During World War I, the U.S. Navy created a sign to warn its personnel of the threat posed by "inquisitive women".
By World War II, the sign was considered an odd curiosity, but it inspired a number of news photos of women reading the sign with interest.
source: Temple University Library
Shreveport Times - Mar 26, 1939
The Missoulian - Apr 2, 1939
I've previously posted an example of a comic book created by a government for the purpose of propaganda or education (
"Confidencias de un Senderista"). In a similar vein is the 1955 film
Animal Farm, which was the first animated feature film released in the UK. It was produced by the CIA. As reported in the
NY Times (Mar 18, 2000):
Many people remember reading George Orwell's "Animal Farm" in high school or college, with its chilling finale in which the farm animals looked back and forth at the tyrannical pigs and the exploitative human farmers but found it "impossible to say which was which."
That ending was altered in the 1955 animated version, which removed the humans, leaving only the nasty pigs. Another example of Hollywood butchering great literature? Yes, but in this case the film's secret producer was the Central Intelligence Agency.
The C.I.A., it seems, was worried that the public might be too influenced by Orwell's pox-on-both-their-houses critique of the capitalist humans and Communist pigs. So after his death in 1950, agents were dispatched (by none other than E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate fame) to buy the film rights to "Animal Farm" from his widow to make its message more overtly anti-Communist.
You can watch the entire film
streaming for free (with ads) over at Hulu.
via
deceptology
Stops spies from sweating during torture.