American Strategic Deception Bureau

　However, due to its small number of troops, the 2506th Brigade was unable to expand further after its initial victory, and could not even sweep across the entire Guantanamo Province. It could only be content with controlling a small piece of land around Guantanamo Bay and re-erecting the "Free Cuba" sign there.

　After all, although the area around Guantanamo Bay is not very large, its total area is not much different from that of Hong Kong.

　Using a maximum of 3,000 US troops + mercenaries to control an area as large as Hong Kong is already stretched thin.

　At this point, except for occasional air raids and bombings, the US military operations on the island of Cuba have completely come to a standstill.

　On the other hand, Director Dulles and Director Bissell bypassed Firi and directly deployed an operation to recruit defectors from the Cuban revolutionary regime. This operation was also carried out in full swing on the island of Cuba with the help of various lobbyists, informants and brokers.

　After a period of "adjustment", the results were mixed.

　The good news is that as piles of hydrogen bombs fell, a large number of wavering elements did appear within the Cuban revolutionary government. Looking at the mushroom clouds rising from the land of their motherland, they finally remembered the past when they were ravaged by the iron hoof of the US military and the pain of being exploited and dominated by American financial groups.

　What’s even more terrifying is that in the past the United States only wanted to exploit the Cuban people, but now it is directly causing the Cuban people to “evaporate with high temperature”!

　The power of the American empire,

　The wrath of the American Empire is terrifying! The punishment of the American Empire is to eradicate the root of the problem!

　So... since the United Fruit Company doesn't want the radioactive wasteland of Cuba anymore, why not just kneel down and beg for survival again?

　No one wants their hometown to be flattened by a hydrogen bomb! But the US nuclear arsenal is so large, and there are thousands of hydrogen bombs!

　If all of them were thrown onto the island of Cuba at once... would there still be people alive on this 110,000 square kilometer island?

　——Based on the spread of the above ideas, many Cuban militiamen who lacked awareness gradually stopped obeying the orders of their superiors and became "civilian violent groups" that acted on their own. They were then bribed by CIA agents and quickly transformed into puppet troops, starting to establish their own territories and dominate the world.

　Even in Castro's "old revolutionary base" of the Sierra Maestra Mountains, several "rebel armies" emerged with CIA airdropped commissions.

　Furthermore, after Khrushchev in the Kremlin reached a compromise with President Kennedy in the White House, essentially ending the futile long-distance support for the Cuban revolutionary regime, most Soviet officers and soldiers who had reinforced Cuba lost both the will and the reason to continue fighting. Most of them were merely on business trips to Cuba, obeying orders from their superiors. They were not the Red International Brigades that fought for idealism during the Spanish Civil War.

　Not to mention, witnessing the mushroom cloud rising from a hydrogen bomb explosion is a scene that can cause many ordinary people to have a mental breakdown.

　Cut off from their homeland, only a handful of Soviet citizens remained in Cuba to continue aiding their Cuban comrades in the revolution. Most simply wanted to return home. Therefore, after negotiations, President Kennedy approved a seven-day "humanitarian ceasefire" on February 1st, allowing Soviet merchant ships to dock in Cuba after inspection, pick up stranded Soviet soldiers, and deliver food, medicine, and other supplies.

　As a result, with the withdrawal of most of the Soviet reinforcements, the military strength that the Cuban revolutionary regime could still mobilize was further weakened.

　What is worrying is that even after suffering such a brutal and horrific nuclear attack, anti-American sentiment among the Cuban people is still very high due to the old hatred left by the United States' various inhumane actions in Cuba for more than half a century, coupled with the new hatred of having just razed Havana and a series of Cuban cities to the ground with hydrogen bombs. Almost one million people died in the nuclear attack of American imperialism, and countless people on the island lost their families and lives.

　Every time a US hydrogen bomb falls, it sends Castro a large number of anti-American warriors who are furious and full of revenge!

　The hasty withdrawal of U.S. ground forces made the Cubans realize the weakness beneath the Americans' arrogant and domineering appearance.

　In other words, Cuba's anti-American forces at this time still hadn't given up hope. They believed they could rely on tenacious fighting to wear down the US military and ultimately win the national liberation war. They even spread the spark of resistance to US imperialist tyranny throughout the vast land of Latin America.

　Under such circumstances, although the morale of the Cuban revolutionary regime was low and people's hearts were scattered, the Castro brothers still had a controllable base and an absolutely loyal armed force, and were far from being deserted by everyone.

　After all, for today's Cubans, there is no need to mobilize to kill Americans, and they have to pay money to surrender to the United States.

　It is simply impossible to get rid of Castro through a bloodless high-level coup or a small-scale central mutiny.

　Even carrying out a decapitation operation with internal and external support, sending special forces to infiltrate behind enemy lines and kill Castro, is impossible.

　Because the CIA couldn't even figure out where the bearded Castro hid after Havana was flattened by a hydrogen bomb!

　So, Director Dulles decided not to rush to search for Castro's location for the time being, and let the Cubans fight among themselves first!

　On February 10, 1962, a counter-revolutionary coup took place in the port of Santiago in Santiago Province, the main remaining city in Cuba. About 2000 Cuban soldiers raised the flag of rebellion and defected to the "Free Cuba" in Guantanamo, launching an attack on the army still loyal to Castro.

　The rebels quickly took control of the docks and most of the city, leaving only a few of the strongest defensive strongholds, which were difficult to capture for a while.

　Revolutionary forces loyal to Castro and a small number of Soviet volunteers also continued to come to support from other places, causing the war to become a stalemate.

　The excited Director Dulles directly bypassed Firi and forced the new commander of the 2506th Brigade, Irnedo Oliva, to lead 600 relatively well-trained mercenaries, carrying artillery, tanks and other heavy weapons, and board the US Navy landing ships to enter San Diego to participate in the war.

　After four days of fighting, as the Cuban reinforcements were destroyed from the air by US bombers, the few stubborn defenders left in Santiago were quickly "softened" by the fierce artillery fire. They ran out of ammunition and food, were defeated and overwhelmed one by one, and had no choice but to escape into the mountains.

　However, just as happened at the end of the Battle of Trinidad last month, the revolutionary officers and soldiers and Soviet volunteers trapped in Santiago also detonated the Soviet nuclear mines deployed there at the last moment, perishing together with their class enemies...

　——Known in history as “Bloody Valentine’s Day”!

　Just like that, as another flashing mushroom cloud slowly rose over the island of Cuba, the 2506th Brigade of mercenaries under Firi was once again severely damaged in the nuclear strike, shrinking from half a brigade to only a quarter of a brigade.

　Or two battalions.

　The second brigade commander, Irnedo Oliva, like his predecessor, Brigade Commander San Roman, died in the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion.

　As a result, the 2506th Brigade became a formidable force in the mercenary world, establishing a legendary record for "double bombing"—what other mercenary group in the world could survive a nuclear explosion twice? Afterwards, the mercenaries of the 2506th Brigade boasted about this in the tavern, boasting about something like, "Other mercenary leaders can be killed with a single stray bullet, but our brigade commander needed a nuclear bomb to be killed!"

　In addition, the Cuban rebels that the CIA had finally bought off also suffered heavy casualties in the nuclear explosion. Even if they did not die on the spot, as long as they were in the Santiago area at the time, they generally suffered from radiation sickness and could only lie down and wait for death. Unlike nuclear warheads that emphasize one-time direct destructive power, the main function of nuclear mines is not direct destruction, but to create large areas of nuclear contaminated areas to hinder the enemy from passing through or using the area.

　Therefore, although the TNT equivalent of the nuclear mines deployed in San Diego is not much greater than that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, the radiation pollution is far greater.

　Seeing this, the other Cuban military and political officials who had not yet launched a rebellion naturally fell silent and dared not speak or act rashly for a short period of time.

　——The United States’ high-yield hydrogen bomb is certainly deadly, and although the Soviet Union’s atomic bomb has a smaller equivalent, it is equally deadly!

　To make matters worse, according to the latest reliable intelligence, Kastro also has another Soviet atomic bomb!

　Although Cuba's medium-range missiles have been used up, as long as an atomic bomb is disguised and hidden in a merchant ship, and then sneaked into an important port in the United States, such as New York, and then a mushroom cloud rises with a "boom", the Statue of Liberty can be turned into a radiation statue... What kind of hellish nightmare is this?

　Even if it wasn't the Big Apple, New York, but Miami, New Orleans or Houston that was bombed by a nuclear bomb, it would still be a devastating disaster!

　Even if Castro did not have the courage to attack the US mainland, but instead went south to carry out a nuclear explosion in Panama, turning the Isthmus of Panama into a nuclear contaminated area, making the construction of the Panama Canal in vain... this would be an unbearable burden for the Kennedy administration, which was already suffering from endless complaints!

　As a result, President Kennedy, who was already troubled by the impeachment of Congress, had no choice but to go on TV and announce again that Florida, close to Cuba, and Louisiana, Alabama and Texas on the Gulf coast were back in a state of emergency.

　Other ports on the east coast of the United States and the Panama Canal zone controlled by US troops also had to strengthen inspections of ships entering the port, and a large number of Geiger counters were urgently distributed to Coast Guard and customs personnel, causing chaos for a while.

　Even more troubling, some American scientists have pointed out that even if they can strictly defend their own territory and territorial waters, they cannot completely guarantee homeland security. This is because the high seas of the Gulf of Mexico are already dotted with offshore oil drilling platforms belonging to major American oil companies.

　If the Cubans loaded an atomic bomb onto a suicide-disguised merchant ship and then sailed it to an oil drilling platform on the high seas and detonated it, they could also create a terrible ecological disaster that would harm the entire southern coast of the United States - but because of the right of freedom of navigation on the high seas, the United States would have no way to do anything about it!

　As soon as the above news broke, the New York Stock Exchange fell again, and the death-fearing American tycoons moved back into their respective doomsday bunkers.

　Miami erupted in racial strife and the Zero Dollar Riots, which began when extremists from the Ku Klux Klan attacked Cuban immigrants. But soon, as the riots escalated, blacks joined in, eventually turning into a brawl between southern rednecks and all people of color.

　Although American diplomats, seeing the huge harm that would happen if a small country like Cuba accidentally acquired nuclear weapons, began to promote the "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty" and the "Atmospheric Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" on the UN stage under the banner of world peace, it was ultimately unable to quench the thirst of the immediate.

　——Since the previous United Nations was unable to prevent the United States from using military force against Cuba, the current United Nations is also unable to force Castro to give up his nuclear weapons and surrender to the US military: this is the last straw for the Cuban revolutionary regime.

　The American people, who had been tormented by the Cuban nuclear crisis for more than a month and were generally on the verge of mental breakdown, could no longer tolerate it. They vented their anger on Capitol Hill and the White House, roaring and demanding that the Cuban mess be ended as soon as possible and that their poor nerves be stopped from being tortured.

　President Kennedy and his cabinet were exhausted by the plummeting approval ratings. They were fed up with the protracted Cuban War and sternly ordered the CIA to end the Cuban Crisis as soon as possible so that the administration could escape the scourge.

　As for whether or not Castro could be killed to preserve the face of the American Empire, or even to serve as a warning to others, that was no longer a concern...

　——Whether it was the Afghanistan War, the Vietnam War or the earlier Korean War, the United States treated its enemies in this way, being arrogant at first and respectful later.

　At first, the US was full of energy and arrogance, determined to bring the other side to its knees and sing "Conquer" songs, refusing to offer even the slightest shred of decency. But after a year or two, at most, the spirit in American public opinion gradually waned, and all sorts of discouraging complaints began to emerge.

　Then, ceasefire and troop withdrawal became politically correct, and how to withdraw troops as respectably as possible became a difficult test for politicians in Washington...

　But the result is often the root

　There was no way to maintain dignity. From the Iron Fist of Saigon to the Flying Man of Kabul, he had repeatedly embarrassed the American imperial army.

　There is no way. After World War II, successive US governments have become opportunists. They are only enthusiastic about wars for a short period of time. They always provoke wars with arrogance, and after a short period of high spirits, they take advantage of the rapid decline of bellicose public opinion and run away.

　——The weaker the enemy, the longer you can fight; the stronger the enemy, the faster your fighting spirit will fade.

　Although war is an opportunity to make money for the US military-industrial complex, the premise is that the war cannot happen on its own territory.

　By now, the Cuban War had already seen medium-range missiles launched into Washington, D.C., blowing off a corner of the Pentagon, the very building that launched the war. Admiral Curtis LeMay, the renowned "Tokyo Grill Master" of the Pacific War, was nearly grilled in his own office.

　——There is great terror between life and death. Faced with the explosion happening around you, even the most bloodthirsty warmonger will become peace-loving.

　After all, not every warmonger has Hitler's courage to squat in a trench where disease is rampant and face the influence of poison gas bombs.

　There are more cunning people like Tojo Hideki, who usually talk big and bold, but when death is imminent, they don't even have the courage to shoot themselves.

　In short, at this point, Director Dulles finally had to admit awkwardly that it was impossible to bypass or overthrow the Castro brothers in order to end the Cuban war in a short period of time.

　Although the "Operation Razor" plan proposed by a certain Major Jin seems outrageous, it is the most decent way to end the situation under the current conditions.

　In this way, the CIA finally agreed with Firi's view and authorized him to negotiate directly with the Castro regime.

　In order to connect Firi with the Castro brothers, the agency's spies used their connections to find a heavyweight middleman.

　——The biological mother of the Castro brothers, Lina Castro!

　By the way, this Ms. Lina Castro is also an informant for the CIA in Cuba...

　Well, how should I put it? Perhaps revolutionaries are destined to be misunderstood by their families and to enjoy solitude?

　Author's words: PS: What follows is the story of managing the Cuban wasteland.

　Chapter 132: Is Kastrot’s biological mother a CIA informant?

　February 22, 1962, at a cafe in Coral Gables, Florida, USA

　Although it was only late February, the afternoon temperature in Miami, where the sun shines all year round, still reached 30 degrees Celsius.

　Major Ferry King, dressed in a neat military uniform, shifted uncomfortably in the booth, his expression stiff.

　At the same time, Marita, a CIA female agent wearing a women's suit next to him, also looked very uneasy, her face turning pale and blue.

　One of the main people who made the two feel so embarrassed was an old woman in a long dress sitting opposite them and her daughter - the Castro brothers' mother, Lina Castro, and her daughter Emma who married into Mexico.

　Firi had never dreamed that CIA agents could invite the bearded Castro's biological mother to act as a middleman for peace talks.

　I didn't know that the Castro brothers were so unpopular in Cuba that even their own mothers turned against the US...

　As a result, when he suddenly met the other party with Marita, he immediately felt embarrassed and ashamed.

　- Who made the bearded Fidel Castro seriously want to marry Marita to be the first lady of Cuba four years ago, and even took Marita back to his hometown to meet his mother, Ms. Lina Castro?

　As a result, when the former future mother-in-law and daughter-in-law met again after four years, everything had changed. It was really sad.

　Well, there was also Emma Castro, the former sister-in-law-to-be, who was sitting next to her and knew Marita as well.

　Alas, all the agents directly under Director Dulles were mysterious. Before taking me to meet them, they even refused to tell me who the other party was.

　If I had known that the middleman contacted by the bureau was actually Caslot's biological mother... I definitely wouldn't have brought Marita here this time!

　Major Ferry King couldn't help but scratch his scalp, thinking so quietly in his heart.

　However, it is truly remarkable that the bearded Castro was able to start a revolution to the point where even his own mother and sister rebelled against him collectively!

　What made the atmosphere even more awkward was that the CIA agent who introduced the old woman to Fieri was actually Frank Sturget - nominally, he was now Fieri's subordinate, but in reality, this senior agent reported directly to Deputy Director Bissell, and Fieri had no control over him at all.

　Of course, if that were all, Fili wouldn't be so petty. He is not the kind of person who has a strong desire for control.

　But the problem was, three years ago, it was this same Frank Sturget who had arrested Marita on the streets of New York, aborted her unborn child, and then tricked her into taking a bottle of highly toxic vanishing cream to assassinate Castro...

　Now that Marita has met his enemy, she is extremely jealous, and her beautiful eyes are almost emitting murderous rays!

　Well, by the way, it was Frank Sturget who served as an American consultant, helping the Castro brothers build a mountain base and train guerrillas - in other words, he was actually deeply involved.

　With the veterans of the Cuban Revolution: It shows that one person can play many roles.

　In short, looking at his girlfriend with a stiff expression, his girlfriend's ex-mother-in-law and the enemy who killed his son, Fili felt that his toes could dig through the soles of his shoes.

　Oh, what kind of Shura field have I fallen into?

　-

　What do brothers Fidel Castro and Raul Castro represent to the people of Latin America?

　The fire thief who lit the red revolutionary beacon in the Western Hemisphere?

　A legendary warrior who dared to draw his sword against American capitalists?

　The most dazzling and glorious banner of the Latin American left-wing movement?

　However, in the eyes of old lady Lina Castro, they are a pair of prodigal brothers and unfilial sons!

　In the early 20th century, a Spanish veteran named Angel Castro immigrated from Spain to Cuba, settling in the town of Biran in Holguín Province. He established himself in Cuba by operating a sugarcane plantation and gradually built a fortune.

　Angel Castro, the owner of the estate, married two wives and had nine children. His second wife, Lina Castro, gave birth to seven children, two of whom were Fidel and Raúl.

　Among his brothers and sisters, Fidel was tall and energetic, often taking his children to climb trees and catch fish, making him the king of the town. Raúl, on the other hand, was short and plain-looking, and many people thought he was an illegitimate child, and even his father didn't like him very much.

　Later, after being exposed to cultural knowledge, Fidel began to realize the injustice of this society, and he was particularly sympathetic to poor workers. In order to improve the treatment of the workers, he personally organized a strike of workers on his own plantation, demanding that his father raise his wages.

　But his mother did not understand Fidel's idea at all, and thought that Fidel's behavior of sabotaging his own family was ridiculous.

　Of course, Fidel's strike against his father was short-lived and quickly ended in failure. Even his father didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just a common rebellious act among young people and nothing to worry about.

　——As a teenager, Fidel Castro was far from being a Bolshevik who had betrayed his class. At best, he was just a sympathetic and reckless young man.

　Isn't it common everywhere for energetic young people to contradict their parents on some inexplicable things?

　In fact, in the Castro family, the first person to come into contact with communist ideas was not Fidel, but his younger brother Raul.

　When Father Angel learned that Raul was participating in the student movement at the university in the capital Havana, he sent Fidel to stop his brother.

　Before leaving, his father said to Fidel: "Watch your brother carefully and don't let him become a communist!"