Ryan Jackson

Ryan Jackson was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst during the events of Call of Duty Black Ops. Afterwards, he would rise to become the Special Assistant to the Associate Deputy Director of the Special Activities Division.

Ryan Jackson's responsibility is to provide analysis on materials inclusive of those involving Operation 40 and Studies and Observation Group (SOG) personnel, in addition to intel of all manners related to and surrounding Project Nova. Most of these reports were sent to Richard Kain, his supervisor.

In 1978, he asked to be assigned for temporary field status for Operation Charybdis, a mission to eliminate Alex Mason, Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver in South Africa. In an email accessed from the terminal, Ryan Jackson received clearance from Richard Kain to lead the operation.

Trivia

 * Ryan Jackson is a reference to Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst and the protagonist of several Tom Clancy novels.
 * He has a wife named Bridget whom he seems to be very in love with, as he refers to her as a "saint" in an email and even has SAINTBRIDGET as the password to access his account on the console.
 * On multiplayer, if you go onto theatre mode and go into a snipers scope it pops up on the inside "R. JACKSON".