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Podcast - Project Happy Days Porn Film

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 The address was a small studio in Los Angeles. The year was 1957. The crew had been hand-picked by one of the most famous singers in America. The set decorator had a problem most set decorators never face. He needed to match the wood paneling, the bedside lamp, the bedspread, and the geometry of a room he had never stood in. He was working from black and white photographs. The photographs had been taken inside the Kremlin.The man who hired him was a former FBI agent named Robert Maheu. The man who recruited Maheu was the CIA’s chief of security. The room being copied was a guest bedroom inside Soviet government quarters. The actor had a latex mask of a foreign president on his face. The actress was meant to look Russian. And somewhere in Langley, Virginia, a senior intelligence officer thought this was going to bring down the leader of the largest Muslim country on Earth.This was Project Happy Days. And yes, every word of that is documented.How a Honey Trap Worked Better Than the Honey TrapTo understand how the CIA ended up building a fake Kremlin bedroom on a Hollywood soundstage, you have to start in the fall of 1956. President Sukarno of Indonesia was visiting Moscow. The Soviets had reason to want him close. Indonesia was the sixth most populous country on Earth, sat astride the shipping lanes between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and was home to the largest communist party anywhere outside the Soviet bloc. Khrushchev was already dangling a hundred million dollars in aid in front of Sukarno, hoping to peel him away from the West. But aid could be matched and promises could be broken. The KGB wanted insurance. They wanted something they could hold over him if the friendship ever cooled.So they sent a young woman to meet him. Her real name was Valentina Reschetnyk. Her codename was Lena. She was a student at the Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow and a flight attendant on Soviet domestic flights. The KGB had decided she was the perfect “swallow,” their term for a woman trained to seduce a foreign target on behalf of the state.The KGB officer who recruited her, Yuri Krotkov, said she was beautiful, blonde, and spoke excellent English. She accepted the job. She traveled with Sukarno through Moscow, Leningrad, and Soviet Central Asia as his official translator. She also slept with him. The KGB filmed it from behind the walls of a Kremlin guest room.This is where the plan went sideways for everyone involved.Sukarno was supposed to be embarrassed. Sukarno was supposed to fold the second the Russians waved a roll of film at him. Instead, Sukarno fell in love. He wanted to take Reschetnyk home to Indonesia and make her his third wife. When her family said no, he flew a delegation back to Moscow just to see her. He took his case to higher authority in the Soviet Union, asking permission to marry her. The Soviets were running a blackmail operation. Sukarno was running a courtship.Reschetnyk got a one-bedroom apartment on Izmailovsky Boulevard, paid for by her government, so the lovesick Indonesian president would have somewhere to visit. The KGB had spent considerable resources to compromise a foreign leader. Instead, they had set him up with a girlfriend.The CIA was watching all of it.The Birth of an Idea So Dumb It Became PolicyInside CIA’s Far East Division, two officers named Al Ulmer and Samuel Halpern were paying close attention. The agency’s internal summary of what came next, now sitting in the JFK Records Collection at the National Archives, lays out the origin story in the dry voice of bureaucrats describing the world’s strangest movie pitch. In 1957, the agency learned the Soviets had filmed Sukarno during his Moscow visit and that a copy of that film had been sent to the Indonesian Communist Party.In June 1957, Ulmer and Halpern walked into the office of the CIA’s Director of Security and pitched the idea. If the Soviets had a real film, the United States would make a fake one. Not a different scene. The same scene. They would simulate the same affair, in the same room, with the same kind of woman, and they would somehow leak it in a way that humiliated Sukarno before his own people.The thinking went like this. Sukarno’s reputation as a womanizer was so well established that nobody in Indonesia cared who he slept with. The CIA needed a different angle. The angle they landed on was that Sukarno had been outsmarted by a Soviet woman working for the KGB. The agency’s logic, recorded in the memoir of CIA officer Joseph Burkholder Smith, was that being seen with mistresses was fine in Indonesian culture, but being tricked by one was a humiliation a man could not survive politically.This was a theory of foreign cultures held by men who had never been to Indonesia, written down in a memo, and approved.Enter Robert Maheu, Professional Doer of Strange ThingsThe CIA needed someone who could get a film made without leaving CIA fingerprints anywhere near it. They had a guy. They ...
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