American Strategic Deception Bureau

　For this, ordinary people spent countless amounts of money, just to prepare for a nuclear apocalypse that would not come at least before all the ammunition and canned food expired...

　Well, it can be said that I was fooled badly.

　At the same time, the entire Pentagon was celebrating the large-scale clearance of old inventory.

　What's even more advanced than profiting from a national disaster? Of course, fooling people into thinking a national disaster is imminent, and then profiting from that "fake disaster"!

　Of course, apart from the time traveler Firi, no one can be sure whether the terrible nuclear apocalypse will come...

　In short, thanks to this national-level scam of "national doomsday survival mania", Firi successfully cleared out most of the inventory and sold a large amount of war surplus materials. Not only did he make the Prince of Lies, Cyric, "very happy", he also became a marketing genius of WAA and a celebrity favored by his superiors.

　So, he quickly took up the challenge and started a new project:

　Doomsday survival training camp!

　As we all know, the United States has a tradition of organizing scout activities and letting children participate in military training and camping.

　So, against the backdrop of the Cold War, while singing the high-sounding tune of patriotism and preparing for war, wasn't it reasonable to upgrade the Boy Scouts into a "doomsday survival training camp," allowing elementary and middle school students to use their vacation time to go to the military camp to practice shooting guns and learn first aid and wilderness survival knowledge?

　And those adults who are worried, if they have money and free time, may as well come to these training camps to practice their doomsday survival skills.

　After all, although they always say "keep women away from war", if a nuclear bomb really hits the sky, the mushroom cloud will not care about gender, age or status!

　Soon, led by the wealthy state of California, an abandoned military base near Los Angeles was renovated and renamed "Doomsday Survival Park" - later renamed "Red Alert Park". Then, other states followed suit, revitalizing a large number of abandoned training bases left over from World War II and setting up various military-themed education and entertainment programs to help Americans strengthen their martial ethics.

　In these bases, children and adults happily race in tanks across the desert, take torpedo boats for a ride out to sea, and watch artillery demonstrations of firing cannons and rockets. Little boys can use guns to shoot at fixed targets, moving targets, and flying targets, venting the joy of violence amidst all kinds of "boom, boom, boom."

　Real estate companies have also built many model homes of "family shelters" in these bases and marketed them to the middle class with some money.

　The Pentagon took the opportunity to sell off many obsolete and sealed large weapons and equipment, and even sold a lot of old tanks that were not suitable for conversion into tractors.

　Even fighter jets that are too broken to fly and broken tanks that are missing many parts can at least be placed in the park as decorations.

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　It also provided jobs for many retired soldiers - whether it was a tank or a torpedo boat, it was not something that ordinary people could drive well...

　Even more surprising is that just as the "national doomsday survival craze" was intensifying in the United States, and everyone with money and time was digging bunkers and stockpiling supplies, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev happened to visit the United States in 1959.

　Although this corn-loving "Su Suizong" did not get to date Marilyn Monroe in the United States as he wished (he actually did so), he saw "Doomsday Survival Kit" billboards all over the country and also enjoyed a popular American movie with a doomsday theme.

　Then Khrushchev and his entourage were shocked.

　——If even optimistic Americans can’t handle the appeal of a wasteland apocalyptic IP, then the Russians, who are known for their high rates of depression, will feel even more sympathetic.

　As we all know, the Cold War was not only a clash of hard power between two superpowers, but also a confrontation of soft power between two social systems and two ideologies.

　Then, Khrushchev was a man who loved to compare himself. During his "kitchen debate" with Nixon, he famously declared, "After the revolution, everyone will be able to eat goulash." Seeing the entire US conducting apocalypse survival drills, he was naturally moved.

　Therefore, after returning to Moscow, Khrushchev announced that the Soviets could not fall behind the Americans and must have their own doomsday shelters. He encouraged local governments at all levels to dig various civil defense fortifications and stockpile supplies to increase people's survival rate in a nuclear war!

　At the same time, Soviet schools and grassroots party organizations also began to find ways to carry out various training on the theme of nuclear war doomsday survival.

　Then, driven by the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries followed suit, dug underground shelters, and set up doomsday survival training camps.

　When the Western European countries across the Iron Curtain saw this situation, they were naturally horrified. They felt that a nuclear war was coming and the civilized world would soon become a radioactive wasteland. According to the social view at the time, there was a twenty-year gap between World War I and World War II, so the interval between World War III and World War II should be about the same.

　So, by the 1960s, twenty years after the end of World War II, it was almost time to start preparing for World War III.

　Just look at the location of the Iron Curtain and you will know that once World War III breaks out, the main battlefield will be in Europe, just like the previous two world wars!

　It’s just that the former European powers will be downgraded from chess players who control their own destiny to chess pieces that are manipulated at will by the two superpowers.

　Anyway, as soon as World War III breaks out, Western Europe will definitely be bombed back to the Stone Age by nuclear bombs. This is absolutely true!

　Therefore, West Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Belgium and Italy also began the vigorous construction of doomsday bunkers.

　The whole society was caught in a hamster disease outbreak. Ordinary people dug cellars in their own yards, and the rich hollowed out mountains in the wilderness to build private shelters. Governments of various countries activated underground air-raid shelters from World War II, expanded them, and updated ventilation equipment to adapt to the needs of nuclear war.

　The French even rebuilt and renovated the underground section of the Maginot Line to serve as a doomsday survival base for the people in case of an emergency.

　Now, both sides of the Cold War Iron Curtain have started a survival competition of "digging deep holes, storing up food, and everyone practicing martial arts"!

　Next, this doomsday survival trend, driven by the two superpowers, continued to spread to Asia, Africa and Latin America.

　The Red Camp, of course, has its own manufacturing industry, producing the canned goods, machinery, and medicines needed to play the doomsday survival game. However, many European, Asian, African, and Latin American countries lack such production capacity and are forced to import water purifiers, generators, gas masks, and other items from the United States.

　This made WAA's second-hand goods business booming. Not only were many stocks sold out, but some of the closed production lines were even reopened!

　At this point, Firi's initial attempt at selling merchandise and becoming a top seller in the wasteland apocalypse had, thanks to various factors, successfully fooled the entire world, achieving the epic feat of "deceiving the entire planet"! This had even delighted the Prince of Lies, Cyric, behind the scenes!

　This deceived three billion people!

　Chapter 7: Embrace Kennedy's Legs

　So, thanks to his contribution to the doomsday survival craze and the huge sales of used inventory, when the calendar came to 1959, our protagonist, Phili, had become the Pentagon's gold medal salesman and a famous idea king, and people praised him and tried to make connections with him wherever he went.

　When he was having a party with his colleagues at a bar, some seniors praised Fieri, saying that he would become the next four-star General Mark Wayne Clark!

　——General Clark, who signed the armistice of the Korean War, worked in the Sales Promotion Division of the Office of the Secretary of the Army (a temporary agency that handled surplus materials from World War I). He rose to prominence through deception and became the youngest lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, as well as the most famous general in World War II.

　(General Clark's battles were generally disastrous, such as the Anzio landings in Italy, where he played a good hand badly.)

　But in fact, at this point, due to his age and qualifications, Firi actually has little room for advancement within the WAA.

　Especially as the remaining materials were sold in large quantities, WAA, which was about to complete its historical mission, had begun to continuously streamline and lay off employees.

　Next, I want to find a better position and continue to climb up the ladder. In addition to my own efforts, I also need to have support in the political world.

　So, with some free time, Ferry King turned his attention to 19

　60 years of presidential elections.

　——President John F. Kennedy, the “dark horse” who emerged in this year’s election, is from Ireland just like the Kim family!

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　Specifically, the two sides in the 1960 US presidential election were Nixon representing the Republican Party and Kennedy representing the Democratic Party.

　Nixon, who had served as Eisenhower's Vice President for eight years, was unlike many other vice presidents in history. A seasoned politician, Nixon intervened in numerous national affairs during Eisenhower's presidency, orchestrating a series of overseas operations and even engaging in a passionate exchange with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev at an exhibition, creating the now-famous "Kitchen Debate."

　How should I put it? It's a bit like an updated Hillary Clinton, with extensive connections, deep roots, extensive political experience, and the support of the current president.

　In contrast, although Kennedy also served as a senator for ten years, his family was just a wealthy business family, not a political family. Moreover, he was of Irish descent and Catholic, which made him incompatible with the Anglo-Saxon Protestant gentlemen in Washington, D.C., and he was completely stacked with negative points.

　In the eyes of the Puritan old white men of the Republican Party, Kennedy, who was not a "WASP", was not qualified to be president based on his bloodline!

　(Fun fact: Some people think Biden is white, but in fact, American conservatives don't necessarily recognize his "whiteness." Because Biden, like Kennedy, is an Irish Catholic. In the eyes of the most extreme white men, Biden is "half-white pagan," an alien just like black people.)

　Therefore, at the beginning of the 1960 election, the predictions of experts were almost one-sided, believing that Nixon would win the election!

　Unfortunately, however, just as they had misjudged the Truman-Dewey race, they were also wildly wrong this time.

　——If the US presidential election was just a vote among members of Capitol Hill, then Kennedy would not be a match for Nixon at all.

　But the problem is that, unlike the way the British Prime Minister is elected, the American President requires a national popular vote!

　Then, the 1960 US presidential election saw the first televised candidate debate in history.

　Just like how Trump took advantage of the new wave of the Internet to make former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was not yet accustomed to the new rules of the election, suffer a bitter defeat in 2016, Kennedy, the dark horse, also took advantage of the new trend of television, carefully making himself up and dressing up like an idol star in front of the camera, and won countless fans.

　In contrast, although Nixon was also good at speaking, he obviously had not yet adapted to the new mode of speaking in front of the camera - so although he was eloquent, his clothes were very bad, he didn't wear any makeup, and he looked quite ugly, and his face looked haggard and gloomy.

　There was no way around it, because television was still a new thing at the time. Before it came along, who would have thought that you needed to dress up to give a speech?

　As we all know, most humans are animals that judge people by their appearance.

　What's even worse is that in the summer of that year, at the most critical moment of the election, Nixon was hit by a rebounding car door while getting out of the car, injuring his knee. Later, the wound became infected and festered, and he caught a severe cold and fever. He had to lie in the hospital with one leg hanging for half a month. It was only thanks to the use of large doses of antibiotics that he was lucky enough to avoid amputation. Therefore, when Nixon gave a TV speech, he had actually just been discharged from the hospital, and his haggard appearance could not be concealed at all.

　Anyone who saw Nixon's face at this time was very worried - is it really okay to hand over the country to such a sick guy?

　As a result, most Americans who only listened to the radio voted for Nixon, while most Americans who watched TV voted for Kennedy.

　Unfortunately for Nixon, at that time, the national penetration rate of television in the United States was already very high...

　So, in the 1960 election, Kennedy miraculously defeated Nixon, delaying Nixon's presidency for eight years.

　Let’s get back to the point. Since we already knew that Kennedy, the dark horse with so many negative buffs, would march triumphantly into the White House.

　So, as a time traveler, Firi naturally wants to drag his whole family over to hug his thighs and become leg pendants for the future president!

　Like the Kennedys, the Kims are Irish Catholics. As fellow Catholics, wouldn't it be natural for them to stick together?

　Furthermore, the Kennedys weren't yet a political family, just ordinary wealthy individuals with few talented individuals in their purse strings. Just like Donald Trump, who ascended to power half a century later, John Kennedy had to recruit many outsiders to form a governing body after his election.

　Although John Kennedy had already been a senator for ten years by the time of the presidential election, it was unlikely that an outsider would be able to get a cabinet position by working for him now. However, there was still hope for lower-level positions such as ambassadors, advisors, and press officers.

　Wasn’t it because Kennedy financed Roosevelt’s presidential campaign that he was able to become ambassador to the UK and get his foot in the political arena?

　So, Fili used his eloquence to successfully persuade his family and mobilized his older brother, a big-time government official, to join Kennedy's campaign and contribute money and effort to the campaign. His father also used his connections to contact a Hollywood director to help Kennedy make a promotional video.

　During this period, Fili also deliberately acted as a copywriter, personally composing the music and shooting a cheerful music video for John F. Kennedy.

　"Keep America Great" (Trump's support song, interested readers can search for it) was played on TV for promotion.

　In addition, the Hollywood film and television industry is naturally left-leaning in ideology, and from directors, actors to producers, they have all been tortured by the McCarthyism literary inquisition promoted by Republican Puritans in recent years. Countless people have been imprisoned, and the entire entertainment industry can't wait for the Republican Party to get out.

　So, although I don’t dare to do anything big, it’s still okay to add an easter egg at the end of the movie and play Kennedy’s cheering song MV.

　——Just like the situation sixty years later, the Republican Party had no voice in Hollywood, and the entire Hollywood leaned towards Kennedy's Democratic Party.

　As a result, Kennedy naturally swept through "new media" such as television and movies (newspapers were traditional media at the time) like a whirlwind.

　In Kennedy, people of color saw hope for a turnaround (the Irish in the United States were not considered white at the time), the Irish, who had always sticked together, were overjoyed, the entertainment industry was eager to completely end the McCarthyist literary inquisition, and housewives were fascinated by this star-like handsome man.

　Relying on this series of campaign tactics that were ahead of their time, as well as John Kennedy's own talent and luck, in the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy defeated the originally complacent Nixon with an advantage far beyond a certain timeline, becoming the dark horse in the arena.

　The Kim family, who had provided financial support for Kennedy's campaign, also successfully clung to the future president's leg and rose to prominence.

　This practice of sharing official positions after an election is a common practice in American politics. Back then, President Kennedy's father, John F. Kennedy, also contributed both time and money to Roosevelt's campaign, and Roosevelt promised him the position of Secretary of Commerce. However, after his election, the position was given to another prominent party figure.

　Roosevelt appointed old Kennedy, an Irishman, as the US ambassador to the UK. I wonder how the British Prime Minister felt at the time.

　In short, Fieri's eldest brother Bernard, with the support of the Kennedy family, first went to the White House to gain experience, and then returned to California to run for Congress.

　The second brother Anthony was planning to develop in Hollywood, but because he had shot a promotional video for Kennedy, he also gained some connections and fame in the political circle.

　Fieri's father, Patrick, didn't ask for a prestigious position like ambassador. Instead, he secured good news for his Hollywood colleagues: He got President Kennedy to promise that upon taking office, he would significantly reduce the power of the Committee on Un-American Activities, further eliminate the lingering influence of McCarthyism, and relax restrictions on all forms of artistic creation, thus removing the shackles that bound Hollywood and "making America free again"!

　As long as Kennedy can fulfill his promise, then just based on this achievement, Padraic will have a lot of face in Hollywood.

　Although the House Un-American Activities Committee's restrictions on Hollywood had been somewhat relaxed during President Eisenhower's second term, the last few years of the 1950s, artists certainly preferred to completely break the shackles rather than dance with them loosened.

　Even Firi's younger sister Maria, who is still in school, got the opportunity to work as an intern assistant to a member of Congress in the next summer to gain experience.

　Of course, as the think tank (big liar) of the Jin family, Ferry will definitely not miss out on his share of benefits.

　The reason why Firi was staying in the lounge of the Pentagon at this time was because he received a piece of good news - he was going to be promoted to captain!

　Chapter 8: The CIA's New Airborne Recruit (To celebrate reaching the top of the list)

　In short, at the Pentagon, after a simple and solemn ceremony, Ferry King was awarded the rank of captain.

　——In fact, civilian soldiers like Firi who have never attended military school originally had no military rank in the US military, only civil servant rank.

　It is roughly similar to the department-level, section-level, and bureau-level cadres on the other side of the ocean.

　However, the American civil service is divided more carefully, with fifteen grades from top to bottom, and each grade is divided into ten levels, totaling one hundred and fifty grades.

　If it is drawn as a "promotion picture", it can definitely cover an entire wall densely!

　However, unlike other civil servants, military civilian officials in the Pentagon can obtain corresponding military ranks according to their civil service grades when they transfer to military service - so, starting today, Fili, who has been working in the Pentagon for several years, has finally been promoted to captain!

　Well, a 25-year-old captain, although he can be considered young and promising, is not that special in the United States.

　For example, General Clark became a captain at the age of 21, while General MacArthur was rooted in the grassroots in his early years and was promoted to captain at the age of 31.

　Along with the rank of captain, Fili also received a new job.

　——As the old stockpiles of war supplies have been gradually sold out in the atmosphere of "national doomsday survivalism", and the new war has been delayed, WAA has once again completed its historical mission and is entering a state of large-scale layoffs with reduced staff.

　Such a drying pond obviously cannot accommodate an ambitious young man like Firi.

　Therefore, Firi had already been mentally prepared for the transfer of his job.

　However, the new job assigned to him by the Pentagon still surprised him.

　"My new job is... the CIA?"

　Looking at the letter of appointment in his hand, Firi couldn't help but feel a little confused: The Pentagon parachuted me into the CIA?

　How could you think of letting

　I'm a spy? My major is totally unrelated!

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