Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
But several questions popped into the minds of the Mafia soap Where was it all going? A Martian, in line for a bar in the evening, And why did the Martians stay just as dirty as ever? The answer was, the Martians stayed as dirty as ever because they Here you'll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine Struck with the novelty of the thing, quite a few Martians remember But Mars was our toughest task of spectroscoping. The cab drivers By the time we went through Mars—its canals, its caves, its Mars is presently no problem to Earth, and will not be until we have all its gold and the Martians begin asking us for loans. Meanwhile, Lait and Mortimer say let the gangsters and communists have it. We don't want it. We believe Earth would weaken itself if it dissipated its assets on foreign planets. Instead, we should heavily arm our own satellites, it ended up, instead, in the comic books and the pulp magazines. which will make us secure from attack by an alien planet or Martian National Airport, it swoops gracefully over the nearby city in As Mars comes closer, the visitor from Earth quickly realizes it has a However, after the sojourner lands, he discovers that Mars is not much with white-walled tires and yellow-haired frails. For the Mafia, the Multiplanetary agitation subversives—and neither the Martian Committee for the Investigation of Crime and Vice, nor the Un-Martian Activities Committee, can dent which the Russians compete for the minds of the Neptunians : The inter-spacial methods by we just knew he came from Mars. This is what he told us: Shortly after the end of World War II, a syndicate composed of underworld big-shots from Chicago, Detroit and Greenpoint planned to The Mafia sent a couple of front men to explore the desert. Somewhere no doubt to annoy unwary space ships. Extrapolation : The process by which a science-fiction Terrans, bems are natives of Mars. In science-fiction yarns Three or four of the Mafia chieftains were old hop-heads and felt at The soberer Mafistas, after recovering from their first shock, laid "What's Mars?" advantageous during political campaigns. Atomic cannons : Things that go to Mars put in long-distance calls to all the other important hoods in rockets, flying saucers, advanced civilizations, and discarded copies of Amazing Stories . Mars Mars. Chicago mob Los Angeles mob Galveston and New Orleans mobs Cleveland mob Detroit mob major and minor mobs were declared in as partners. but not even the zoot-suited goons from The visiting Mafia delegation was naturally disappointed at this state escorted them that all Martian dames resembled Marilyn Monroe, only However, the Mafia, which is a world-wide blood brotherhood with The Martian lingo seems to be somewhat similar to Chinese. It's not "I love you" or "you dirty son-of-a-bitch." The Mafistas soon learned to translate what the natives were saying by watching the squint in their eyes. When they spoke with a certain On the other hand, the Martian death ray guns were not fatal to the Never having had the great advantages of a New Deal, the Martians are circulates there as freely and easily as we once kicked pennies around before they became extinct here. The Mafistas quickly set the Martians right about the futility of When the gangsters lamped the loot, their greedy eyes and greasy The locals were completely honest. They were too dumb to be thieves. The natives were not acquisitive. Why should they be when gold was so who ain't a crook, and why should Mars be any different?" The first Earthman to be eliminated on Mars was a two-bit hood from Then the Martian picked up a rock and beaned the lad from the Windy Then he attacked the first Martian female who passed by. Never before That is how the crime trust found out that there is no sugar on Mars that this was the first time it had ever been tasted by a Martian that it acts on them like junk does on an Earthman. They further discovered that the chief source of Martian diet alkaloids thereof: opium, hasheesh and cocaine have not the slightest visible effect on them. Poppies grow everywhere, huge russet poppies, ten times as large as those on Earth and 100 times as deadly. It is these poppies which have colored the planet red. Martians are strictly vegetarian: they bake, Though the Martians were absolutely impervious to the narcotic So the Mafia was in business. The Martians sniffed granulated sugar, stuff", and they injected molasses syrup into their veins with hypos and called this "mainliners." Martians higher even than sugar, and brought larger and quicker selling it for its weight in rubies on Mars, a hood is always a hood. didn't know how to do it any different on Mars. What to cut the sugar with on Mars? Simple. With heroin, of course, which is worthless earth, went on a stand-up strike when they saw and smelled the Martians. Especially smelled. They smelled worse than Texas yahoos In our other Confidential essays we told you how the Mafia employs to Mars to deodorize the populace there. After which the ladies of the : Until the arrival of the Mafia, gambling on Mars was The Mafia brought up some fine gambling equipment, including the When the first load of Black Handers arrived, they naturally balked against living underground. It reminded them too much of the days before they went "legitimate" and were constantly on the lam and hiding out. So the Mafia put the Martians to work building a town. There are no The only ones who ever get arrested, anyway, are the Martians, and Until the arrival of the Earthmen, the Martians were, as stated, Chocolate bars are as common on Mars as saloons are on Broadway, and V THE RED RED PLANET The gangsters had not been on Mars long before they heard rumors about other outsiders who were supposed to have landed on the other side of Thereupon, they despatched four torpedoes with Tommy guns in a big black limousine to see what was going. We tell you this Confidential. What they found was a Communist apparatus sent to Mars from Soviet Russia. This cell was so active that Commies had taken over almost half the planet before the arrival of the Mafia, with their domain extending from the Titania . Furthermore, through propaganda and infiltration, there were Communist cells in every quarter of the planet, and many of the top officials of the four Martian governments were either secretly party members or openly in fronts. The Communist battle cry was: "Men of Mars unite you have nothing to lose but your wives." Comes the revolution, they were told, and all Martians could remain bachelors. It is no wonder the Communists made such inroads. The planet became known as "The Red Red Planet." In their confidential books about the cities of Earth, Lait and Mortimer explored the community of interest between the organized underworld and the Soviet. Communists are in favor of anything that causes civil disorder and unrest gangsters have no conscience and will do business with anyone who pays. On Earth, Russia floods the Western powers, and especially the United States, with narcotics, first to weaken them and provide easy prey, and second, for dollar exchange. And on Earth, the Mafia, which is another international conspiracy like the Communists, sells the narcotics. And so when the gangsters heard there were Communist cells on Mars, they quickly made a contact. For most of the world's cheap sugar comes from Russia! The Mafia inroad on the American sugar market had already driven cane up more than 300 per cent. But the Russians were anxious, able and willing to As a result, the Mafia and its allies control thousands of legitimate And so it was on Mars. With all the rackets cornered, the gangsters

<question>:
How did the Mafia react to the Russians' presence on Mars?

<options>:
A They launched an attack
B They struck an agreement
C They decided to hide their presence for the time being
D They started to spread anti-communist propaganda

<answer>:

B