"Careless Talk Costs Lives" was a British propaganda campaign during World War II, meant to discouraging open discussion of sensitive or secret military and intelligence operations among the Allied forces.
"Careless Talk Costs Lives" was a British propaganda campaign during World War II, meant to discouraging open discussion of sensitive or secret military and intelligence operations among the Allied forces.
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The first posters in the series were illustrated by Cyril Bird, a comic artist who worked under the pen name "Fougasse." [1]
After concluding that such talk was not a serious source of intelligence, and suspicious persons would often be dismissed as plants, the British government did not increase funding for the campaign. [2]
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