American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Even the map used is an old map from before World War II, drawn in 1940, and has not been updated at all in the past twenty years.

　Firi was speechless about this: using a map of Cuba drawn in 1940 to fight the invasion of Cuba in 1961?

　This is just like Churchill planning the Dardanelles landings during World War I with a tourist map.

　It's almost as outrageous!

　As a member of the Cuban group, Wolf Lee also knew about the Bay of Pigs landing plan at the time. Since he was ordered to go to the Bay of Pigs to pick up people this time, he took out this invalid plan and looked over it with the captain of the Barbara landing craft as a reference for this operation.

　But he didn't know the circumstances under which the Bay of Pigs landing plan was created, so he was badly cheated.

　——Because they discovered that the place they were originally planning to land on, the "desolate beach" at the bottom of the Bay of Pigs, had turned into a brightly lit beach, the Barbara landing craft had to urgently change its docking location and land on the coast at the entrance to the Bay of Pigs.

　As a result, because the invasion was carried out at night and in complete darkness, the Barbara landing craft hit a sharp coral reef at the entrance to the Bay of Pigs, which was not even drawn on the map. A large hole was immediately knocked out in the bottom of the ship, and seawater rushed in like a fountain.

　Even worse, the Barbara was a 20-year-old ship, having been through a hail of gunfire on the battlefield. Even now, despite being reasonably well-maintained, the hull had aged considerably and was no longer as sturdy as it had been during the Pacific War.

　As a result, the sailors on the ship quickly failed to rescue the ship, allowing seawater to flood into the engine room, causing the engine to stall and be scrapped.

　Obviously, without a tugboat, no one could get the landing craft out of the coral reef.

　In desperation, everyone had to abandon the boat, carrying heavy luggage and weapons, wading ashore, trying to meet up with the contact person by land.

　After landing in the dark, they got lost while walking with a map that was twenty years out of date. They finally found a grocery store at dawn, broke into it, tied up the unfortunate owner and his family, stuffed them into the cellar, and had a big meal with the bread and biscuits in the store.

　Next, Wolf Lee set up a radio in the grocery store and contacted Cosa Nostra.

　Unfortunately, just as they were sending the message, a Cuban militia patrolling nearby spotted the suspicious-looking Americans and immediately opened fire. In the brief exchange of fire, no one was killed or injured, but Wolfe Lee's radio was damaged by a stray bullet.

　What's even more terrible is that these Cuban militiamen came in jeeps, and immediately drove away after the exchange of fire, going back to call for reinforcements...

　"Wait, since you lost your landing craft, your radio is broken, and you were discovered by the enemy, how did you get back?"

　Ferry asked in confusion, while Wolf Lee, the fat Texas geek, sighed with a slightly melancholy expression. "Well, how should I put it? We all thought we were going to be captured, but we didn't expect that the person we originally wanted to rescue would actually save us..."

　He sighed and said something very philosophical, "No matter how the world changes, life will always find a way out..."

　It turned out that Cosa Nostra, the Chicago mafia boss who fled to the Bay of Pigs, while constantly sending telegrams to the CIA for help, did not put all his hopes of escape on the CIA. Instead, he was also actively looking for other ways to leave Cuba through the underworld.

　Just as the Barbara landing craft arrived on the island of Cuba, Cosa Nostra also contacted the local Cuban smuggler. After paying a large sum of US dollars and many other promises, he was preparing to squeeze into a dirty fishing boat with his group of minions and set off back to the United States.

　As a result, at this time, he learned that the CIA rescue team arrived at the Bay of Pigs, but was trapped in a ship that sank.

　The Chicago gangster immediately acted decisively, promising the Cuban human trafficker double the money, and got Wolf Lee and his group onto the smuggling boat, so that they could escape together.

　After hearing the whole story, Fili was also deeply moved.

　Although a landing craft was lost and the rescuers and the rescued were mixed up, the rescue mission was finally completed.

　Perhaps the Castro regime could use the abandoned landing craft to accuse the US of invasion, but since the Cuban government also has such landing craft, which were sold in large quantities as surplus materials after World War II, US officials could easily accuse Cuba of staging a self-proclaimed plot.

　War of words of this magnitude were fought almost every day between the two major camps, and were not a big deal during the Cold War.

　"No matter what, as long as your people are okay and can come back alive."

　Facing the thinner Wolf Lee, Fili said comfortingly, "By the way, did you leave anything behind?"

　"Um... I should, uh, report to the commander. The situation was very chaotic at the time. I have tried my best to destroy everything that should be destroyed..."

　Seeing Wolf Lee's hesitant look, Ferry was a little confused at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he immediately understood.

　This guy probably really left the code book in Cuba?

　Judging from the fact that "The Voice of Freedom" was suppressed by the entire Hollywood and deliberately shelved by Disney, it seems that there really is a huge human trafficking industry in the United States?

　If the truth is that Disney is secretly buying and selling children, then the picture would be really hellish.

　Chapter 54: Do I still have to lead a surprise attack on Cuba?

　In fact, Ferry didn’t care much about whether the Texas fat man Wolf Lee lost the code book. If it was lost, it was lost!

　——If Castro wanted to know the combat operations of the CIA's Cuban Special Task Force, why would he need a code book?

　His spy was sitting in the lobby on the first floor below his office!

　Although he didn't know which one or which ones were spies, Firi looked at these Cuban exiled politicians and they all looked like spies.

　But the fact is that the Cuban group did not engage in any combat operations at all. No matter how powerful Castro's spies were, they could not find out something that did not exist.

　In short, Firi had no intention of investigating or questioning the fate of this disastrous rescue operation, and Director Dulles did not interfere either.

　Only Estelion was furious because he had lost another boat, and he called again to scold Firi.

　However, Firi had long been indifferent to the anger and roar of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Director and did not take it seriously at all.

　Anyway, the elite troops and various resources of the Cuban Special Task Force had long been transferred by Estelion for the Dominican Republic attack, leaving him with a five-member team of "old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant". What else can Firi, the acting team leader, do except to play a supporting role?

　Being a bystander is an attitude, the so-called silent majority, the so-called "non-violent non-cooperation";

　Being a soy sauce person is a part of life. It is not just a passing by, nor is it just a spectator's fun.

　Being a bystander is a form of entertainment, where you can watch the noise of others with a cold eye and quietly savor your own silence.

　But after that, Fili could no longer maintain his leisurely attitude.

　Because, on the eve of the 2506th Brigade's oath-taking ceremony, Fili was shocked to learn that he himself would have to go to Cuba to fight a battle!

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　"Captain King, take 400 men to Cuba next week and fight Castro!"

　Director Dulles gave these instructions to Fieri in a relaxed tone over the phone from CIA headquarters in Washington.

　Well, it’s just like a demon king ordered his shrimp soldiers and crab generals to get rid of Sun Wukong.

　"Uh, I went to fight in Cuba? Why?"

　Ferry was stunned when he heard this. "Director, putting aside other issues, how can I have a 400-man army?"

　"As for the troops, we can still squeeze them together if we squeeze them together. As for why? In the original 'Pluto Plan', Florida was going to send a feint attack force to attack the north coast of Cuba to attract Castro's attention."

　Director Dulles replied on the phone, "Although the main force of the mercenaries is no longer attacking Cuba, we must still keep the show going. The feint attack on the northern coast of Cuba must continue, making Castro think we are going to attack him, and making Trujillo think we are going to attack Cuba."

　Captain Jin, since you are now the acting leader of the Cuban Special Task Force, you should take on this responsibility..."

　Just like that, three days later, on the long-abandoned and overgrown sports field of the "Wave" training camp (brothel), appeared an armed team with the worst appearance and morale that Phili had ever seen. They seemed even less spirited than the California Boy Scouts.

　Well, where did this army of 400 people come from?

　As Director Dulles said, it was put together.

　Because the "Garcia Fleet," responsible for transporting troops, had tragically lost two ships before the war, and the CIA had neither the intention nor the funds to acquire new ones, the number of Cuban mercenaries in the 2506th Brigade available for combat in the Dominican Republic was reduced from 1400 to 1100.

　As a result, 300 people from the 2506th Brigade could not get on the ship and had to be cleared out of the team, which was just right for them to be used in a feint attack in the direction of Florida.

　Since it is just a feint to distract the enemy's attention, there is no need for elite soldiers and generals. Some old, weak and sick people will be enough.

　Therefore, the Cuban officers and American military advisers who managed the 2506th Brigade naturally retained all the soldiers in the army who were slightly more capable of fighting. They only cleared out the children under the age of fifteen, the old men over the age of fifty, the drug addicts, and the clumsy rookies who were recruited too late or too stupid and had not yet completed basic training. They packed them up and sent them back to Florida.

　Well, they are simply treating Fili as a garbage recycling station!

　Fili took a closer look and realized that this group of "junkies" was truly old, young, and nearsighted. The oldest was already 69 years old, and one of them even had only one leg. Furthermore, most of them couldn't even speak English fluently and could only understand Spanish.

　Even so, there are only 300 old, weak, sick and disabled people laid off from the 2506th Brigade - how can they gather 400 people?

　It's very simple. There are more than a hundred Cuban gangsters in the "Wave" brothel. If we bring them along, wouldn't we have a battalion of 400 people?

　In name, the commander of this temporary camp is Torres, the son of former Cuban Prime Minister José Miro Cardona. Diabetic agent Daniel is in this camp.

　Served as an infantry company commander - because only he could barely command the thugs in the "Wave" brothel.

　Firi's position is the US military adviser of this temporary camp, which is equivalent to the status of an emperor.

　However, although the number of people and the organization are there, what about their quality? What about their discipline? What about their organization?

　Looking at their crooked military posture and their carefree demeanor, even in uniform they still looked like scoundrels...

　There were also some who were old, some who were young, some who were stupid, and some who were disabled. Before they even went out to fight, they already looked like a "strange army" returning from a defeat.

　Captain Ferry King felt a darkness before his eyes and felt that his future was bleak.

　——As we all know, a pile of building materials does not equal a house, just as a group of mobs does not equal an army.

　Even if it was just a feint attack, could such a rotten army, or armed thugs, really be deployed to fight?

　Don’t ever go to Cuba and never come back!

　More importantly, these 400 bastards should be sent to a labor camp in Cuba. Maybe it can help them quit smoking, taking drugs and drinking!

　But what should I do if I, the commander, am also captured?

　God knows whether Castro will pursue the "hatred of having his wife stolen"!

　——Although I heard that Fidel Castro was quite romantic since he was young, and slept with a female student every week when he was in college.

　But Marita meant something different to him after all. They were almost officially married. Who knew if this bearded man still had any grudges in his heart?

　Even if he stayed behind and didn't go into battle, if these 400 people escaped back with heavy casualties, the bureau would most likely take the opportunity to take advantage of them.

　If a soldier, even a civilian officer, loses his first battle, he'll likely be looked down upon by his peers and superiors in the future...

　"System! What should I do? This battle is really difficult to fight!"

　After returning to his office, Firi couldn't help but complain in his heart, "We have to make a big show and act like there's going to be a big war, making enough noise to attract the attention of Cuba and the international community, but we can't just 'enter the village quietly without firing a shot'."

　At the same time, we have to ensure we can escape unscathed without suffering too much loss—such contradictory requirements are really difficult to deal with!"

　"Stupid host! Have you forgotten what our Lord's ministry is?"

　A voice suddenly sounded in his mind, with a tone of disappointment.

　"Cheat? Trick? But even if we hypnotize these four hundred men and make them think we are an ever-victorious elite, what good will that do?"

　Fili was a little confused at first, but after thinking it over, he soon realized, "That's right! The ones we really need to fool are not our own people, but the enemy! We just need to fool Castro and Trujillo into thinking we are going to attack Cuba, and then we will have accomplished our mission, right?

　As for whether or not to actually land in Cuba, that’s actually not important at all!”

　As he thought this, he grabbed the phone on the table and called Torres, the commander of the 400-man feint attack force, asking them to prepare as soon as possible, as they would be marching in a few days to move to Key West, the southernmost tip of Florida.

　Everyone had to wear brand new uniforms and new shoes, as well as the Cuban flag and the flag of the 2506th Brigade.

　Next, Firi notified Radio Swan (equivalent to Voice of America, a Spanish-language radio station that targets Cuba for propaganda), which was nominally built by the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front but actually managed by the CIA, and asked them to declare in their recent radio programs that "the day of freedom is not far away" and to exhort the Cuban people to "turn to the light" and support the "army of justice" that would soon come to "set things right."

　Then, Firi called Armas, the owner of the "Wave" brothel, and told her to contact a public relations company.

　"A public relations company?" Ms. Armas was a little confused. "What do you want a public relations company for?"

　"Of course, we should hold a grand press conference to publicize the heroic deeds of our brave soldiers who are about to cross the sea to liberate Cuba!"

　Fili said shamelessly, "I will soon lead my troops to Key West, the island closest to Cuba, and make an official announcement on the beach there to tell the world. Especially the island of Cuba, which has fallen into the hands of the red devil, there will soon be an army of justice to restore the freedom of the Cuban people!"

　Uh, make sure they invite more newspapers and TV stations over! It would be even better if they could do a live broadcast!

　Oh, and contact the cheerleading teams and school bands from nearby schools to sign them up for commercial performances. They'll then perform with our army!"

　One-legged proprietress Armas:? ? !!

　Sir, are you preparing to launch a military invasion of Cuba, or are you throwing a concert for everyone to have fun?

　Even if it was a feint, creating such a lively scene is a bit too much, isn't it?

　Fili: That's because you have too little knowledge. What does my little trick matter?

　In the future, there will be internet celebrities who broadcast wars live, use the rewards to write slogans on rockets according to the sponsors' requirements, and then fire them on the spot!

　In an age where everything can be entertained, war can also be entertained!

　-

　The Caribbean Sea in April 1961 was sunny and peaceful, but at the same time, it was shrouded in war clouds.

　Many people with keen observation skills have been able to vaguely perceive some signs of impending storm.

　The air seemed to be filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder

　, foreshadowing the coming of a new war.

　New U.S. Secretary of State Rusk publicly condemned the Castro regime in Cuba at several international conferences, condemning it for "faithfully following the Bolshevik model," establishing a dictatorial system, government control of labor unions, suppressing civil liberties, and eliminating freedom of speech and the press. He also accused the Soviet Union of attempting to use Cuba as a base to spread "harmful ideas" in the Western Hemisphere and called on other American nations to join in condemning Cuba's human rights violations.

　Meanwhile, Cuba's Castro, unwilling to be outdone, continued his tit-for-tat rhetoric against the United States, claiming that the United States, where racial discrimination persists and various restrictive policies are implemented against people of color, has no right to talk about human rights. He said the American poor are living "in the guts of the imperialist monster" and criticized the mainstream American media for being controlled by large corporations, completely abandoning justice and morality, and becoming a despicable mouthpiece for capitalists.

　While they were verbally attacking each other in public, all kinds of vicious tactics were also undercurrents in the background.

　- As everyone knows, the armed invasion of Cuba that the United States has been planning since last spring has been riddled with holes in terms of secrecy.

　As early as the beginning of the "Pluto Plan" to invade Cuba, the intelligence agencies of the Cuban revolutionary regime immediately learned of this news from their extensive secret intelligence network in the United States. Some of the information was obtained from Miami, and some was disclosed by American and foreign newspapers themselves.

　By 1961, Castro's spies were everywhere, from the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, a coalition of 184 Cuban exile political groups in Florida to the 2506th Brigade of Guatemalan mercenaries and even among the rebels in the mountains of central Cuba.