American Strategic Deception Bureau

　It was just that Kennedy's security was so poor that the assassination turned into a public execution broadcast live on television, which was a huge disgrace to the whole world. Coupled with a series of clues before and after the incident, as well as some strange words and deeds of Mrs. Jacqueline, it triggered a conspiracy theory that lasted for half a century.

　Secondly, it is generally recognized by later generations that Kennedy's policies during his lifetime had a very obvious left-wing progressive color.

　Overall, he plans to improve labor treatment domestically, bridge racial divides, nationalize the U.S. financial industry to a certain extent, support emerging industries, establish a relatively large and stable middle class, and create an "olive-shaped" society.

　Externally, it eased relations with the Soviet Union, reduced the intensity of the Cold War, emphasized economic and cultural soft power, and weakened military output.

　These policies were basically practical, most of them were implemented later, and really helped the United States win the Cold War.

　But the problem was that when Kennedy pushed forward these measures, he was too hasty and used crude methods, failing to do a good job of exchanging interests and appeasing the people.

　He worked hard to implement a policy of détente toward the Soviet Union, tried his best to avoid being bogged down in the Vietnam War, and repeatedly vetoed proposals to expand the Vietnam War, making himself a thorn in the eyes of the military, intelligence agencies, and McCarthyites, and also ruining the financial resources of many arms dealers.

　He used an iron-fisted approach to end the apartheid system and supported the black civil rights movement, which made white racists in the United States extremely unhappy.

　He tried to issue currency with silver as collateral and take away the Federal Reserve's printing press, infringing on the interests of the country's real rulers.

　Later, Kennedy relied heavily on the support of the mafia during his campaign and made numerous promises. However, after he became president, most of the promises he had made to the mafia leaders were broken, or at least watered down, which naturally sparked great dissatisfaction among the mafia members.

　Then, Kennedy repeatedly tried to weaken the FBI's power, greatly offending the legendary director, J. Edgar Hoover.

　In the end, because the CIA's level was too poor and its ability to defraud funds was too high, it was reorganized by Kennedy, which made the CIA hold a grudge.

　——According to later investigations, the assassins who actually killed President Kennedy were from the CIA's Cuban Special Task Force.

　At first glance, President Kennedy seemed to have enemies everywhere. He offended a lot of people in just three years of his administration, and his assassination was his own fault.

　To put it in a literary way, "Kennedy offended almost everyone except the American people. The young president tried to save the United States from the darkness and quagmire of the following history. However, all his efforts were ended by the gunfire in Dallas!"

　However, this doesn't make sense, because any president with a little bit of ability cannot be a good guy. Every American president who runs for office has his own supporters and political enemies. If he wants to get the support of one group of people, he will inevitably offend another group.

　If the political struggle in the United States was centered around assassinations, then the White House and Capitol Hill would have long since turned into slaughterhouses littered with corpses, and the National Guards of each state would have long since been attacking and killing each other, with rivers of blood flowing every day like in many small African countries.

　On the contrary, as long as there's still a chance of legal struggle, vested interests rarely resort to direct confrontation. For example, the controversial "King of Understanding" Donald Trump, who made enemies worldwide during his presidency and ultimately staged the "storming of the Capitol," ultimately left the White House alive.

　In addition, Nixon, who severely offended the Jews, withdrew from the Vietnam War, and disappointed right-wing conservatives, was only impeached and removed from office.

　Sheila, nicknamed "Kill Larry"

　She did kill a lot of people, but that was just a kind of "cleaning up the house," killing her own "house slaves" to gain the approval of other politicians. Did she really want to kill senators (senators) and governors? She wouldn't even have the guts to kill Larry!

　Therefore, even if President Kennedy did offend many people, it does not mean that he would definitely be assassinated by these political forces. Generally speaking, these forces would join forces to snipe the president's bills, even impeach the president, or make the president lose the next election.

　As for directly tearing apart the relationship and assassinating the president? It's more like Kennedy offended so many people that no one cared about his life or death, which led to the accident.

　Kennedy was indeed too ambitious and carried himself too far, but to deal with him, all one had to do was to defeat him in the 1964 election.

　He is not a warlord or a dictator, let alone a revolutionary. How could he have the ability to undermine the voting rules?

　Moreover, in the time and space where Firi lived, because the South Vietnamese regime collapsed ahead of schedule and the Viet Cong raised the red flag in Saigon twelve years in advance, President Kennedy agreed to the full participation of the US military in the Vietnam War during his term of office, thus fully satisfying the appetite of the military and the military-industrial complex.

　At the same time, although the CIA was severely punished by the White House due to the chaos in Cuba and many people were dismissed, with the full outbreak of the Vietnam War, the CIA would inevitably receive a large amount of funding and resources in Vietnam, and its overall strength would probably increase rather than decrease.

　As for those unlucky guys who got kicked out because of that Cuba thing? Who cares about them? Which department in the world doesn't have officials who rise and fall?

　In addition, because the Cuban Crisis turned into a real local nuclear war, the "US-Soviet détente" secretly agreed upon between Kennedy and Khrushchev could not be realized. The Cold War continued to maintain a high-intensity confrontation, the arms race never stopped, and the interests of arms dealers naturally remained unaffected.

　In addition, because the United States has been in chaos for the past two years, including two overseas wars, President Kennedy, who has been exhausted, has not yet shown any intention of confronting Wall Street head-on, issuing new currency based on silver, and taking back the Federal Reserve's printing press.

　In other words, Wall Street has no intention of getting rid of the president right now—at least not yet.

　Kennedy relied on a mafia family during his campaign and then broke his promises after being elected. This certainly caused a lot of hatred, but it was actually not a big deal.

　Back then, Kennedy served President Roosevelt tirelessly, but ultimately failed to become Secretary of Commerce and only got the consolation prize of being the ambassador to the UK. However, Kennedy simply considered it bad luck and regarded it as a failed investment, but never tried to kill President Roosevelt because of it.

　In the final analysis, for normal rulers - well, except for the situation of Mexico's rebellion in later generations, domestic gangs are nothing more than urinals that do dirty work. Even if the benefits are less, the gangs will at most not work hard next time, and it is absolutely impossible for them to control the president.

　In this way, in the current timeline of the dimension where Ferry is located, the only people who were truly offended by President Kennedy were the southern white racists, or the KKK, who were completely enraged because of Kennedy's support for the black civil rights movement.

　These racists were once quite powerful; President Lincoln was killed by them. But this isn't the Civil War of a century ago; racism has long been tainted. Beating up a few black people is fine, but killing the president is a bit over the top.

　As the biggest beneficiary of Kennedy's assassination, Vice President Johnson naturally hoped that the president would die.

　However, for the Vice President to take over by killing the President... this kind of thing is obviously very unethical in the American political atmosphere. Of course, if the President has become so isolated and has the world's enemies, it is not impossible for the Vice President to secretly take advantage of the situation.

　But if the vice president really has to start from scratch and take the lead in planning the assassination of the president...isn't he afraid that the future vice president will do the same?

　After much thought, Firi didn't think that Vice President Johnson, who appeared as an "establishment figure," would have such ambition and courage comparable to Hitler's - if he was really so cruel and ruthless, and would do anything for power, then in history he would not have voluntarily given up the election in 1968.

　Finally, the former CIA Cuban Special Task Force members, the individuals rumored to have been responsible for assassinating Kennedy in Texas, would have been unable to kill the president in this dimension. Firi, himself a former leader of the Cuban Special Task Force, knew only too well the state in which the elite troops had been reduced to such a state during the devastating Cuban War: they were already battered and half-dead.

　Besides, since they fought the war so badly themselves, there is really no reason to blame the president for not supporting them enough: they have already started a nuclear war, what else do they want?

　Are you going to be happy only if the world ends and America becomes a radioactive wasteland?

　And the five-member team under Fili, namely the "old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant", definitely does not have the leisure time to assassinate the president.

　So, to sum up, since the situation has changed so dramatically, would President Kennedy in this dimension not be assassinated during his term?

　Well, uh, not necessarily.

　As the President of the United States has a high-risk job, it is not the case that he can be fine just by obeying the orders of the vested interest groups and being a puppet.

　For example, President Reagan did not offend domestic interest groups, but he still did so because of a certain idea.

　The eccentric star-chasing young man Hinckley was inexplicably shot. If Hinckley's shooting skills were more accurate and he hit Reagan's vitals, it would not be surprising that he died on the spot.

　President Ford was even more wronged—he was assassinated twice within a month by two crazy women! Although neither of the assassins' bullets hit him, he was nearly strangled to death by a bodyguard who dragged him by the collar and was almost crushed to death by a bodyguard who rushed over to protect him.

　Although both presidents survived by chance, it is very likely that they would have died on the spot if they had been less lucky, which is completely logical.

　From this we can see that the security measures for the US president are actually quite poor, and can even be said to be careless and perfunctory.

　Even if there were no interest groups behind the assassination, it would be normal for the president to be killed if the security personnel were careless.

　As an Irishman ostracized by Anglo-American society and a trusted aide to "Jane in the Emperor's Heart," Fieri certainly didn't want President Kennedy to be assassinated before even completing his term. However, his influence was limited, and he couldn't predict whether, in this altered timeline, a powerful political group might be plotting to physically eliminate President Kennedy.

　So he thought about it for a long time, but had no clue.

　In fact, before Fili could figure out the problem, he found himself in new trouble.

　"What? A large number of illegal immigrants have been mixed into the refugee boats departing from Phu Quoc Island and Da Nang? Many Filipinos, Hong Kongers, and Indonesians are trying to pretend to be Vietnamese refugees and immigrate to the United States to get visas?"

　Author's Note: PS: The recent release of "Godzilla 1.0" shifts the story to the immediate aftermath of World War II, with the protagonist becoming a kamikaze pilot who narrowly escapes death. It's generally received rave reviews, but some critics have criticized it as a remnant of militarism, claiming it's a pretense of anti-war sentiment while actually opposing defeat.

　Well, it probably refers to the hero’s heroic feat of crashing into Godzilla with a kamikaze plane.

　Honestly, I don't want to dwell on whether Japanese films are "anti-war" or "anti-defeat," like "Highschool of the Dead," a work of hardcore right-wing Japan, still has countless fans in China. Using stigma to discredit literary works is pointless.

　You can say you don't like the movie, but you can't say others are guilty of watching it.

　If we really follow the "revolutionary ideas", all the online articles nowadays are "decayed and decadent petty-bourgeois ideas". At the same time, there are indeed many stubborn old people who can't stand seeing their children touch computers - whether they can control them or not is another matter, but they get furious when they see their younger generations using computers or looking at mobile phones.

　Chapter 285: Asian Runren, the more the better

　As we all know, there have always been countless people from all over the world who want to immigrate to the United States, "seek freedom" and pursue their American dream.

　As a world leader and "beacon of civilization", the United States in its golden age was like a magnet, attracting the physical allies of people around the world.

　However, legal immigration to the United States is not easy, and smuggling into the country is fraught with risks. If it's not a neighboring Latin American country like Mexico, there's also the issue of the long distance—a boat ticket across the Pacific or Atlantic Ocean costs a fortune for ordinary people in poor countries!

　Not to mention, whether the human traffickers responsible for smuggling are reliable is also a question - who knows if they will throw you into the sea to feed the fish halfway?

　Due to the above reasons, although many people in Southeast Asia yearn for the United States these days, very few can actually immigrate to the United States.

　Unexpectedly, with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, the US government opened a shortcut to immigration in South Vietnam: anyone recognized as a Vietnam War refugee who entered the refugee camps on Phu Quoc Island, Nha Trang, or Da Nang could board a US government-organized ship for free, receive a green card, and legally immigrate to the United States! The government also provided training and resettlement services to help them integrate into American society and become Americans!

　Isn't this at least a hundred times better than finding a human trafficker to smuggle into the United States as an illegal immigrant?

　How can we miss such a good opportunity?

　Now or never!

　If it’s not moist now, when will it be better? !

　As a result, the Chinese in Southeast Asian countries, who have always been very business-minded, quickly took action with great enthusiasm.

　They spread the word everywhere that there is a shortcut to "hitch a ride" to immigrate to the United States - just find a way to get people to Phu Quoc Island, Nha Trang or Da Nang, blend in with Vietnamese refugees, and then disguise yourself as Vietnamese, you can get a green card to the United States and become an American from then on!

　What? You can't speak Vietnamese? No problem, just speak Chinese. You can pretend to be Chinese in Vietnam!

　There are so many countries in Southeast Asia, and which one doesn't have a large number of Chinese people? There are even more Chinese people in Vietnam!

　What? You can't even speak Chinese? But you can speak a few words of English?

　Oh, you are a Filipino, that’s easy, just paint some oil paint on your face, dress in a rough way, and pretend to be a wild man from the mountains of Vietnam!

　For a time, fishing boats in the South China Sea were carrying illegal immigrants to South Vietnam, and everyone was waving the crudely made three-line flag of South Vietnam with a yellow background.

　——The journey across the South China Sea is indeed long, but it is much easier than crossing the Pacific Ocean.

　The scale and number of people involved can be called a "migration of the elite to the south", which contrasts with the genuine refugee boats escaping from the Mekong Delta.

　Poor Dr. Kissinger, who is now serving as the American consul in Phu Quoc Island, has transported 80,000 people from the island from summer to autumn, but the influx of people into Phu Quoc Island has in turn increased.

　What's more, the island's population has increased instead of decreased, becoming increasingly crowded and giving Kissinger a headache.

　The situation on Kunlun Island is even worse. This island is only about 15% of the size of Phu Quoc Island, and with only a few thousand people crammed into it, it is already in a state of emergency.

　As for Da Nang and Nha Trang in Quang Nam, immigration to the United States has been turned into a big business, and countless people have made a fortune from it!

　Due to the previous "Great Escape to Hong Kong" incident, hundreds of thousands of hungry people from the mainland flocked to Hong Kong. In order to work and make a living, they were willing to accept extremely low wages, which invisibly robbed many jobs of Hong Kong's local low-level working people and caused considerable employment pressure.

　Many Hong Kong citizens feel that it is difficult to find a job, salaries are low and prices are high, and their lives are not satisfactory. They instinctively yearn for a better life.

　As a result, a large number of immigration agencies took advantage of the situation and sold them a route of transiting through Da Nang and then immigrating to the United States.

　——There are regular ferry flights between Da Nang and Hong Kong, so it is not difficult for Hong Kong people to come to Da Nang.

　After they arrive in Da Nang...

　Well, please don't overestimate the integrity of Guangnan's grassroots officials. As long as Hong Kong people are willing to give a little bribe, or have some connections among the local Chinese businessmen in Da Nang, the people managing the refugee camps will definitely be happy to change their identities to Vietnamese Chinese who escaped from Saigon!

　Anyway, in the eyes of Americans, the yellow monkeys in different parts of East Asia look similar, and it is really hard to tell the difference.

　Many white Americans with poor eyesight can even mistake Koreans and Japanese!

　As for the Chinese in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, they are even less able to distinguish the subtle differences between them.

　In this way, mainland Chinese people moved to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong people moved to the United States. The more they moved, the more capitalist they became. Everyone had a bright future...

　In addition to Hong Kongers and Filipinos who admire the king's influence, Indonesian Chinese, wealthy individuals, and business owners are also the main force in this year's wave of "hitchhiking" immigrants to the United States. In recent years, President Sukarno's governing philosophy has become increasingly left-leaning, and relations with the United States have deteriorated. The Indonesian Communist Party has also grown in power, claiming to have "three million members," ranking third in the world.

　Under such circumstances, many people were worried that Indonesia would soon turn completely red and become another North Vietnam, and then launch socialist transformation, nationalize all land and industry and commerce - most likely free of charge, and then hang all the capitalists and landlords up and shoot them.

　In view of this, Indonesia's wealthy businessmen, middle class, and intellectuals are now transferring their assets and looking for ways to go abroad, or at least arrange for some of their children and nephews to go abroad to avoid being caught up in the red revolution. In terms of safety, the best way out is naturally to immigrate to the United States.

　In short, as Red China continued to increase its efforts to export revolution, the red wave spread rapidly throughout Asia. The reactionary exploiting classes in Southeast Asia were generally in a state of panic and had a strong desire to immigrate to Europe and the United States. For a time, the number of people who immigrated to Asia was like a tide, and almost all those who could immigrate were immigrated.

　In addition to the official channels for refugees to enter the country and obtain visas, military transport ships returning from the front lines in Vietnam are actually doing similar business now. After losing the fertile plains of the Mekong Delta, Guangnan is now struggling to be self-sufficient in even the staple food of rice, and has almost nothing to export. These merchant ships are fully loaded with weapons, ammunition and military supplies from the United States and come to Vietnam to unload, but there is nothing to take back.

　Instead of letting the ship sail across the Pacific Ocean, it is better to transport some people back to the United States. On the one hand, it allows these suffering Asians to escape from hell and rush to the paradise of freedom. On the other hand, they can also collect some benefits: one fee from the illegal immigrants, and another from the gangs that receive them in the United States.

　Unlike the "legal" path of entering the United States through official channels, posing as Vietnam War refugees, this method of traveling on merchant ships transporting military supplies was pure smuggling. Once illegal immigrants arrived in American cities, the fate of men was often forced to work illegally in sweatshops and shady farms. The fate of women was even more uncertain. They were lucky to find a job as a bar girl. A far more dire fate was not unheard of.

　So, after inspecting several refugee camps in Los Angeles and gaining a preliminary understanding of the current situation, Fili quickly made a decision: No need to screen! Our country's doors are always open! Regardless of the country of origin of the Asian immigrants, we will treat them all as Vietnam War refugees and accept them all!

　Anyway, there are already tens of millions of black people in the United States. Once racial discrimination and segregation in the southern states are suppressed, tens of millions of immigrants will pour in from neighboring Latin America, turning American society into a palette and kaleidoscope...

　In the face of this unstoppable historical trend, what will happen if hundreds of thousands or even millions of Asians come in?

　Maybe it will be more conducive to "interfering with different opinions" and allowing the government to strike a balance between Hispanics, Asians and blacks!

　What's more, the Democratic camp he is standing in now will have a reputation for "accepting everyone without distinction" in the future. It has long been keen on accepting illegal immigrants from various countries into the United States and using them as a voting base. Later American white left organizations often organize activities to "help illegal immigrants". Specifically, they pull illegal immigrants from the border in trucks to big blue state cities such as Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and then abandon them in the cars when they arrive at the destination.

　How should I put it? It feels like showing love and helping stray dogs.

　However, even releasing a large number of stray cats and dogs into one place will cause an ecological crisis, not to mention releasing a large number of human migrants!

　Therefore, after these Democratic Party white left organizations tirelessly and vigorously released all kinds of illegal immigrants, the public security in San Francisco in the 21st century naturally collapsed, with feces and tents everywhere, the streets were full of stinking odors, and the cityscape was comparable to London in the Industrial Revolution era.

　Since the Democratic Party welcomes even Hispanics and Blacks, then naturally, more Asians, as a "model minority," are even better!

　Considering that Chinese account for a large portion of the population, Firi is willing to give them some convenience even out of simple natural emotion.

　Besides, their ability to escape from Vietnam to the United States already means they have established connections along the way. If the refugee camps in the United States, the final recipients, insist on taking this to heart, it would be a slap in the face of the entire upstream industry chain - what's the point of doing that?

　In short, due to Fili's insistence on letting them pass and the helplessness of others, these hitchhiking Asian illegal immigrants were all allowed into the United States with a blind eye, obtained green cards, and completed the first step in realizing the American dream.

　Ferry's brother, Congressman Bernard, went to the Sonoran Desert refugee camp and, after learning about the incident, he also felt that it was indeed not possible to investigate it further.

　After all, these refugee camps in California are not commercial companies that need to consider profits, but temporary charities that spend government funding. Once the funding is used up and no new funding is obtained, the refugee resettlement project will automatically stop.

　In this case, as long as the refugees brought in from Asia do not contain any violent elements, they should be handled according to the regulations. Why make trouble out of nothing?

　The reason why Congressman Bernard came to the refugee camp in the Sonoran Desert to find his younger brother was to inform him of another major event.

　"What? President Kennedy is coming to Los Angeles next week? To tour the Vietnamese refugee camps?"