Vietnam: US/South Vietnamese 'black propaganda' insignia for the Sacred Sword of the Patriots League (SSPL), distributed clandestinely in North Vietnam - 'gươm thiêng diết cộng' or 'Sacred Sword to Kill Communists', c. 1960s. The innocuously named Studies and Observations Group (SOG) was a secret American military unit of elite troops best known for covert operations behind enemy lines such as surveillance, hit-and-run, search and rescue, sabotage, snatching prisoners and setting booby traps. Its Psychological Operations Group was responsible for 'black' propaganda.

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