08:08:11, upon arriving at the Obama, Section starts to get laser focused on Menendez.
Section: I can't figure out Menendez without getting inside his fucking head. Salazar, you grew up in Nicaragua during his rise to power. You know his Legends better than anyone.
Crosby: No offense, but that sounds real convenient if you think about it.
Section: Nobody asked you.
Salazar: *tilts head* Ah, you know I get that a lot, guys.
Crosby: *puts his hands up* Just sayin'. And I didn't ask.
Section: *shakes head* Tell me, why does he hate us so much.
Salazar: (Spanish) The First Cold War. (English) As a boy, he witnessed the Contras rape and murder his people. In 1972, there was a colossal earthquake. His family lost everything. A year later, the only thing he ever loved, his sister, Josefina, was crippled in a fire. Raul and his father started over, sold drugs for easy money. They became rich, powerful legends of Managua. The Menendez Cartel was all but untouchable. So the C.I.A. took out Raul's father in a U.S. sanctioned assassination.
Section: Right, so now Menendez fucking hated America and started running guns in Afghanistan for his own private army. C.I.A. got wind of it and went on the hunt for him in Kabul.
08:58:46, after having breakfast, Trident Team takes the conversation/investigation to the Team Room. There, Section references the picture Woods showed him and his team, which is about his and Mason's time in the Afghanistan during the Afghan-Soviet War.
He and his team also receive the other pieces of intel from Angola, Afghanistan and then Nicaragua, which will be reviewed later.
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Mission Briefing:
Pyrrhic Victory
Angola 1986
Objective:
Rescue Woods
Name: Mason, Alex
I.D. # 5814700
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 LBS
Outfit:
Mason C.I.A. Black Ops Uniform (Brown, Sleeveless)
Primary:
FAL - ACOG Sight
Sidearm:
M1911
Grenades and Equipment:
Frag Grenade
Flashbang
Perks:
Access Kit
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Career Record:
Mason rescues Woods.
While putting the Afghanistan mission together, they remember what Woods told them about it.
Section: That was the photo Woods showed us in The Vault, remember?
Woods: (flashback) See that handsome bastard? That's me. The ugly one's your father. After 'Nam, the numbers and all that, he was one dangerous son of a bitch.
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Mission Briefing:
Old Wounds
Afghanistan 1986
Objective:
Gather Intel on Menendez Cartel
Name: Mason, Alex
I.D. # 5814700
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 190 LBS
Outfit:
Mason C.I.A. Black Ops Uniform (Undercover Mujahideen)
Primary:
AK-47 - Extended Clip
Sidearm:
Makarov
Grenades and Equipment:
Frag Grenade
Flashbang
Perks:
Access Kit
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After Woods explained the first crucial part of the story, he gets to disorienting territory by mentioning Mason's Soviet MK-Ultra brainwashing.
Harper: (flashback) Your old man was one tough son of a bitch.
Woods: (flashback) Bet your ass he was. Dragovich, Kravchenko, Steiner, basically carved a hole in his head, and they shoved those fucking numbers in there, and he survived that. Now, Mason said he didn't see those numbers anymore, but... I don't know. Not so sure about that.
Then as he finishes telling the second crucial part involving him, Mason and the Mujahideen capturing Kravchenko, he reveals that he may have seen his best friend tripping balls back then.
Woods: (flashback) Couple times, I saw the tick... he'd get that look in his eye, and he'd start scanning the room. Next thing you know, he's talking to the Russian. Fucking Reznov... good old tricky Vik.
Then in the third crucial part, Woods says that he and Mason had learned about potential moles in the C.I.A. from Kravchenko. And after executing the Soviet colonel, he, Mason, Hudson and Tian Zhao, China's M.S.S. (Ministry of State Security) agent for the Mujahideen, get betrayed and left to die in the middle of the desert.
Woods then explains his POV of the experience, which involves Mason freeing himself from his restraints and coming back for the others with water, a horse and an extraction team. And further elaborates Mason's assumed point of view, as while being rescued, he hears his buddy mention Viktor Reznov.
Woods: (flashback) So we're in the desert, buried up to here, and who does your father think rides up on a horse to save us?
Section: (flashback) Tricky Vik.
Woods: (flashback) Ha! See! You're just like your old man. No, it wasn't him.
Mason: (flashback) Reznov.
Woods: (flashback) Come on, if you think it was him, don't you think he would have stuck around for a bit, huh? Maybe explain some shit?
Career Record:
Kravchenko thoroughly interrogated - learned about potential mole in C.I.A.
The Old Wounds intel (if all are collected by the player) shows the military record of Kravchenko after the events of Black Ops 1 all the way to Black Ops 2. As well as the old M.S.S. file of Tian Zhao, the history of the Afghan-Soviet War, and Mullah Rahmaan and his connection with the Menendez Cartel.