEU HOI CENTER OF VINH BINH JUST COMPLETED VINH BINH PROVINCE CHIEU HOI CENTER The Chieu Hoi Center of Vinh Binh province is always ready to receive those who have gone astray, returned to the national cause, and be reunited with their families to build a new life. The Chieu Hoi Deputy Minister and delegation cutting the ribbon to inaugurate the Chieu Hoi Center of Vinh-Binh province. The Chieu Hoi Deputy Minister and delegation in turn visit the assembly hall, the weapons confiscated from the Viet Cong, and the sleeping quarters of the male ralliers. DISCIPLINE TRA[partly cropped sign] SP-1584
Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering, machine-assisted and not verified by a fluent reader; Vietnamese diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. The Khmer text is not transcribed or translated.
