American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Robert Kennedy made a comeback on behalf of the family this time, and as the younger brother, the Jin family naturally had to serve hard: Ferry also had to help him.

　Next, what is the relationship between Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy, and Robert Kennedy's candidacy for vice president?

　It's very simple. For American politicians, having the strong support of the boss of a popular mass media is definitely a great help!

　Coincidentally, at this time, Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy, also had the idea of ​​trying to develop into the political field.

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　Although in the impression of later generations, Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy, is a suave and suave breeder of bunny girls, an old man who is shameless enough to run a harem and have fun every night in his seventies and eighties, and a "happy sex boss" who has spent most of his life drowning in the buttocks and breasts of various beauties.

　But in fact, in the turbulent 1960s, Hugh Hefner, like Facebook boss Zuckerberg and Twitter owner Musk in the 21st century, was once a very topical and politically influential news figure, and was wooed by both the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States.

　After all, under the American voting system, anyone who controls the news media automatically gains political influence.

　Playboy, which specializes in men's private parts, has also gained the capital to interfere in politics since its rise to fame during the Vietnam War!

　The New York Times, known as the "Gray Lady," can become a powerful voice in American politics with its 300 million daily subscriptions. So, why can't Playboy, with its peak monthly sales of 700 million, also use its influence to test the political waters?

　As the saying goes, "When you have a sharp weapon in your chest, you'll harbor murderous intent," or "When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail."

　Since Playboy has mastered the traffic password of American men, boss Hugh Hefner naturally wants to turn it into power.

　——Wealth and honor, wealth alone is not enough, you also have to enter the circle of power and wealth to be considered a true top American upper class person!

　On the other hand, Hugh Hefner also has his own confidence in relying on Playboy to get involved in politics.

　You know, Playboy’s self-proclaimed “brand, club and high-class lifestyle” are not nonsense.

　It's not that crude

　It is not a pornographic book that can only be hidden under the bed of adolescent boys, but a fashion magazine that can be published in the mainstream.

　During the Cold War, American men who still retained the traditions of the old era usually had a private circle. They smoked cigars and drank in their respective private clubs and talked about things they thought were very cool: politics, sports, movies, ways to make money, and of course women.

　Playboy is a magazine that is very suitable to be placed in this kind of place, showing its style: it has both elegant content and beautiful girls.

　You can look at the nude photos above and get excited quietly, whisper, pretend to be serious, but in fact you are carefully looking for pleasure.

　Of course, given America's Puritan tradition, this seems a bit politically incorrect.

　But you have to know that most luxury goods that flaunt a fashionable lifestyle are usually politically incorrect, but that doesn’t stop them from being sought after.

　——Not to mention, in the FBI files, Playboy is a "pro-communist publication" with "suspected left-leaning communism"!

　If this is the case, how could Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy, not have some left-wing "socialist" color?

　Otherwise, he would not have published articles by Hemingway and Borges (Argentine left-wing writers) in the magazine, conducted exclusive interviews with Cuban bearded Castro and Sartre, the originator of white left-wing thought, and published boxing champion Ali's anti-war remarks complaining about the unreasonable military service system.

　(As for why Hemingway wrote for Playboy, all I can say is that the "revolutionary literature" he usually wrote was quite pornographic.)

　It just so happened that Robert Kennedy was a well-known red-head in American politics. Even when he was the Attorney General and the head of the FBI, FBI Director Hoover always regarded Robert as

　Kennedy was the key target of surveillance, as he was suspected of collaborating with the Communists.

　What’s even worse is that this matter was leaked by reporters, letting the entire American people know that the FBI was going to accuse the Attorney General of collaborating with the Communist Party.

　How should I put it? It feels like Dzerzhinsky wanted to label Lenin an "imperialist spy."

　Even President John F. Kennedy often complained that his brother was "too left-leaning" and "as naive as a literary youth" during his lifetime.

　So, after coming into contact with each other, Robert Kennedy and

　Hugh Hefner and he quickly hit it off, feeling they had met too late and becoming partners.

　Although Robert Kennedy was faithful to his marriage throughout his life and as pure as a Puritan in his private life, a stark contrast to Hugh Hefner, a top-tier playboy, as a qualified politician, Robert Kennedy always kept his public and private affairs clearly separate. He would not reject Hugh Hefner, an ally with similar ideological and political views, just because of his decadent lifestyle.

　Otherwise, his brother, the president, had more than ten mistresses, and even slept with a woman Hitler had slept with. He was a philandering man, but Robert Kennedy never had any dirty talk with President John F. Kennedy because of this!

　Well, back to the scene, Dr. Kissinger, who was struggling to find a way forward, was instantly drawn to Robert Kennedy's offer, as if he had found a pillow. He immediately embraced his leg and swore allegiance. And Firi naturally became Robert Kennedy's right-hand man.

　Afterwards, Firi took stock: He had Kissinger and Brzezinski, two of the "Cold War masters," as his advisors, the owner of Playboy as his cheerleader and propagandist, and the Kim family as his slaves. He would also help deal with some of the extraordinary tactics...

　From this perspective, Robert Kennedy's return to the White House this time is almost certain - provided that nothing unexpected happens to him.

　Unexpectedly, he won the final victory and became the official Republican presidential candidate.

　At the same time, outside the conference hall, which was filled with a sleepy atmosphere, the sound of machine gun fire and screams were heard one after another.

　- Edward Brooke, a black senator, was inexplicably blocked from the meeting hall by guards because of his skin color. His angry roar and rumors spread by a group of busybodies led to a major riot among black people in Miami who took to the streets.

　Police and National Guardsmen arrived quickly with machine guns and opened fire on the shouting black people in the street, killing more than 40 people on the spot.

　Nixon wrote his speech while listening to the gunfire, calling for a return to America's past "spirit of progress inspired by dreams."

　When the meeting finally ended, many Republican leaders preferred to leave by sea in small boats because they did not want to see the blood and bodies on the streets.

　However, this small event pales in comparison to the Democratic National Convention held on August 3rd:

　I don't know what the Democratic Party was thinking, but they chose Chicago, the birthplace of May Day, as the venue for the convention this year.

　——Just like Paris is an old revolutionary base in Europe, Chicago is also an old revolutionary base in North America!

　Worse still, American college campuses these days are already awash in demons. For self-proclaimed "awakened" young people, nothing seems sacred in the world. The American flag, God, honor, modesty, chastity, and honesty are all discarded.

　They take the Boy Scout Oath recited by their fathers and completely reverse it, doing their best to be untrustworthy, disloyal, unhelpful, hostile, impolite, ungenerous, disobedient, uncheerful, unthrifty, cowardly, mean and arrogant.

　According to insurance industry statistics from 1968, the people with the most unpaid debts in society are young college students who owe tuition loans.

　Even some universities with a long history have become unsafe. Robberies and violence are rampant in schools. Many students have to rely on selling drugs to classmates to raise tuition fees, or participate in various violent political activities to satisfy the emptiness in their hearts.

　And the news media is still adding fuel to the fire, instructing young people on how to harm society more efficiently. For example, the July 1967 issue of The New York Review of Books published a large illustration on the front page, teaching readers how to make a Molotov cocktail: use a rag soaked in gasoline as a plug, a clothesline as a fuse, and the fuel is a mixture of 2/3 gasoline and 1/3 soap powder and dust.

　A group of lawless and rebellious youths received technical guidance on how to launch an armed riot, and a large-scale fight was almost certain to break out!

　In short, before the top leaders of the Democratic Party of the United States arrived in Chicago, various political groups had already poured into the city: the "Peace Sentinels" who opposed the Vietnam War, the utopian socialist "Youth International Party", hippies dressed in strange shapes, black people who demanded an investigation into the cause of Martin Luther King's death, disillusioned liberal progressives, all kinds of people were present, and it looked like a riot of demons.

　The most eye-catching figures were, again, the hippies, wearing rosaries, barefoot or in flip-flops, sporting beards, and dressed ostentatiously. They brought a 125-pound pig, claiming it was their proposed presidential candidate. And all political groups, regardless of their specific affiliations, announced plans for a massive demonstration outside the International Amphitheater, the venue for the Democratic National Convention.

　Upon hearing the news, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was seized with alarm and immediately began transforming the city into a military barracks. The sewer entrances around the amphitheater were sealed with asphalt. Seven-foot-tall movable iron fences topped with barbed wire were erected around the venue. The city's 1.15 police officers were deployed in two 12-hour shifts, and 5500 National Guard troops were deployed downtown, ready for action. Furthermore, the Pentagon, acting on orders from the White House, airlifted 7500 U.S. Army troops from Fort Hood, Texas, to Chicago for deployment.

　The most outrageous thing was that four years ago at the convention, Lyndon Johnson was nominated to great fanfare and won by a landslide, but now he couldn't even go to the convention because the Secret Service told him that the situation there was too chaotic and too dangerous for the president.

　Since President Johnson did not attend the meeting in person, Robert Kennedy also chose not to attend the meeting to show that they were on the same page.

　Even with both candidates absent, Lyndon Johnson was nominated on the first ballot.

　But at the same time, outside, thousands of young people were holding signs and shouting "Stop the War," jostling with shield-wielding police. Initially, the Chicago police tried their best to tolerate the situation, but soon their patience ran out—the hippies were armed with jackknives, spiked golf balls, short clubs embedded with nails, baseball bats with blades on the top, and all sorts of crudely made cocktail bottles!

　In this way, the Democrats in the venue talked big; outside the venue, the "World's No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament" and the unlimited street fighting competition were held. The police waved batons and fought fiercely, and the bloodied protesters shouted: "Bastards, no, we will never leave!" "The whole world is watching!" Although not the whole world, there were 80 million Americans watching this scene on TV, including Richard, who was gloating.

　De Nixon.

　Then, sporadic clashes and violence spread throughout Chicago. Black people took to the streets again, and the US military entered the city in armored vehicles to suppress the riots. That night, 20 journalists were hospitalized, more than 400 houses were burned, and the casualties were in the hundreds.

　Playboy owner Hugh Hefner attended the Chicago Democratic Convention as a representative of Robert Kennedy. As he was leaving the convention, his tires were shot at an intersection. He was then dragged out of his car by a group of men in black, sacked, and taken to an alley where they beat him up. The beating left Hugh Hefner with a bruised face, two lost teeth, and a broken arm.

　Afterwards, the police believed the crime was committed by hippie thugs. However, Hugh Hefner, lying in a hospital bed with his arm in a cast and being fed fruit by a bunny girl, insisted to reporters that his attackers were definitely Italian gangsters, "probably sent by Nixon!"

　Furthermore, although President Johnson did not attend the Democratic convention at the amphitheater, he still traveled to Chicago and stayed at the Conrad Hilton Hotel, watching his nomination announcement on a nearby television screen. However, on the opening day of the convention, someone released tear gas into the hotel's air conditioning ducts, which then blew all the way into the president's room!

　Although the president himself was only slightly frightened, the subsequent police investigation caused more secondary harm: all the guests in the Hilton Hotel were brutally beaten and arrested, and even Mrs. Anne Kerr, the British Labour Party representative who was invited, was thrown into a cell.

　The next day, 70 priests and pastors carried a ten-foot-high cross and came to the amphitheater to mourn the victims.

　But the Chicago police considered this a mockery of them and fired tear gas on the spot to drive away the clergy.

　In short, the chaotic Chicago Democratic Convention, and the violent clashes broadcast worldwide, once again humiliated Lyndon Johnson's Democratic administration in front of the nation. Johnson's campaign, which had been improving with the addition of Robert Kennedy, suffered another setback due to the Chicago riots.

　Richard Nixon fiercely criticized this, saying that the past eight years of Democratic administration had brought the United States to the brink. He said the country no longer needed visionaries but a truly conservative government, another Eisenhower. This government would do its utmost to balance the budget, stabilize the dollar, curb inflation, quickly end military operations in Indochina, and restore domestic order.

　Nixon said he had a plan to end the war, but he couldn't make it public now because it might interfere with the peace talks being planned. He announced he would appoint a new attorney general to restore law and order, and he also supported ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, saying he had no intention of starting a nuclear war.

　He said American business would improve because he would reduce taxes and provide other incentives for entrepreneurs, thereby creating more jobs and reducing the number of people on welfare. Inflation would also be suppressed because Japan and Germany would offer cheaper consumer goods. Finally, Nixon vowed that America's greatness "is not due to what the government does for the people, but to what the people do for themselves."

　In addition to the impact on the domestic election, the Chicago riots also tarnished the image of the United States in the international media.

　Fortunately, a few days later, the Soviets showed their lower limit with an even more brutal and hideous appearance.

　That is... the Prague Spring!

　Well, to be precise, it was a special military operation called "Operation Danube" launched by the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact multinational coalition to suppress the Czechoslovak reform movement called "Prague Spring"!

　The specific reason was that after World War II, the Czech Republic was ordered to copy the Soviet economic model, but it was not adapted to the local environment and many problems arose. The people's living standards were even worse than before World War II and during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Intellectuals continued to criticize the government's misconduct, causing complaints across the country.

　By the second half of the 1960s, industrial and agricultural production in the Czech Republic had fallen into complete chaos, a situation comparable to the Great Depression in the United States.

　First of all, the third five-year plan (1961-1965) collapsed completely. The five-year plans of other socialist countries failed, at most failing to meet the growth targets of various production indicators. The Czech Republic’s third five-year plan was simply "forget it, how can such an outrageous plan be implemented?"

　In 1966 and 1967, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia tried to make up for the missed parts of the Third Five-Year Plan. However, it was not known whether the production plan was made by the good soldier Schweik or the agent Mr. Bean. The more it made up, the more chaotic it became. In the end, about 40% of the factories in the country were in a state of suspension. Either there was no raw material, or the warehouses were full and the products could not be shipped out, or there was a shortage of electricity. As a result, the workers could not be paid and had to go to the countryside to beg for odd jobs to make a living.

　The prices of food and daily necessities in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, have skyrocketed, and there are long queues and purchase limits. The accumulated public resentment is on the verge of boiling over.

　Czech people generally feel that even under Nazi Germany, we didn't live so badly! This shows that the Soviets were even worse than the Nazis!

　——Early before World War I, Czech Republic was the industrial heartland of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ancient Prague was also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire.

　The Czech Republic has always been a wealthy and developed place, and Czechs are proud and arrogant and cannot tolerate hardship.

　At the same time, the two parts of the country, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, also experienced extremely serious regional and ethnic conflicts during this period of economic hardship. Remarks such as "let's split up", "life can't go on", "let's break up", and "divide the luggage" were heard one after another.

　Such a surging tide of public opinion forced the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia to take bolder measures to deal with the current all-round crisis situation.

　So, in January 1968, Alexander Dubček publicly released the Czechoslovak Communist Party's "Program of Action", proposing to establish a "new, democratic, socialist model that conforms to Czechoslovak conditions", which received a warm response from the people across the country. The West called it the "Prague Spring".

　Dubček was not, in fact, a pro-Western liberal, but rather a typical pro-Soviet. Whether it was his personal experience, the connections he made while working in the Soviet Union, or his image in the eyes of Soviet General Secretary Brezhnev, he was very close to the Soviet Union.

　Although he advocated reforming the economic system, abandoning the rigid and dogmatic economic control model, and more effectively participating in the international division of labor, so that Czechoslovakia's economy could gradually open up to the world market...this was all just to get rid of the economic difficulties.

　But the problem was that the Soviet Union, with its strong great power chauvinism, could hardly tolerate any large-scale institutional reforms in its Eastern European satellite states. The Kremlin's top brass was worried that the domestic people, who were also full of complaints, would be "adversely affected" by this, resulting in an internal and external anti-establishment wall-pushing effect.

　Next, in order to reduce external pressure for domestic reforms, Dubček proposed a policy of easing relations and peaceful coexistence with the Western world in diplomacy. This touched the most sensitive nerves of the Soviet Union, which was afraid that Czechoslovakia would leave the Warsaw Pact like Yugoslavia and take a middle-of-the-road approach.

　A group of Soviet officers who had not fought a war for a long time and were eager to gain military merits also slandered the Czechoslovak Republic to the Kremlin, saying that the Czechoslovak Republic's reforms were "ill-intentioned" and that it was suspected that the country was trying to break free from Soviet control. They said that a heavy blow was necessary to warn the other Eastern European brothers not to act recklessly.

　Brezhnev and other Kremlin officials hesitated for six months before realizing that Czechoslovakia's reforms were becoming increasingly unacceptable. Even the Warsaw Pact presence on the Czech border, with hundreds of thousands of troops conducting military exercises and intimidating Prague, seemed to be futile.

　In the end, Brezhnev had no choice but to make the final decision. The Warsaw Pact army was dispatched to eliminate the Czechoslovak rebels by force!

　Operation codename: Operation Danube!

　At midnight on August 20, 1968, Operation Danube was officially launched. A Soviet civilian airliner carrying dozens of elite commandos from the Soviet 8th Guards Airborne Division suddenly landed at Prague Airport, quickly occupied key points throughout the airport, and eliminated the defense forces around the airport.

　Next, Soviet transport plane after Soviet transport plane descended from the sky, carrying Soviet soldiers. More Soviet soldiers and armored vehicles soon emerged from the planes' bellies. By the early hours of the morning, these Soviet wheeled armored vehicles had rumbled into Prague and onto the streets of the Czech capital. Led by KGB agents, they took control of train stations, government buildings, television and radio stations, and newspaper offices.

　Before Czechoslovak leader Dubček could figure out what was going on, he was dragged out of his bedroom by Soviet soldiers and taken to Moscow.

　At the same time, 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops from the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria penetrated Czechoslovakia from four directions. Soviet airborne troops also parachuted into various parts of Czechoslovakia, assisting ground forces in completing the occupation of the entire country.

　By August 23rd, the 500,000-strong Warsaw Pact army that had invaded Czechoslovakia had seamlessly conquered the entire territory. With the exception of a few pockets of resistance, the vast majority of Czechoslovak troops had been disarmed, and the military-industrial complex had been taken over by the Soviets.

　In this operation, the Soviet Union militarily destroyed the political reforms of the "Prague Spring" and used force to deter the wavering tendencies of Eastern European satellite states.

　But the political consequences caused by this were a hundred times more serious than the Soviet intervention in Hungary and the march into Budapest in 1956.

　Although the Soviet intervention in Hungary sparked widespread discontent among European intellectuals and public opinion, Hungary, as an Axis power during World War II, bore the original sin of being a "defeated nation," falling under the UN's "enemy state clause," making it a "pariah state" under the Yalta system.

　As a victor of World War II and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, the Soviet Union brazenly intervened in Hungary's internal affairs by sending troops. While this wasn't necessarily morally justified, it was fundamentally legal—to deny this would be to deny the UN system. Consequently, China also supported the Soviet Union in this matter.

　But this time, in its action to suppress the "Prague Spring", the Soviet Union had neither the moral banner nor the support of international law.

　——Czechoslovakia was not an Axis power, but a victim of World War II. How can it be called an invasion?

　This time, the Soviet Union's actions were outright imperialist and a brutal trampling of the post-World War II international order!

　Therefore, just as Soviet tanks appeared on the streets of Prague, the Mexican representative at the United Nations Building filed a motion accusing the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and other countries of invading Czechoslovakia, imprisoning the country's main leaders, and using force to coerce and control most of Czechoslovakia.

　The United Nations should condemn it and send an investigation team to Czechoslovakia.

　Soviet representative Markli argued that the Soviet Union's actions were intended to prevent Western intelligence from undermining Czechoslovakia's democracy and to liberate the Czechoslovak people from NATO's poisoning of the country. This was mutual assistance between socialist brother countries.

　Before he finished his speech, he was booed in the United Nations venue, and many people simply took off their simultaneous interpretation headphones and stopped listening.

　After this incident, the red parties in Western countries, such as the French Communist Party and the Italian Communist Party, broke away from the Soviet Union, and the European socialist movement fell into a low ebb.

　Those leftists who once regarded the Soviet Union as a beacon of socialism were no longer human and were trapped in a predicament worse than that of ghosts.

　As for American television stations, they repeatedly broadcast footage of Soviet tanks rumbling through the streets of Prague, with Soviet tank crews engaging in passionate exchanges with Czech civilians protesting, in an effort to show that the Soviet Union was also in a bad state, no better than the United States.

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　"Alas, the imperialists on both sides of the Iron Curtain are now competing to show off their inferiority!

　While the United States spread the flames of war across the Asia-Pacific, it ultimately fought to defend its allies. Even if there were brutal actions, they were directed against the enemies of the liberal camp. However, the Soviet actions in Prague were yet another heavy blow against its own allies!

　Comparing the two, the US military certainly exposed its buttocks in Vietnam, but the Soviet army even exposed its buttocks in Prague..."

　Sitting on a sofa in the living room of the seaside castle villa, Firi was watching the TV news about the Soviet Union's invasion of Prague and complaining like this, while maintaining his body connection with the naked Marita, playing with her round buttocks, tight waist and plump breasts.