Jason Hudson

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Special Agent Jason Hudson is a character originally featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops. As a CIA agent, Hudson was Alex Mason's handler in 1968. Hudson was also the playable deuteragonist of Black Ops, and a supporting character in the 1980s missions of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
Hudson is also playable in the Blackout mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 in his original Black Ops outfit, as well as a unique outfit called "Vacation Hudson".
Hudson later returned in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War campaign alongside with Mason and Frank Woods. He serves as the announcer for the CIA faction and was added as a playable NATO Operator in Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Warzone during the Season Five Reloaded on September 11th, 2021 as part of the "Tracer Pack: Hudson Operator Bundle".
==Biography==
===Early History===
Jason Hudson was born in Washington D.C. on March 26th, 1932. He was a member of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division and served during the Korean War. He was honorably discharged in 1955. After he left the military, he enrolled at and double majored in psychology and political science.
===Government Service===
He was recruited right out of Georgetown University on recommendations from his academic adviser and former O.S.S. field operative Marshall Bryant (a recipient of the Intelligence Star, 1950).
Hudson is an excellent tactician and mission coordinator, bringing the full brunt of his genius level I.Q. to the field. As such, he has earned great trust within the halls of Langley and will undoubtedly go far considering his ability to command a room and crisis management skills. As one associate said, "Jason has a way with words; when he speaks, you can't help but listen."
Though much of his work keeps him away from the front lines, Hudson is a very capable soldier, particularly when the mission calls for an element of subtlety and finesse.
Hudson flew with Alex Mason to the Pentagon, where they met United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and then escorted Mason to meet U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Hudson did not participate in the meeting however, as he did not have the security clearance.
===Vietnam===
By 1968, the Studies and Observation Group was established in Vietnam to investigate the Soviets' presence in and around the area. Hudson worked together with Mason and Frank Woods defending Khe Sanh.
===Clarke Interrogation and the Hunt for Steiner===
Later, Hudson and Weaver tortured Doctor Daniel Clarke, an engineer who stabilized Nova-6 in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Clarke identifies Nazi scientist Doctor Friedrich Steiner as part of the project, and reveals the location of a hidden facility in Mount Yamantau, before being killed during an attempt to escape Soviet Spetsnaz. Hudson and Weaver head to Mount Yamantau to destroy the facility and apprehend Steiner. Steiner, however, is not there, but informs them of Dragovich's plans, his plan to exchange a way to stop Dragovich for his own safety, and his location. They head to Rebirth Island, where they had to race against Mason before he could kill Steiner. At Rebirth Island, Weaver and Hudson command Alpha Squad, a team established to extract Steiner. However, Mason got to Steiner first, and they watch as he executes him.
===Interrogation of Alex Mason and the assault on the Rusalka===
Following the death of Steiner, Hudson and Weaver interrogate Mason continuously. Hudson realizes that Nikita Dragovich brainwashed Mason to understand the numbers broadcasts, effectively becoming a Soviet sleeper agent. The duo repeatedly play the numbers sequence to Mason, but to no avail. Out of options, Hudson deliberately sets Mason free in order to follow him. Mason then punched him in the face and knocked him out. It is revealed that Reznov died during the Vorkuta breakout, and Mason's visions of Reznov are a result of a personality disorder caused by the brainwashing program. Reznov had, in fact, reprogrammed him to assassinate Dragovich, Lev Kravchenko, and Friedrich Steiner instead of President Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Robert McNamara, prior to the breakout. After subduing Mason, Hudson plays the numbers recording for Mason a final time, prompting him to remember the location of the numbers station, the Rusalka, a ship off the coast of Cuba.
By dawn, the team launches an assault on the Rusalka, with Mason and Hudson infiltrating an underwater broadcast station protected by the ship, a Soviet submarine station intended to be used as a staging point for a US invasion after the planned Nova-6 attack. Confirming that the Rusalka is the numbers station, Hudson calls in the U.S. Navy to destroy the ship and its underwater base. Mason and Hudson finally found Dragovich in the lower levels of the facility and manage to kill him before the destruction of the base, swimming for the surface during the destruction of the targets, though Sergeants Maestas, Drew, and Aziz are killed in the process. Weaver declares victory, but Mason is unsure.
===Operation Charybdis===
According to unlocked intel, Mason never fully recovered from the brainwashing, making the C.I.A. suspicious of his future actions. Weaver and Hudson became targets of suspicion as well for their association with Mason and their supposed complicity in gathering top secret information for Mason. Sometime in 1978, Mason's decision to chase an as of yet unknown lead led the C.I.A. to deem him "burnt" and a threat to national security, along with Hudson and Weaver who had escaped to South Africa with him. As of October 28, 1978, the C.I.A. was making plans to form a joint task force with British MI6 in order to find and eliminate Mason, Hudson, and Weaver in what they dubbed as Operation Charybdis. Per a C.I.A. intel in 1984, the operation was rescinded shortly after, and the trio's lives were spared as they continue to work for the agency.
===C.I.A. Duty===
In Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, Hudson continued to operate in the C.I.A., providing communication support throughout several missions from 1975 to 1979, which were carried out by Alex Mason and Frank Woods, the latter of whom was discovered to be alive and rescued from Da Nang in 1972. On May 21, 1982, Hudson guided a C.I.A. team into Nicaragua to assassinate the leader of the Menendez Cartel, Jose Luiz Menendez. The mission was a success.
===The Hunt for Perseus===
By early 1981, Hudson was in charge of overseeing Operation Greenlight, a top secret program inserting nuclear weapons in European cities as a scorched earth policy in case of Soviet invasion. When operatives Woods, Mason, and Adler were informed of the resurgence of the Soviet operative known as Perseus, Hudson gave a briefing to President Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig on the situation with Adler, Woods, and Mason present, later sending Adler's team to find info on a stolen nuclear weapon. After an operation into a Soviet base in Ukraine led to intel that Hudson was running Operation Greenlight and thus the nuke was American, Adler, Woods, and Mason confronted Hudson. After a brief standoff, Hudson revealed the truth of Greenlight. Four days after Mason and Woods retrieved the old mainframe from Mount Yamantau, he received a call from a person only known as "Black", informing him that the mainframe was searched for information on Dragovich's sleeper agents, but had been wiped by Perseus, with the only remaining source of the information being the KGB Lubyanka building. While extremely reluctant, Hudson ultimately authorized the mission with Adler and the operative known as Bell into a mission to extract the names from the KGB mainframe. With the intel gathered, it was determined that Pursues was storing the nuke in Cuba with an American sleeper agent to arm it, and Hudson coordinated the operation into Cuba to retrieve it. 
After the operation in Cuba ended with the death of at least one operative, Hudson conferred with Emerson Black, noting that Perseus now had dozens of nuclear weapons to detonate across the Europe and the need to find the location of the signal from Bell, despite Hudson's insistence that they were a failure.
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Once Bell gave the location for the signal facility, Hudson was seen on the fleet headed for the Solovetsky Islands. Although not seen, he was heard over the radio asking if Bell and Adler had been found in the ruins. Later he debriefed Black over the phone on the situation, noting how Perseus' network was now crippled.
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In the event Bell lied and led the CIA to the wrong location, the nukes are detonated by Perseus, killing millions across Europe. Hudson debriefs Black and Reagan on the situation, before being seen ordering the burning of the Berlin safehouse used by Adler's team.
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====Hunting for Adler====
Three years after Operation Greenlight's failure, Perseus's protégé, Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin, set a trap and managed to capture Adler. Hudson authorized a mission to rescue Adler in Laos, but they arrived too late, as only Nova 6 stashes remained on site. However, Woods managed to interrogate a captive Perseus operative, who revealed that Adler was being taken to Verdansk, Kastovia. Another search was authorized, and this time Woods succeeded in finding Adler, who had been put through extensive torture.
====Resurgence of the Numbers Program====
Sometime later, Perseus operatives caused two satellite crashes in Verdansk and Algeria. Adler investigated the Algeria crash site and secretly recovered a data recorder, which he lied in the mission report as having been destroyed. Later, another attempt to stop Perseus operatives at the Echelon Listening Station in Teufelsburg revealed that they were reactivating Dragovich's Numbers program, with many CIA operatives turning and nearly killing Woods in the same mission. Hudson later met with Woods, where they discussed the inconsistencies in Adler's report, as well as his recent activities. Concluding that Adler had been compromised, they decided to call Mason in.
====Stopping Stitch====
In August 1984, Adler was captured and successfully deprogrammed by Mason. The team learned that while under the influence of the brainwashing, Adler had set up explosives across Verdansk, which went off and leveled the city. Adler, alongside Mason, Hudson, and Woods, then deployed to Verdansk to confront Stitch one final time. Here, Adler learned that the man named Perseus had perished years ago due to cancer, while Stitch had carried on the mantle. Having completed his mission, Stitch surrendered as Adler finished him off for good.
Five days after Stitch's death, the CIA operatives began to investigate numerous World War II-era German bunkers located underground, which were exposed by the explosives. They encountered retired SOE Captain Carver Butcher in one of the bunkers, who proceeded to tell them a story about his post-war effort to hunt down the last of the Nazi empire in the Pacific.
===Saving Sgt. Frank Woods in Angola===
By 1986, Hudson was still a C.I.A. operative. When Woods went missing in Angola, Hudson and Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North went to Alaska to get the now retired Alex Mason to go to Angola to save Woods. Mason begrudgingly accepted the mission. Hudson said that David, Mason's seven-year-old son, could stay with Jenny, his wife.
When in Angola, Mason and Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the UNITA forces, fought on the ground, leading a counter-attack on the now advancing MPLA, while Hudson flew a helicopter, taking down Soviet tanks used by the MPLA. The two had cut a deal with Savimbi, help defeat the MPLA, in exchange for Woods' location. At the end of the battle, Hudson and Mason flew to a barge on a river. After defeating several soldiers, Hudson and Mason found Woods, locked in a cargo crate full of badly decomposed bodies of Woods' unit. Almost as soon as Woods got out of the crate, a Hind converged on the barge. Mason managed to destroy the chopper (with the boat running aground just before the chopper crashed), but Woods fell into the river. Mason saved him, and the three then managed to find an enemy radio tower. Hudson stayed behind to protect Woods while Mason went to call Savimbi for extraction. Things went badly, as Mason was compromised, but not before shooting Raul Menendez's eye out. Hudson then grabbed Woods and then started to run to a boat on the river. When they finally got to the river while under heavy fire, a Hind then flew overhead. Hudson cursed, thinking defeat, but then it opened fire on the enemy soldiers. It turns out that Savimbi had captured the chopper for their extraction. Just as Hudson declared victory, putting on his sunglasses, he was shot in the shoulder by an enemy soldier, but Woods reacted quickly, shooting him in the head with a Browning HP, exclaiming "You can't kill me." Savimbi then flew the trio away.
===Afghanistan===
By 1986, the Menendez Cartel was flourishing. The C.I.A. then got wind that Menendez was running arms deals with the Soviets in Afghanistan. Hudson, Woods, and Mason were sent to get intelligence from the Mujahideen resistance. In exchange for weapons and repelling the Russian invasion, the resistance were to provide their intelligence to the C.I.A. Hudson was staying in a cave with the Afghan resistance leader, planning out their moves. The Russians threw all of their strength at one final assault, with tanks, MI-8 Hips, MI 24 Hind D's and many soldiers. In the end Woods and Mason discovered Colonel Kravchenko, Woods' old nemesis, was leading the charge. Hudson wanted to be the one to interrogate him for info on Menendez, but Woods told him to "Stay the fuck out of my way. I've got unfinished business with this bastard." Depending on the player's actions, Kravchenko either is interrogated, and says that Menendez has spies in the C.I.A., or he is shot in the head by Mason before telling. Either way, the Afghans betray all of their help, and then throw Mason, Woods, Hudson, and Zhao into the desert. It is unknown who rescued them, but Mason claims that a 73-year-old Viktor Reznov saved them.
===Nicaragua===
Having received intel from Kravchenko, the C.I.A. set out to capture Menendez at his home in Nicaragua. They cut a deal with then-dictator of Panama, Manuel Noriega, and used his help in taking down the Menendez Cartel. But in truth, Noriega secretly freed Menendez after his men captured him, though Menendez almost tried to kill Noriega before heading for his sister, Josefina. Midway through clearing Menendez' home, Hudson realized that Menendez escaped and Noriega broke his promise. He tried to stop an enraged Woods from going after Menendez himself, telling him to stick to the mission as planned. After clearing the final wave of enemy, Hudson sent Mason and Woods down the basement to retrieve any valuable intel. He also warned Mason to keep Woods in check. A few moments later, Hudson found Menendez running toward Josefina's room and caught up to him. As he tried to subdue him, Woods and Mason also arrived at the scene. Woods tried to shoot Menendez, but Mason held him back. Woods then threw a grenade at Menendez, which bounced into Josefina's room, killing her. Menendez was reported to have been killed as well. Hudson, however, was disappointed in Woods' action, and told him and Mason to go on as if the events of that day never occur.
Afterwards, Hudson began looking in the CIA records and began tracking a former branch of the CIA, Pantheon, believing that they had somehow infiltrated the CIA.
=== Panama and Death ===
After finding out about Menendez's survival thanks to Noriega, the U.S. government decided to carry out an invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989, also known as Operation False Profit. Hudson, however, did not participate as a combatant, but only provided support on communications. Some time before the operation started, Menendez managed to capture 10-year-old David Mason and used him against Hudson. Hudson was forced to relay false information to Mason and Woods, who only had just managed to capture Noriega, also known as Objective False Profit, saying that he had intel on a Nexus target. After Mason and Woods escorted Noriega throughout the town to the checkpoint, they split ways. Woods went with Noriega to the top of a building, where he was then given instructions by Hudson to kill the Nexus target, Raul Menendez. Only after taking the shot did Woods find out that the man he shot was actually Mason. Woods tried to kill Noriega in retaliation, but was then shot in both legs by the real Menendez.
Both Woods and Mason were taken to Hudson, who was tied up to a chair. Menendez informed them that one more must die: Hudson, Woods or David. At first, Hudson was a bit hesitant, even mentioning to Woods that he had two children at home. But in the end, he decided to sacrifice himself so that Woods and David could live. Menendez then used a SPAS-12 to shoot Hudson's kneecaps, then slit his throat with Josefina's locket. Hudson's body was then tossed aside and Menendez stated to Woods that Hudson and Mason's deaths would be the first moments of absolute loss in his life.
Jane Harrow orchestrated Hudson's and Mason's deaths by contacting Menendez since Hudson was looking to reveal the CIA moles. She then framed Adler for it, making him have to go rogue.
===MK Operations Research===
During Sebastian Krueger's research of the MK operations, he sends information about Hudson to a partner JT Markum IV, Krueger himself not able to know what it is for.
==Personalization==
===Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War===
====Skins====
Name 	Rarity	Image	How to obtain
Hazmat 	 	 	Containment Breach: Pro Pack Bundle
Relentless 	 	 	Tracer Pack: Hudson Operator Bundle
Shadow Agent	 	 	Tracer Pack: Covert Processing Bundle
==Gallery==
===Call of Duty: Black Ops===
Hudson in the Pentagon BO.jpg|Hudson in the Pentagon with Mason and McNamara.
Jason Vietnam BO.png|Hudson in Vietnam.
Hudson M16 BO.png|Hudson in combat.
Hudson UH-1 BO.png|Hudson riding in a UH-1 in a Black Ops trailer.
Hudson No Shades BO.png|Hudson in the Launch Trailer.
Hudson's Dossier BO.jpg|Hudson's dossier.
Hudson in the Rusalka BO.jpg|Hudson in the Rusalka.
Jason Hudson Pentagon BO.jpg|Hudson in the Pentagon.
Mason's Interrogator Hudson.jpg|Hudson in the Interrogation room.
Hudson SOG BO.jpg|Hudson in Khe Sanh.
Hudson's Dossier Numbers BO.jpg|Hudson in "Numbers".
Hudson's Dossier WMD BO.jpg|Hudson in "WMD".
shot0180.jpg|Hudson revealing the truth to Mason.
===Call of Duty: Black Ops II===
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Jason Hudson flying helicopter BOII.png|Jason Hudson piloting a helicopter.
Hudson Old Wounds BOII.png|Hudson in Afghanistan at the Mujahideen hideout.
End Time and Fate BOII.png|Hudson and Woods at end of "Time and Fate".
Jason Hudson Model2 BOII.jpg|Jason Hudson model from Black Ops II.
Jason Hudson Model BOII.jpg|Jason Hudson model in Black Ops II "Old Wounds".
===Call of Duty: Black Ops 4===
JasonHudsonBlackout.png|Hudson in Blackout.
VacationHudson ThumbsUp BO4.png|The Ultra "Vacation Hudson" Blackout skin.
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===Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War===
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Hudson Bio BOCW.jpg|Hudson's bio from Treyarch's website.
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Hudson S2 Outro BOCW.png|Hudson in the Season Two Outro cinematic.
Hudson Select BOCW.png|Hudson's Operator Card.
Hudson Operator Bio BOCW.png|Hudson's bio in Black Ops Cold War.
Hudson OperatorCard BOCW.gif|Hudson Operator Intro.
Hudson Operator Default BOCW.png|Hudson in-game.
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Hudson "Relentless" Skin in-game WZ.png|Hudson wearing the "Relentless" skin in Warzone.
Hudson "Hazmat" Skin in-game WZ.jpg|Hudson's "Hazmat" skin in Warzone.
SeasonFive Reloaded Keyart BOCW.jpg|Season Five Reloaded Keyart featuring Hudson.
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Woods Meets With Hudson About Adler BOCW.png|Woods and Hudson talking about Adler.
Hudson Telling Woods to Find Mason BOCW.png|"Go find Mason."
Mason, Adler, Woods and Hudson Going To Verdansk BOCW.png
Woods, Adler, Mason, and Hudson Season 6 BOCW.jpg|Woods, Mason Russell Adler and Hudson in Verdansk.
Hudson, Woods and Mason Let Adler Kill Stitch BOCW.png|Hudson, Woods and Mason let Adler kill Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin.
Onslaught Promo4 BOCW.jpg|Hudson in Zombies Onslaught.
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==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*Hudson is referred to as 'Rock' by his squad mates according to his profile. This is a possible nod to the 1996 film The Rock in which Hudson's voice actor, Ed Harris, starred in.
*Hudson is referred to as "Ice Cube" by Alex Mason, likely because of his calm, stern and straight-to-the-point personality.
**Coincidentally, "Ice Cube" is the nickname/stage name of the voice actor for Joseph Bowman.
*On the Computer on the menu screen, the player can log into Hudson's profile with the username "jhudson" and the password "BRYANT1950".
**The player can get a Jason Hudson gamer picture by hacking his account on the terminal (Xbox 360 only).
**An e-mail that Hudson sent to Mason says to mix his password with someone's name (Bryant) and the year the person won an award (1950).
*Jason Hudson was number five on Game Informer's list of Top 10 video game Heroes of 2010.
*Hudson's dossier reveals his birth date is March 26, 1932, but in "WMD" his birth date is listed as March 17, 1932.
**Hudson's dossier also incorrectly states that he is 30 years old as of February 24, 1962. At that time, his birthday hadn't passed yet, meaning he would be 29.
*When Hudson punches Mason in "Revelations", a glitch may occur, causing his character model to quickly warp and appear holding an AK-47.
*During the "Carry On" music video ending in Black Ops II, Hudson can briefly be seen next to a rail dressed in the same outfit from the mission, "Old Wounds".
*In Treyarch's Black Ops Timeline, Hudson's name is incorrectly stated as "David Hudson" during the synopsis for the mission "S.O.G.".
*In Hudson's operator bio for Black Ops Cold War, there is a noted redacted paragraph for the year 1978. This is likely a reference to Operation Charybdis.
*In Black Ops Cold War Multiplayer modes, Hudson is the announcer for the CIA faction.
*In Black Ops Cold War Zombies, Hudson will make several references if the player is on a killing spree.
**Hudson remarks that he helped " the ".https://twitter.com/sammuelvv/status/1439365026658193408/photo/1
**The line "Hey Mason, how do you like these numbers!?" references his infamous line from Black Ops while he is interrogating Mason.
**Hudson will remember his interrogation of Daniel Clarke with Weaver, saying "What was it Weaver used to say? I could do this all day!"
*Hudson's operator bio in Black Ops Cold War mentions that Hudson was dishonorably discharged, however, both his dossier in Black Ops and the Call of Duty blog state that he was honorably discharged.
==References==
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