American Strategic Deception Bureau

　There are more and more nude camps opening across the country. Even on ordinary beaches, women casually go into the sea wearing only underwear and shaking their breasts.

　In restaurants and nightclubs across the United States, "topless" waitresses who are naked from the waist up are now common. Even in high-end restaurants in Washington, D.C., it is common to see waitresses wearing uniforms with hollowed-out chests, swinging their breasts around to attract customers.

　As for the stages of Broadway and Hollywood, nudity quickly became a trend and quickly spread to social circles. By the mid-1960s, half-naked appearances had become the fashion of fashionable American society. Various translucent gauze skirts and tulle robes became the new favorites of fashionable ladies. These clothes often only used a few small metal discs to half cover the nipples and thighs. A few decades ago, only the most coquettish prostitutes would wear them.

　If it is a hot summer, "appearing with no upper body" has become a popular fashion among all the bold girls who think they have a beautiful figure.

　The difference is that the rich, bare-chested girls wear ornate beads instead of tops, while the poor girls with no money make do with a garland around their necks.

　Moreover, while removing their tops, the shorts and skirts of many American hot girls also became shorter and shorter, exposing more and more areas of their abdomens. In the end, they simply removed their skirts and pants, and only stuck a fake flower on their crotch and painted some oil paint on their faces, and then dared to hang out like Eve in the Garden of Eden.

　As for the muscular men who are shirtless all day long and try to cheat girls by showing off their bodies, there are even more of them on university campuses overflowing with youthful hormones.

　Of course, in addition to wearing less and less clothes, college students' minds are also becoming more and more liberated, and they are beginning to dare to talk about some political topics.

　For example, when Fili took Marita through a tree-lined avenue, they saw some students setting up tents on the lawn, holding up signs and shouting slogans against the Vietnam War... Well, there were not many people and the scale was not large, which shows that the anti-war movement is still in its infancy.

　Moreover, there were some conservative middle-aged people who advocated war and argued with them in their speeches, saying that if Southeast Asia was completely lost, the United States' "entire Pacific coast" would be "exposed" and so on... completely forgetting that there were the Philippines and Japan in between.

　However, even American conservatives generally felt by 1965 that "the war (in Vietnam) was a terrible one."

　——After his successful re-election, President Johnson became full of confidence and kept telling reporters nonsense that Vietnam was just a "fourth-rate small country with its butt exposed" and that as long as the United States gave it a light punch, the communists in Hanoi would cry bitterly and beg for mercy on their knees.

　And then what? The war had lasted so long, and how many blows had the American imperial army delivered? And yet, hundreds and thousands of people were still dying on the Vietnamese front every week, with no sign of victory. The Vietcong's sphere of influence was expanding, and the war had even spread to Thailand!

　To make matters worse, television was just beginning to gain popularity, and the slow-moving federal government had no idea how to regulate and control this new medium. Consequently, for the first few years, it was completely ignored, with no censorship system in sight. Meanwhile, war correspondents from major television stations, desperate to grab headlines and attention, filmed whatever was most provocative, broadcasting scenes of bloody massacres with impunity.

　Even if they filmed a bloody corpse with ripped intestines, or a Vietnamese woman who had just been raped, the TV station didn't know to censor it.

　Therefore, this kind of flesh-and-blood war scene filled with real death and torture brought a huge visual impact to the American people staying in the peaceful rear, and even caused serious mental trauma to the American soldiers who had not yet gone to the battlefield.

　Throughout American history, the US military has largely been a mercenary and thief-like force, with officers severely out of touch with the people and the lower-level soldiers, lacking a sense of honor, little more than hooligans. Due to poor military treatment and low social status, few good people are willing to serve, and the only ones who are available are scum.

　Any inhumane evil and brutality are not worth mentioning in the eyes of such a scum army filled with criminal reserves.

　Things like raiding villages at night, ravaging little girls, kidnapping brides from weddings, and burning towns and villages are all very "normal" basic operations.

　However, in the thirty years from World War II to the Vietnam War, the size of the army expanded greatly and conscription was widely adopted, which led to a large number of "good families" joining the army, allowing the US military to enter an era with the best discipline, the highest moral quality, the greatest sense of justice and compassion, and the most like a "civilized army."

　From the 1940s to the 1970s, the conscription-based US military—though not all, at least a significant portion—truly lived up to the "great and glorious" American military standards depicted in Hollywood films. Most soldiers were well-educated, had moral compass, and even held devout faith. Even if there were a few scumbags among them, they were forced to behave themselves when surrounded by their fellow good people.

　Now, you are forcing this army, which has certain morals and ideals, to participate in a long and unjust war and commit all kinds of atrocities.

　Then, it is like forcing a "righteous man of God" like Captain America to be used as an amoral murderer like Deadpool...

　How can there not be problems with the morale and spirit of the army?

　Therefore, when the Vietnam War lasted for more than a year, the grassroots soldiers of the US military generally felt tired and disgusted with the war.

　When Secretary of Defense McNamara announced in January this year that he would increase the monthly conscription number from 5,000 to 50,000 and immediately send 40,000 American soldiers to the Vietnam battlefield, these soldiers who were about to go to the battlefield became unhappy and complained, and began to call themselves "disgruntled soldiers."

　As for the civilian population, draft dodging by young men of draft age quickly became widespread. University campuses were littered with flyers filled with tips for avoiding the draft (American college students at this time could not be exempted from the draft; they could only apply for deferrals, which were not guaranteed to be approved). Much like the Austro-Hungarian Empire depicted in "The Good Soldier Švejk," everyone was racking their brains to find ways to fail the draft board's physical examination.

　At the same time, tens of thousands of wealthy children of military age fled abroad to avoid the draft. In Toronto, Canada alone, over 10,000 young Americans, unable to return home, gathered to avoid the draft. Many of them came from right-wing conservative families. While their parents chanted pro-war slogans, they also gave their children money, tacitly allowing them to escape the draft by fleeing abroad.

　——Even the upper-class people who advocate war don’t want to see their children being put in a coffin or coming back with missing limbs!

　(The hippie scene in the US was quite bad during those years, but a good number of people were just pretending to be hippies, just to avoid military service.)

　These social trends, reflected in the political arena, have led to the growing weakness and frenzy of hawks, while the ranks of doves have continued to grow. For example, former Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance expressed extreme pessimism about the prospects of the Vietnam War, saying it "threatens to tear the United States apart." Idaho Senator Frank Church warned, "There are limits to what we can do to curb Red power. If the people of a country do not support the government in power, we cannot save it..."

　Yet, when President Johnson requested $70 billion in additional funding to escalate the Vietnam War, both the House and Senate approved it by overwhelming votes.

　In response, Morse of Oregon angrily accused the United States of "leading humanity into a third world war in which there is no chance of victory"; Greening of Alaska called the new war funding proposal a "blank check for unlimited escalation."

　Of course, their anti-war voices were not loud enough at the moment, but when they reached university campuses, they suddenly became deafening.

　——Because these college students really could be arrested at any time to serve in the military and thrown into the meat grinder of the Vietnam battlefield to fight for their lives.

　"It's hard to imagine that while the US military is fighting bloody battles on the other side of the ocean, they are openly shouting anti-war slogans here."

　As the wife of a former Nazi remnant and the former commander of US forces in Vietnam, Marita couldn't help but feel a sense of resistance when she saw these anti-war college students calling the US soldiers on the front lines murderers and lunatics. "They're just trying to avoid military service! They're even acting like cowards!"

　"Draft dodging is indeed a major factor, but even you Germans would probably react similarly if you were faced with such a situation."

　Firi shrugged. "If Hitler hadn't been seeking revenge against the Allies, and instead wanted to send hundreds of thousands of Germans to Vietnam for no apparent reason, to engage in an endless war, then the Germans of thirty years ago would have been as furious against the Führer as the Americans are today."

　——Although he is the former commander of the US military in Vietnam, Firi actually has no enthusiasm for this stupid overseas war.

　"Well, you're right. If it were the Germans thirty years ago, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to endure such a fruitless war."

　Marita thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, but then changed the subject, "But holding up signs to protest the war is one thing, but why are they walking around naked with bottles of wine? Don't those girls have any sense of shame?"

　"Ah, these naked women aren't here to protest the war, they're just gathering together for some fun."

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　If the American college students' rallies and marches against the Vietnam War had some grand narrative political significance and progressive character, then the other activities surrounding the anti-Vietnam War lectures, such as nudity gatherings, sleeping groups, love groups, and spiritual retreats, were pure chaos.

　The 1960s was a time of intense rebellion in the United States. Although history books, for the sake of respectability, always focus on recording the more glorious political movements against the Vietnam War and black equality, in fact, it was a "general rebellion against all constraints."

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　At this time, young Americans are not only opposed to the Vietnam War, but also to hypocritical laws and outdated order, as well as the sum of a large number of social relations such as morality and ethics. As the first generation of white leftists, they loudly proclaim that there is nothing sacred in the world. The national flag, God, motherhood, knowledge, honor, modesty, chastity and honesty are all scams used by the ruling class to persecute them.

　Since the world is a giant deception, then as awakened people, they must liberate their minds—of course, carrying guns and starting a revolution is a bit too dangerous. But if they just gather together to have sex, do whatever they want, and call themselves "sexual liberation," it would be much safer.

　So, their "revolution" consisted of men and women mingling naked, taking drugs, playing music, and having sex, while cursing God, the government, and their parents—hmm, why did they strip naked? Well, according to the slogans of some American students of this era. Since they were "opposed to all restraints," then clothing, the distinction between barbarism and civilization, was the most basic constraint imposed on humans by civilized society. How could they be considered rebels if they didn't strip naked?

　These are also the three main elements of hippies: rock, drugs and sex. The core of hippies is "anti-traditionalism", and the main theme is rebellion.

　The older generation in the United States was naturally heartbroken, lambasting these young men for abandoning their morals and sense of responsibility, and the young women for abandoning their modesty and chastity. Parents were horrified to discover their daughters coming home not only pregnant, but also with unknown fathers; boys coming home covered in tattoos, with piercings in their earlobes and tongues—is this the age of awakening? It's clearly the age of decadence, isn't it?

　What makes these older generations even more indignant is that many professors and lecturers not only do not try to prevent their children from falling into bad habits in school, but instead add fuel to the fire, misleading students, acting like "teacher bitches" and instigating students to "learn bad things."

　For example, when Fili and Marita walked into a "lush" greenhouse, they heard a woman patiently advising students.

　"Boys, you don't want to go to Vietnam and get shot in the rain and get tropical diseases, right? So how do you avoid the draft? It's simple. When you go to the recruitment station for a physical, take enough anesthetic to make yourself half awake and half asleep. Then, if nothing goes wrong, the recruiter will tell you to get out with a look of disgust on his face.

　If you want to be a real drug addict just in case, you can also prick your arm with a needle a few weeks in advance to create dense needle holes. This will definitely make you look more like a drug addict than a drug addict..."

　Zoe, the fortune teller who once sold hemp to Marilyn Monroe, was now standing next to a blackboard in the greenhouse and talking.

　Below was a group of young male and female university students, some sitting and some lying down, looking quite decadent. The boys generally had long hair and scraggly beards, while the girls were mostly naked. Some were smoking hookahs, while others were hugging and caressing each other. The air was filled with a strange smell...

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　It has to be said that the so-called seventh-rank official of the prime minister's doorman and Marilyn Monroe's guest of honor would naturally not be an unknown person.

　Previously, the witch Zoe that Phili met in Marilyn Monroe's house was not an ordinary fortune teller wearing a black cloak and setting up a stall in the alley to tell fortunes, but an associate professor at the University of Southern California who now teaches gardening classes - it's just that the plants she cultivates are a little special.

　Zoe, in class today, was no longer dressed in the bohemian style she'd first seen. Instead, she wore a khaki-colored monk's robe, resembling an Eastern monk. At first glance, she resembled the Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme from the Marvel Universe, without a shaved head.

　Of course, the content of her lectures was much worse than that of Master Gu Yi: she either taught students to take and make drugs, or taught boys how to evade military service.

　Even her classroom was a greenhouse filled with all sorts of "magical plants." Inside, besides the lush, narcotic plants, there were naked young men and women, soft music playing. Everyone would listen to someone's speech or whisper to each other, all while puffing away on drugs. If the mood struck or they felt compatible, they would have sex at any moment.

　To those traditional moralists, this is no different from the black masses held by devil worshippers in medieval Europe.

　What's even more terrifying is that this accusation... is true! Zoe is indeed serving an evil god and participating in a black mass!

　After teaching the art of dodging military service by taking drugs, Zoe directed two beautiful girls, naked except for black cloaks, to hang a purple skull emblem in the center of the greenhouse. She then personally lit an exquisite copper incense burner and poured a large amount of hallucinogenic anesthetic into it.

　Then, in the greenhouse filled with the scent of anesthetics, she flipped open a scroll of parchment and preached to the already high-spirited crowd: "People! Open your eyes and see! All laws and order are false. Civilized society is founded on illusion and deception, and nations are nothing more than imagined communities. Nothing in the world is real, only lies are eternal... Under the purple light of the dark sun, we will eventually awaken..."

　As Zoe spoke, the people who smelled the anesthetic incense became more and more intoxicated, and a faint light flashed on the purple skull badge.

　——That’s right, at this moment, Zoe had been developed by Firi into a missionary for the Prince of Lies, Xirik…

　Chapter 320: Seriously Become a Cult Leader

　Amidst the curling smoke and the lush green greenhouse, there is an illusion that makes people feel like they are floating in the air.

　The men and women college students gathered in this greenhouse

　The students had already taken the "spiritual tea" that was said to be able to eliminate illness and communicate with gods. This was a hallucinogenic drink made by squeezing the juice from fresh plants of hemp and other hallucinogenic plants, mixed with milk and mint.

　Lying down among the countless wonderful plants that "heal the soul", enjoying the wonderful fragrance that seemed to come from heaven, a kind of sleepiness and comfort that came from the bones rose up from the depths of their bodies little by little.

　As Associate Professor Zoe, the witch, chanted, they slowly felt mist rising around them. The plants in the greenhouse seemed to grow smiling faces and gradually became vivid. They began to chatter like children, overflowing with vitality...

　And from the empty ceiling above their heads, countless little angels in various poses suddenly descended. They had snow-white feather wings, wore translucent gauze skirts, and had delicate and charming faces. They giggled, accompanied by endless fragrant flowers like rain and brilliant heavenly music.

　Their skirts fluttered in the air, revealing their petite and lovely young figures. They played harps and guitars, or flutes and horns, showing off their graceful singing voices and music. They danced in the air with soft smiles, seeming so close and yet so far away.

　Some people couldn't help but lean back, reaching out to grab something, but they always came up empty. Only the indescribable sound of nature echoed in their ears, each note so enchanting that they didn't want to wake up.

　In this cosmic symphony led by God and drummed by the Holy Spirit, more strange scenes appeared in their vision one after another: deserts, oceans, tropical forests, erupting volcanoes, golden light all over the sky, flaming clouds... In the ever-changing colors, countless gods walked out from heaven, some with kind eyes and smiling faces, while others were majestic, creepy and chilling.

　Some were instantly overjoyed, wanting to dance and greet the deity, begging for its blessing. Others, feeling humbled, simply prostrated themselves before the deity, worshipping and singing praises... but they found themselves unable to move, their throats too dry to utter a single sound.

　Others feel extremely excited, as if there is a fire burning in their lower abdomen, the men's crotch is erect, and the women's crotch is flooded... Then they naturally combine in sweat, and the women's screams and the men's happy groans come one after another.

　Considering that none of them used contraception, perhaps a few little lives had already quietly sprouted at this time?

　However, just as these rebellious college students, who had "awakened" or fallen, were immersed in the charming and psychedelic atmosphere of all kinds of beautiful bodies, magical interweaving, their spiritual mentor, the witch Zoe, had quietly left their side...

　-

　"Your Highness, and Madam, it's a pleasure to meet you."

　Zoe, the witch, bowed somewhat stiffly and greeted Fili and Marita. "What can I do for you?"

　"No need to be so polite, Professor Zoe. We are just servants of His Highness the Dark Sun (the honorific title of Prince of Lies, Xirik). There's no need to address us in such an exaggerated way. Just address me and Marita in a normal way."

　Hearing Zoe calling him "Leader", Ferry couldn't help but feel a little resistant.

　Although he was indeed currently considered a favored one of the Liar Prince Xirik, and possessed a cheat system bestowed upon him by Xirik, he still felt somewhat queasy when he thought of himself in the same league as those gluttonous individuals in Japan and South Korea who ran cults to defraud people of money and sex, and even tricked them into suicide.

　Indeed, like those extravagant cult leaders, Fili also kept a group of women in his villa and often had parties every night.

　But the way he collected his harem was not through religious fraud, but through power, financial resources and violence...

　Eh? Why does it feel like instead of being cleansed, it seems to have become even more evil?

　Well, as a CIA officer, he was born to be on the evil side! Why would a good person go to the CIA?

　Therefore, even if they have to do something worse than defrauding money and sex, it seems to be justified.

　"I came here this time to learn about the missionary work and the drug sales. Well, the focus is on the latter. Of course, we have to pay attention to the former as well."

　He took out a ballpoint pen and a small notebook and asked Zoe, "Your missionary activities at USC didn't cause any trouble, did they?"

　"Okay, Mr. Jin, because you don't approve of public displays of supernatural magic, my 'Spiritual Society' is currently developing very slowly. I had the jewelry store order the purple skull badges, but I've only distributed fewer than 200 of them, and I don't even have 50 believers who actually attend my gatherings regularly."

　Professor Zoe said with some trepidation, "These days, forming all kinds of mystical societies is the most fashionable thing in universities. People worship all kinds of Asian gods and Buddhas. As for small religious groups like the "Spiritual Society", as long as they don't cause any major trouble, the university doesn't bother to intervene.

　So, I think we don't need to be so cautious. We can just do a few "public appearances" to attract believers!

　Since the 1960s, religious belief in the United States has been in a state of disintegration.

　Traditional Christianity is widely rejected by young people as hopeless, conservative, and a decadent faith that supports the existing power system. Zen Buddhism from Asia and some more eccentric sects, such as Indian

　Shaktism and other forms of Hinduism are flourishing; voodoo, once practiced only by black people, is now gaining white adherents. Even demon worship and black masses, which actually involve blood sacrifices, are reportedly being practiced covertly.

　Therefore, in this context of chaos and disorder, a small, loose religious group that believes that everything in the world is a lie is not worth mentioning at all.

　——And, to a certain extent, this statement really reveals some truths in the world!

　Compared with the messy religious groups, the Black Panther Party that advocates armed uprising, the left-wing revolutionary youth organization that attempts to wage urban guerrilla warfare in the United States, and the KKK racists who advocate white supremacy are now flourishing in all states across the United States, and the US government has no way to control them.

　No one pays attention to small groups like the "Spiritual Society" that sell narcotics and engage in group sex peacefully, and have a secret CIA background.

　"Showing your prowess before men? That's unnecessary. For believers, it's better to have nothing than to have something less than nothing. Our Lord is not keen on the world spreading His name, but rather hopes that the world will practice His teachings. As long as you believe that this world is all lies and that deception is a legitimate profession, you are our Lord's Lamb.

　Besides, we don't have to rely on donations from believers to make money! How is the anesthetic, no, elixir business going recently? Professor Zoe.

　When Ferry heard that Zoe wanted him to cast a spell in public to demonstrate his extraordinary power, he immediately waved his hand to refuse - his mission was just to get the job done. It was enough to trick a group of "Zuowang Dao" into causing trouble and playing pranks everywhere, and to make the Prince of Lies Xirik happy. There was really no need to set up a cult with strict hierarchy and management: like now, a loose club format similar to an idol fan club was just right.

　"The medicine business is booming. These magical plants are in high demand everywhere. Every club that's holding a party comes to us to buy them."

　Zoe smiled and said, "I've made $30,000 in the past two months. Do I need to give some of it to you?"

　Thirty thousand dollars? Well, it was a huge sum, but for a drug lord, it wasn't much.

　Although it seems that hemp is everywhere on American college campuses, in reality, the terminal price of hemp is not cheap and is an absolute luxury.

　Currently, dried hemp sells for only $25 per kilogram in Mexico. Once smuggled across the border into the United States, the wholesale price soars to $150 to $200 per kilogram. Wholesalers then break the hemp into small bags and sell them for a staggering $850 per kilogram!

　Don't think this number is insignificant. Remember, in the 1960s, the Bretton Woods system hadn't collapsed yet. The US dollar was still pegged to gold and convertible into gold. It was a real "US dollar"! $800 was enough to buy a nice car!

　The profits from opium-related drugs are even more terrifying, or in other words, the traffickers who sell opium are even more ruthless than those who sell hemp. With the drug-producing areas in the Golden Triangle temporarily destroyed by the war, the opium, morphine and heroin on the US market this year will have to rely entirely on the French for supply.

　As a result, underground pharmacists in Marseille, France, charged $700 for converting each kilogram of morphine into heroin. Manhattan mafia families in New York then found Frenchmen to buy a kilogram of heroin for $10,000.

　When gangsters divide the powder into small bags and retail them to American addicts, each bag contains only 5% heroin, with the rest being sugar or quinine powder. Using this rip-off, a kilogram of heroin can fetch $30,000!

　From drug lords and smugglers to the corrupt police and customs officers who cover for drug trafficking, all have profited from these layers of huge profits. However, the end consumers suffer, especially those poor students with little money and social elites who love to throw drug parties.