: In 1961, Mason was captured during a failed assassination attempt on Fidel Castro and sent to a Russian labor camp called Vorkuta . There, Soviet General Nikita Dragovich and Dr. Friedrich Steiner brainwashed him to become a sleeper agent programmed to assassinate President John F. Kennedy .
: Mason finally breaks through his conditioning, remembers the source of the numbers broadcast—a Soviet ship called the Rusalka —and leads an assault to kill Dragovich and stop the Nova 6 attack .
The game concludes with a haunting hint that Mason's original programming may have been successful, as historical footage shows him in the crowd at Dallas during the JFK assassination . The Call of Duty: Black Ops Story Summary
: While in Vorkuta, Mason met Viktor Reznov, who secretly sabotaged Mason's programming, redirecting his "kill order" toward the men who betrayed Reznov: Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner . Major Story Beats
