American Strategic Deception Bureau

　He sighed, stood up, walked to the study, picked up the phone, and immediately heard Deputy Director Bissell's angry roar.

　"Captain King! I saw the lesson plan outline for the San Fernando Valley Shelter Girls Project you faxed over! This is outrageous!

　How can you give me a two-year training plan? If every female slave, no, female spy, has to train for two years before being auctioned, how can such a business not lose money? Not to mention the cost of keeping them, the time alone is simply too much to bear!

　I reject this syllabus right now. You must immediately prepare a quick training plan for me, and the time limit should not exceed three months!"

　However, Fili on the other end of the phone was also aggrieved: "Three months of crash course? How is such a thing possible?

　Director, you probably didn't read my fax carefully, did you? You've brought me a bunch of Latin American girls, and most of them are pretty uneducated. Just getting them to learn basic English from scratch and understand the English manuals for all sorts of machinery will take at least a year!

　If they don't even understand English, how are they supposed to communicate with their buyers, let alone operate the various equipment in the shelter?

　You can't just do human trafficking with wealthy people who speak Spanish, right? How many such clients are there in the United States?"

　Deputy Director Bissell:? ? !!

　The woman "importing" from Latin America doesn't speak English? God, how could I have forgotten that?

　Chapter 81: Some people go to the moon, some people go to the toilet

　In short, after answering Fieri's call, CIA Deputy Director Bissell finally discovered a long-ignored blind spot.

　——The women trafficked by the CIA from Latin America naturally speak Spanish, and few of them can speak English!

　After all, when the CIA was engaged in human trafficking in the past, whether it was selling girls to brothels or to wealthy men, it didn't have to worry about language issues.

　Who cares if they can speak English? As long as they are beautiful and have a good figure, and can make men have fun in bed, that's all that matters!

　A foreign woman like this, who is bought with money, might be more popular if she doesn't speak English because it's not easy for her to run away!

　But the problem is, if they are to become the hostesses of the shelter, the wasteland companions of the American rich in the post-nuclear apocalypse...

　We have to find a way to solve this language communication barrier problem.

　Otherwise, how could the girls in the shelter avoid getting into trouble when they couldn't even speak English and couldn't understand the instructions for the various equipment in the shelter?

　The shelter is stockpiled with not only mountains of canned food, but also large quantities of gasoline and ammunition, plus a self-sufficient power system... If the shelter girl who manages all of this were to get into trouble accidentally, it would be a disaster!

　Therefore, it is not possible not to teach them English. This is extremely irresponsible to the life safety of the buyers!

　But if this is the case, as Firi said, how long will it take for a foreign woman to learn English from scratch?

　If you want to reach the level of being able to have a basic conversation, one or two years is the minimum, right?

　Well, there are indeed some very smart and language-talented students who can master a foreign language in just two or three months. The languages ​​of European countries are relatively similar. It is easier for Germans, French and Dutch to learn English than East Asian people.

　Therefore, it is not as difficult for Latin Americans to learn English as it is for East Asians.

　But the problem is, even if it is easy for Latin Americans to learn English, the prerequisite is that they have to go to school and study!

　Indeed, when the United States was at its peak, any intellectual with a little culture in neighboring Latin America could speak a few words of English.

　But the question is, how many educated people are there in Latin America at this time? Especially educated young women.

　What about people?

　Most of the women the CIA abducted and acquired from Latin American countries were either country girls, runaway girls, or female captives who had been passed around several times. A significant number of them were illiterate and might not even recognize Spanish!

　As for Latin American girls who can speak a few words of English, they are even rarer, perhaps only one in ten.

　Moreover, even for these women who can speak a few words of English, it is difficult for them to read and write English fluently, and they have to use gestures when speaking...

　There was no way around it. In the mid-twentieth century, universal education was still a luxury. Only the Soviet Union and Germany, due to their own considerations, spared no effort to promote universal education and complete literacy. During the post-World War II Labour Party administration, Britain finally implemented compulsory education within the framework of its "welfare society." As for other European countries, none had yet completed the final steps towards universal literacy and education.

　Meanwhile, the United States, the other Cold War power, didn't truly achieve universal public education until the mid-1960s, during the Johnson administration, under the slogan of the "Great Society"—though just a decade later, American public education began to decline...

　If the average person in the world's most developed European and American countries has such low educational attainment, the level of literacy in Third World countries is even more difficult to predict. This is not to mention the average African who has failed prenatal education, or the Middle Eastern Arabs and South Asian Indians whose education is primarily focused on religion. Even the people of Latin America, who perfectly avoided both world wars, have a level of literacy only slightly better than that of their African counterparts.

　When it comes to education, the dictators in Latin American countries are generally more inclined to burn books and bury scholars. The children of the upper class can attend expensive private elementary schools and then go to study in the United States or Europe; the children of the middle class attend church schools, and the children of the poor can only be illiterate.

　For example, during the Somoza dynasty that ruled Nicaragua for forty years, only the second generation, President Luis, made some effort in national education.

　When the third generation, Tacho Junior, came to power, he immediately cut Nicaragua's education spending to zero, causing schools across the country to close. Unable to bear this, teachers approached him to argue, but he publicly declared, "I don't want an educated people. I want stupid cows!"

　This was in relatively peaceful Nicaragua, but in other war-torn South American nations, the situation was even more dire. Colombia had already been embroiled in a civil war for over a decade, with government forces perpetrating brutal massacres and torture. Not counting battlefield casualties, the number of "suspected revolutionaries" captured and executed alone reached 200,000, despite the country's total population of only around 10 million.

　On the other hand, facing the government army's butcher knife, the guerrillas also retaliated, constantly looting towns, slaughtering landowners, and burning churches and monasteries.

　In this environment of war and corpses everywhere, no one in Colombia has the time to care about education.

　In other words, in mid-twentieth-century Latin America, young women who knew a little English were rare, and the likelihood of them falling into the hands of CIA human trafficking teams and becoming "commodities" was even more remote, comparable to panning for gold in an icy stream in Alaska.

　Unless the CIA's slave-hunting teams could break into Latin American universities and arrest large numbers of female college students...but the impact would be too great, even the CIA couldn't contain it. After all, those who can attend university in Latin American countries are all upper-class and respectable people, and their activism is incomparable to that of the poor.

　Therefore, faced with Firi's complaint, Deputy Director Bissell was unable to come up with a solution for a while.

　Although he still stubbornly believed that it was absurd to spend a year or two raising abducted Latin American women to attend language school just to fetch a high price, Firi immediately countered that medieval Arab slave traders, in order to sell beautiful slaves into the sultan's harem, spared no expense in teaching them etiquette, singing, dancing, and other skills, raising them for several years before selling them.

　If the CIA doesn't even have this much patience, then what's the point of doing high-end business? They should just use the intelligence they have to speculate on Wall Street stocks!

　However, Deputy Director Bissell and Director Dulles also have their difficulties: the positions of director and deputy director of the CIA are not like those of Director Hoover of the FBI, where they can sit on the throne for decades. On the contrary, they are likely to retire in a year or two.

　If this "Shelter Girl" marketing plan still doesn't make any money before retirement, wouldn't all their efforts be in vain?

　In the end, Deputy Director Bissell had no choice but to let Firi continue to train the existing "female slave students" according to his plan.

　But the expansion of the shelter academy is on hold, and will not be considered for now. Unless there is a solution to the problem of learning English from scratch...

　-

　On another weekend at the end of September, Fieri once again went to 625 Oceanside Boulevard in Santa Monica to attend the Kennedy Family Weekend Party hosted by Patricia Kennedy. This time, he did not bring Marita as his female companion, but brought his younger sister Maria to see the world.

　Because, on this day, President John F. Kennedy finally took time out of his busy schedule to come to Los Angeles with his family to attend a weekend party at 625 Oceanside Boulevard, meeting with various celebrities from the West Coast to gain their support for the current administration's "New Frontier" policy.

　The theme of this party is,

　It is the US-Soviet space race that has caused heated discussions around the world and the "Apollo moon landing program" that has recently been gradually made public.

　——For all Americans, and even all people on Earth, the moon is indeed a "new frontier" that cannot be newer.

　So, in the hall where the party was held, there were small flags with moon and star patterns everywhere, as well as restarted toy rockets and an imaginary spacecraft model - of course, according to Firi's observation, it seemed far from the real "Apollo" lunar landing spacecraft.

　President John F. Kennedy, dressed exceptionally handsomely, spoke eloquently amid the guests' admiring gazes, promoting the massive Apollo moon landing program, explaining its necessity, and fighting back against critics who accused the program of being "extravagant and wasteful."

　"Some people say this plan is too expensive. Why do we have to go to the moon? They can also ask, why do we have to climb the world's highest peak? Why do we have to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? Why do we have to brave the North and South Poles?

　Many years ago, George Mallory, the British explorer who died on Mount Everest (known as Mount Qomolangma in China), was once asked why he had to climb that mountain. He replied, "Because there is a mountain there."

　Yes, because there is a universe above us, with moons and planets. Because there lies new hope for human civilization..."

　All the guests at the party applauded warmly and expressed their approval of President Kennedy's bold words.

　However, when the upper class of the United States was gazing at the stars and dreaming of a moon race with the Soviet Union, the black people in the slums of the United States, inspired by Martin Luther King, set out from the capital and embarked on a high-spirited expedition to the toilets in the southern states.

　In the summer of 1961, the U.S. Congress for Racial Equality held a rally in Washington, D.C. Afterward, seven inspired black people from the North left Washington on a bus, preparing to embark on a journey to the southern states.

　The seven black men were prepared to be beaten to death by the Southern KKK. They set out from Washington and took a tortuous route through the southern states of the United States: south through Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, turning southwest to reach Atlanta; then west through Alabama, continuing forward, crossing the Mississippi, and finally arriving in New Orleans, Louisiana, the largest port for the importation of black slaves before the Civil War.

　These brave northern blacks, calling themselves "Freedom Riders," launched this expedition to defy local customs and challenge the racial segregation system implemented in waiting rooms, restaurants, and restrooms at long-distance bus stations in southern states, risking their lives to use the station restrooms reserved for whites.

　Well, although it sounds a bit ridiculous decades later, in the eyes of northern blacks at that time, going to the South was really the same as going to an enemy country.

　In addition to these seven black people, five white people who supported them also followed suit, forming a traveling team of twelve people.

　At the beginning of the trip, in places like Richmond, Petersburg, and Lynchburg near the north, black people cautiously broke into "white-only" toilets and sat in fast food restaurants with "White People Served" signs to eat. They found that their behavior of challenging the racial segregation system only caused others to glare at most and mutter a few dirty words, but no one drove them out with sticks.

　On the contrary, many curious reporters discovered this interesting story and immediately chased after this group of "free passengers" in an attempt to be the first to report the news.

　Newspapers and radio stations tracked their travel routes in real time, waiting for something to happen.

　Sure enough, after being targeted by Southern racists, they soon ran into trouble.

　First, in Charlotte, North Carolina, a black freedom rider walked into a whites-only barbershop to ask for a haircut and refused to leave. He was arrested by police for trespassing.

　The other Freedom Riders left him behind and continued on their way, but were then beaten by the Ku Klux Klan guarding the Rock Hill station in South Carolina. Three Freedom Riders were injured, and two were arrested by the police for resisting.

　The next section of the journey was peaceful. The Georgia police were on high alert at stations in Atlanta and other places, fearing that the KKK would cause trouble and allow the buses carrying the "freedom riders" to pass smoothly.

　However, on Alabama Highway 78, the long-distance bus they were riding in was ambushed by a group of Ku Klux Klan members armed with sticks and Molotov cocktails. The bus was burned and all the freedom passengers were beaten. Fortunately, the police arrived in time and saved them by firing blanks into the air.

　The local black people also heard about the fight and drove over to take the injured to the hospital.

　Later, at the Birmingham bus station in Alabama, the remaining "Freedom Riders" were ambushed again by a group of white men armed with steel pipes. Although the incident had been reported to the FBI and the police department, the local sheriff withheld the information, and the FBI did not report it to the Department of Justice.

　So, under the live filming of a large group of reporters, this group of freedom riders who challenged the apartheid system were once again lynched and beaten by white racists. No police intervened throughout the process. Three of them were seriously injured and forced to be hospitalized.

　It was not until this time that Attorney General Robert Kennedy finally noticed the "Freedom Riders"' suicide trip. He immediately called the Governor of Alabama.

　They demanded that Governor Paterson protect the Freedom Riders. The governor initially agreed, but then backtracked. Paterson had been elected with the support of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, they absolutely could not afford to offend the Klan over the lives of a few black people.

　At this point, the original group of "Freedom Riders" had been frightened into abandoning their action after being beaten so badly at the Birmingham bus station and fled to New Orleans by plane. However, black leader Martin Luther King quickly mobilized a group of black college students to replace them and continue their journey.

　In Washington, Attorney General Robert Kennedy issued a statement trying to persuade both sides to show restraint.

　The newly arrived second group of Freedom Riders immediately assured them they would not attack anyone, but Alabama refused to respond.

　Meanwhile, President Kennedy, having received his brother's request, immediately called Governor Patterson to try to resolve the situation, but the governor refused to answer the phone and only agreed to meet with the president's personal representative.

　The Kennedy brothers discussed it and sent a young man from Tennessee named John Seigenthaler to Alabama to mediate the conflict.

　Under pressure from the presidential envoy, Governor Paterson changed his mind again and said he could send state mounted police to protect the "Freedom Riders."

　So the new "freedom riders" boarded a bus and headed for Montgomery, where they ran headfirst into an ambush by the Ku Klux Klan. The whole scene was in chaos, with hundreds of thugs besieging the "freedom riders." The Montgomery police passively watched the entire process, with Police Chief Sullivan publicly declaring that they "would never protect a group of troublemakers." The number of state mounted police was too small to stop so many thugs.

　Soon, the entire station was engulfed in violence. Thugs took advantage of the chaos to loot stores and buy for pennies. One person suffered a broken leg. Others were shot. Another doused a bus with gasoline and set it on fire. Poor Presidential envoy John Seigenthaler, who rushed into the scene in a rented car to try to stop the riot, was dragged from the car by the mob, thrown onto the sidewalk, and beaten until his head was bruised and bloodied. He collapsed unconscious in a pool of his own blood.

　Even more unfortunately, all the hospitals in the city refused to admit the presidential envoy, causing him to almost die.

　When the news reached Washington, the federal government was stunned. They allowed a mob to nearly kill the imperial envoy. What kind of problem was this?

　Therefore, the Kennedy brothers, who were almost mad with anger, immediately dispatched Deputy Attorney General Byron White with 400 federal marshals to Montgomery to cooperate with the black leader Martin Luther King who rushed to Montgomery after hearing the news, to intimidate and suppress the local KKK thugs.

　Governor Paterson, who therefore believed that "state rights were being violated," once again sided with the Ku Klux Klan and even convened a meeting of a group of senior police officers in Alabama, preparing to claim that Alabama had been invaded by the federal government and then use force to arrest federal marshals!

　Well, because of the black people’s “Toilet Expedition” which was a performance art against racial segregation, the United States almost started a second civil war!

　Author's words: PS: If the United States had not abolished the apartheid system during the Cold War, it would have been difficult to gain ideological advantage.

　For example, if the Chinese Exclusion Act had not been repealed until now, would China still have so many spiritual Americans?

　Chapter 82: Changing America Starting with the Toilet

　At this critical moment, Deputy Attorney General Byron White broke into the enemy camp and the meeting hall alone, questioning Governor Paterson on what he was going to do. After a heated exchange of words, although Governor Paterson remained stubborn, the Alabama police officers all backed down and refused to confront the federal marshals.

　The state only pays a few fixed salaries, and the governor is actually trying to start a civil war with the central government? Is this crazy?

　The Ku Klux Klan might vote for the governor, but they will never pay them military salaries!

　And the reason for starting a civil war was simply to prevent black people from peeing in a whites-only restroom? Was it worth it?

　The police officers present thought it was outrageous that they might be remembered in a historical event called the "Toilet War."

　Even if you really want to go against the central government, can you please find a decent reason, Governor?

　A rebellion to kick black people out of the bathroom? It's embarrassing to hear that!

　Thanks to the senior police officers' awareness of the overall situation, the unrest on Governor Paterson's side was finally suppressed, but the KKK thugs were still taking action.

　The remaining "freedom riders" who had not yet escaped were staying with Martin Luther King at the First Baptist Church.

　But at the same time, many vicious KKK thugs also gathered in the park opposite the church, preparing to storm the church and commit a tragedy.

　The local police stationed near the church disappeared again, suggesting that the rioters could massacre the church as soon as possible and kill the black people inside.

　Fortunately, Deputy Attorney General Byron White, who received the news from Martin Luther King, quickly acted decisively and immediately requisitioned all available means of transportation nearby, including mail trucks, private cars, and a prison van. He sent 400 federal marshals to the First Baptist Church, formed a skirmish line outside the church, and engaged in a fierce battle with the rioters holding Molotov cocktails.

　The federal marshals, who were loyal to their duties, fired several rows of tear gas bombs and finally held back the oncoming KKK thugs, preventing them from burning down the church and roasting the black people into charcoal. Anyone who has seen related American movies knows that the KKK thugs love to play this "game" of roasting black people.

　period

　Meanwhile, the unwilling Governor Paterson continued to call the Attorney General and the President, protesting that Alabama had been invaded, and then put forward a condition that as long as the mob was allowed to kill Martin Luther King, the "nigger gangster leader", he would protect the safety of other people in the church.

　But Attorney General Robert Kennedy neither believed the governor's assurances nor could he sit idly by and watch his comrade Martin Luther King die.

　After the two sides intimidated each other, Governor Paterson finally did not dare to continue to use force against the federal government. The most crucial thing was that the state's National Guard and mounted police all defected and refused to follow the crazy governor to raise the flag of rebellion against the federal government. Instead, they accepted the command of the Deputy Attorney General.

　As National Guard soldiers and Alabama Mounted Police arrived at the First Baptist Church where blacks gathered and joined the federal marshals in clearing the area, the fierce but cowardly Ku Klux Klan thugs, seeing that they were in a hopeless situation, finally gave up their arson plans and turned around to flee.

　After the scuffle at First Baptist Church, the Freedom Riders left Alabama and arrived in Jackson, Mississippi.

　Compared to the indecisive Alabama Governor Paterson, Mississippi's racial discrimination attitude was more simple and crude - all the freedom riders ended their journey at the Jackson station and were directly arrested and sent to prison.

　Although the federal court ultimately overturned the Mississippi state's convictions, this belated overturn was of little significance to the detainees, as they had already served their sentences and were released without receiving any compensation from the state of Mississippi.

　Well, it is worthy of being the last state in the United States to abolish slavery. It is a moral low point that the slavery system was legally continued until 2013.

　Just like that, with the first group of "freedom riders" escaping midway and the second group of "freedom riders" being collectively imprisoned, the entire movement ended. No black person who participated in the event could reach the predetermined destination and urinate in the white-only restroom at the New Orleans bus station.