Chapter 240: Public Relations Crisis

The first update

CIA Director Woolsey didn't give up, and when he heard President Mario ask him to come to his office and explain why the plan had turned out to be the way it was, Woolsey knew he still had a chance to make up for the damage caused. This was his only remedy, as Woolsey was going to put another plan on President Mario's table.

"Intercept Chinese cargo ships as they leave the Strait of Hormuz? With all due respect, Director Woolsey, do you still think that the current situation is not chaotic enough? Mario vetoed Woolsey's plan as soon as he came up, and he was already anxious enough, originally saying that it was just to deal with Chinese cargo ships, but he didn't expect to attract a Soviet fleet.

The domestic media criticized Mario's rashness, believing that it is very unwise to provoke a conflict in the Arabian Sea, which is very likely to lead to a deterioration of the situation in the Middle East. And the Republican guys are starting to take the opportunity to attack his policies, believing that what Mario is doing is provoking another war, a war between two world powers. Human rights activists believe that the inappropriate behavior of the US officials led to the tragedy of the pilot crew of the reconnaissance plane.

In such an atmosphere of public opinion, Mario naturally did not dare to play with fire in the Middle East anymore, so Woolsey's policy was snubbed by President Mario.

"You go down first, Director Woolsey, and we'll be discussing the rest of the matter later, and now we're going to do how to solve the problems of American society and public opinion. So for now, please leave me alone for a moment. Mario didn't want to see Woolsey right now, and he bluntly told him not to see him again, "And. If I were you. will definitely attack their own intelligence department. Didn't you find out that this event was almost a trap designed by the Soviets waiting for us to jump into? ”

Hearing this, Woolsey suddenly felt cold and piercing emotions choke his throat, and Woolsey turned his head a little stiffly, only to see Mario's equally cold eyes.

"I hope you can go back and do a good job of checking on the latest CIA executives, I don't want a traitor among us." Mario said unhurriedly, but the words that came out were like a nail into Woolsey's heart.

This time, the liberal U.S. government is no longer as indulgent as it used to be. The first to bear the brunt of the rectification of public opinion were the public intellectuals, who especially targeted those who had come from the Soviet Union, even though they sang the praises of humanity every day to the hope of humanity for America. And to show that as long as the United States is still a day, they will not stop praising the United States, anyway, how disgusting it comes.

The first to act was the U.S. tax authorities, who discovered that these people had some hidden property accounts and would have an unidentified amount of money deposited into their accounts every once in a while. The tax department that found these Ni Duan was silent, and they didn't want to be startled by this.

So the police departments in the United States went into action, and the same public knowledge would make one of the most common mistakes Russians make, drunk driving. The police department that was waiting for them jumped on them as soon as they got into the car drunk, and arrested them for drunk driving, but they were not taken to the police station after the arrest. Instead, they were sent to the CIA's secret detention facility.

No life-hungry and death-fearing public can survive a few rounds of CIA interrogation, and by the way, let these people feel the sanctions of the free world. Under the torture of waterboarding, it was soon known that the truth was revealed.

I said. I said that it was the Foreign Intelligence Service of the KGB of the Soviet Union that transferred the funds to our account, and they also said that as long as I obediently cooperated, they would not touch my family. That's all I know! ”

Only a light bulb tied to a rope flickered, and the light from the lampshade could only illuminate an oval dusk area, and the intellectuals, who thought that they would be rewarded on both sides, fantasized that they could make a fortune between the United States and the Soviet Union, but they did not think that being a wall-to-wall grass had a price.

"What do they want you to work with?" The interrogator clucked his fingers, and he grabbed the collar of the public knowledge and threatened fiercely, "If you don't say it, then I will break your fingers one by one." ”

"I said, I said, they just want me to come to the United States and sing your praises, the more disgusting the better, and it is best to cause a sensation in society. Thus inciting the population. In short, the U.S. government does the right thing to do, so as to increase the rebellious mentality of the American people. ”

"For example, if someone criticizes the U.S. government, then we will try to attack him and elevate the image of the U.S. government to a glorious and incomparable height. Say what is black is white, and what is wrong is right. Everything that the U.S. government does, whether right or wrong, is just. ”

"So, how many of you are there?" The interrogators continued to press.

"I don't know, we're all one-line. But what is certain is that a large part of those Soviet intellectuals who applied for political asylum were KGB spies. The intellectuals said with sad faces. Greedy for life and afraid of death, he betrayed everyone with a single word, whether they were spies or not.

In this way, the CIA has a general understanding of the methods of these intellectuals, who are similar to the former Soviet Propaganda bureaucrats, except that the Soviet government has very sinisterly inserted these people into the United States as secret chess. Imagine the terrible consequences that would happen if these people took control of public opinion.

But the C.I.A. is finally on its way to delivering results, describing these intellectuals as spies sent by the Soviet Union in order to confuse the American public, and now the C.I.A. is about to carry out a large-scale arrest campaign to arrest all the Soviet public intellectuals who are gradually gaining influence in the United States.

President Mario did not hesitate to agree to this action, which undoubtedly provided a very crucial impact on the distraction of the American population at home. The Russians, who were still in their pajamas, were arrested by CIA agents who broke into the door on suspicion of being spies.

"Let me go, I am an American citizen, you have no right to arrest me, this is a free country, not a dictatorial Soviet Union!" Some of the public knew that they wanted to break free from the arrest of the police, but they were immediately greeted by the clubs of the police of the Free Countries, and he was beaten so that he could not stand up. Then the police grabbed the men by the arms like dead dogs and pulled them into the police car.

When these intellectuals are arrested, no one will write a petition for them, firstly, because they usually tout American relations, which has caused a considerable part of the public to express disgust with them, and secondly, how can white American society help a Russian immigrant.

Naturally, the U.S. government made a lot of noise in the media, portraying these people as evil Soviet KGB spies, terrible enemies who disrupted the American social order, and the U.S. government said that it would strengthen the management of Soviet politics-asylum populations.

Such exaggerated reports naturally attracted the attention of the public, so much so that the standoff in the Arabian Sea, which had been boiling over a week earlier, was instantly forgotten. But the price was that the director of the immigration department was ordered to step down.

It just confirms what I said before, the people's eyes will only grasp the freshest things, and the mistakes made by the government will also choose to forget because of the emergence of new things. But then the Soviet intellectuals, who wanted to flee to the United States, began to make trouble. The U.S. Embassy closed a significant portion of political-asylum applications for fear of infiltrating spies planted by the Soviet KGB.

And seeing that the group that went to the United States ended up like this, other people were also scared. They did not dare to tell the Soviet people about the friendship, equality, and freedom of the United States, as they had done before. Because the first group of public intellectuals to pass has become a bloody example.

The Soviet reports were very different from those in the United States, where they likened the public to the fate of traitors, and warned the masses that this is the fate of those who have no brains to believe in freedom and democracy. People don't think of you as a human being at all, and you still have to put a hot face on your cold ass. Something is wrong now, right?

In the aftermath of the American version of the crisis of persecution of public intellectuals, the liberal currents that had prevailed in the Soviet Union changed radically, and they felt disappointed and helpless, and the country they had admired the most became the most disgusted. It just so happened that all these events were also calculated in the control of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service. (To be continued.) )