Wall News poster No. 60, locust control (Farsi, distributed in Tehran)
A landscape Farsi wall newspaper, 'Progress of Iran' No. 60, on a U.S. government gift of insecticide for locust control. Photographs show an American official handing a can of dieldrin to an Iranian deputy minister, an airliner unloading, cans being loaded on a truck and a spray aircraft over a field, with a drawn locust and wheat. Captions give the quantity, 14,000 kg, and say the rest will follow. The tell is card-stacking: aid delivered is shown, with the pest as the threat.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- July 17, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, July 17, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948873, 306-PPB-53n).
Text on the object
پیشرفت ایران شماره ٦٠، این نشریه هر دو هفته یکبار انتشار می‌یابد یک قسمت از کمکی که دولت امریکا برای مبارزه با ملخ مراکشی با ایران مود هدیه ١٤٠٠٠ کیلو سم آلدرین بود که ١١ اردیبهشت تحویل وزارت کشاورزی گردید و بقیه کمک ها تدریجا با ایران خواهد رسید آقای برن رئیس هیئت عملیات اقتصادی امریکا در ایران "یکی از شبکه های سم آلدرین مخصوص دفع ملخ را آقای مهندس کاظم فاطمی معاون وزارت کشاورزی ایران هدیه می‌کند" شبکه های آلدرین از هواپیمای غول پیکر امریکائی به داخل کامیونهای وزارت کشاورزی قرار می‌گیرند تا به استانهای جنوبی ایران ارسال گردد سموم خشک کش هدیه شده از طرف دولت امریکا توسط هواپیماهای سم پاش وزارت کشاورزی صرف مبارزه با ملخ می‌شود تعداد ٥١٨ بشکه سم آلدرین ساخت کارخانه "استافر" امریکا در درون اطاق بزرگ هواپیما بارگیری شده بود این نمونه بلائی است که بر سر محصولات استانهای جنوبی کشور وارد آمده است صدای امریکا را در این ساعات گوش کنید از ساعت ٧ تا ١٠ بعد از ظهر هر شب برنامه های جالب صدای امریکا را روی امواج کوتاه ١٣، ١٦، ١٩ متر و موج متوسط ٢٣٨ متر بگیرید
Progress of Iran No. 60. This bulletin is published every two weeks. Part of the aid that the American government gave Iran for the fight against the Moroccan locust was a gift of 14,000 kg of aldrin [dieldrin] poison, which was handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture on 11 Ordibehesht, and the rest of the aid will arrive in Iran gradually. Mr. Brown [name uncertain], head of the American economic operations mission in Iran, presents one of the cans of poison made for locust control to Engineer Kazem Fatemi, deputy minister of agriculture of Iran. The cans of aldrin from the giant American aircraft are placed in the Ministry of Agriculture's trucks to be sent to the southern provinces of Iran. The insecticides gifted by the American government are used by the Ministry of Agriculture's spray aircraft in the fight against locusts. 518 cans of aldrin poison made by the American 'Stauffer' factory had been loaded inside the large cabin of the aircraft. This is an example of the plague that has fallen on the crops of the country's southern provinces. Listen to the Voice of America at these hours: from 7 to 10 in the evening, every night, tune to the Voice of America programmes on short waves 13, 16, 19 metres and medium wave 238 metres
Small cursive Persian type; some words and numerals are read with uncertainty and the translation is approximate in those places. The poster's text says 'aldrin' (آلدرین) in the captions while the cans read 'Dieldrin' in Latin letters; the translation follows the printed Persian. Names and the can count are read with uncertainty.
