American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Both the director and deputy director have to be busy restoring their image in the president's mind instead of filling their own graves.

　Through the confrontation at the White House meeting, Director Dulles and Deputy Director Bissell finally realized a harsh and cold reality.

　——They are not senators or governors, and they have no bargaining chips to compete with the president!

　President Kennedy could easily dismiss them without any reason or excuse, and there would be no objection on Capitol Hill or in the White House.

　The reason is simple, a new emperor appoints new ministers!

　Do you think the US presidential election held every four years is a joke?

　Whenever there is a change of ruling party or president, it is normal for the heads of key departments such as the CIA to be kicked out, and it is luck if they can stay in their positions.

　If he remains in office but still doesn't know what's good for him and fails to win the favor of the new president, it would be normal for him to be fired at some point in time.

　Just like the wealthy people in Beverly Hills, if they want to change their housekeeper or nanny, do they need any reason?

　Well, of course, in today's American political arena, there are also heroes like FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who worked for half a century, outlasting eight presidents and sixteen attorneys general. But he is a legendary figure in American history and cannot be understood with common political common sense.

　Throughout the 20th century, the United States only produced one director, Edgar Hoover, and no one else was capable of emulating him.

　Given this, even though Captain Ferry King had "betrayed" their "good intentions" by not colluding with the CIA to deceive the President, from the CIA's perspective, he was a typical example of "sitting on the wrong side of the fence"...but the CIA still absolutely could not touch him at this time and instead had to reward him.

　Because Firi has demonstrated his loyalty and reliability to the president through practical actions.

　However, the CIA director and deputy director showed their disloyalty and ulterior motives to the president through their actions!

　Under these circumstances, how could Director Dulles and Deputy Director Bissell dare to make things difficult for Fieri, let alone expel him from the CIA?

　why?

　For example, as a general leading an army, you drove away the military supervisor sent by the emperor, and you are a surrendered general who just jumped from the enemy camp. You have deceived your superiors and subordinates and were exposed once before... Isn't this equivalent to forcing the emperor to run out of patience and directly dismiss you?

　Don't think too highly of yourself. Do you really think that if you masters are removed, no one will be able to manage the CIA and intelligence work will come to a halt?

　What a joke! There are plenty of people in the CIA who want to be the director's supervisor! And there are also a bunch of political bigwigs outside who want to be parachuted in!

　As a result, after realizing that President Kennedy did not trust them and that they could be dismissed at any time, Director Dulles and Deputy Director Bissell, who had originally felt too good about themselves, suddenly felt like they had been enlightened and poured with a basin of ice water, leaving them cold from head to toe.

　At this moment, the two directors finally got rid of their original unwarranted arrogance and conceit, and fully realized their own weakness and humility.

　They once thought they could be on par with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and fantasized that they could manipulate the president to their heart's content.

　But in the end they found that the big boss is still the big boss, and the workers are still workers.

　Although they are in charge of the CIA, they are actually just ordinary bureaucrats, and their careers and honors and disgraces all depend on the president's decision.

　In this case, after their attempt to deceive the president failed, the CIA director and deputy director naturally had to keep a low profile and carefully formulate the "Crusader Plan" assigned by President Kennedy to successfully complete the Dominican Republic attack mission.

　Otherwise, if they continue to cause trouble, they will be dismissed and forced to retire in the eyes of the president, as they are neither loyal nor capable.

　Under such circumstances, Director Dulles naturally could not deal with Fieri who had ruined his own plans, and he had to promote Fieri to show his goodwill.

　Otherwise, how could he show President Kennedy that he had truly realized his past mistakes and had turned over a new leaf?

　——It’s certainly uncomfortable to feel the authority of an official is hurt, but the consequences of angering the leader will only be more terrible!

　But having said that, if Firi really gets some high-ranking and lucrative position, the director and deputy director will also feel unhappy and uncomfortable.

　Coincidentally, according to the rules, after the main target was transferred from Cuba to the Dominican Republic,

　Jacob Estelan, who led the Cuban team, also took the opportunity to transfer his closest confidants to the Dominican Special Task Force and was responsible for the "Crusader Plan" to capture the Dominican Republic.

　But after he left, the Cuban Special Task Force still had to be managed. Otherwise, it would be embarrassing for a project team to be without a leader.

　Moreover, if the Dominican team wants to use the various human and material resources that originally belonged to the Cuban team, they need cooperation from the Cuban team.

　Finally, the CIA assassins who have infiltrated Cuba must have a boss to report to after the assassination of Castro succeeds or fails, right?

　Therefore, the CIA director simply asked Firi, who had just been in office for less than half a year, to take charge of the Cuban task force that was in a state of suspension and shelved.

　This was an exceptional promotion, demonstrating the CIA's obedience to the president, but it did not give Fieri any real benefits.

　Anyway, he is just the acting team leader. After acting for a period of time, the real team leader will return to work and everything will return to normal.

　Just like that, Firi, holding the appointment documents, the password note and the key, walked out of the CIA headquarters with a confused expression a moment later.

　Uh, does this count as... a promotion?

　Acting Head of the Cuban Special Task Force? So… Acting Head of the Golden Group?

　Ahem, why do I subconsciously feel that the name of this position sounds a bit unlucky?

　It always reminds me of the "Acting President Li" who was left in Nanjing to take the blame during the Battle of Crossing the Yangtze River more than ten years ago!

　Moreover, if you think about it carefully, the position he has now is really quite similar to that of Li Deling's "acting president" back then.

　Although Acting President Li seemed to have taken the presidential throne at that time, in fact, the real President Chiang Kai-shek neither resigned nor retired, nor did he follow the process of the vice president succeeding the president. It was just like the president was on a visit abroad, and the acting president exercised his powers in the capital.

　On the other hand, according to legal reasoning, as long as the real President Chiang returns to Nanjing one day, Acting President Li will have to abdicate immediately!

　The same logic applies to the current Cuban Special Task Force and the acting leader, Kim. The original leader, Estelline, neither resigned nor replaced him. Firi, the newcomer, is merely acting, effectively acting in Estelline's place.

　As long as Estelion finishes other things one day, such as attacking the Dominican Republic, and returns to the Cuban team, Ferry must resign immediately!

　What made Fili feel even more embarrassed was that his future office location, the "Wave" training camp, had already been converted into a brothel!

　Well, this is my first time being the head of a unit, but this unit is actually a brothel? It really makes me... I don't know what to say!

　Moreover, the state-owned brothel that had been "privatized" also belonged to Estelion, and Firi was only in charge of it for a period of time.

　"I remember before I traveled through time, I once heard an old Chinese comic song, 'Shuke who flies a plane, Beta who drives a tank'. How come when it comes to me, it becomes Fili who runs a brothel?" Fili shook his head with a wry smile, feeling even more embarrassed.

　With the above-mentioned divergent thoughts in mind, he got into his car with a subtle expression, started the engine, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away.

　Three days later, Captain Ferry King, who had rushed to the "Wave" brothel in Coral Gables, Florida, sat in the boss's office where Deputy Director Bissell had summoned him last year. He looked through the roster of the remaining members of the Cuban Special Task Force and couldn't help but gasp.

　In order to carry out the next Dominican Republic attack, Team Leader Estelline not only took away his own close confidants, but also pulled out all the decent personnel in the Cuban Special Task Force. In the end, what was left for him, the acting team leader, was actually a group of... the old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant people!

　Of the agents and insiders sent into Cuba, only the CIA clerks who stayed at the "Wave" brothel, as well as the brothel's owner, thugs, accountants, pimps, etc. were left.

　Among them, there are five official agents, corresponding to the five attributes of "old", "weak", "sick", "disabled" and "pregnant".

　So, Fili called them to his office, and they were really amazed when they saw what was going on.

　First of all, the one who possesses the attribute of "old" is the current acting deputy leader of the Cuban team, Grandpa Bai Siwen.

　You can tell from the name that this guy is of Chinese descent, but Grandpa Bai Siwen is not Chinese American, but Chinese Cuban.

　This old man, Bai, was born in the 19th century and is already 70 years old this year. Although his last name is Bai, he is actually the mixed-race son of a Chinese plantation worker and a black slave. Therefore, his skin is dark and not white at all. However, his hair has long been as white as snow, with not a single black hair left.

　Well, at first glance, in Fili's eyes, Mr. Bai Siwen looked like Mandela of South Africa.

　——Of course, it’s not the young Mandela in 1961, but the old Mandela who was released from prison and became president thirty years later.

　After knowing that his deputy team leader was actually of Chinese descent, Fili was quite curious at first and even chatted with him for a few words. However, after communicating with him, he found that this old man of mixed black and yellow race had completely integrated into the New World and basically forgot his hometown - let alone Mandarin (National Language), he even spoke Cantonese haltingly, and it was estimated that authentic Cantonese people could not understand him. He only spoke fluent English and Spanish.

　Well, that's right. After all, he is a second-generation immigrant and of mixed blood. It is indeed difficult for this old man to preserve the cultural genes of his hometown.

　Even Cuba’s former dictator Batista, in addition to his obvious black ancestry, also has a quarter of Chinese genes!

　Of course, although Mr. Bai Siwen didn't speak much Chinese, he was incredibly familiar with the local customs and practices of Cuba. He originally worked in Cuba, buying local specialties and wholesale daily necessities, and he spent half a century traveling the island's mountains and rivers.

　Just two years ago, Mr. Bai Siwen lived in a large mansion in Chinatown in Havana, the capital of Cuba. His family of three generations and dozens of people lived together. He owned six grocery stores, five restaurants and two farms, and was a well-known figure in the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

　So, why did this old man, who should have been enjoying his retirement, abandon his family and business to come to Florida to work for the CIA?

　Because that damn bearded Castro is carrying out an anti-Chinese campaign in Cuba!

　Although the influence of the Chinese in Cuba is far from enough to be compared with that of the white and mixed-race people of Spanish descent, just like in Southeast Asia, the Chinese have established a good foundation on the island through years of small businesses.

　As early as 1847, the first group of Chinese workers with pigtails were trafficked to Cuba from the southeast coast on piggy banks. From then on, until the end of the business of trafficking Chinese workers to Cuban plantations in 1874, the total number of Chinese workers pouring into Cuba reached as many as 140,000.

　Next, at the end of the 19th century, the United States enacted the Chinese Exclusion Act, and a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment broke out. A large number of Chinese Americans and Chinese descendants were forced to flee to Cuba, where they engaged in commercial and handicraft labor, set up stalls, run factories, open laundries and restaurants, etc., which made the scale of Chinese in Cuba even larger.

　By the middle of the 20th century, there were more than 100,000 Chinese living in Havana, the capital of Cuba alone. Chinese chambers of commerce held more than half of the market share in the capital's grocery stores, laundries, fruit shops, and other businesses. Other businesses such as tobacco factories, newspapers, cinemas, pharmacies, etc. were also run by Chinese.

　San Ha Street, where Chinese businesses are concentrated, once surpassed Chinatown in Los Angeles and San Francisco to become the largest Chinatown in the Americas.

　Even in the Cuban countryside outside the cities, there are dozens of smaller farms and plantations owned by Chinese in Cuba.

　However, with the success of Castro's revolution, all the prosperity and prosperity of the Chinese in Cuba vanished in an instant!

　Of course, Castro is not Hitler, and he never thought of treating Chinese people as Jews and putting them in gas chambers to make soap.

　In fact, when Castro entered Havana in January 1959, the local Chinese, if not lining the streets to welcome him, were at least indifferent. This was because they had witnessed numerous regime changes over the years, from the US military occupation to Batista's coup. No matter how the Cuban government's top leaders changed their ways, the lives of ordinary people at the bottom remained the same.

　When he first seized power, Castro treated the Chinese in Cuba with relative courtesy, and there was no hysterical hatred or persecution.

　But the problem is that not long after, as Cuba's "nationalization" social reforms deepened, the Chinese in Cuba began to suffer bad luck!

　Just as the Soviet Union never engaged in the deliberate and bloody anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany, its Jews were still tortured to death. Similarly, although Castro did not legislate specifically to persecute the Chinese, his socioeconomic reforms, modeled on those implemented by the Soviet Union in Cuba, hit the hardest: the Chinese Cubans engaged in crafts and small businesses in major cities.

　Since Castro decided to join the Soviet Union and the Communist Party, he naturally had to attack the capitalists. Unfortunately, the Chinese in Cuba were mainly small traders.

　Work...

　As a result, a massive campaign to eliminate privatization was launched by the Castro regime in Cuba, and a terrible disaster suddenly befell the Chinese community. All Chinese shops and businesses in Cuba were forcibly nationalized, and their bank deposits were permanently frozen.

　The life savings of hundreds of thousands of Chinese people vanished in an instant with a single document from the revolutionary regime.

　In the end, even the Chinese cemeteries were nationalized! According to rumors, they were being razed to grow crops and build military barracks.

　According to Castro, post-revolution Cuba would no longer follow the capitalist path. No one would be allowed to own private property. Landlords and capitalists would have to hand over all their assets, including savings, houses, fields, shops... everything would be nationalized! Even cemeteries were no exception!

　What is even more radical is that Castro also banned all private industry and commerce. Chinese people were not allowed to set up small stalls or open small shops!

　To make matters worse, although Castro never publicly uttered anti-Chinese rhetoric, during the implementation process, white Cubans generally believed that the Chinese had "original sin" and needed to be targeted, at least driven out of the city...short of being stuffed into concentration camps.

　Seeing that the property of several generations was confiscated, life became unbearable, and Chinese Cubans fled. Some returned to their homeland via the Soviet Union, and the rest found boats to sneak into the United States. Among the large number of Cuban boat people in Florida, Chinese Cubans also accounted for a considerable proportion.

　Finally, by the end of the 20th century, there were only 300 Chinese people left in Cuba, and Havana's Chinatown became a "Chinatown without Chinese."

　Like his neighbors in Havana's Chinatown, Bai Siwen's shop and property were confiscated by the revolutionary regime. The Bai family's farm in the countryside was also destroyed during land reform. Even their own house was sealed, forcing the family to live on the streets.

　Seeing the savings of several generations wiped out and wondering if his life would be saved, Mr. Bai Siwen, who had lived in Cuba all his life, decided to leave. Thinking that his family had never seen their hometown and could not even speak Chinese, he finally decided to go to the United States.

　At this time, relations between Cuba and the United States were already strained, and the revolutionary government had sealed off the coast to prevent the infiltration of "counter-revolutionaries." The Bai Siwen family's smuggled journey to the United States was a thrilling one. Their fishing boat leaked, they encountered stormy weather, and even encountered pirates.

　Of the last family of more than 30 people, only half survived to set foot on Florida soil.

　To sum up, for Mr. Bai, Castro's revolutionary regime is a hatred of both the loss of his wealth and the destruction of his family.

　Even though he has arrived in the United States, Mr. Bai Siwen is still angry and upset about this.

　After all, three generations of family business were inexplicably destroyed. No matter who it is, they would probably find it hard to understand.

　Therefore, when the CIA recruited personnel in Florida last year and made a big fanfare to launch a counterattack on Cuba, Mr. Bai Siwen, upon hearing the news, immediately decided to contribute his remaining energy and volunteered to sign up:

　On the one hand, it was for revenge, and on the other hand, he wanted to use the CIA's skin to make it easier for his children and grandchildren to make a living in Florida.

　Although this old man's fighting ability is at most equivalent to that of a goose, he claims to have a lot of connections and connections in Cuba and can help to gather information.

　It just so happened that the CIA's informants and networks previously deployed in Cuba were destroyed by Castro due to a series of stupid actions.

　So, with the idea of ​​giving it a try, Estelian approved a sum of money for the Cuban Chinese businessman and asked him to take the lead in rebuilding the intelligence network.

　As it turned out, Mr. Bai Siwen was not bragging, but really had some skills, especially in building relationships and finding ways.

　With the CIA's funding and approval, the old man used the connections he had accumulated from his past business ventures in various parts of Cuba to bribe street vendors and smugglers across Cuba. In just a few months, he had once again set up a mediocre intelligence network on the island of Cuba.

　——There’s nothing wrong with finding out some gossip in the city, but if you want to carry out assassinations or steal intelligence, that’s too much to think about.

　However, Mr. Bai Siwen's connections and network are limited to Cuba. If he were to move to other places, he would be useless.

　Therefore, Team Leader Esterline left him to Fili. Furthermore, before leaving the Cuban team, he also specially arranged for Bai Siwen to be officially appointed as a CIA agent and promoted him to acting deputy team leader of the Cuban Special Task Force—maybe to make things difficult for Fili.

　At a time when racial discrimination still exists openly, it is definitely not easy for Chinese people to get a job in the United States.

　Therefore, Mr. Bai Siwen, who had just learned that he had become an official, was extremely excited and excited, and his whole body was full of energy to the extreme.

　However, looking at this dark-skinned Chinese old man who was radiant and energetic because of his promotion, Fili couldn't help but want to laugh.

　——Bai Siwen is the acting deputy team leader, abbreviated as "Bai Dai Fu", and the homonym is "Bai Dai Fu", right?

　Alas, it’s a good thing that Mr. Bai Siwen can no longer speak Chinese, so he probably wouldn’t be able to understand this joke…

　Apart from the dark-skinned, white-haired old Chinese man who serves as the acting deputy team leader, the other agent with a particularly striking appearance is the "weak" one.

　- Wolfe Lee, a Texan, 1.80 meters tall and 250 pounds.

　He was 1,200 degrees nearsighted, with a thick, bottle-bottomed nose. At first glance, he looked bulky, but in reality, he was so overweight that he was out of breath even climbing the stairs and couldn't do even the most strenuous exercise.

　It was entirely due to overeating and lack of exercise that he gained such fat - fortunately, his job did not require him to go out on the road.

　This newly hired fat guy's task was to receive radio messages from frontline agents and monitor and decipher Cuban secret messages. However, as a beginner, Wolfe Lee could only translate the telegrams sent by his own people with the code book, and was unable to translate Castro's telegrams.

　When Team Leader Esteline was transferred to the Dominican Special Task Force, he had originally intended to take the Cuban team's telegraph operator and translator with him. However, at least one person had to remain behind so that Firi could maintain contact with the CIA agents already infiltrated in Cuba, rather than simply severing the line.