American Strategic Deception Bureau

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　In this way, the two sides had a conversation that was at odds with each other. When Vice President Nixon asked about the US investment in Cuba, Castro replied: "We have no intention of confiscating American property. We will pay compensation for any industry we take over." The prerequisite is that the United States must provide Castro with a loan so that he, who is impoverished, has money to maintain the operation of the country, and the money to redeem the American assets must also come from the US loan.

　Nixon was obviously very dissatisfied with Castro's "get something for nothing" response.

　In fact, Nixon did not agree at all with the new Cuban regime taking back any American industries, and wanted Cuba to hand over more land and assets.

　How can Cuba's land and resources belong to the Cubans? Your land, mines, and everything else should be given to American corporations!

　Just like Ireland's 3924 million acres of arable land, not an inch of it once belonged to the Irish, but all belonged to 300 British masters in London.

　Cubans should be like the Irish in the past, working as laborers for their American masters in their own country!

　Furthermore, thanks to a CIA tip-off, Nixon knew that Castro had many communists hiding under his wing, including Che Guevara, a pioneer in the anti-American movement in Guatemala six years earlier. Therefore, he believed that Castro had to first show his loyalty.

　Therefore, Nixon issued a stern warning to Castro, asking him to take concrete actions to draw a clear line between himself and those pro-Soviet red elements.

　Specifically, it means ordering Castro to purge, or at least expel, those who are blacklisted by the CIA.

　Only in this way can he gain the trust of the White House and allow him to rule Cuba. Otherwise, he will have to teach Castro a lesson.

　But the problem is, if Castro really did as the White House requested and foolishly cut off his own limbs, it would be the end of his life.

　Without this group of capable left-wingers, how can he purge the political enemies within the coalition, and who can he rely on to suppress the various evil opposition groups?

　For example, Che Guevara, who would later become famous, was appointed by Castro as the head of the Cabaña Military Prison. He was leading a group of "enthusiastic volunteers" to carry out a large-scale purge of various opposition forces within the coalition forces and was called "Cuba's Beria."

　The task of incorporating and transforming the old government army was mainly carried out by Castro's relatives and a number of left-wing radicals in Latin American countries.

　In other words, Castro's most reliable and capable direct military force is this group of socialist international brigades.

　Nixon's demands on Castro were similar to Lenin's pressure to remove Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Cheka, and Trotsky, the "Father of the Red Army," during the Soviet Union's civil war. Castro would rather invite US military intervention than dismantle his own power.

　——Vice President Nixon in the 1950s and President Nixon in the 1970s were completely different people in terms of political skills.

　At this time, Nixon did not have the grand strategy of playing the "Big Triangle Diplomacy" that he would later use to establish the United States' victory in the Cold War.

　Despite his courage and agility, he was deeply influenced by McCarthyism and his methods were extremely rigid. He believed that "loyalty is either absolute or absolutely disloyal."

　He did not consider Castro's real-life tightrope walking dilemma at all, but instead forced Castro to immediately prostrate himself and lie down like a dog!

　What? Asking the American boss for some dog food? Are you kidding me?

　The banana republics in Central America serve as dogs for the United States. Which one of them doesn't buy dog ​​chains and collars at their own expense and pay extra tribute?

　Faced with a self-centered, domineering, and die-hard like Nixon, Castro, no matter how smooth-talking he was, was helpless and could only sigh inwardly, "Every gift bestowed by fate has already been secretly marked with a price."

　He used to be so successful in attracting venture capital from Europe and the United States by fooling the media, but now he is in such a difficult situation because of the pressure from the White House.

　Just when Fidel Castro was at a loss in the United States, his brother Raul Castro also sent a telegram from Cuba saying that some of his speeches in the United States to please American liberals and dilute the red political tendencies had been transmitted back to Cuba and had a very bad impact.

　Many left-wing Cuban communists have questioned whether Castro is going to betray them and become a running dog of the United States?

　If Fidel Castro doesn't want the situation in Cuba to get out of control, he'd better come back and explain it to them soon...

　So, Castro's visit to the United States ended there. Although he did get some money, it was better than nothing.

　What’s even more terrible is that the American emperor has made it clear that he is unwilling to loosen the leash at all, leaving Castro, the revolutionary, with no way out.

　However, after the Cuban Revolution, the nation had fully awakened. They had long been dissatisfied with Cuba's economic and social dependence on the United States. If Castro wanted to appease them, he had to adopt an anti-American stance—this had become an unbreakable political correctness in Cuba at the time.

　Who allowed the Americans to drive tanks all over Cuba, occupy land, and forcibly requisition agricultural products at low prices, making the Cubans feel like they have lost everything they have and are losing their pants?

　So, just one month after returning home, after carefully evaluating the balance of power between the left and right wings in Cuba and the extent of US land assets in Cuba, Castro resolutely decided: "I can no longer serve this crazy American boss, so I'm joining the Communist Party!"

　Just like that, in May 1959, Castro completely turned against Cuba, jumping from an American liberal political idol to a left-wing pioneer waving the red flag. He began to formulate Cuba's "Land Reform Law" and then began to implement comprehensive land reform across the country, confiscating real estate on a large scale and nationalizing land across the country.

　A large number of Cuban landowners, comprador businessmen and right-wing elements were suppressed and expelled by the revolutionary regime and fled across the sea to Florida.

　Naturally, the United States was extremely angry - at that time, more than half of Cuba's estates and properties were controlled by American capital!

　Fidel Castro's land reform was mainly about confiscating American land, especially the United Fruit Company's land in Cuba!

　In September 1959, Fidel Castro again ignored the US warnings and diplomatic mediation, and cursed the crimes of US imperialism at the United Nations General Assembly. He declared that he would recover the assets of foreign-funded enterprises and implement nationalization reforms, and his anti-US stance became increasingly obvious.

　At this time, the United States finally woke up from its dream and realized that Castro was actually a natural actor. His previous talk about democracy and freedom and constitutional elections was purely acting. The American boss was fooled by him, and he actually established an anti-American left-wing regime in his own backyard!

　However, during the bipolar Cold War era, the Americans' anger was the Soviets' joy.

　——It was discovered that in America’s backyard, a red bridgehead called Cuba, which was only a hundred kilometers away from the U.S. mainland, suddenly appeared as if a pie had fallen from the sky... The Kremlin in Moscow was truly celebrating for a while, and Putin was overjoyed!

　To return the favor, Khrushchev, though not as generous as Brezhnev, who would later receive billions in subsidies, still gritted his teeth and showed some generosity on the Cuban issue—as long as he could plant the red flag on the American empire, no matter how much money was spent, it was worth it!

　As long as our little Cuban brother is willing to persist in opposing the United States and hold high the red flag without wavering, our big brother the Soviet Union will support him!

　As a result, the United States, in anger, froze Cuba's foreign exchange and assets in the United States and banned Cuba's sugar exports in an attempt to deter Cuba from joining the Communist Party.

　The Soviet Union immediately announced a loan of $1 million to Cuba to purchase 500 million tons of Cuban sugar within five years.

　The United States ordered to stop exporting oil to Cuba, trying to create an energy crisis for Cuba. The Soviet Union immediately announced that it would provide oil to Cuba!

　The United States ordered American-owned refineries in Cuba not to refine Soviet oil, so Castro simply ordered the confiscation of American-owned refineries in Cuba!

　After receiving support from the Soviet Union, Castro, who was originally a little guilty, became completely emboldened and went all the way to the anti-American cause.

　By the summer of 1960, the Cuban revolutionary regime had further intensified its efforts to collect taxes from American capital, expanding the scope of collection from real estate to American banks and enterprises, and began a de-Americanization movement across the country to erase all traces of the United States' existence, thus officially joining the Soviet camp!

　At this point, Cuba and the United States completely fell out, and Cuba became the number one traitor in the Caribbean, the United States' backyard.

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　For the U.S. government

　It was shameful enough that he accidentally blinded himself and personally established an anti-American regime in Cuba.

　To make matters even more unfortunate, 1960 happened to be a presidential election year. Kennedy and the Democrats naturally seized this opportunity to ridicule and criticize Eisenhower's Republican administration.

　The American media and public opinion also immediately turned against the government, blaming the White House and the CIA for their "misjudgment of Castro's true face" entirely. They even went so far as to say that there must be Soviet spies infiltrating the federal government. Otherwise, they would never have done such an outrageous thing!

　During the televised debate, Kennedy, representing the Democratic Party, repeatedly attacked the White House, making outrageous statements such as "How could America's backyard catch fire?" and "Who is responsible for the loss of Cuba?" He used these statements to attack the ruling Republican Party and leave his opponent, Vice President Nixon, speechless and unable to express his grievances.

　At this time, he had actually already directed the CIA to plan the "recapture of Guba". But the problem was that this was a classified operation and could not be made public for the time being!

　--In the spring of 1960, after the final diplomatic efforts to "restore the situation in Cuba" failed, the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to formulate a subversion plan to eliminate the Castro regime in Cuba as soon as possible, and let Vice President Nixon take the lead and coordinate various departments to implement this matter.

　However, in the Cold War atmosphere, the United States could no longer use the gunboat diplomacy it had used before World War II: if the United States invaded Cuba now, it would cause a huge geopolitical reaction, as many Third World countries would protest against the United States' "interference in the internal affairs of other countries."

　Because of the Soviet Union as a typical opposition, Uncle Sam had to pay attention to his table manners even when he was domineering.

　Therefore, the United States could only use small-scale secret subversive operations, relying on agents, military aid and bribing the Cuban opposition to overthrow Castro.

　Therefore, the CIA was ordered to establish a Cuba Special Task Force under the Fourth Section of the Western Hemisphere Division, with Jacob Estline as the team leader, responsible for specific matters and reporting directly to CIA Director Allen Dulles and Deputy Director Richard Bissell.

　In April 1960, an operation called "Pluto" targeting Castro was launched under the leadership of Vice President Nixon.

　However, just as Pluto is a "pseudo-planet" expelled from the circle of nine planets.

　This "Pluto Project" was also full of ominous signs from the very beginning.

　——Most revolutionary organizations in Latin America are relatively loose. Once a prestigious leader dies, the subordinates may scatter.

　So, starting in the summer of 1960, when the presidential election between Nixon and Kennedy was in full swing, Vice President Nixon was busy bickering with Kennedy while also having to coordinate the State Department, the Pentagon, the FBI and the CIA to get all departments to work together to get rid of Castro.

　Soon, the first group of recruited assassins were ordered to infiltrate Cuba. In just eight months, from the launch of Project Pluto to the end of President Eisenhower's term, the CIA had already attempted thirty-eight assassinations against Castro, but none of them succeeded in harming the target!

　Among them, one agent bribed a doctor named Miller who was close to Castro to poison Castro's eye drops. As a result, Dr. Miller accidentally broke the glass bottle while poisoning, and the leaked poison corroded the concrete floor, and the poisoning operation failed.

　Another CIA agent was ordered to sneak into Cuba unarmed. In a pre-prepared safe house in Havana, he was very surprised to find that the weapon prepared for him by the local informant was not the promised sniper rifle, but an anti-tank rocket launcher!

　The sniper agent angrily said that he didn't know how to use a rocket launcher to snipe! This job was impossible! Then he withdrew without permission.

　Another group of CIA agents hired the Cuban Mafia to poison the ice cream that Castro ate at a restaurant.

　As it turned out, this gang of mafia was indeed very powerful. The poison was put into the ice cream, but Castro was still safe and sound.

　——Because the mafia member who was ordered to poison the ice cream made an incredible mistake, perhaps because he was too nervous when the time came: he stuffed the entire bottle of poison, the size of his finger, into the ice cream, but forgot to open the lid to poison it!

　The result was that Castro was stunned to find a whole bottle of well-sealed poison in his ice cream...

　However, although this group of gangsters who forgot to open the poison were stupid, at least they had some professional ethics and knew what to do after receiving the money.

　As for the other Cuban gangs that were bribed by CIA agents, they often boasted that they could kill Castro in a matter of minutes if they were paid, and then took the CIA's money. However, they never did anything and simply disappeared without a trace.

　They really don't even have the professional ethics of "taking money to do things"!

　——Well, it is also possible that the CIA agent who handled the matter simply swallowed the funds and then made up an excuse to fool his superiors.

　There are also many assassination plans that simply remain in the minds of the agents and end in failure before they are put into practice.

　In the future, various attempts to assassinate Castro will continue for another half a century, and all of them will still end in failure...

　The "Immortal Castro" will also become a star idol of the red camp and a curse and nightmare for the CIA.

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　Of course, while waiting for these Mr. Bean agents to kill Castro, the CIA also did not forget to recruit mercenaries to launch a stormy attack on Cuba.

　The CIA's initial plan was to recruit a small Cuban infiltration team, have them infiltrate Cuba, contact "freedom fighters" and carry out sabotage. If they could incite a rebellion among the Cuban army and directly overthrow Castro, that would naturally be the best option.

　To this end, the CIA initially recruited only about 30 Cuban "warriors" to serve as special forces and undercover agents.

　At that time, there were already many Cuban fugitives in Florida and other places in the United States. They were either remnants of the rebels who were purged by the revolutionary regime, or gangsters who were scared away by the revolutionary government's anti-gang operations, including drug dealers, smugglers, casino thugs, brothel pimps, etc.

　——For some reason, the CIA actually thought these people were "adventurous" and were good potential recruits!

　After receiving training, the above-mentioned anti-Castro elements were secretly sent back to Cuba, where they were ordered to organize guerrillas and prepare to cooperate with the US actions.

　The problem was that after these 30 "elite soldiers" were deployed to Cuba, the vast majority vanished without a trace, leaving no trace of their presence. Only three managed to contact anti-Castro guerrillas in the Cuban countryside, but they were unable to achieve any immediate results.

　Due to land reform and the Great Purge, there were indeed many armed forces opposing Castro in Cuba at this time. However, they were not subordinate to each other, and they lacked a political platform that could convince the public. They quickly degenerated into bandits and robbers, and only created some public security pressure for Castro.

　The Cuban army had also initially completed its revolutionary transformation and turned into a "Red Army" where "the Party commands the gun" and was not so easy to bribe.

　Therefore, seeing that small-scale attacks were no longer effective, the CIA had no choice but to gather a larger number of mercenaries to launch a strong attack on the Cuban revolutionary regime.

　Then, an exile unit was born, designated "2506th Commando Brigade," but more commonly known as the "Cuban Brigade."

　Initially, the Cuban brigade's training base was located in Florida.

　CIA Deputy Director Bissell and Team Leader Esther Lane obtained $1075 million from Vice President Nixon and established a training camp called "The Wave" in Coral Gables, a tourist resort in Florida, where they recruited Cuban exiles for military training at a monthly salary of $175.

　The facilities of this "Wave" training camp are very complete

　Because it is used to train Cuban mercenaries to parachute and airborne, there is also an independent airport inside.

　Considering that the training was very arduous, the CIA also opened a luxurious brothel in the "Wave" training camp to provide entertainment and stress relief for mercenaries.

　As a result, the quality of these recruited Cuban exiles was not very good, and they were not careful with their words. During the break, they hugged prostitutes and drank a few glasses of rum, and then they started to shout and boast that they had obtained sponsorship from the CIA, gathered a large number of strong men, and were about to return to Cuba to become the boss!

　Then, mercenaries can be trained in closed conditions, but prostitutes are recruited on a temporary basis and have no sense of confidentiality.

　After they got off work, they naturally spread what they heard, and it became gossip known to everyone on the streets of Miami.

　Now, not long after the CIA started recruiting its first batch of mercenaries, Castro in Cuba got the news.

　Later on, even New York newspapers published detailed news on the front page about the CIA recruiting mercenaries to invade Cuba!

　Vice President Nixon expressed his anger at such a blatant leak of intelligence and summoned the CIA director to reprimand him.

　As a result, the CIA quickly made improvements and transferred the recruited mercenaries by plane to the popular resort island of Uzepa in the Gulf of Mexico.

　According to the CIA's thinking, now that you are trapped on the island, you will not have the energy to nag everywhere, right?

　But the problem is that there are no equipment and venues needed for military training in the resort on Uzepa Island!

　In addition, it is impossible for these "romantic" Latin Americans to have such strong subjective initiative - without supervision, how could they voluntarily undergo military training and fight to kill Castro with a common hatred of the enemy?

　So, because there was no one to supervise them, these Cubans stopped training altogether!

　These wage thieves live comfortably in the club on Uzepa Island every day. They have no intention of touching a gun. They just sunbathe, gamble, swim, drink, harass the women on the island and have a lot of fun. Some of the golf enthusiasts have even improved their golf skills.

　Later, Deputy Director Bissell recruited a new group of Cuban mercenaries and personally flew them to the island. He also inspected the training of the previous group. When he saw that they were idle and relaxed, he was immediately furious.

　I hired you with a high salary of $175 a month, just to let you spend the whole day on vacation on the island, enjoying the breeze and playing golf?

　He immediately called a C-54 transport plane and transported all the hundreds of Cubans to the U.S. Army Jungle Warfare Training Camp at Fort Gulick in the Panama Canal Zone. They underwent eight weeks of "hellish training" which finally made these veteran soldiers look a bit like soldiers.

　But then, as more and more Cubans were sent in, the US military in the Panama Canal Zone said there was not enough space.

　So, the Cubans were moved again, this time to Retalhuleu, Guatemala.

　——And this is also where our protagonist, Firi, is about to go on a business trip...

　According to the timeline of a certain parallel dimension, this Cuban brigade will gather about 1400 people and set sail in April 1961 on seven ships. They will cross the Caribbean Sea in a heroic and vigorous manner, land in the Bay of Pigs, and counterattack Cuba.

　Before leaving, some people confidently shouted that they wanted to tear off Castro's beard as a souvenir!

　But dozens of hours later, they experienced a hilarious and embarrassing battle.