American Strategic Deception Bureau

　——Just look at a world map and you will know that South Vietnam, with an area of ​​150,000 square kilometers, and Indonesia, with an area of ​​1.9 million square kilometers, are on the same order of magnitude?

　The socialist camp lost the huge country of Indonesia due to a momentary negligence, and then fought a bloody battle for ten years to recover South Vietnam. It seemed that it had defeated the United States and its momentum had soared, but in fact it still suffered a huge loss. Although it cannot be said that it lost a watermelon and picked up sesame seeds, it can at least be said that it lost a watermelon and picked up a rotten apple to make up the number.

　In other words, starting from 1965, the domino theory in the Southeast Asian battlefield had become ineffective, and it didn't matter whether the Vietnam War was lost.

　The reason the US continued to pour vast resources into the Vietnam War after 1965 was no longer based on rational strategic thinking. Rather, it was due to a series of irrational factors, including policy inertia, the hijacking of the military-industrial complex, and the difficulty of shifting political correctness, which led to a failure to cut losses in a timely manner.

　This is why the anti-war movement in the United States intensified in the late 1960s - because at this time, even if the United States considered it from the perspective of Cold War hegemony, there was no reason for it to win the Vietnam War. Even if it lost, the United States' own losses would not be too great.

　However, the situation in the early 1960s was completely different. The US military's decision to jump into the quagmire of the Vietnam War was by no means a wrong decision at the beginning.

　In 1962, think tank scholars around the world could not have predicted that Indonesia's Suharto would win a resounding victory in the "September 30th Coup" three years later, interrupting Indonesia's communist trend in one fell swoop and severing a leg of the socialist camp.

　What's more, the situations among Southeast Asian countries are interconnected and closely related.

　If a time traveler with only a superficial understanding of history came to power in the United States at this time, and blindly copied the memories of later generations and refused to jump into the quagmire of the Vietnam War... then, world history, at least the history of Southeast Asia, it is really hard to say whether it would take an unimagined path!

　You know, given the poor state of the Ngo Dinh Diem government's rule over South Vietnam in the last few years, it is very doubtful whether it can survive independently until 1965.

　In addition, the process of Suharto's coup in Indonesia in 1965 was completely different from China's April 12th counter-revolutionary coup. The counter-revolutionary forces were quite weak, and there were dangers and murderous intentions along the way. It was far from being a sure thing, and any slight mistake would be enough to ruin the situation.

　If the United States had been reluctant to increase its aid to Vietnam, the reactionary regime in South Vietnam would have collapsed before Indonesia changed its flag in 1965. A terrifying red wave would have washed across the South China Sea and into the Gulf of Thailand, igniting the flames of the red revolution in Thailand and Malaysia.

　This would inevitably greatly increase the difficulty for Suharto to launch a counter-revolutionary coup in Indonesia, and he might even give up without causing any trouble.

　Therefore, before the success of the September 30th counter-revolutionary coup in Indonesia in 1965, the domino theory could not be said to be wrong.

　Once the entire territory of Vietnam is dyed red, coupled with Indonesia's pincer attack from the north and south, and from land and sea, there will indeed be a risk of a "red tide sweeping across Southeast Asia."

　Although this is an "unimagined path," it does not mean that it has no possibility of becoming a reality.

　The bloody "purge" of three million communists completely destroyed the socialist camp's Southeast Asian layout!

　——Even if the US military suffered a crushing defeat in the Vietnam War, the red wave would not be able to break out of the Indochina Peninsula and attack Australia and New Zealand.

　How cruel, how sharp, just like a butcher cutting an ox, cutting the throat with one stroke!

　The CIA that was deploying in Indonesia in 1965 was completely different from the CIA that was dealing with Castro in Cuba!

　As the topic turned to something of interest, Fili, Brzezinski, and Kissinger became increasingly animated. Later, several frustrated White House advisers joined in, pointing out a map of Southeast Asia and writing passionately about the region, chatting politically together and losing track of time.

　At the same time, Fili's live-in girlfriend Marita also saw the blonde, red-lipped, and radiant Marilyn Monroe at a party at 625 Seaside Boulevard. With the admiration of a star chaser, she had a great chat with this sexy woman who was fourteen years older than her and asked for her autograph.

　——Although there is a saying of "female competition" among beautiful women, but if the age difference is huge, that is, two generations apart, it is a different matter.

　When Marilyn Monroe was raped for the first time by her evil adoptive father in the United States, Marita Lorenz was not even born in Germany!

　As time passed, when Fili and Marita noticed that most of the guests had left, it was already midnight. If they drove back to the San Fernando Valley at night, it would seem unsafe to drive on the unlit country mountain roads in the dark.

　So, at the invitation of the hostess Patricia Kennedy, he and Marita stayed in a guest room in the villa at 625 Seaside Boulevard. Also staying there were President Kennedy, several other guests, and the president's personal bodyguard.

　Unexpectedly, in the second half of the night, near dawn, there was a sudden earth-shattering roar outside the villa. A dazzling white light illuminated the night sky, followed by a chaotic sound of various alarms, bells, and car horns, scaring the sleeping people into jumping out of bed.

　——It was later learned that a US Air Force plane got lost and crashed on Santa Monica Beach near Oceanside Boulevard. The huge explosion resounded throughout half of Los Angeles, and naturally also alarmed the villa at No. 625 Oceanside Boulevard, which was almost nearby.

　As a result, in this panic and chaos, many sharp-eyed guests, including Marita and Fili, actually saw a naked Marilyn Monroe supporting President Kennedy, who was in his bathrobe and had difficulty moving, as they stumbled out of the president's bedroom...

　Well, it has to be said that whether it is Marilyn Monroe who took off her makeup before sleeping, or President John F. Kennedy who did not have time to install hidden brackets under his clothes, they all look very different from their glamorous daily public images under the night sky, and even look like two different people.

　How should I put it? If movie fans saw Marilyn Monroe without clothes, they would probably feel like their idol was shattered.

　There is no way. Even the most beautiful women cannot withstand the ravages of time.

　Marilyn Monroe was already 36 years old this year. She had given birth to a child and had two miscarriages, which had a great impact on her skin and body shape.

　Even though she was a naturally beautiful lady, she had experienced several births and miscarriages, and was subjected to various surveillance, intimidation and traps by the FBI - Director Hoover wanted to force her to be a spy around the Kennedy brothers, coupled with her decadent private life of sleeping with five or six men at the same time, and the long-term torture of taking drugs in groups, all of which led to Marilyn Monroe's rapid aging in the past two years.

　She is no longer the stunning beauty with flowing blonde hair and fiery red lips that she was ten years ago. It is only thanks to the magic of makeup artists that she can maintain her beauty.

　Moreover, Marilyn Monroe was not always so beautiful. When her name was still "Norma Jean", she was rejected many times when she applied for a female model because the casting people thought she had a "round face, bow legs, and unpleasant chestnut hair".

　Later, she dyed her hair blonde, had her nose and chin augmented, had braces and breast augmentation surgery, and only then did she become a sexy beauty on the screen.

　In other words, Marilyn Monroe was not "naturally beautiful", but an "artificial beauty" like later Korean actresses!

　But the problem is that cosmetic surgeries all have side effects. The older the cosmetic surgery, the shorter the shelf life and the more problems it may cause...

　——Based on the level of medical aesthetics in the late 1940s, the 36-year-old Marilyn Monroe was probably full of diseases and had to rely on drugs to sustain herself, right?

　President Kennedy, a true example of "disability but strength," was already in poor health before his campaign. After becoming president, his health deteriorated due to the intense workload and pressure of his job. He now struggled to even stand for long periods, often lamenting to his cabinet members that he might not survive his first term and wanted to enjoy life while he could.

　So, what appeared in front of the guests and maids at this time was a middle-aged lady who barely still had some beauty, and a haggard, tired, and sickly disabled uncle... Well, anyone who could stay in this villa had some self-cultivation and would not talk about it on the spot.

　After all, the scandal of Marilyn Monroe sleeping with the president is just that, shocking enough.

　but

　The problem was, then, Fili discovered with a shudder that several of his customers were using the "old CIA miniature cameras" he had just bought to secretly take photos of the President and Miss Monroe, both disheveled and without makeup...

　Damn it, how come the spy camera we sold you was used on the president right away?

　But if you think about it carefully, for President Kennedy, who was already in debt, this little bit of romantic news was probably not a big deal.

　Hasn't he slept with enough female celebrities in the past?

　Fili felt a little uneasy, but tried to comfort himself.

　Author's words: PS: I have a lot to do today, so I will keep this short.

　Recently, Koreans have actually taken planes to bring rice from my country to trade. The local rice costs more than 30 yuan per kilogram, and they can still make money by flying to bring rice!

　Hey, in the past people just said that Koreans couldn’t afford meat, but how come they can’t even afford rice now?

　In addition, there are people who fly to buy chili peppers, because Korean chili peppers are twenty times more expensive than in my country! A bottle of chili powder costs 160 yuan.

　Chapter 148: Beautiful women have always had a short life

　In short, on the way back to San Fernando Valley after leaving 625 Oceanside Boulevard, Ferry re-examined Marita about Marilyn Monroe's romantic past, and at the same time, he also sighed in his heart about the unfortunate fate and tragic beauty of Marilyn Monroe, the contemporary superstar.

　——Since ancient times, heroes have suffered many hardships, and beauties have also had a short life.

　As the most famous sexy beauty in the United States in the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe naturally had a difficult childhood.

　Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles on June 1, 1926. Her father remains unknown, and her mother, who suffered from a hereditary mental illness, went mad shortly after giving birth and was confined to a mental hospital.

　Little Monlu suffered such a major change when she was only 12 days old. From then on, she had to move from one welfare home to another and foster families. Unfortunately, she always met the wrong people. At the age of 9, she was raped by an adoptive father and was violated many times afterwards. Americans at that time were already playing "Lolita Island".

　So, when she was fifteen, Marilyn Monroe married a man who seemed reliable.

　Unfortunately, she did not become a housewife because her husband was a sailor and often had to go out to sea for several months without returning. At that time, it was the late stage of World War II, and Japanese and German submarines were running rampant in the ocean. Every time he went out to sea, it was possible that it would be a farewell forever.

　So, Marilyn Monroe, who was bored at home and felt she had no money, first went to work in an aircraft radio factory as a female worker and then appeared on the cover of a magazine as an outstanding female worker and model worker:

　It has to be said that her rise to fame is not at all "American." Instead, she has some of the aura of stars from socialist countries like China and the Soviet Union.

　All I can say is that this is probably the experience of a special person in a special era?

　Later, because of the scandal of infidelity, she ended her first marriage, changed her name and surname, and embarked on the road of acting.

　In the years that followed, she experienced two public marriages and two short secret marriages, and slept with at least three-digit men and several women. Marilyn Monroe herself was not actually bisexual, nor had she ever been turned into a lesbian. However, her charm was unisex, and there were always many women who wanted to sleep with her, and they could make her unable to refuse. She could only complain in her diary: Why do female stars have to sleep with female directors to break into Hollywood?

　By 1962, 36-year-old Marilyn Monroe had long passed her prime. Two miscarriages had severely damaged her health, leading doctors to tell her she would never again be a mother. Her mental state gradually deteriorated, requiring heavy medication to sleep. Unwilling to be alone, she continued to use her body and beauty to captivate men of all kinds, proving her love and seeking to warm her lonely heart with endless amounts of love. Yet, despite her outward appearance of glamor, deep down she was still depressed and fearful of loneliness, leading to drug and alcohol abuse and even a period of confusion. In the spring of 1961, she was admitted to a mental hospital.

　If history had developed according to the original course, Marilyn Monroe would have only had four short months left in her life.

　At the Democratic Party campaign concert held at Madison Square Garden in New York next month, the woman dreamed of by men all over the world, the opposite sex that every man fantasizes about, will have the grandest farewell performance of her life.

　—Wearing an ultra-luxurious off-the-shoulder sexy long dress inlaid with 2500 crystals, she sang Happy Birthday to President Kennedy in the spotlight.

　Under the spotlight of Madison Square Garden, Marilyn Monroe seemed to be the embodiment of lust: her eyes were so captivating, her smile was so enchanting, and even the mole on her mouth looked alluring.

　She shines like a diamond in front of the camera, giving all men in the world the most beautiful fantasy and making all women envious and jealous.

　At this moment, she is the symbol of sexiness and the embodiment of beauty.

　But when the singing and dancing ended and she returned to Los Angeles, she would soon continue to frequent drug use and promiscuous sex, leading to the end of her life.

　On August 5, 1962, the goddess passed away, but the legends about her have never ceased to exist.

　This triggered a half-century-long shadow

　The conspiracy theory made her affair with the Kennedy brothers the most erotic piece of unofficial history during the Cold War.

　The sexy dresses she left behind were passed on repeatedly by various collectors until they were worn by the big-butt Kim Kardashian in the 21st century.

　Even more pitiful was Marilyn Monroe's most devoted ex-husband, Joe DiMaggio. Right up until her sudden death, he was still obsessed with remarrying her, even willing to tolerate her infidelity. In the spring of 1961, when Marilyn Monroe was committed to a mental hospital, he was the one who, despite past grudges, rushed to rescue her.

　After Marilyn Monroe died, her body lay unclaimed at the Los Angeles morgue, and it was DiMaggio who finally came and arranged her funeral.

　However, in this timeline that has changed so much, would Marilyn Monroe still have died this year?

　This seems difficult to say.

　According to information Fieri gathered in Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe's final film, "Twinkle and the Fall," was originally intended to be the film. However, due to the turmoil in the US financial markets caused by the Cuban nuclear crisis and the excessive capital demands of Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra" project, 20th Century Fox was on the verge of collapse, leaving the company with no money to reshoot "Twinkle and the Fall."

　——Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were making a movie in the same company at the time.

　As a result, the ill-fated film "The Twins" was aborted before filming even began. Now it's been relegated to the script library, shelved until "Cleopatra" is released and 20th Century Fox has enough money to make up for its losses.

　However, this might have been a good thing for Marilyn Monroe herself, because she would have suffered a lot during the filming of this movie, such as soaking in an outdoor swimming pool for four hours straight late at night, flying from Los Angeles to New York and back within a week, and all kinds of non-stop overwork, which seriously overdrew her body, which was already very weak due to miscarriage and drug abuse.

　In the end, the film was never even made. Due to financial constraints and internal conflicts within the crew, it was aborted in June.

　In other words, all the hard work Marilyn Monroe had put in in the previous three months was in vain.

　Now, in the current timeline, "Little Big Women" was not filmed at all, saving Marilyn Monroe from all the trouble.

　As a result, Marilyn Monroe was unemployed for more than six months without any new job. That's why she had the free time to attend all kinds of parties, have fun everywhere, and even hook up with President Kennedy, without showing any signs of death from overwork.

　Of course, there were also disadvantages. That was that Marilyn Monroe's wallet quickly became deflated because she had been lying down for so long without any filming.

　——President Kennedy must have slept with her for free, how could he have just given her money?

　Furthermore, gender discrimination was rampant at the time, with male and female actors in Hollywood receiving unequal pay for equal work. Even someone of Marilyn Monroe's stature only made $100,000 per film. Even though she rose to fame singing "Diamonds Are the Best Gift for a Girl," it was actually just a jeweler's advertisement; she didn't own many expensive pieces, a stark contrast to Elizabeth Taylor, who was always adorned with jewels.

　Historically, Monroe's estate after her death was approximately $800,000, which is equivalent to $7 million in the early 21st century.

　Although the figure of seven million US dollars is not a small amount, it is absolutely disproportionate to Marilyn Monroe's goddess-like fame and status.

　If this happened in 21st century Hollywood, it would be almost a joke that an Oscar-winning actress only had this little money at home.

　——Even the guy who plays Thanos in Marvel movies gets paid $2 million per movie, okay?

　As for an actress whose entire life savings were only $7 million? She's some kind of 88th-tier celebrity, hasn't she even won an award?

　The taxes owed by Fan Bingbing alone are probably equivalent to what Marilyn Monroe earned in her entire lifetime!

　To make matters worse, the Cuban nuclear crisis that occurred on this timeline led to a major financial storm in the United States. Most of Marilyn Monroe's property was in the form of bonds, stocks and funds. Naturally, she suffered heavy losses, and most of her assets evaporated due to margin calls.

　So much so that she lamented at the party that she had nothing but her beautiful body, and was about to become as poor as the "Lady of the Camellias" in the novel.

　Of course, Marilyn Monroe is not the Lady of the Camellias after all. With her current reputation, why should she worry about not having enough money?

　With her reputation, she wouldn't mind going bankrupt. She would be treated like a distinguished guest wherever she went, and she would never have to worry about food or shelter.

　If Marilyn Monroe is really extremely poor one day, she can just ask her fans all over the United States to donate to her, and she can crowdfund a villa in an instant!

　——The top goddess-level actress in the golden age of Hollywood has such a powerful ability to monetize her fame!

　Therefore, Marita Lorenz completely disagrees with the saying that Marilyn Monroe was a "beauty with a tragic fate."

　Because she believed that in the vortex of world war, her life would definitely be much more miserable.

　"Ah, Marilyn Monroe's mother went crazy, she lived in an orphanage since she was a child, and was raped at the age of nine. Is that so tragic?"

　She grumbled in a mournful manner, using her hands to

　He elbowed Fili's waist and said, "I have a spy mother who doesn't care about her children's life or death. She was sent to a concentration camp when she was four, raped when she was six, arrested for an abortion when she was nineteen, and thrown into a black prison and became a slave when she was twenty!"

　Well, okay, when it comes to the competition of misery, you are still more miserable - even the worst welfare home is better than a concentration camp!

　Therefore, I will definitely take good care of you in the future and try my best to make you live a long life... Ferry secretly promised himself so in his heart.

　At least, Ferry was almost 100% confident that Marita Lorenz would outlive Marilyn Monroe.

　Even if Marilyn Monroe hadn't died suddenly this year, with her already battered body, her terrible lifestyle of drug abuse, promiscuity, and alcoholism, and the bad genes of a family that produced generations of crazy people, it didn't look like she would have lived to a ripe old age...

　-

　The drive from Santa Monica Beach to the San Fernando Valley took about two hours.

　It was almost noon when Ferry drove back to the shelter villa and special props research institute.

　As usual, the villa's courtyard was quiet and thick curtains were drawn on the floor-to-ceiling windows.

　But when Fili parked the car, opened the door with Marita and walked into the hallway, several naked girls immediately came up to them, took their luggage, and took off their clothes - dresses, shirts, vests, shoes and socks... not even underwear was left on.

　When every inch of her skin was freed from the constraints of the cloth, Marita couldn't help but let out a cry of joy: "Ah, I feel so free! I'm a little uncomfortable with wearing clothes now. Have I become an exhibitionist?"