American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Since Deputy Director Bissell did not seem to have much understanding of China's past, what he said was vague.

　After pondering his words carefully and recalling and connecting some forgotten memories from before the time travel, Firi finally understood.

　Isn’t this the “Sino-US Cooperation Office” mentioned in Chongqing’s “Red Rock Spirit”?

　I never expected that Team Leader Estelline had also been to Baigongguan and Zhazidong in Chongqing!

　Oh, it feels like I’ve been seeing more and more despicable people recently - Rusk who hastily drew the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula, Estelline who tortured revolutionary martyrs in Chongqing... Compared with these evil guys, the little evil I’ve done is not worth mentioning at all!

　"Jingle Bell!"

　At this moment, the phone in the office suddenly rang. Deputy Director Bissell answered the phone directly and signaled Firi to wait.

　So, Fili tactfully looked away while continuing to let his imagination run wild.

　Well, at this point in time, Hugh Hefner has launched his Playboy magazine and has become incredibly popular and famous.

　After the CIA magically transformed spy props into sex toys, if the confidentiality level is not high, can they advertise in their magazine?

　Even let the CIA collaborate with Hugh Hefner to make some promotional videos?

　For example, using his bunny girls to shoot some films about shelter girls and female spies, to pave the way for the CIA's subsequent human rights business?

　Although this business is rather unethical, for these women who have been trapped in the CIA's cellar, being sold as high-end commodities to the mansions or safe houses of wealthy people is better than being beaten, starved, addicted to drugs, and receiving high-pressure services in underground brothels controlled by gangs, right?

　Uh, wait, I suddenly remembered that "colorful" films like "Playboy" seem to be under the supervision of the FBI in the United States?

　At that time, the CIA will shoot the film and the FBI will supervise it. The two major intelligence agencies will work together to serve those men who watch movies secretly. What a blessing is this?

　If I wait until the Soviet Union collapses, I can then recruit a few retired female "Swallow" agents from the KGB to play the leading roles in the new film...

　Doesn't that mean that every time you enjoy Playboy, you are experiencing the joint services of the world's three major intelligence agencies?

　This really feels great just listening to it!

　Haha, Fili couldn't help but feel eager to try and develop the San Fernando Valley, which is currently just an agricultural area, in advance!

　Of course, the above is just divergent thinking and there is no need to take it seriously.

　Because he knew very well that according to normal historical processes, the CIA would not be able to carry out this human trafficking business for long.

　A few years later, the Vietnam War officially broke out, and 500,000 US troops entered the Indochina Peninsula. The CIA agents who followed the US military took the opportunity to establish connections with the drug lords in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia. After truly controlling the drug trafficking market, the agency probably no longer cared about the small amount of money from human trafficking.

　Ferry thought so easily, but then he suddenly shuddered and thought of something, and he couldn't help but feel horrified:

　Wait, by that time, the bureau wouldn't still want me to be a drug dealer. No, a narcotics promoter, to promote all sorts of new products, right?

　For example, hookahs with special tobacco? Candies infused with hemp? Small cylinders of laughing gas and certain poisonous mushrooms?

　Well, even though Fili never considered himself a good person, this kind of thing still crossed Fili's current moral bottom line.

　Although he had just been enthusiastically discussing the business of trafficking in female slaves with Deputy Director Bissell, he did not think it was immoral.

　Because these women who were kidnapped and trafficked by the CIA were already in the fire pit without Philip having to push them.

　If the agency could adopt Firi's idea, package and train them as shelter girls/CIA dropouts, and then sell them to wealthy men at high prices, it would actually make the lives of these women in the fire pit a little better - at least the firewood under their feet would be replaced with low-temperature candles.

　But if he were to promote anesthetics... his reputation would be too bad, and he would really become the culprit who poisoned the people!

　While Ferry was daydreaming about this, Director Bissell had finished his call and looked up at him and said, "Captain Jin! Put aside your personal work for now! You have a new mission coming up!"

　A group of our people had just failed in their assassination attempt on Castro and were trying to retreat back to Florida by sea.

　I've already prepared the boat. Please arrange for personnel as soon as possible to go with the boat to Cuban waters to pick them up and return!"

　"Ah? There are still agents from the bureau stranded in Cuba? That's not right! Didn't they all retreat?" Ferry was stunned when he heard this.

　——In the more than half a month since he took over the Cuban team, he did not just focus on personal work, nor did he forget his main job. He continued to maintain contact with the agents who had infiltrated Cuba.

　Initially, the Bureau allowed the agents to continue carrying out their original plan in Cuba.

　But last week, apparently because the Dominican Special Task Force was not going well, Director Dulles issued a recall order to all spies who had infiltrated Cuba, asking them to abandon their missions and return quickly to be directly transferred to the Dominican Group.

　According to what Firi knew, all the spies who were not dead or captured should have been withdrawn from Cuba.

　So, who are the people he is asked to support the retreat now?

　"Of course, all the regular agents have been recalled, but there are still outsourced assassins who have not withdrawn!" Deputy Director Bissell replied.

　"Ah? Assassination missions can also be outsourced?" Firi was shocked.

　"Why not?" The deputy director looked at him puzzledly. "The assassination missions in the bureau have always been mainly outsourced!"

　Firi:?!!!

　Author's words: PS: Sometimes the world is really small. Two historical events that seem to have nothing to do with each other actually have the same minor character appearing in them.

　Chapter 51: The Cowardly and Evil CIA

　Later, the US service outsourcing industry flourished. In the 21st century, most US companies' customer service hotlines are often met with a curry-tinged English accent—because the person answering the phone is in India.

　As for outsourcing various software programming, photo editing and animation drawing jobs to India and China, it is even more common.

　But the question is, can the CIA actually outsource its assassination missions? This sounds absurd, doesn't it?

　And Firi couldn't help but think of the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Management - a hilarious story about five Chinese killers who outsourced their business layer by layer, and their remuneration was reduced from 200 million to 10. In the end, no one carried out the assassination, but the five killers who serially subcontracted the business all went to jail.

　The international evaluation of this assassination outsourcing case is: a genius in the outsourcing industry and a big victim in management science.

　If the CIA also outsources assassination missions, wouldn't they be afraid of being wronged by the same outsourcing problem?

　Deputy Director Bissell’s answer was: Even if I become a victim of outsourcing, at least it is better than fighting on my own!

　Why not spend the country's money, risk other people's lives, and finally take the credit yourself?

　——Those who know about spy warfare by watching movies such as 007, Mission Impossible, and The Bourne Supremacy often think that spies are very good at fighting. They often carry a pistol or some strange weapons, killing people all the way and making rivers of blood. One or two people can easily kill their way through a base.

　Well, actually, if there really is such a brave man, why would he be a spy? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to just be a special forces soldier?

　In fact, throughout the Cold War, Israel's Mossad agents were able to act openly and unscrupulously in hunting down those Nazi remnants who had hidden from the light, making assassinations the same as executions - this was bullying the Nazi remnants into being global enemies, and there was no way to seek justice after killing them.

　(A Mossad agent once became so enraged by a remote-controlled bomb failure that he broke into the target's home and killed him by smashing his head with the bomb.)

　In addition, even the notorious KGB agents usually look quite timid. Even if they are ordered to carry out assassinations, they try to do it secretly by poisoning, laying mines and sniping. They focus on escaping thousands of miles away if they miss the target. They basically do not engage in close combat or hand-to-hand combat with the enemy like in the movies.

　As for the American agents of the CIA, when faced with a situation where they had to fight and risk their lives, they behaved even more cowardly.

　During the Cold War, CIA agents might have been quite aggressive in allied and client states like Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Western Europe, and the banana republics of Central America. But once they were on enemy territory, CIA agents generally became timid.

　There is no way. KGB agents have ideals in their hearts, Mossad agents have beliefs in their hearts, and CIA agents only have money in their minds.

　Since you become a CIA agent for money, how can you let people risk their lives? How can you make money if you risk your life?

　Ordinary agents only get such a low salary every month. Is it really worth it for them to work so hard?

　However, no matter how cowardly the CIA agent may feel, the task assigned by his superior still needs to be completed, so the best way is naturally to outsource it to others.

　One of the more outrageous outsourcing methods is to find a few suitable candidates, kidnap them, brainwash them with all kinds of tricks, give them a intensive training, and then throw them out to serve as pathfinder cannon fodder - it is more like conscription than service outsourcing.

　But the problem is, on the battlefield, you can rely on conscripting able-bodied men to fill trenches, but spy warfare and assassinations also rely on conscripting able-bodied men... Are they afraid that there won't be enough defectors?

　Anyway, unless these captured men were strapped with suicide vests and used to charge checkpoints, they couldn't perform even slightly complex tactics.

　Another less outrageous method is to outsource to the mafia. These criminal organizations already live on the edge of a knife, so it is reasonable for them to occasionally accept orders from the CIA to carry out some difficult assassination missions.

　However, if intelligence agents were to contact the local mafia after arriving in Cuba, they would be prone to scammers who would boast upon meeting them that they could kill Castro in a matter of minutes for the right amount of money. But they would then disappear without a trace after taking the money.

　On the other hand, publicly releasing information in enemy territory and recruiting local mafia can easily attract the attention and pursuit of Cuban military and police due to the leakage of information. The intelligence station run by the owner Eva Armas in Havana was tracked down by the Cuban military and police because the new rookie agent rashly leaked the news of recruiting killers to deal with Castro. The owner Eva Armas was also shot and became a one-legged girl.

　So, some particularly cowardly CIA agents had an idea and thought that they could do a double outsourcing. First, they outsourced the assassination mission to the American Mafia, and then asked them to recruit the Cuban Mafia to do it, and they themselves would not even have to go to Cuba - wouldn't this be absolutely safe?

　——Even the recruitment work is outsourced, which means that the risk is completely outsourced.

　I'm looking forward to receiving the credit!

　In addition, as criminal leaders, they should have some special means and information channels to tell whether the other party is a real mafia or a scammer, right?

　As for the gang bosses who are willing to cooperate with the CIA, there are definitely some - which gang boss doesn't want to be an informant and clear himself?

　So, in August 1960, a CIA assassination team successfully contacted Cosa Nostra, a Chicago-based American Mafia boss, and commissioned him to go to Cuba and find someone to assassinate Cuban leaders Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara. In exchange, if the operation was successful, the United States would support a pro-American regime in Cuba, and the CIA promised to support Cosa Nostra's organization to develop into a transnational gang, monopolizing the casinos, brothels, and drug trafficking businesses in Havana, the Cuban capital.

　So Cosa Nostra set off for Miami, where he contacted a Cuban mafia leader named John Rosselli through secret communication channels between various underworld groups in America, and invited him to the CIA headquarters in Washington to discuss important matters.

　Then, John Rosselli boasted at CIA headquarters, saying, "This is easy! You've found the right person! I have an insider close to Castro..." The CIA officials were immediately overjoyed, and they immediately promoted him, made promises, and urged him to act quickly.

　This John Rosselli was no liar. He had an insider, Juan Cordoba, who was the director of the Cuban government office at the time. His daily job was to circle around Castro, making it easy for him to do some small things. But Juan actually had a deep hatred for Castro.

　In addition to his government salary and the money he received from the underworld, Juan also had significant stakes in several Cuban casinos, generating considerable profits. However, Castro's socialist reforms forced the closure of all casinos, causing Juan's income to plummet, and he naturally resented Castro.

　So, John Rosselli returned to Cuba and called Juan Cordoba to reveal some information. The two sides immediately hit it off and were eager to kill Castro, and then ask the Americans for rewards for this great achievement.

　But the problem was that Juan was just a civil servant, not a tough guy, and his martial arts skills were very poor. It was impossible for him to kill Castro.

　If you want him to assassinate Castro, you can only use some covert means.

　However, the CIA didn't know what was going on, and instead of providing Juan with poison, they specially made a batch of cigar bombs.

　It's well known that Castro loved smoking cigars and never put them down. So the CIA installed a micro-bomb inside the cigar. If it was ignited and hit a certain part of the body, it would explode, killing the unlucky smoker instantly.

　Soon, Juan received a box of specially made cigar bombs from the CIA. He easily placed the cigars in Castro's home, and then he looked forward to the good news that "Castro was killed in the bombing."

　Who knew that after waiting for half a month, they still didn't hear any movement. Could it be that the cigar bomb failed?

　After some inquiries, Juan found out that the cigar bomb plan failed because the CIA did not do its homework carefully enough.

　It turns out that although Castro loves smoking cigars, he doesn't smoke all cigars. The brand of special cigars provided by the CIA happened to be the one that Castro hated the most. When he saw this brand of cigars in his home, Castro threw it into the trash can.

　As a result, the CIA's specially made cigar bomb did not kill Castro, but instead blew up several homeless people who were rummaging through trash cans on the street.

　Although the operation was unsuccessful, the CIA did not lose heart. If the bomb method didn't work, then they would try a more traditional method and use poison.

　Unexpectedly, the CIA had just sent the special poison to Cuba, but found that Juan no longer had the chance to poison Castro.

　It turned out that after accepting the CIA job, Juan had been obsessed with assassinating Castro all day and had no time to deal with official duties. He messed up several things in a row and was also accused of having connections with criminals. As a result, Juan was demoted to the lowest position and sent to prison.

　Well, now that we have no insiders, how can we poison them?

　But John Rosselli, who had boasted in Washington before, still did not dare to give up easily because of the supervision of the Chicago gang.

　Since poisoning can't be done for the time being, let's use sniping!

　Of course, it is absolutely impossible to let him snipe on his own, so he has to continue to "outsource the service" and trick other cannon fodder into taking action.

　It just so happened that Castro had an old classmate and friend named Ovalez. His family farm had been confiscated after the land reform, causing Ovalez to lose all his property overnight and become an ordinary farmer from a wealthy farmer. Naturally, he hated this "ruthless" old friend with a strong hatred.

　John Rosselli found Ovalez and persuaded him to snipe Castro, and even got him a rifle.

　So, Ovalez, who was very familiar with Castro's character and temper, took up arms and waited near the restaurant where Castro often ate, set up a bunker on the rooftop of a building, and prepared to fight Castro to the death.

　However, just when everything was ready and he was aiming at Castro and ready to pull the trigger, Ovalez hesitated.

　Because even if Castro was killed, he would not be able to get his farm back, and the benefits promised by the CIA might not be fulfilled.

　Well, maybe besides the promise

　Not only did the reward get delayed, but he also wanted to kill me to silence me!

　——As a Cuban with a certain status, Ovalez is naturally not completely unfamiliar with the CIA's disgraceful reputation.

　What's more, he and Castro have been good friends for so many years. Although they have hatred for each other for stealing money, they have no hatred for killing their father.

　Should he really kill Castro? What would happen to his family after he was killed?

　As a result, due to his many weaknesses and hesitation, Ovalez was unable to take action. Instead, he was reported for his suspicious behavior.

　Next, after being captured by the Cuban military and police and subjected to some "memory recovery techniques," this guy confessed everything.

　John Rosselli was caught off guard and arrested. However, Cosa Nostra, the Chicago gang leader who had accompanied Rosselli to Cuba to supervise his work, was quick-witted and sensed something was wrong. He evacuated Havana early and went to a small fishing village in the countryside by the sea, where he sent a telegram to the CIA for help.

　-

　For the CIA, the informants developed in Cuba were consumables. If necessary, it would not matter if they were all killed.

　But the CIA could not simply abandon Cosa Nostra, the local mafia boss invited from Chicago.

　Otherwise, the gangster boss would bring his own food and work like a slave for the CIA, risking his life, but in the end he would be abandoned in a foreign country...

　Once this kind of brand-damaging thing happens, it will be harder for the CIA to recruit informants in the future!

　So, after receiving Cosa Nostra's distress call, Captain Ferry King, acting head of the CIA's Cuban Special Task Force, was responsible for arranging a response to get this Chicago mafia boss and his Cuban henchmen out of enemy territory.

　Coincidentally, the five merchant ships and two landing craft originally prepared by the CIA for the 2506th Brigade's more than 1,000 Cuban mercenaries had already left Louisiana early because they were being repurposed for the Dominican Republic invasion. They arrived at the port of Miami for a final pre-war rest and recuperation.

　So, Deputy Director Bissell ordered Firi to take out a ship from the fleet and sail to Cuba to pick up the people.

　Firi naturally agreed to this. The only thing that made him a little nervous was that the rendezvous location was... the Bay of Pigs!