In a blog post yesterday, the official Call of Duty website provided a detailed overview of the backstory for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, set to release on October 25th. The post offers a comprehensive look at key characters and events, broken down into two parts.

The first part takes us on a journey through the early history of the Black Ops series, starting with covert operations in the early 1960s and culminating in storylines from the early 1990s.

Here are some of the key story points:

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• Operation 40: In 1961, the world of Black Ops began with Operation 40 during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, where Sgt. Frank Woods, Alex Mason, and Joseph Bowman were tasked with assassinating Fidel Castro amidst the chaos.
• Numbers Station (aka the Enhancement Program): Mason was captured by Soviet General Nikita Dragovich and Colonel Lev Kravchenko and brainwashed in a Russian Gulag, with the intention of turning him into a sleeper agent.
• Breakout: Mason and Reznov led a prison break, leading the inmates out of the Gulag.
• Deployment to Vietnam: Mason, Woods, and Bowman pursued Dragovich and Kravchenko in Vietnam.

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• Perseus Revealed: In 1981, CIA covert operations officer Russell Adler, alongside Mason and Woods, was tasked with a mission targeting an Iranian terrorist group.
• Detonation: The team discovered that Perseus had infiltrated the CIA's Operation Greenlight and obtained a neutron bomb, ordering his team of scientists to crack the detonation code.
• Russell, Bell, and False Memories: Adler began dosing Bell with hallucinogenic drugs, attempting to activate his memories of Vietnam.
• Raid on Perseus Headquarters: Bell led the team in a raid on Perseus' headquarters, destroying the detonation code transmitter.

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• Saving Woods: In 1986, Hudson informed Mason that Woods had been captured by a smuggling ring he was investigating.
• Josefina's Death: In a chaotic situation at his home in Nicaragua, Woods threw a grenade at Menendez, accidentally killing Menendez's sister, Josefina.

Key Characters:

• Frank Woods: A young Woods ran away from home, later joining the Marines and eventually the CIA.
• Russell Adler: A cool and calculating CIA operative, skilled in covert operations and psychological manipulation.
• Helen Park: Joined MI6 at the age of 16 and later partnered with Adler.

The article mentions that all these sacrifices, secrets, and conspiracies led to the story in 1991. It's a time when enemies are everywhere, and you can't trust anyone.

This is the first part of the Black Ops 6 story. The second part will delve deeper into the narrative of Black Ops 6 and introduce some new faces to the cast.