Escape from Site X

Agnes Peterson

Yuri Belov

> "*We will be free, or die trying!*"
> ― Yuri Belov
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The **Escape from Site X**occurred on October 9, 1962. It saw Agnes Peterson, an American citizen imprisoned inside the facility, escaping to the United States with the help of Russian defector Yuri Belov.

## Background

In 1961, it was discovered that Agnes Peterson, an American missionary, and her family were prosletyizing to Soviet citizens after they were observed having conversations about Christianity with Russian citizens in Moscow by the KGB. Determined to shut down the prosletyzing, the KGB arrested Agnes in early August that same year. Expecting to be executed, Agnes was instead taken to Site X, a Soviet human experimentation laboratory disguised as a military base, where she was experimented on by the Russians as part of the Soviet supersoldier program Operation Iron Wolf.

When Agnes resisted the brainwashing technique, the Soviets resorted to using more extreme methods to condition her mind. They succeeded and eventually Agnes was renamed "Firefly". The Soviets intended to use Agnes as a weapon against the United States of America, but this plan ultimately failed; Yuri Belov, a Soviet political prisoner who happened to also be imprisoned in Site X on suspicions of being "tainted" by the Capitalist West, observed a flaw in the Soviet programming that allowed him to sabotage the programming and save Agnes after he overheard the heads of Iron Wolf discuss a plan to use Agnes to assassinate the United States President. As part of her training, the Iron Wolf handlers had Agnes fight against and kill unruly prison inmates in Site X, using them as target practice for her ultimate mission against the United States government.

Wanting to save both Agnes and the US President, Yuri sabotaged the brainwashing, then formed a plan with Agnes and other political prisoners to escape the prison, which happened over the course of a year.

## Escape from the program

On October 9, 1962, Yuri and Agnes began their escape from the Iron Wolf program. While the Soviets were preoccupied with tending to Agnes, who was injured in a fight against unruly prison inmates as part of her training, Yuri directed Agnes to kill the Russian doctor, who was fixing Agnes up after her fight with the other inmates, and then sent Agnes on a rampage throughout the facility, killing numerous Soviet guards.

Having seen Agnes' actions on security cameras, Anatoly sent his enforcer, KGB officer Zina Volkova, to subdue Agnes and bring her in for reprogramming, with orders to kill Agnes in the event of failure. Zina tried to talk Agnes down, but when this failed, Zina tried to shoot Agnes, who disarmed her and defeated her in hand-to-hand combat before incapacitating her and continuing her assault on the Soviet guards. Leonid Bratchenko was later sent in to recapture Agnes, but even he failed; although he was able to beat Agnes down initially, Agnes was eventually successful in overpowering the Russian soldier and defeat him as well.

After defeating Bratchenko, Agnes and Yuri hijacked a locomotive train that was being used to ferry supplies from Siberia to Volgograd, USSR. Once they reached Volgograd, Agnes and Yuri were taken in by Russian Christians who were friends with Agnes' missionary family, having thought that Agnes had died in prison.

After six months of recuperation from their escape from the Russians, Agnes was covertly sent off to London, UK, where she was eventually taken back to the United States of America and reunited with her family.