Yuri Belov

Yuri Belov is a character in the TACITUS series and a member of Task Force Charybdis, a paramilitary black ops unit within the Central Intelligence Agency. He is a Russian defector who feels "betrayed" by the USSR and subsequently is imprisoned for supposed "acts of treason". He later escapes to the United States of America, where he becomes a CIA agent and a member of Charybdis.
==Biography==
===World War II===
Not much is known about Yuri Belov before the outbreak of World War II. With the onset of World War II, Yuri Belov was drafted into the Soviet Army. He participated in the Second Russo-Japanese War.
===Imprisonment and meeting Agnes===
During the events of Sleeper Cell, it is revealed that Yuri was framed for committing acts of treason against the USSR sometime after the war's end, thanks to corrupt Soviet general Alexandre Vyshninskiy and was imprisoned in Perm-36. He then met Agnes Peterson, an ordinary American teenager who had been abducted and forcibly experimented on at the hands of scientists in charge of Operation Iron Wolf, a Soviet supersoldier program. Learning of Iron Wolf leader Alexandre Vyshninskiy's ultimate goals concerning Agnes Peterson, he sabotaged the brainwashing attempt and reprogrammed Agnes Peterson to kill Alexandre for vengeance against him for falsely charging him with treason. He then helped Agnes Peterson escape from the Russian gulag, but was presumably killed in the process.
===Task Force Charybdis===
Years later, it was revealed that Yuri had actually been found alive by CIA agents operating in Europe, though he was at first suspected of being a spy. After proving that he wasn't Yuri was recruited into Task Force Charybdis, a collaborative task force between the intelligence agencies of the United States, England, France and many other NATO countries against the Warsaw Pact.
Sometime later, Yuri was sent to Vietnam as an informant to relay intelligence regarding the North Vietnamese Army and their current plans to win the War in Vietnam to the CIA. However, his cover was eventually blown and he was captured, prompting the CIA to send in Agnes Peterson on a successful rescue mission. Following this, Yuri and Agnes were partnered together on numerous occasions in missions against the Communist world.
==Trivia==
*He is somewhat based on Call of Duty character Viktor Reznov.
*Originally, Yuri was supposed to die while fighting the Butch Family Murder Cult, but this was changed to make for a more uplifting ending.
Category:Task Force Charybdis members
Category:Characters in the TACITUS series