American Strategic Deception Bureau

　However, the desert environment is too harsh, with scorching hot days and cold nights in the Sonoran Desert. It is difficult for water-deprived and exhausted travelers to endure it. Every year, many stowaways who are not strong enough die on the way and become unrecognizable mummies or bones in the desert.

　Therefore, it is quite normal for a fragile girl who is unprepared and exhausted to be burned to death in this desert..."

　"In the past, Arizona Border Patrol would regularly patrol this deadly desert, apprehending illegal immigrants and collecting their remains. But since the political unrest that erupted in the country last year, Arizona Border Patrol operations have been suspended for more than six months and are only now preparing to resume."

　Colonel Haig added, "I have contacted Army Intelligence and am planning to arrange for a reliable agent to infiltrate the Border Patrol in Arizona. Then, during one of his patrols, he will 'accidentally' discover a female corpse and find these things on the body."

　A few days later, the detective surrendered to the local police station, stating that he had discovered gold and silver jewelry on the body. He had been tempted to hide the items, but after reading the diary found on the body, developing photos from the camera, and watching the video footage, he realized the gravity of the matter. After much deliberation, he finally decided to contact the authorities and reveal the "truth."

　By the time he surrendered himself, the bodies of the stowaways had already been cremated and buried, leaving no trace of them..."

　"This story... might sound a bit flawed, but as long as the police cooperate, it can be made whole."

　Dr. Kissinger stroked his plump chin and commented, "What's next? How are you going to let citizens across the country know this story?"

　"Then we'll need money, Doctor. Colonel Haig has just made a grant application."

　Phiri took out a document and handed it to Kissinger. “Whether it’s contacting journalists to interview this matter, or finding a director and screenwriter in Hollywood to turn this material into a documentary film, or the publicity and distribution after the film is completed, or contacting theaters, or organizing the release, etc., all of this costs money.

　While this documentary might earn good box office revenue after its release, it's also possible that it could flop and fail to cover its costs. Therefore, we can't guarantee we'll be able to secure funding quickly for the initial production costs. If we want to rush production, the government will have to cover the cost."

　——In fact, with the influence of the Kim family in Hollywood, Ferry can let his second brother Anthony be the director and shoot the film with his own studio.

　This low-budget film doesn't require any stars or special effects, so it actually doesn't cost much.

　But the question is, why should he work for the government out of his own pocket? This is against the rules!

　What's more, in addition to making the movie, the previous Border Patrol and Arizona Police Department also need to be managed with money.

　Then there is the post-production after the film is completed, buying off film critics and running advertisements, all of which are jobs where you get what you pay for.

　In the United States, there has always been the use of public funds for private work. I have never heard of anyone spending their own money to work for the country for free!

　What's more, if the real director, Firi, doesn't take any money, how can the deputy director, Colonel Haig, take any money?

　Even if it is just to win over this subordinate with a promising future, Firi has to apply for funding from the White House.

　"Eight million dollars for a comprehensive fee? No big deal. I'll get it done for you when I get back to the White House. Don't worry."

　Dr. Kissinger glanced at the requested amount on the document and agreed to it without any hesitation, as if it was just a small matter.

　Fili, however, sounded a bit skeptical. "Is it really okay? From what I understand, the federal government is spending a ton of money right now, and having failed to seize the right to issue currency from the Federal Reserve, this year's finances are likely to be extremely difficult. While $8 million isn't a lot, getting it approved won't be easy, will it?"

　"Don't worry, there will be money in Washington soon. The president recently planned a big operation. The purpose is to get money."

　Kissinger thought for a moment and let out a few words, "The specific details need to be kept confidential. I can only say..."

　Before he could finish his words, Wolf Lee, the only "veteran" backbone of the Strategic Deception Bureau and a fat clerk, hurried in, his chubby face full of panic. "Sir, something big has happened! Another nuclear bomb has exploded in Europe! Frankfurt, Germany has been bombed by an atomic bomb!"

　Well, although nuclear wars are happening all over the world nowadays, mushroom clouds from nuclear explosions have become a not-too-rare sight.

　But in Europe, a highland of civilization, nuclear explosions are still relatively rare.

　But why Frankfurt in West Germany? What is the special significance of that place?

　Germany had lost all its colonies as early as the time of Hitler. Those anti-colonial third world terrorist organizations had no reason to attack Germany.

　At the same time, the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the Cold War, was built in Berlin, not Frankfurt, while the capital of West Germany was in Bonn.

　The only special thing about Frankfurt in modern times is probably that it is... the financial center of Central Europe?

　Just as Fili frowned, feeling a little confused, he saw Dr. Kissinger curl his lips and reveal a mysterious smile: "Ah, it seems that the action has begun..."

　First, it was burned to ashes by the flames of war..."

　President Nixon's words were still ringing in my ears. But the day after he left Germany, on January 29th, a mushroom cloud appeared over Frankfurt am Main, the financial center of southern Germany, accompanied by a brilliant flash of light!

　This was Charlemagne's secondary capital, the place where the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire were crowned, a famous inland commercial center in medieval and modern Europe, and now the fifth largest city in Germany with a population of over 500,000. In an instant, tens of thousands of people were killed in the sudden nuclear explosion!

　Although it wasn't the Tsar's "Big Ivan" hydrogen bomb that shook all of Europe, it was just a miniature atomic bomb with a TNT equivalent of 1000 tons. But when this miniature atomic bomb detonated at the Frankfurt long-distance bus station, completely destroying three nearby streets, causing thousands of buildings to collapse or become dangerous, and the scorching air wave flung a Beetle two kilometers away, catching it on a church bell tower... it still reminded the citizens of Frankfurt of the horrors of war and destruction, and of the "Dresden bombing" that took place in eastern Germany at the end of World War II.

　After the nuclear explosion, the raging fire that lit the sky red and the dripping black rain made people feel that the end of the world was coming.

　Next, it is estimated that another 3 to 5 Germans will be diagnosed with cancer and die painfully in just a few years.

　Afterwards, an Arab terrorist organization calling itself the "Gaza Martyrs' Brigade" claimed responsibility for the "Frankfurt nuclear attack," claiming that the terrorist attack using nuclear weapons was in retaliation for West Germany's support for the "Zionist group (Israel)."

　However, everyone knew that in the radioactive wasteland of Palestine, where ruins and devastation were everywhere, mushroom clouds were rising one after another, and Geiger counters had already exceeded the limit, it might not be too difficult for an Arab warlord armed group to obtain a miniature Soviet atomic bomb.

　But if you want to get this miniature atomic bomb across the ocean, through layers of security checks, and into Germany...

　Is this something that a bunch of Arabs who only know how to chant (a stereotype) can do? They can't even speak German, right?

　——Apart from the Germans themselves, the only ones who can do this are the CIA and the KGB!

　Obviously, the Soviet KGB had no reason to do such a thing, because there was no unusual movement of Soviet troops stationed in East Germany.

　However, the US CIA had sufficient motives for the attack: to suppress Germany's revival momentum and destroy the Frankfurt Stock Exchange that was sucking the blood of the United States!

　Since last August, when the New York City people first revolted, then the two armies fought, then a nuclear explosion occurred, and Che Guevara openly robbed the Federal Reserve vault, the New York Stock Exchange, the world's financial trading hub, has completely collapsed and has been suspended until now.

　So, just as in the past, whenever there was a war in the Old World, talent and capital fled to the New World; now that the New World was in trouble, international financial capital also took off, fleeing to the financial centers of the Old World such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Frankfurt.

　However, because London had also been hit by a nuclear bomb earlier, the Netherlands and Belgium were too small, and France was always rebellious, singing a different tune from the US and Britain in the Western camp, and even withdrew from NATO. Therefore, international investors considered it a high risk factor...

　Therefore, most of the international funds fleeing from the United States to Europe flowed into Frankfurt, becoming a booster for West Germany's economic take-off.

　Now, there was a loud bang in the sky of Frankfurt, and the mushroom cloud of nuclear weapons enveloped this most elite financial center in Central Europe.

　The Frankfurt Stock Exchange naturally suspended trading, and German stocks, bonds and futures in other financial markets also plummeted.

　——Funds have always been risk-averse. After Germany was proven to be not safe at all, international hot money will naturally flee in large numbers.

　A catastrophic financial crisis, followed by the shockwaves of the nuclear explosion and the radioactive contaminants carried by the wind, spread rapidly throughout Central Europe, bringing countless tragedies and hysterical curses. In West Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Austria, large numbers of speculators jumped from buildings and hanged themselves.

　However, since the nuclear explosion in Frankfurt has caused such a big mess in the whole of Europe, world public opinion must find out who the murderer is.

　Although the CIA hastily used a black glove to cover up the "Frankfurt incident," international observers around the world knew who was behind it, just by looking at who would benefit next. This included the Germans, and they were furious.

　President Nixon had been so confident the day before that he would never abandon Germany and would continue to provide a nuclear umbrella of protection for the German people. And the next day, he bombed Frankfurt with a nuclear bomb? Was he trying to artificially create a financial disaster for Europe?

　This is even more shameless and vulgar than Hitler's Munich conspiracy!

　Is this how the US nuclear umbrella "protects" its allies? Does it kill its allies with its own nuclear bombs before the Soviets do?

　However, the German people were only angry for a moment, and then they had to continue to prostrate themselves and thank the American soldiers for not killing them.

　Otherwise, what if the American master gets upset and carries out nuclear explosions in Bonn and Hamburg?

　Just like Germany in the 21st century, knowing that it was the US military that bombed their Nord Stream 2 submarine natural gas pipeline and that the whole world knew about it, they could only swallow their anger and continue.

　Pretend that it was Russia that blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, while burning money to buy super-high-priced natural gas from the United States...

　There is no way. As a defeated country in World War II, Germany is naturally burdened with original sin in the post-war world. No matter how it is tormented, it deserves it!

　Not to mention, the "future information" from the world of "Cyberpunk 2077" has already caused an uproar in countries around the world in this time and space.

　Those European neighbors who had gradually forgotten the hatred of World War II were shocked to learn that Germany would usher in a third rise and lead European civilization to dominate the world again under the shell of the European Community. Their views on the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became inexplicably complicated.

　Some people still remember the glory of Europe that looked down on the world, and think that uniting around Germany, defeating the United States and the Soviet Union, and allowing Europe to stand on the heights of civilization again seems to be a good choice; but more people recall William II’s "Greater Germany in the Sun" and Hitler’s "Dream of a Thousand-Year Reich", and refuse to forget the countless pain and suffering that the Germans brought to Europe - most of the eyewitnesses of World War II are still alive!

　Therefore, under such circumstances, Germany, which already bears the original sin, is in an aggrieved situation where it is under the watchful eyes and condemned by everyone.

　Any armed resistance by the Germans against the United States would only arouse greater vigilance and hostility from their surrounding neighbors.

　There is really no better choice than lying down and letting others do what they want, compromising, and creating the image of an innocent victim to gain sympathy.

　——The Jews in the second half of the 20th century were able to stand on the moral high ground thanks to the corpses of six million compatriots who were massacred during World War II.

　How many people have died in Germany right now? They are still a long way from completely cleansing themselves of the original sin of World War II!

　-

　Next, since Frankfurt, Germany's financial center, had been struck by a nuclear bomb, creating a mushroom cloud, then, as a fellow defeated nation in the post-WWII Yalta system, Japan, after Germany had endured a nuclear explosion, was naturally bound to be hit by a third nuclear explosion.

　After gleaning a wealth of "future information" from the world of Cyberpunk 2077 and believing it to be true, Washington, unable to tolerate the collapse of American hegemony and the prospect of Americans being forced to use the euro for the next century, has even resorted to nuclear bombing its German ally to vent its anger. Could it tolerate the entire West Coast of the United States being colonized and occupied by the Japanese (Arasaka Corporation), with the vast Pacific Ocean transformed into the "Greater Sea of ​​Japan"?

　Those arrogant and conceited Washingtonians clearly have no intention of reflecting on what went wrong with the federal government of that time and space, leading to the disunity of the West Coast states in Cyberpunk 2077, who would rather align themselves with Japan than continue to be Americans...

　They would only blame the Japanese devils for not being loyal enough and unwilling to serve their masters well, and that more beatings were needed to make them obedient.

　In short, three days after the Frankfurt nuclear explosion, on February 1, 1971, a group of mysterious terrorists claiming to be the "Ryukyu Restoration Organization" drove a yacht equipped with a miniature atomic bomb into Tokyo Bay and docked at the civilian dock in Odaiba.

　Then, these "terrorists" distributed leaflets on the streets of Tokyo, protesting the United States' unauthorized transfer of the Okinawa Islands to Japan instead of allowing the Ryukyu Kingdom, which has a long history, to regain its independence. They also threatened that if Japan attempted to annex the Ryukyu Islands again, it would inevitably be punished by heaven.

　Japanese citizens and police didn't seem to take it seriously. After all, post-democratization Tokyo's streets were often roamed by lunatics and cult-like figures. Sometimes, at subway station exits, you could even spot the disgraced former prime minister standing on a cardboard box, giving speeches to the air.

　However, soon after these members of the "Ryukyu Restoration Organization" finished distributing leaflets and disappeared, "divine punishment" came.

　Accompanied by a flash of light that illuminated the entire Tokyo and a heat wave that evaporated the waters of Tokyo Bay, a huge white sphere suddenly rose slowly in the waters of Tokyo Bay not far from Odaiba. This was a layer of nuclear explosion mist formed by condensation of water vapor after the air was instantly compressed and released.

　Ships in nearby waters were overturned by huge waves, and half of Tokyo trembled in the shockwaves. Of course, to the Japanese, who had suffered from earthquakes for generations, this little tremor was nothing. But when they saw the mushroom cloud at the end of their sight, they still broke out in hysterical fear.

　Although the TNT equivalent of this micro-nuclear bomb was only about 1000 tons and it was detonated at sea, causing no more than a few thousand casualties, the Nikkei index still fell in a panic, and the Japanese stock market began a long and sustained plunge.

　Thus, after the United States wielded a big stick against its allies, fully demonstrating that it still had the ability and courage to destroy the entire "free world," funds that had previously flowed out of the United States began to flow back in. Meanwhile, the economies of Japan and Germany fell into a catastrophic financial disaster.

　American capital also took the opportunity to buy up the industries of Japan and Germany, relying on the power of the occupation forces to do whatever it wanted, with almost no manners at all.

　However, although the United States did make a fortune after using nuclear bombs to attack its allies and creating the financial crisis in Japan and Germany, it did make a fortune.

　But the problem is that the United States' soft power and diplomatic credibility have also suffered a further devastating blow.

　No matter how much the news media distorts right and wrong and paints a white picture of the United States, it cannot cover up the bloodstains on Uncle Sam's lips.

　Even the governments of Japan and Germany are like eunuchs in a slaughterhouse.

　Even a chicken wouldn't dare to cry out even when faced with a butcher's knife. But the people of both countries, as well as those of other peace-loving "free nations," were filled with righteous indignation, viewing Nixon as a supreme evil lord "worse than Hitler."

　Then, as citizens of a "free nation," they naturally have the right to express their opinions through action. Even if governments fear the tyranny of the US military, they also resent the US's brazen attacks on its allies. Therefore, they deliberately slack off on security, hoping to teach the Americans a lesson.

　And so, the rest of President Nixon's "goodwill" visit to Europe essentially became a series of melees and disasters.

　After mushroom clouds rose over Frankfurt and Tokyo Bay, President Nixon was hit by a stone in Paris, rotten eggs in London, clubbed in Brussels, and finally shot six times in Stockholm - fortunately, only one bullet grazed his neck.

　Although a bit embarrassing, the United States still reaped rich rewards: various options products on the Chicago Stock Exchange finally ushered in a long-awaited across-the-board surge; international funds began to flow into the U.S. real estate and financial markets in large quantities, allowing the U.S. infrastructure and other industries to quickly become prosperous.

　Furthermore, the two nuclear bombs that devastated the allies made them realize that the United States had become a madman, willing to sacrifice money for shame. Consequently, President Nixon's diplomatic team easily forced NATO member states to increase their share of military spending and pay more for the US military presence.

　——At this moment, the United States really dares to use nuclear bombs to flatten its own people! We must not resist any longer!

　For Firi, who was in Los Angeles, the most direct impact of the above international situation was that Washington's finances seemed to have become abundant all of a sudden. The US$800 million applied for by the Strategic Deception Bureau was approved almost instantly and was increased to US$1000 million!

　Ah, this is such a great thing that will make you extremely happy!

　Author's Note: PS: During the Gulf War, the US military spent $70 to purchase a Tomahawk missile. Now, a Tomahawk missile costs $3500 million. Even after deducting various other miscellaneous R&D costs, the unit production price is still as high as $600 million.

　What is even more outrageous is the research and development goal: to replace the Tomahawk with environmentally friendly fuel and recyclable warhead!

　We're about to bomb people, but the fuel needs to be environmentally friendly? And the shrapnel needs to be recycled?!

　Chapter 565, "The Wizard of Oz" Plan (Part 1)

　February 1971, 2, Saint Valentine's Day.

　Despite the current difficult times and chaotic public order, despite the usual couples' packages offered by movie theaters and restaurants, the streets of Los Angeles are still filled with homeless people and even scattered with charred ruins, leaving little room for the joyful Valentine's Day atmosphere.

　But in the San Fernando Valley refuge villa, Ferry's harem women enthusiastically held a celebration party.

　The spacious underground shelter, excavated from the thick rock face beneath the cliff, was now transformed into a "fake outdoor" desert-themed landscape box space with a night sky. Scattered with gravel, weeds, cacti, and pools of water, there was even a crescent moon hanging high in the dome, along with a sky filled with stars...

　In fact, this arrangement is a bit fake. If the moon is so bright, you shouldn't be able to see so many stars.

　Of course, since it is a "landscape box", you can make it as beautiful as possible and it doesn't have to strictly follow the actual situation.

　On the ground covered with a layer of sand, which turned it into an "indoor desert" or a giant cat litter box, the harem slaves used several folding poles to temporarily set up a projection screen and a home projector, clicking and playing a "pseudo-open-air movie" on the screen.

　"Blair, from New York, was a rebellious bad girl. She ran away from her family in New York and went to the other side of the American continent in search of true love and freedom. She hung out with hippies and wandered from state to state, from city to city.

　Unlike those lucky ones who became masters and rock singers who became famous, Blair's hippie life was very mediocre.

　But when she got tired of her wandering life, she experienced a wonderful and terrifying adventure in another world on her way home..."

　This is the "Dark Version of The Wizard of Oz" that Ferry and his harem members worked on for half a month, and then sent the materials to the Black Island Studio of the King family to add the opening and ending credits, soundtrack and narration.

　Female Time Traveler Blair!

　With generous funding from the White House and the hard work and overtime of his own employees, Fieri and his father Patrick personally supervised the production and completed this 45-minute short film in early February at an astonishing speed - mainly because the post-production of documentaries is relatively easy. With the video materials ready, it is basically the same as making short videos in the future. Coming out a film in half a month is not an incredible speed.

　Although the film is a bit rough due to the rush, after a small-scale preview by people in the industry, the owners of major theater chains have given "Female Time Traveler Blair" a fairly good evaluation. It is expected that by next week, it will be released on 700 screens across the country.

　Well, compared to those popular commercial blockbusters, the number of screens showing this movie is indeed a little less.

　But for a documentary, especially one with an official political mission, it is already good enough to be shown on 700 screens.

　——After all, the United States is not China,

　It is impossible to mobilize all teachers, students and civil servants to watch the National Day tribute film.