American Strategic Deception Bureau

　If this is the case, why doesn't the CIA join in and take control of this series of illegal activities when it is impossible to truly ban them?

　Rather than letting the mafia make the money, it would be better to let the CIA make it! At least the CIA will contribute to the country after taking the money!

　Next, Firi gave Raul a brief introduction to the current situation of the domestic drug market in the United States.

　Currently, aside from a small amount of locally grown hemp in the southern states and some synthetic drugs secretly developed by the military, the rest of the US market is essentially monopolized by the French and Turks. Drugs like opium and heroin that appear on the US market are first grown in the mountainous regions of Asia Minor in Turkey, then transported by French intelligence to Marseille for refining and processing, and finally shipped across the ocean for sale in the US.

　The so-called "Five Families" of the New York mafia are actually just wholesalers at the end of the market who purchase goods from the French.

　In other words, the drug industry in the United States has been basically monopolized by the French and the Turks, and domestic drug lords are just compradors.

　As a long-established intelligence agency in the United States, FBI Director Hoover has been protecting these drug traffickers for nearly thirty years: all along, whether it was the smuggling of liquor during the Prohibition era, or the various pornography, gambling and drug trafficking that followed, gangs across the United States had to pay protection money to the FBI.

　How can I put it? Since the American mafia, as the seller, has to pay the FBI tribute regardless of where the powder comes from, the FBI, which can just sit back and collect the money, naturally has no motivation to change the status quo - because the FBI has become a landlord collecting rent.

　However, the CIA, which was established later and is weaker, does not have as much gray income - since the American gangs have paid the FBI, they will not pay a share to the CIA, and the CIA does not have the ability to rob the FBI's treasure trove, let alone the military's secret factories producing various "ices".

　If the CIA wants to make money from drug trafficking, it has to start from scratch and build sales networks, markets and channels, etc.

　By now, through human trafficking, casinos, and nightclubs, the CIA had gradually mastered the workings of the American underworld and developed a network of its own. Leveraging secret research facilities in the Philippines, Germany, and Japan, and the vast numbers of human subjects held in these facilities, the CIA had also developed its own unique drug-making process and meticulously measured the hallucinogenic effects of various drugs.

　Unlike gangs, the CIA can actually use large numbers of living people as experimental materials, testing drugs like guinea pigs to see which drugs are more effective.

　Now, the CIA wants to make huge profits from drug trafficking in the United States and compete with the French for business. The biggest problem is that there is no reliable source of goods.

　It's not that the CIA can't buy large quantities of drugs. It's that it's impossible to get a stable supply of cheap drugs.

　If the purchase price is too high, there will be no profit; and if the supply is unstable, with intermittent supply, the retail downstream will be in chaos.

　However, the CIA couldn't gain any ground against the French in Turkey. After all, France and Turkey had a long-standing relationship dating back to the "Profane Alliance" three hundred years ago, and it wasn't something a newly arrived American Yankee could suddenly usurp. Furthermore, the future world-famous drug fodders—the Golden Triangle, the Silver Triangle, and the Golden Crescent—hadn't yet taken shape, leaving the CIA with no chance of getting a bargain.

　——The Vietnam War is still in a state of minor fighting

　President Ngo Dinh Diem could still hold on in South Vietnam for the time being. The US military had only a few hundred advisers and instructors in South Vietnam, and the CIA had even fewer personnel stationed in South Vietnam. They were overwhelmed with official duties and had no energy to do private work and contact warlords to grow opium.

　Although the indigenous people of the Andes Mountains in Peru in South America have had a tradition of chewing coca leaves since ancient times, fresh coca leaves are not suitable for long-distance transportation and long-term storage, and their medicinal properties are far from enough. The money they can earn from selling them in the United States is probably not enough to cover the shipping costs.

　According to history, it would take several more years, until the late 1960s or early 1970s, for drug traffickers to extract cocaine and crack from coca leaves. And only then would coca-growing Andean countries like Peru and Bolivia truly become the "Silver Triangle."

　——The drug-making technology that was everywhere in the world twenty years later is now considered as the unknown Zenith Star technology!

　Finally, with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan still nearly twenty years away, the local opium-growing and morphine-selling industry would have to wait until the CIA sent someone there to provide guidance and underwrite sales before it could take shape. There was no sign of it at all, so what were you sending CIA agents to the Kingdom of Afghanistan to buy?

　Of course, this embarrassing situation of the CIA's drug shelves being empty will not last long.

　By 1964 at the latest, with the outbreak of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of US troops entered South Vietnam to fight a security war. The large number of CIA agents who followed soon contacted local warlords and began to vigorously promote poppy cultivation. They also used the US military's transportation supply lines to import poppy back into the US mainland.

　——If there were no buyers who took the initiative to come forward with money to advance the payment and underwrite the sales, the poor farmers would not dare to stop growing rice and wheat and switch to growing opium!

　Then, a decade later, when the technology for extracting cocaine, crack, and other drugs from coca leaves matured, these "new drugs" would be continuously imported into the United States from the Andes Mountains in South America. The CIA would take advantage of this opportunity to take a cut and reap huge profits.

　So, with all this "future happening" in mind, while negotiating a ceasefire in Cuba and facing Raúl Castro's exorbitant demands for economic aid, Firi thought of the director and deputy director, who were still counting on him to profit from the Cuban wasteland. His imagination suddenly turned to him, and he concluded that the only way to achieve a win-win situation in Cuba's radioactive wasteland was to engage in illegal opium and poisonous mushroom farming.

　Why would the CIA have to create the Golden Triangle in faraway Asia? Wouldn't it be better to just grow the drug vaccines right here in Cuba, right here at home?

　Instead of allowing the "Golden Triangle" to emerge in Southeast Asia, and then bringing drugs out of the deep mountains and forests, transporting them across the vast Pacific Ocean, and importing them into the US market, it would be better to let Cuba's Castro directly seize the supplier qualifications of the Golden Triangle warlords and drug lords. This way, "more money, less work, and closer to home"!

　Moreover, for Americans, doing so is more politically correct - half a century later, Koreans will all shout "body and land are one" and only eat expensive local rice at high prices, so that Korean backpackers will still make money by flying to the country to trade rice.

　Since Americans have been shouting the "Monroe Doctrine" for more than a century, always saying that "America is America for Americans", then when they take drugs, they should naturally take more drugs produced in America instead of choosing those imported from the Old World!

　The above are considerations centered around the consumer side. Looking back at the production side, Firi feels that it is reasonable to let Castro be a drug lord.

　As we all know, after the Cold War and the global decline of socialist movements, a considerable number of defeated left-wing Red guerrillas in Latin America and Southeast Asia transformed themselves into drug lords of all sizes, dominating the dark underground market.

　It can be seen that the transformation of the Latin American red left-wing guerrillas into drug lords after their defeat seems to be an inevitable future destiny.

　Given this, Fili resorted to reverse thinking and thought, why not "super-accelerate" the situation? Should Cuba's Castro brothers simply seize the ecological niche of younger Red guerrilla groups in Latin America and Asia, such as the Peruvian "Shining Path", the Brazilian "Red Command" and the remnants of the Communist Party of Burma?

　Anyway, your ideals will eventually be shattered and you will become drug lords. So what's the difference between becoming a drug lord twenty years earlier or later?

　In addition, the CIA has a large number of defectors from the Castro regime who can act as intermediaries to contact the Cuban side.

　The left-wing elements who fought alongside the Castro brothers to conquer the country are now in positions of power in Cuba's military and political structures, if they haven't died yet. Meanwhile, the right-wing elements who fought alongside the Castro brothers have been suppressed for opposing radical land reform and Soviet-style socialist public ownership reforms, or have fled to the United States. The CIA has gathered a large number of the Castro brothers' old acquaintances and subordinates!

　In the past, these Cuban losers barked and raved in the US, hoping to become a homecoming group, to return to Cuba and reign supreme. Now that Cuba has been bombed into a radioactive wasteland, why would they return? Are they going to spend their days in that wasteland breathing radioactive dust and drinking nuclear wastewater, then die of cancer and meet God?

　They are a returning home group, not a suicide group!

　Coincidentally, with the abandonment of Operation Tropic Thunder and the end of the invasion of Cuba, the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, a political banner previously funded by the CIA, was expected to be ordered to disband soon to save unnecessary expenses.

　A large number of Cuban exiles who lived on CIA subsidies watched

　The food is about to run out, and I can’t spend the whole day just idling around, chatting, eating, drinking, gambling, and whoring.

　In this way, instead of the right-wingers who fled to the United States and became unemployed, and the left-wingers who stayed in Cuba and became poor, it would be better for the two sides to meet and put aside their grudges, and reunite around the big boss Castro who changed his name to Kakarot. With the protection of the CIA, everyone would work together to produce and sell drugs to make a fortune. The left-wingers would then use the profits from drug trafficking to the United States to help the villagers, benefit the hometown, and rebuild their Cuban homeland that was flattened by the hydrogen bomb... Wouldn't this be the best of both worlds?

　In addition, it is also easy to explain this matter to the White House. The CIA only needs to find a group of writers to help them write and package this incident as a great victory of the Western liberal camp in "peaceful evolution" over the socialist camp.

　The Cuban authorities are already producing and trafficking drugs. Can this still be called a red regime? It's more like a black regime!

　Isn’t it a huge victory for the “free camp” to be able to turn a group of Bolsheviks from red to black?

　As for the increase in drug abuse rates among the American people and the reduction in life expectancy...they are all small costs that are not worth mentioning.

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　"Compared to Türkiye, which is far across the ocean, Cuba is more suitable to develop into a production base for "special herbs."

　First, it is close to the American consumer market, making transportation convenient; second, the climate is warm and there is sufficient rainfall, which allows for the cultivation of tropical plants.

　The climate in Asia Minor was too cold, so the Turks could only grow poppies and make opium. If they wanted to grow hemp, they had to spend a lot of money to build greenhouses.

　But the tropical island of Cuba enjoys abundant sunlight, high temperatures, and abundant rainfall. Besides producing opium and hemp, it also boasts the ability to import poisonous mushrooms from neighboring Mexico and even cultivate toads, extracting their toxins and producing a variety of drugs favored by addicts.

　Having successfully gained enlightenment and opened his mind, Firi fully utilized his talent for deception, which he had awakened from the Prince of Lies, Xirik, and spoke confidently, "According to conventional thinking, Cuba, which was bombed into a radioactive wasteland by the hydrogen bomb, seems to have no future.

　However, when you're in a desperate situation, crime can be your last chance to break free! There's always a way out! As long as you fully liberate your mind and cast aside the shackles of morality and law, you'll discover: the vast wasteland holds great potential!

　Don't worry, it doesn't matter if you don't know how to grow these special herbs. The CIA will find agricultural technicians to teach you how to grow drugs. And the CIA is not the United Fruit Company. They don't have the heartless capitalists. They will definitely not exploit opium farmers to bankruptcy and starvation!

　Raúl pondered for a long time the "unconventional way to make money" that Firi had pointed out. While tempted by the potential for huge profits, he still felt it was too outrageous. He expressed his desire for normal financial support. Even if it came with some political demands, those were negotiable.

　Firi said that it is impossible to alleviate poverty. The CIA, a dark and evil organization that does not treat people as human beings, has always hated poverty alleviation the most.

　After this secret peace agreement is reached, the "Cuban Sugar Party Government" that has been fooling the world by changing its name and appearance will automatically enter a "shameful" state. Capitol Hill will not be willing to pay any attention to this "stinking dog shit", let alone throw money on it.

　Therefore, if the Castro brothers want to get emergency money from the United States, then becoming drug lords and partnering with the CIA to engage in drug trafficking is the only way out.

　What's more, after experiencing the horrific nuclear attack, not only did one million people die in Cuba, but tens of thousands of nuclear pollution victims were also left behind. With the current technological conditions in the world, radiation sickness and cancer are incurable. Given Cuba's current economic situation, it certainly does not have the money to import medicines from foreign countries, recruit doctors and nurses, and it is even impossible to rebuild the hospitals that have been razed to the ground.

　In this way, instead of letting these poor nuclear explosion survivors lie down and die in pain with tumors and deformities all over their bodies without medical treatment or medicine, it would be better for the Cuban government to grow and sell drugs itself, and then distribute the self-produced drugs for free as welfare, to serve as painkillers for the radiation victims, so that they can have a slightly more comfortable journey on their last journey in this world - this is true humanitarianism!

　When saying this, Fili's face was truly righteous and upright, as sanctimonious as a saint.

　But considering his current identity - the current commander-in-chief of the US invasion of Cuba, it is indescribably ironic.

　Please, weren't these hydrogen bombs that caused so much suffering to the Cuban people dropped by you Americans?

　So, with a confused mind, Raul went back to report to his brother and Cuban senior officials, which unsurprisingly aroused huge controversy.

　Although the radical war advocates led by Che Guevara had resigned from the Cuban revolutionary government and even those who had not yet left had withdrawn from the center of power, even the conservative peace advocates who remained were very disgusted with the drug trafficking partnership with the CIA.

　Some people even angrily said that they would go to the Soviet Union to beg for alms again.

　But as they continued their discussion, they were surprised to discover that once peace was reached and the war ended, with the Castro brothers becoming the Kakarot brothers and the Cuban Revolutionary Government becoming the Cuban Sugar Party Government, the entire Cuban leadership would be reduced to a "quasi-fugitive" status, unable to see the light of day.

　Apart from sporadic relief that may be provided by the United Nations and the Red Cross, it will be difficult for Cuba to apply for any large-scale international aid in the future.

　Because, represented by Castro, no, the Kakarot brothers, the ancient

　If the top leaders of the Pakistani Party want to continue to speak out on the international stage in the future, they will have to answer a troublesome question: "Who are you?" - and no matter how they answer this question, it will be a disaster.

　Obviously, in order to maintain the fragile peace, Cuba will have to keep quiet on the international stage for a long time.

　But the millions of war refugees and nuclear radiation victims in Cuba are still anxiously waiting for money!

　Whether it is to provide relief to refugees, treat the wounded, carry out post-war reconstruction, resume production, etc., it requires huge amounts of capital input.

　After the nuclear explosion, no one wanted Cuba anymore, even if it sold out its country.

　So, after much hesitation, Fidel Castro finally bit the bullet and declared: Since the US officials didn't care about the physical and mental health of their citizens, he didn't need to worry about his own moral integrity either - for the survival of the Cuban people, everyone should start learning how to be a drug lord from now on!

　The author's words:

　April 1, 1962, April Fool's Day, 3:30 p.m., Playa Giron, Bay of Pigs, Matanzas Province, western Cuba

　On this morning, Fidel Castro, who had recently shaved his beard and hair and changed his name to Vegeta Kakarot, brought senior members of his party, which had initially changed its flag and name to "Sugar Party", to meet with the remaining US military personnel in Guantanamo in eastern Cuba, moved into the base headquarters, and attended the handover ceremony of the Guantanamo US military base and the establishment ceremony of the "Free Cuba Government" which was the same in name only.

　Theoretically, the Cuban revolutionary regime with its capital in Havana came to an end, and was replaced by the Cuban Sugar Party government with its capital in Guantanamo.

　Next, Cuba released the American officers and soldiers and their accompanying personnel captured in various battles, totaling about 700 people, as a gesture of goodwill.

　- In fact, the vast majority of ordinary US soldiers, as well as mercenaries and CIA agents of the 2506th Brigade captured on the Cuban battlefield, have been released early in the past two weeks and have already returned to the United States by boat or plane.

　Only the captured officers of the 1st Marine Division and other units, as well as the American pilots captured after parachuting, were detained until the end.

　The special envoy of the U.S. State Department, with a strange and distorted expression on his face, picked up the pen to sign the peace treaty, and reluctantly congratulated "Interim President Kakarot", announcing that the United States would lift all blockades on Cuba from then on, ending the state of war between the two countries and restoring peace.

　Well, although the text of the treaty still had to be brought back to the United States for President Kennedy's approval, generally speaking, it was already a done deal at this point.

　President Kakarot reciprocated, declaring that he was very "grateful" for the "tremendous help" the United States had provided to Cuba's cause of freedom, democracy, and progress, and hoped that after experiencing this catastrophe, the governments of both sides would be able to think more rationally and restore stability in the Caribbean region.

　He also announced that he would protect the "legitimate investment" and "legitimate trade" of "American companies" in Cuba and promote the common prosperity of the two countries.

　In this way, with the signing of the April Fool's Day Treaty, the Cuban Nuclear War that shocked the world came to an end in an absurd form.

　It has to be said that it is quite ironic that the United States and Cuba chose to sign a ceasefire on April Fool's Day, April 1st.

　Well, it's equally ironic for both the United States and Cuba.

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　In the afternoon of that day, Fidel Castro, who had shaved his beard, took off from Guantanamo on a plane provided by the US Navy and rushed to Playa Giron in the Bay of Pigs in Matanzas Province in western Cuba to complete the final secret deal.

　- Hand over to the United States the last Soviet nuclear mine he has hidden, thereby restoring the nuclear-free Caribbean region.

　Here, he finally met for the first time his rival at the end of the war, the devil who tempted him to lead the Cuban people into illegal activities and become drug lords, and the man who raised his children - Major Ferry King, a short, handsome and feminine man with purple eyes.

　I watched as a Soviet atomic bomb, painted a striking red, was carefully escorted by a group of US Marines, using a large bulldozer and mobile crane assigned to the engineering corps to slowly transport it onto a US landing craft stranded on the beach, and then it set sail from the shore...

　Castro suddenly said casually, "Oh, it really feels like a dream. Cuba has become the fifth nuclear-armed country in the world. Even though it only lasted for a few dozen days, and the price paid seems too heavy..."

　- Although the nuclear mines were of Soviet origin, the Cuban revolutionary government did briefly gain control of them in the latter stages of the war.

　Therefore, although the amount of water contained in it is ridiculously high, future Cubans seem to be able to flatter themselves and boast that they had developed the atomic bomb before China's "Two Bombs and One Satellite" project was successful, and entered the world's nuclear weapons club before China.

　Even though Cuba was there for only a short while, it was taken over by the United States.

　The boss kicked it out... but it was already worth bragging about!

　"That's right. For any small country in the Caribbean, nuclear weapons are an unbearable burden!"

　Meanwhile, Firi was concentrating on the miniature Geiger counter in his hand. He breathed a sigh of relief only after confirming that the radiation leak was within normal limits. He handed the instrument to Daniel Reyes, the accompanying diabetic agent, and then spoke to Castro.

　"A brief spark of brilliance isn't worth pursuing, because in a war that lasted less than a hundred days, at least a million Cubans died! Emperor Napoleon conquered Europe for twenty years, yet only one million French people died during the entire Napoleonic Wars."

　"Isn't this a heinous crime against civilization and humanity committed by American imperialism?" Castro asked in return.

　"Yes, sir, your accusation is correct, but this is also the price a small country must pay for provoking a big country."

　Firi shrugged. "Despite the UN's coordination, human civilization remains essentially a jungle society where the strong prey on the weak. In the face of the might of a superpower, small nations must either submit and become slaves, or be prepared to lose a generation in war."

　So, I am very happy to see that you were able to make the right choice at the last moment and did not let the sacrifice of the Cuban people go to waste!

　Now, major American financial groups are no longer interested in Cuban land, and the White House only hopes that Cuba can maintain stability. As long as we can maintain long-term strategic mutual trust, I believe that after enduring the test of war, Cuba will surely usher in lasting peace and light..."

　"I also appreciate your efforts to achieve peace between our two countries as quickly as possible and to reduce the suffering of our people, Major Jin."

　Castro sighed and turned to look out at the shimmering Caribbean Sea. "But you've also dragged Cuba down an unimaginable path... You know what? Major Jin, I'm very lost right now, even more lost than I was four years ago when I returned from that aborted visit to the United States!"

　Vice President Nixon insulted my friendship and goodwill. I could have turned to the Soviet Union for help. But now, I've teamed up with the CIA to develop the narcotics industry, turning Cuba into a haven for crime and black money... I wonder how future generations will judge my actions.

　The author's words:

　color!

　Unfortunately, Cuba's geographical location placed it right on the doorstep of the United States, while the Soviet Union was far away. In order for the United States to tolerate the long-term survival of the Cuban communist regime under its nose, the Cuban government had to be closely tied to a certain interest group within the United States.

　Therefore, collaborating with the CIA to engage in illegal activities and manufacture and sell drugs in Cuba is not only a quick way to make money, but also a talisman for the Cuban regime. It can cultivate forces close to the current Cuban regime within the United States and prevent the US upper class from forming a consensus to invade Cuba again.

　In this way, joining forces with the CIA to become a drug lord is no longer a helpless act, but a lifeline to maintain the survival of the regime!

　Castro's previous attempts were merely attempts to see if he could gain more benefits. Now that he had hit a wall, he stopped thinking about it.

　"I'm glad you understand, Your Excellency. Sixteenth-century England's Virgin Queen Elizabeth, though notorious in Europe for encouraging her people to become pirates and plunderers, was considered a heinous and vicious woman. Yet, centuries later, she was still remembered as the wise and benevolent ruler who ushered in England's Golden Age. She even helped to portray British pirates as courageous, unrestrained, and generous.

　Now, your deeds of becoming a drug lord, regardless of your reputation, in order to save your desperate compatriots, may become a legend in the future!"