Nikita Dragovich

Major General Nikita Dragovich (Russian: Никита Драгович) is the primary antagonist of Call of Duty: Black Ops. He was born on 6/10/1914, in Tsaritsyn, in the Russian empire. He is first seen in the level Operation 40. He is responsible for brainwashing Mason during his captivity in Vorkuta. He also killed Dimitri Petrenko and the most of his squad during a Nova-6 test.

Dragovich was voiced by Eamon Hunt.

Biography
Nikita Dragovich advanced himself through the ranks in the Red Army, exploit the chaos during the Siege of Stalingrad, leaving his men to their fate wasn't uncommon practice to him. It was there Viktor Reznov learned Dragovich was not to be trusted, for he had made promises of reinforcement but not keep to his words.

After the war, Dragovich was in charge of interrograting German POWs, and from one he learned about the Nazi's failed attempt to use V2 rockets with Nova 6 warheads to strike the US. He, along with Lev Kravtchenko his right hand man, "volunteered" for the Soviet's Operation Olympus: To capture Friedrich Steiner and bring Nova-6 back to Russia. Dragovich led a group of Russians commanded by Captain Viktor Reznov, along with Dimitri Petrenko. They were ordered to capture Steiner in a Fascist holdout in the Arctic Circle. Later on, they found Steiner sitting around, waiting to be taken by Dragovich. They discussed about Project Nova while journeying inside the ship that contained the chemical and the V2 rockets. When they found the weapon, Dragovich decided to test the weapon: on Reznov's squad. Petrenko and his men died of the gas. Before Reznov's turn to share the fate, British commandos attacked the site to take the weapon shipment. However, the shipment was destroyed by Reznov and they failed. Dragovich, though without his own sample of Nova-6, still had Steiner, the scientist who invent Nova 6.

16 years later, Dragovich was revealed to be working with Fidel Castro, securing an alliance with the Cuban Government to allow Dragovich to operate in Cuban borders. During the Bay of Pigs invasion, Operation 40, a CIA led assassination team was ordered to assassinate Castro. However, during the evacuation, Dragovich captured Alex Mason. Later he brought Mason to Vorkuta, a brutal Russian labor camp. Steiner had implanted Mason with number sequences to translate the number codes necessary to receive instructions as Dragovich's sleeper agent; Dragovich also tried to brainwash Mason to kill current President of the USA, John.F. Kennedy however that was with little success. Consider Mason a failed material, Dragovich decided to let Mason rot in Vorkuta, but Reznov, who also an inmate of Vorkuta, used his friendship with Mason, sabotaged the brainwashing by inplanting new targets: to kill Dragovich, Kravchenko and Steiner ,for all the wrong they had done to him. After a year since Mason was captured, Reznov planned and executed the massive Vorkuta riot. Mason had escaped from his captors while Reznov was surrounded and killed.

About a year later after the Vorkuta escape, Dragovich oversaw the launch of two Soyuz rockets as part of the Soviet Missile Program in Baikonur. He took Kravchenko with him to watch the project. However, Operation 40 planted a double agent working with the Ascension Group; Grigori Weaver to help out with X-Ray and Whiskey Teams. Weaver however was discovered and Dragovich ordered Kravchenko to "take care of him". Kravchenko stabbed Weaver in the eye with a knife, causing him to lose his eye. X-Ray hunted down and rescued Weaver, able to continue on mission. Mason, Woods and Weaver sabotaged Soyuz Two in time. They then hunted down the Ascension Group: composed of Nazis' and Soviet scientists. Kravchenko left the base in his private Mi-8 assault helicopter while Dragovich seems to try leaving in his private limousine...Mason's team chased and destroyed the limousine, assumed to have killed him. However he didn't.

In 1968, the Vietnam War entered a bloody turn with the Tet Offensive by the North Vietnam. During the Siege of Khe Sanh, Russian-supplied T-55 tanks were helping the Vietnamese in their battle. Later on in the Tet Offensive, more tanks joined the battle. MACV-SOG had to find out why and where the Soviet connection was.

With the dossiers recovered from a Soviet defector, Dragovich's plan began to unreval: SOG first learned about Daniel Clarke, a rogue chemist, and Friedrich Steiner, the former SS general. With the improved and weaponized Nova-6 complete, Dragovich had begun burying everything and everyone connected to Nova-6, including Clarke and Steiner. Clarke knew and ran in 1966, hide in Kowloon before Mason's new CIA handler, Jason Hudson and Weaver, who had recovered from his injury, found him and interrogated him. From Clarke Hudson first learned about Nova 6,Clarke's role in perfecting it and one of Dragovich's bases: Mount Yamantau, the Ural Mountains in Russia. However, Spetsnaz operatives discovered their positions and fought their way through. Later on, Clarke is killed before fully disclosed the "numbers", by a sniper.

It was also discovered by SOG that Kravchenko had been operating in Vietnam and were told to hunt down and kill him. But he was operating in Laos later on. A Soviet cargo plane supposedly to contain Nova-6 was shot down by CIA, and SOG team comprised of Mason, Woods, Bowman and Reznov, was ordered to recover it. They reached the wreckage through enemy resistance only to find Nova-6 was released after the crash. They found a map for Kravchenko's compound but Soviet forces surrouned them inside the wreckage as well. The plane collapsed and fell from a cliff. Mason, along with the team, was found by Dragovich and Kravchenko later, with Dragovich planning to "make up for lost times" by Kravchenko booting him in the face.

Meanwhile, in the Ural Mountains, Hudson, Weaver, Harris and Brooks were tasked to find the base supposedly the one that made Nova-6. When they reached it however, the base was at the final preperation for demolition, and,Steiner contacted the squad, that he would be killed by Dragovich as he is nearly finished burying everything connected to Nova-6. He told them he was at Rebirth Island, and propose a deal for his safety, in exchange Steiner would reveal to them how to stop Dragovich's plan on using Nova-6 to attack the US, which was by then only 36 hours left till zero hour.

In Laos, X-Ray was tortured by Viet Cong and Spetsnaz forces, and forced to "play" Russian Roulette. Bowman refused to "play" and was killed by a pipe hit over his head 3 times. Woods and Mason escaped the cave and killed the Russian who beat Bowman to death. They snached a Hind outside and blast their way to Kravchenko's compound. They found US POWs later on but Mason intended to kill Kravchenko. He found him but was knocked by a chair from him. Woods and Kravchenko fought until he beat up Mason a lot of times. Woods stabbed him through the stomach but Kravchenko pulled his pins on his grenades and Woods took him out. Kravchenko was dead but at the cost of Woods and Bowman.

Dragovich's men later released Nova-6 on Rebirth Island, causing CIA and Marine forces to fight in hazmat suits against the Spetsnaz. Meanwhile, Mason alone was sneaking into the lab to kill Steiner. He found him but so did Hudson and Weaver. It was there that Mason was found schizophrenic all this time, and imagined himself as Reznov and shot Steiner. The CIA lost their key to the numbers; with only Mason to crack the code.

In the final mission of the game, Mason and Hudson hunt down Dragovich on Rusalka in Cuban waters, only to find the Rusalka was just a surface component, the real numbers station is in the underwater base. They fought their way into the base at the same time the attack from the surface was tearing the base apart, causing it to flood and explode bit by bit. After the two split up, Mason finds Dragovich's control point on an overhanging platform and prepares to shut it down, but an explosion dislodges him from the platform. Mason grabs onto the edge of the platform as Dragovich emerges from the smoke. As Dragovich about to kill Mason, Hudson intervened and shot him in the shoulder. While Dragovich is distracted, Mason grabs his leg and pulls him over the edge of the platform, dropping both Dragovich and himself onto the ground as water rises up from below. Mason gets on top of Dragovich and proceeds to beat him with his fists and scolds Dragovich for the way he brainwashed him and drowns him, before leaving the dead Dragovich and escaped the exploding base.