American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Just as when people talk about S.H.I.E.L.D., they think of the Triskelion Building, when people talk about the CIA, they think of the Langley Building.

　The CIA headquarters, covering one square kilometer in Fairfax County, Virginia, is a maze of identical corridors, with office doors marked only by numbers and always locked. The extremely gloomy architectural style creates a constant feeling of mental depression.

　However, at this time in 1960, the Langley Building was still under construction, just a noisy and chaotic construction site, and would not be completed until the next year.

　The current CIA office is located in an ordinary office building near the Lincoln Memorial, not far from the Pentagon.

　So, Captain Ferry King, wearing a new military uniform, walked out of the Pentagon with his commission and drove straight to the CIA.

　——According to his superiors in the WAA, the reason Captain Ferry King was transferred to the CIA was entirely for his career.

　The current American society is still quite militaristic. If a soldier reveals that he has never fought in a war, he will be looked down upon.

　Therefore, if Firi is determined to move up the ladder, he should find a way to participate in some military operations and gain some military merits.

　However, in 1960, the United States was in a peaceful and prosperous era. The Korean War had ended, and the Vietnam War had not yet begun.

　——At least in 1960, Ngo Dinh Diem’s rule over South Vietnam seemed to be OK and did not look like it would fall anytime soon.

　The US military also only stationed a small number of instructors in South Vietnam, and in principle they were only responsible for training troops and did not participate in combat missions.

　Under such circumstances, even if American officers wanted to make meritorious service and win medals, it would be difficult for them to find a war stage where they could display their abilities.

　In contrast, the CIA has been operating overseas quite frequently in recent years, repeatedly striking hard at disobedient third world countries, calling it "covert political action" - in fact, it is a "special military operation" that is constantly being carried out against the backdrop of the Cold War.

　For example, in 1953, the CIA easily overthrew the anti-American Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh by spreading rumors and misleading the opposition.

　In 1954, the CIA gathered a mob of 150 people in Guatemala in Central America, and joined forces with 600 local tycoons' hacienda thugs and mercenaries to successfully overthrow the local left-leaning and anti-American Arbenz regime, forcing President Arbenz to resign in disgrace and flee overseas, thus making an example of him and safeguarding the United Fruit Company's huge interests in Central America... and by the way, pushing Guatemala into a 36-year civil war.

　Subsequently, the CIA also carried out many covert activities in Peru, Colombia and Venezuela to curb the spread of anti-American sentiment.

　However, because the CIA lacked a real army at that time, it had to rely on very unreliable mercenaries. As a result, when some offensive operations and large-scale firefights were needed, the CIA always felt a lack of manpower.

　——Unlike in the movies, CIA agents are not Superman or Captain America. They are not capable of sending just a few people to break into a country, kill thousands of people, and then break into the presidential palace to carry out a decapitation operation.

　To this end, the CIA wants to organize and establish some small-scale special mobile forces, and then either send them to the "hot spots" in third world countries to carry out various military coups and siege missions; or train "foreign volunteers" to serve as instructors and supervisors of the "puppet army."

　However, modern warfare is a very professional discipline. Asking CIA agents who specialize in tracking, assassination and stealing intelligence to capture flags, break through enemy lines, attack strongholds, fight against other countries' regular armies, and formulate combat plans is somewhat unprofessional and can easily lead to jokes.

　Therefore, the CIA reported to the Pentagon, hoping to transfer some professional soldiers to form the CIA's secret force.

　So, Fili's old boss thought this was a good opportunity and sent Fili over.

　Although Fieri had no combat experience, he wouldn't necessarily be required to personally fight in the CIA. He could simply stay behind the scenes, handle propaganda, manage logistics, and gather military supplies. Then, when the CIA won a battle, Fieri would naturally be able to claim some military merit.

　Whether he retires and enters politics in the future or continues to seek promotion in the Pentagon, it will be an excellent qualification for him to gain experience.

　Firi was skeptical about this and instinctively felt that something seemed wrong.

　But it is a soldier's duty to obey orders. Since the official documents have been issued, he can only obey orders and go to the CIA as soon as he goes out.

　Chapter 9: I Can’t Take the Blame for the Bay of Pigs Operation! (Three Updates!)

　Fortunately, after entering the CIA with trepidation, Fieri was warmly welcomed by his new unit.

　Perhaps because they all worked in the same capital, these new CIA colleagues seemed to have heard of Fieri's reputation as the "Pentagon's marketing genius" and said that the CIA also had a lot of unsold supplies and that there must be a place for Fieri, a gold medal salesman.

　After hearing this, Captain Ferry King felt very confused.

　Uh, CIA backlog?

　What kind of backlog of supplies could the CIA have?

　Could it be that they want me to sell drugs? Fili thought uneasily.

　——Later he learned that the CIA

　The former mainstay of "surplus supplies" isn't really an anesthetic, but it's worse than an anesthetic...

　Next, although he was not received by Director Dulles, Deputy Director Richard Bissell came out to meet Fieri in person. He was very kind and started to praise him, appearing very enthusiastic.

　Firi was well aware of this: he was treating himself as the new President Kennedy's confidant who was trying to "sand the CIA"!

　——This year’s US election has come to an end. In two months, the president in the Oval Office of the White House will be replaced.

　As the saying goes, "A new emperor appoints new ministers." The director and deputy director of the CIA may be replaced by the new president at any time.

　Although Director Dulles and Deputy Director Bissell had made several phone calls to Kennedy over the past few days and received his promise to stay on, it was a normal exchange of acquiescence to President Kennedy to fill the bureau with some of his own people in order to reassure him.

　In Bissell's view, the Kim family members who worked for Kennedy's campaign were naturally the new president's trusted men.

　Well, at least he was more like one of President Kennedy's "own men" than he and Dulles, who originally worked with Nixon.

　So, Deputy Director Bissell first praised Fieri's previous marketing achievements at the WAA and then hinted that he knew Fieri had clung to the new president (Kennedy). Therefore, he arranged a sweet job for Fieri: he would assist Pentagon instructors at a base in Central America in training foreign volunteers, who would then be commanding these foreigners in a "covert political operation" called "Project Pluto."

　Specifically, just like the Guatemalan coup planned six years ago, it is to recruit a "volunteer army" to overthrow the local anti-American regime.

　According to Deputy Director Bissell, this "Pluto Project" is a "must-win battle" with sufficient funding and a large scale.

　Anyone who participates in the "Pluto Project" will be recorded in the archives of the CIA and the Pentagon as a hero of the United States.

　In fact, this "huge and meticulous" plan has been implemented for more than half a year, and all preparations are almost complete.

　All Captain Ferry King had to do was help prepare some military supplies and ensure the "Volunteer Army" had adequate logistical supplies, and then he could sit back and wait for his share of the credit.

　In short, after a bunch of confusing nonsense, Deputy Director Bissell finally revealed the truth and revealed the subversive target of this "Pluto Project" - Castro's revolutionary regime on the island of Cuba!

　Ever since Castro returned from his frustrated visit to the United States last year and subsequently launched Cuba's land reform, he has touched the White House's red line.

　Next, the Soviet Union sent Mikoyan to visit Cuba and began to assist Castro, declaring that this Caribbean "sugar island" had officially surrendered to the Soviet Union!

　They discovered that an enemy bridgehead had appeared right on their doorstep. How could the US, accustomed to its hegemony in the Western Hemisphere, tolerate such a thing?

　Therefore, in the spring of 1960, President Eisenhower formally approved the "Pluto Project", preparing to have the CIA overthrow Castro, who dared to oppose the United States, just as it had overthrown the Arbenz regime in Guatemala six years ago, and re-establish a pro-American regime on the island of Cuba!

　Because Cuba was much larger than Guatemala, the CIA invested far more resources in the Cuban War than in the previous operation.

　"Last time in Guatemala, we only recruited 150 men and defeated Arbenz, killing him like a dog while he was fleeing.

　This time, we have recruited thousands of Cuban freedom fighters, including some of Castro's comrades, who abandoned their roots and joined the liberal camp after he implemented land reform! After receiving proper training, they will return to Cuba and raise the banner of opposition to Castro.

　Your job is to do everything in your power to provide these brave warriors with the supplies, equipment, and other services they need to launch their counterattack on Cuba."

　Deputy Director Bissell said, "In addition, the Bureau has also sent assassination teams to kill Castro, and they are infiltrating Cuba one after another. If the assassination team succeeds, Cuba's anti-American regime will be thrown into chaos, and our "covert political operations" will be more successful..."

　Although Deputy Director Bissell spoke so confidently, Firi was fidgeting, with no joy on his face.

　In fact, he was already sweating profusely and sweating profusely after hearing this.

　Hey, Mr. Deputy Director, how can President Arbenz of Guatemala be compared with Mr. Castro of Cuba?

　This bearded Cuban is incredibly tough, and a CIA nemesis! Even if you assassinate him for another 50 years, you won't be able to kill him!

　——At this moment, Fili's heart was really cold, from his chest to the soles of his feet.

　He now finally knew what kind of mess the first mission that this CIA newcomer would be involved in was!

　That is - the biggest joke of the United States in the early days of the Cold War, the biggest failure since the founding of the CIA, the stupidest and most ridiculous military action during President Kennedy's term, and a great failure that caused the US government to pay the first war reparations since the founding of the country.

　Even decades later, the Bay of Pigs Operation remains famous, no, infamous!

　What’s even more terrible is that although the United States will continue to dominate for decades, fighting from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean to the caves of Afghanistan, the Cuban revolutionary regime has been fighting against the United States for sixty years on the doorstep of the United States and is still alive and well.

　It seems that its existence is just to attack the United States.

　It is easy to imagine what a disastrous future the Americans who are ordered to deal with Cuba will face.

　Therefore, facing the kind-looking Deputy Director Bissell, Fili, as a rookie, seemed to see the fangs of a devil.

　——We are too small to bear the blame for the failure of the Bay of Pigs Operation. We really don’t want to bear it, and we can’t bear it either!

　However, military orders were difficult to disobey, and Firi, who was full of complaints, finally set out on the journey to the "Cuban Brigade" training base with a sigh.

　Author's words: PS: Joke: Someone traveled to Egypt and made a video to show off his hotel room. He could see the pyramids just by opening the curtains.

　But after posting it, he was immediately criticized.

　——Oh, the room with a grave view.

　Chapter 10, Cuban Revolution at Novice Village Difficulty!

　In the Caribbean Sea southeast of the United States, there is an island of tobacco and sugar that has a love-hate relationship with it - Cuba!

　Although Cuba is only a small country in Latin America, it has carried too many historical traces in the 20th century.

　——The Cuban Missile Crisis, the US-Soviet Cold War, the rise of the left-wing movement in Latin America... have made anti-American Cuba the focus of the world many times.

　Speaking of the ill-fated relationship between the United States and Cuba, it can be traced back to before the Civil War.

　As early as 1850, the American Freemasons and southern slave owners who coveted Cuba's sugar industry jointly funded a pirate leader, Narciso Lopez, to take 600 mercenaries to the island of Cuba, which was then a Spanish colony, to start a revolution and want Cuba to join the United States as a state.

　Unfortunately, although the Southern slave owners of the United States had sent their strongest troops, including the future "Confederate President" Jefferson Davis and the famous Southern Army General Robert E. Lee, they were ultimately defeated repeatedly in Cuba and ultimately lost everything.

　Half a century later, in 1898, with the Maine incident, the Spanish-American War broke out. Tens of thousands of American troops crossed the sea to invade and conquered the Spanish colonial troops and Cuban rebels on the island.

　Although the United States did not ultimately directly incorporate Cuba into its territory, it still turned it into a "protectorate" of the United States, ruled by agents supported by the United States, and directly stipulated in the Cuban Constitution that the United States has the right to send troops to Cuba to interfere in its internal affairs at any time!

　Under the threat of American bayonets, major American financial tycoons at the time, especially the infamous United Fruit Company, seized the opportunity to expand rapidly in Cuba, seizing various industries and vast tracts of land. Although Cuba became an independent republic in name only, it was actually just America's backyard.

　American capital directly controls 80% of Cuba's public utilities, 90% of its mining industry, 50% of its railroads, and 40% of its sugar production. The United States controls all of Cuba's best farmland and tobacco plantations. Furthermore, the United States occupies Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and uses it as a military base and special prison.

　The American ambassador is the second-in-command of Cuba, and in many cases his status is higher than that of the president, just like a governor sent by the colonial power to a colony.

　However, Cuba has been a Spanish colony for hundreds of years and does not have a strong obsession with independence. As long as life can be lived, it is too lazy to cause trouble.

　Cuba then survived as a U.S. protectorate for half a century, though there were mutinies and riots, none of which were large in scale or intensity. Aside from the Great Depression, when Cuba, like the United States, experienced hardship, the economy remained relatively prosperous.

　It was not until a certain black warlord Batista brazenly launched a mutiny and overthrew the democratically elected government that Cuba was completely plunged into turmoil!

　Batista, a progressive in his youth, secured the support of President Roosevelt and led a group of soldiers to overthrow the Cuban government in 1933. However, Batista did not seek the presidency, instead serving as Cuba's Army Chief of Staff.

　——This was mainly because Batista was just a sergeant and a mixed-race black man, and was discriminated against in Cuba where racist ideas were prevalent at the time.

　If he insists on becoming president, he will probably arouse the anger of the upper-class white people, and even American bosses will dislike him.

　You know, people with dark skin like him were not even qualified to ride the bus in the southern states of the United States at that time!

　Therefore, this black warlord would rather take a step back, give up the presidency to others, take control of the military power himself, and become a behind-the-scenes boss.

　Well, by the way, after the coup, Sergeant Batista immediately gave himself a rocket-like promotion and rose to the rank of general.

　In the following years, the Cuban president changed frequently, but the military remained under Batista's control.

　In 1940, General Batista finally couldn't resist the temptation to reach the top, took off his military uniform and returned to politics, participated in the presidential election that year, and was finally successfully elected, serving as the president of Cuba for four years.

　But in 1944, when President Batista tried to run for re-election, he suffered a crushing defeat in the election and had to step down in disgrace.

　Back then, over 90% of Cuban high society was white. Because you, Batista, were willing to hand over military power, everyone held their noses and let you, a black warlord, be president for four years to satisfy your own desires. That was quite generous! Don't be ungrateful and really want to cling to the presidency!

　Batista, who failed to win re-election, seemed a little discouraged and did not even want to stay in Cuba. He went to the United States to buy a luxury house and lived in retirement.

　But after four years of recuperation in the United States, in 1948, Batista regained his strength, returned to Cuba, and was elected to the Senate.

　In 1951, the increasingly powerful Batista attempted to return to the presidency. However, his return was not welcomed by the entire Cuban upper class, and the lower classes also had little good impression of the corrupt Batista. According to polls, he had little chance of winning the Cuban presidential election.

　So, seeing that he could not come to power through legal procedures, Batista suddenly made up his mind and contacted his old trusted subordinates in the army to rebel. He dissolved Cuba's civilian government by force, expelled and exiled the democratically elected and legitimate President Prio, established a military government, and became Cuba's lifelong dictator from then on!

　Moreover, he abolished the constitution and banned all political party activities and public gatherings in Cuba, as if he was going to be king!

　This has really stirred up a hornet's nest!

　You know, Batista is black! And Cuba is a country where white people are the majority!

　At that time, the civil rights movement in the United States had not yet won, and blacks throughout America were considered inferior and were openly discriminated against and suppressed.

　(Among Latin American countries, Cubans are considered white in Latin America because the indigenous people of Cuba were killed more cleanly.)

　It's already outrageous that a black man wants to be president of a white country. Now this black man wants to be king of a white country?

　This is outrageous! How can you expect those right-wing white gentlemen in Cuba's upper class to tolerate such an outrageous thing?

　In fact, even the United States was very dissatisfied with Batista's coup d'état, believing that he had destroyed the "model of a free country" that the United States had built in its backyard. Batista's military coup was not reported to the Americans in advance, and the civilian government he overthrew was also a running dog of the Americans.

　Although Batista never showed any anti-American tendencies, his brazen destruction of the American democratic system was itself a sign of disobedience.

　Not to mention, he defeated the white people as a black man, which is considered to be a heinous crime in the eyes of the conservative Republican government of the United States!

　Fortunately, Batista was sensible enough to know that the American empire could not be offended. After becoming a dictator, he immediately made amends by "making full use of Cuba's resources to win the favor of the United States" - he signed the "Military Mutual Assistance Treaty" with US President Eisenhower, expanded the Guantanamo Bay Concession on the island of Cuba, and continued to sell off Cuba's few remaining state-owned assets, allowing Cuba to be basically hollowed out by American capital, in exchange for the temporary acquiescence of the United States.

　——But this is just a tacit approval of this military government. The United States has never stopped making various small moves under the table.

　Secondly, before Batista launched this coup, Cuba's American-style party election campaigns had been running smoothly for decades. Countless upper-class people had entered politics through this path, and many more ordinary Cubans made a living by participating in election campaigns.

　Now, Batista is blaming everyone without even a reason. What do you think those Cubans who are interested in politics will think?

　Among those whose political dreams were shattered was a young lawyer, Fidel Castro, who was a well-known young student leader at the time. After graduation, he entered politics and became a candidate of the Cuban Orthodox Party. He was ambitiously planning to run for parliament.

　As a result, Batista used force to dissolve the parliament, leaving Castro with no chance of election.