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The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops. The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS). The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War The subject of this article appeared in Zombies mode The subject of this article exists in or is relevant to the real world.
For the song of the same name, see Cold War (song).
For the game, see Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

"We are in grave danger from the Communists. Our freedom, our very way of life is at risk."
John F. Kennedy


The Cold War, also known as the First Cold War in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, was a covert indirect political-military conflict spanning from after the end of the Second World War in 1945, to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Call of Duty: Black Ops[]

Operation 40[]

Call of Duty: Black Ops revolves around the Cold War, starting out in the level "Operation 40" during 1961, where the player and his squad (consisting of Joseph Bowman, Frank Woods, and Alex Mason) have orders to assassinate Fidel Castro, with help of Cuban rebels. After killing "Castro" (actually a double), the mission goes wrong and the squad, along with Carlos, have to escape Cuba via plane. Bowman tells the squad they will not have enough time for take-off due to enemy vehicles blocking the runway, but Mason jumps off the plane and destroys the vehicles with a ZPU-4, only to be captured by Nikita Dragovich and sent to Vorkuta.

Baikonur[]

In Baikonur, Mason and his team (along with Grigori Weaver) are tasked by President Kennedy to sabotage the Soviet space program by destroying the Soyuz 2 rocket before it launches, killing Dragovich, and killing Nazi scientists working for the Soviets. During the mission, Weaver gets compromised, and Lev Kravchenko stabs him in the eye with a Karambit Knife. Mason and the team eventually find Weaver and destroy the rocket and continue the mission. The scientists are killed, but Dragovich is not confirmed as dead.

Khe Sanh[]

Mason's SOG team (comprised of Woods, Bowman, and Mason, accompanied by Jason Hudson) then go to Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, arriving just before North Vietnamese soldiers begin the siege of Khe Sanh and have to defend the city with Marine forces. The Marines start to push back the North Vietnamese and gain the upper hand against them and are successful in defending the military base.

Hue City[]

The team then heads out to Hue City, Vietnam, to locate a Soviet defector in the MAC-V compound in the city and retrieve his intel on Nova 6. Mason's team then goes through the compound and locates the intel, then fight to the landing zone with help from air support. The American forces eventually reach the landing zone and escape with the intel, after destroying an enemy ZSU gun emplacement and holding off a North Vietnamese counterattack on the landing zone.

Kowloon City[]

A CIA team consisting of Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver are sent to Kowloon City, Hong Kong, to interrogate Dr. Daniel Clarke, who had helped Dr. Friedrich Steiner stabilize Nova 6. Soviet Spetsnaz forces attack Clarke, Hudson, and Weaver to prevent the CIA from retrieving intel from Clarke. The team moves throughout the buildings in Kowloon City and when they reach a steep and slippery rooftop, Clarke slips and is shot in the head while dangling from the roof. Hudson and Weaver escape Kowloon City, however, and use intel collected from Clarke to go to Mount Yamantau in the Ural Mountains.

DMZ[]

Mason's team and other SOG forces then head out to Vietnam's DMZ, where they were shot down. The team then has to clear a village and destroy enemy anti-aircraft guns to permit American helicopters to fly through. The Americans then clear out the north part of the village and go through rat tunnels, where Mason finds intel on Nova 6 and escapes the tunnel, which was rigged to blow by Kravchenko.

Laos[]

American forces begin an attack around the Laotian-Vietnamese border, and Mason's team uses a boat to attack the Viet-Cong forces from the river. After the team destroys the enemy forces around the river, they move up and investigate a crashed plane that the CIA had discovered contained Nova 6. All of a sudden, Soviet Spetsnaz forces attack the crash site and the SOG team has to defend it. The team defends it until a Mi-24 Hind fires a rocket at the fuselage. This causes the plane to fall down a cliff and Kravchenko and Dragovich capture the team. After being captured by Dragovich and his men, Mason's team is sent to Viet-Cong guerillas play Russian Roulette. Bowman is killed after refusing to play. Mason did not play, but instead took the weapon and killed a Viet-Cong guerilla, then used the guerilla's gun to kill the other Viet-Cong in the tunnel. After Woods and Mason escape the tunnels, they take an enemy Hind, and they use the Hind to fly to a hidden Viet-Cong base. Woods and Mason move through until they find Kavchenko, who hits Mason with a chair and beats him until he is stabbed by Woods. Kravchenko then pulls the pins on grenades and jumps out a window with Woods, presumably killing them both.

Mount Yamantau[]

The CIA team at Mount Yamantau has orders to destroy a communication station. After the team destroys the station, they move out and discover a Nova 6 facility, where they receive a recorded message from Friedrich Steiner. CIA becomes informed of an imminent Nova 6 attack across United States orchestrated by Dragovich and his sleeper agents controlled by his numbers station, and Steiner wishes to exchange information on how to stop the attack for his own safety. While in the facility, it gets attacked by Soviet Spetsnaz forces and the team escapes while an avalanche buries the entire facility.

Rebirth Island[]

With Woods and Bowman dead, Mason heads out to Rebirth Island to kill Steiner. Mason sneaks through shadows and kills everybody between him and Steiner. Meanwhile, a joint United States Marine Corps/CIA team, led by Hudson and Weaver, fights through the streets to Steiner's lab. The Spetsnaz spray Nova 6 on the streets and the Americans use their HazMat suits to survive. Once the team finally reaches Steiner's lab, they are shocked to see Mason about to kill Steiner. Weaver and Hudson attempt to stop Mason, but Mason shoots Weaver's arm and kills Steiner.

Revelations[]

With Dragovich's attack on the line, United States prepares for a nuclear first strike against Soviet Union. After being brought to interrogation by the CIA, Hudson lets Mason free when Mason resists the interrogation, but Mason punches Hudson and walks through the Pentagon until finally realizing what happened to him at Vorkuta. Hudson catches up with Mason and tells him what really happened—that Reznov was dead, he had been brainwashed, and was the only one who could translate the message encoded in the numbers—and so Mason agrees to try to translate the numbers one more time. He says that the numbers are being broadcasted from a Soviet ship in Cuba called the Rusalka.

Redemption[]

The team then assault the Rusalka via helicopters, and then lands. They move through the ship looking for where the broadcast station is, and they find out that the ship was converted to a submarine pen, with the broadcast station in the pen. Mason and Hudson, along with Sergeants Maestas, Aziz, and Drew, dive down to stop the broadcast and kill Dragovich. While down there, Mason finds the station, shuts down the broadcast, and kills Dragovich. After swimming to the surface as American jets bomb the Rusalka, Weaver says to Mason that they have won, but Mason replies that they have only won for now.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II[]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]

In the early 1980s, as the Cold War raged on, Russell Adler, a Green Berett officer who was promoted to CIA SAD/DOG agent, was sent on an assassination mission in Turkey to kill terrorist leader Arash Kadivar and his Second-in-Command Qasim Javadi for their roles in the Iran Hostage Crisis. During the mission, Adler discovered from Kadivar that a rogue Soviet Spymaster and Intelligence Officer, known only by his codename Perseus, was responsible for organizing the crisis. When this was reported to US President Ronald Reagan he brands Perseus as an international threat and immediately authorizes a black operation team to arrest him.

East Berlin[]

During the mission, in East Berlin, Adler and his team, along with an agent, who is codenamed Bell, can either kill or arrest Russian Mafia boss Anton Volkov, who is a close associate of Perseus and the Soviet Union. Later, the team discovered that Perseus had infiltrated top-secret CIA mission Operation Greenlight, in which he acquired a nuke that would be used in the mission.

Western Russia[]

On March 3, in Mount Yamantau in the Ural Mountains, as Mason and Woods were sent to infiltrate a base owned by the late Nikita Dragovich, in hopes of retrieving Perseus' list of sleeper agents, who were used by Dragovich back in 1968, it was discovered that Perseus had removed the data from the base's mainframe.

Moscow[]

With this discovery, Adler's team was forced to infiltrate the Lubyanka building, the headquarters of the KGB, in hopes of retrieving the list. After Adler contacted Dimitri Belikov, a double agent for the CIA, they were able to physically reach him uncaught. With his help they successfully infiltrate the building while undercover. When they reached the HQ's bunker, Adler and Bell proceeded to take down all the guards inside, which also triggered the alarm, Upon reaching and entering the bunker's vault, they managed to retrieve the list of sleeper agents. With the intelligence in tow and after rescuing Belikov, when he was captured for being a mole in the KGB, they immediately escaped from the headquarters while it was being put on lockdown. After they escaped, they discovered that Theodore Hastings, one of the scientists involved in Operation Greenlight, is one of the sleeper agents and had escaped to Cuba, Havana.

Cuba[]

Adler's team launches a raid on Cuba in hopes of catching Perseus there. During that time, while they fought their way through Cuban forces, Perseus breaks into the lab that houses the stolen nuke and kills all the scientists inside save for Hastings, though his wounded state left him on the verge of dying. Instead of taking the nuke with him, Perseus steals the detonation codes for all the nukes that will be used in Operation Greenlight, giving him full access to the operation, allowing him to not only destroy half of Europe but to also pin the blame on the United States. While the team traversed a Cuban palace, where the lab is located, Woods notices Perseus boarding a chopper and tries to kill him but failed, and the Soviet agent escapes. While holding off a swarm of Cuban soldiers, two members of the team, Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay and Helen Park, were badly injured from a bazooka missile attack. Bell was then given the choice to save one of them (which depends on the player's decision). If that chosen comrade is secured (could be either Lazar or Park) then the team would be forced to leave the other one behind.

West Berlin[]

Returning to CIA warehouse E9, Bell was put under heavy dozing by Adler, who hoped to provoke his/her memories of the time during the Vietnam War and on how he/she found Perseus. It proved to be difficult and Adler was forced to have Bell injected several times as well as starting the memory all over again, despite the risks. During the process, Bell manages to recover from amnesia where it was discovered that he/she is a close agent of Perseus and was shot and left to die in Turkey by Arash Kadivar, who was consumed with jealousy. They further revealed to Bell that after they have been found, he/she were reinvented and recruited by the CIA and their skills in language and cryptography were utilized.

Solovetsky[]

After regaining their memories, Bell decided to betray Perseus and reveal the exact location of their superior; the fortified Solovetsky Monastery. Armed with this information, Russell Adler, his team, along with the CIA, launched an invasion on the Solovetsky Islands where they assaulted Perseus' headquarters. Storming into the base and battling their way through, it became a race against time in which the team had to prevent the base's transmitters from signaling the detonation of the Operation Greenlight nukes. Adler's team were successful as when the last of the base's defenses were eliminated, the transmitters were destroyed in a series of explosions. With Operation Greenlight foiled and his plot deemed a failure, Perseus was forced to flee and go into hiding, though Adler swears to continue pursuing him, so that his spy network would be dismantled.

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