War on Iron Wolf

## War on Iron Wolf.jpg

A collage of images from the battle (from left to right): Alfred Lewis preparing to hijack a Russian MI-24 Hind, Agnes Peterson attacking a Soviet guard, Agnes Peterson witnessing a Soviet prisoner breaking open a weapons locker, Alfred Lewis looking amongst dead bodies, Zina Volkova searching for Alfred Lewis

## Chronology

### Place

East Berlin, Soviet Union, United States of America

## Major Events

### Battles

Escape from Site XManhunt for Alfred Lewis

Manhunt for Agnes Peterson

Vorkuta Breakout

Manhunt for Anatoly Gromov

Manhunt for Asset X

## Combatants

### Allied Combatants

United States of AmericaUnited Kingdom

France

Spain

### Enemy Combatants

Soviet UnionSupported by:

China

North Korea

## Commanders

### Allied Forces

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

Gerald Ford (1974-1977)

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

George H.W. Bush (1989-1991)

Agnes Peterson (1968-1991)

Alfred Lewis

Vladimira Petrova/The Expressionless/Asset X (After 1972)

### Opposition Forces

Anatoly Gromov (deceased)Dietrich Sterner (deceased)

Vladimira Petrova/The Expressionless/Asset X (Before 1972)

Agnes Peterson (1963-1968)

Lev Bratchenko (deceased)

Zina Volkova (Deceased, resurrected with Codex of the Omega)

## Strength

### Allies

Central Intelligence Agency agentsMI6 agents

### Enemies

Operation Iron Wolf sleeper agentsKGB agents

## Casualties

### Opposition

Heavy

The **War on Iron Wolf** is the name given to a massive war against the Soviet Union's Operation Iron Wolf by various organizations and entities from 1954 to 1991. It began in 1954, with a series of spy operations against the Soviet Union, where the West discovered the Soviet espionage program known as Operation Iron Wolf, but the war officially began when Agnes Peterson, an American woman who was captured and forcibly experimented on as part of Operation Iron Wolf by the USSR, and MI6 agent Alfred Lewis, who was also captured and subjected to forced experimentation escaped to the United States and the United Kingdom respectively and told the public about what had happened to them.

## Key events

### Capture & Experimentation of Agnes Peterson

> "*The subject has been successfully implanted with the knowledge to translate the number sequences.*"
> ― Dietrich Sterner reporting on the successful brainwashing of Agnes Peterson
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Agnes Peterson was an American woman who was arrested by the KGB along with her family after it was discovered that the Petersons had been spreading Christianity in Soviet Russia. Head of Iron Wolf, Anatoly Gromov, had her brainwashed with the ability to translate coded number sequences to orders from the KGB to assassinate people.

When Agnes resisted the brainwashing technique, the Soviets and East Germans resorted to using more extreme methods to condition her mind. They succeeded and eventually Agnes was renamed "Firefly". Under the codename of Firefly, Agnes became one of the deadliest assassins within the Soviet Union, killing numerous people from 1963 to 1969.

Years later, in 1969, she was able to escape the program, thanks to a Soviet defector named Yuri Belov. Belov, a former Soviet soldier who was suspected of having been "tainted" by the Capitalist world after World War II and branded a traitor, saved her life by exploiting a hidden flaw that neither Bratchenko nor Sterner could have foreseen: he sabotaged Bratchenko's brainwashing and reversed the programming, reprogramming her to aid his own escape from Iron Wolf. After a brutal rampage throughout the Iron Wolf facility in East Berlin, Agnes was able to escape back to the United States.

### CIA Recruitment

> "*We're at war, Agnes! The mind, it seems, is the new battlefield. If we're gonna win, we're going to have to gather enough intel on the enemy and shut their operations down. I need you on the ground for this. Find intel on the Iron Wolf program and, if you can, locate and terminate Anatoly Gromov with extreme prejudice.*"
> ― CIA director Dennis Matthews to Agnes Peterson
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Upon her return to the United States, Agnes ran into friends and family members who thought she had died in Vorkuta. She also went through extensive therapy sessions and was without a job. Eventually she was approached by a family friend who was actually an agent for the CIA. Through this family friend, Agnes found herself recruited into Task Force Water Snake, a CIA task force created by the United States government to find and apprehend and/or kill Soviet sleeper agents and Communist sympathizers wherever they were found. From the final months of the 1960s to the early 1970s, Agnes became one formidable asset, responsible for arresting or eliminating numerous Soviet sympathizers and sleeper agents on American soil.

Her biggest assignment, however, came in 1972, when the CIA ordered her to gather more intel on the Iron Wolf program and, if possible, assassinate Anatoly Gromov, the head of Iron Wolf. Although she was initially hesitant about the mission, Agnes eventually accepted the mission after she was told that Iron Wolf had targeted her family as their next possible test subjects.

### Deployment to Vietnam

> "*I couldn't believe Yuri was the defector, that he was the one supplying the intel regarding Iron Wolf's involvement in Vietnam. I'd thought all that time that he died in Vorkuta but here he was: alive and breathing, and slaughtering North Vietnamese soldiers like a one-man wrecking crew.*"
> ― Agnes Peterson recounting her reunion with Yuri Belov
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In 1968, Agnes was deployed to Hue City in South Vietnam on her first mission: rescue a Soviet defector who claimed to have vital intelligence on Soviet collaborators among the North Vietnamese who had "gone dark". Placed in charge of a team of CIA agents embedded in the US Army, Agnes went on a brutal killing spree across Hue City to locate the Soviet defector, eventually discovering that he is none other than Yuri Belov, the same man who helped her escape Vorkuta years ago, in 1963. Reuniting with Yuri, Agnes learned of Operation Iron Wolf's true purpose: an attack on American soil involving chemical strikes against United States military bases across the country. Following this revelation, Agnes and Yuri fought their way through the city to reach an exfiltration point.

Two years later, in 1970, the CIA obtained unconfirmed intelligence from other Russian defectors that Iron Wolf agents were covertly assisting the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army in the War in Vietnam, Agnes was sent to Quảng Tín Province, South Vietnam to participate in a joint operation between the United States Armed Forces and the South Vietnamese in order to confirm the rumors. To the surprise of the US soldiers involved, the intel turned out to be solid, as Agnes and her American and South Vietnamese indeed encountered Soviet Iron Wolf agents fighting alongside the North Vietnamese Army. She even saw Viet Cong soldiers that were transformed into Iron Wolf assets fighting alongside the NVA and the Russians. Once she reported back to the CIA about her findings, they realized that Iron Wolf was mcuh bigger than anyone initially imagined.

### Manhunt for Anatoly Gromov

Following the incident in Vietnam, the CIA tasked Agnes with assassinating Anatoly Gromov after conclusive intel about his whereabouts came in from other CIA agents in Europe. After following a lead from CIA agents who confirmed a sighting of Gromov in Budapest, Hungary, Agnes tracked Gromov to a hotel in Budapest. Agnes infiltrated the hotel to find where Gromov was lodging for the night but was unable to find him. She eventually located Gromov and killed him as he was taking a walk. Unfortunately, while attempting to confirm the dead man's identity, the CIA realized that the man Agnes killed was a body double and that the real Gromov had gotten away. Agnes realized that Anatoly may have found out about the attempt on his life and escaped before she even arrived at the hotel. Her suspicions were eventually confirmed when a KGB team sent by the real Gromov to recapture Agnes for "reconditioning" attempted to ambush her, but Agnes fought them off and escaped.

### Escape of Asset X

In 1972, another Iron Wolf asset codenamed Asset X (Operating under the name Sheila Monroe) was deployed to the United States of America, tasked with obtaining intelligence on US Army general Owen Garfield, a high-ranking general and close friend of then-US President Richard Nixon, whom she was then tasked with assassinating. However, the mission went sideways when she got into a wreck caused by an episode of road rage, which led to an injured Asset X suffering from memory loss. She admitted herself into the nearby Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, but collapsed from her injuries. When she came to, she was being restrained by the hospital staff, who were debating on what to do with her. When the hospital staff tried to sedate her, she fought back with tremendous force, killing and cannibalizing one doctor and five policemen, before fleeing into the night. Asset X eventually became the subject of a police manhunt that lasted until the summer of 1972, where it was found that following the massacre, she escaped to West Virginia, hiding in the small town of Goshen. After being apprehended, she offered intelligence to the Americans in exchange for a more lenient sentence. Her request was granted and she was sentenced to ten years in prison, and five years of community service, which was spent working with the Americans to find and apprehend Soviet sleeper agents on American soil.

### Capture & Experimentation of Alfred Lewis

In 1973, British MI6 agent Alfred Lewis was sent to East Berlin to spy on the Soviet spy program after hearing unconfirmed rumors of the Soviet spy program from the Americans.

He was able to obtain the intelligence confirming MI6's suspicions, but his cover was eventually blown and he was captured. While in captivity, Lewis was subjected to Iron Wolf's brutal brainwashing protocol; his captors tortured him and subjected him to doses of hallucinogenic drug cocktails and erased his memory multiple times over the course of six months to become an Iron Wolf asset. However, the brainwashing eventually wore off when he was being ministered by Amsel Freud, his original target. Once his memories returned to him, Lewis remembered his original mandate and killed Freud, then escaped the facility, fighting his way through multiple guards. Coincidentally, Agnes Peterson, now a CIA asset, came across Lewis. Lewis, mistaking Agnes for a Soviet agent, initially fought Peterson, but stopped after Peterson identified herself as an American asset. Lewis told Agnes what had happeened to him, and Agnes eerily confirmed that she was also captured and subjected to the same treatment. Realizing that they were both victims of the program, Lewis asked Peterson for help escaping the Soviets while at the same time charging her with informing MI6 what had occurred. While Lewis made his escape, Agnes created a diversion by luring his pursuers into an abandoned apartment, which she rigged with explosives to kill the KGB search party looking for Lewis.

Eventually, he passed out due to injuries sustained during his escape. He was eventually found by Agnes, who brought him to a hospital in West Berlin and alerted MI6 regarding his whereabouts.

### Shutting down Operation Iron Wolf

Months later, Agnes continued the manhunt for Anatoly Gromov, which led her back Budapest where she found Alfred Lewis at a bar, ingesting LSD in an attempt to remember everything that had happened to him both prior to and during his capture by the KGB while high. After witnessing Alfred Lewis having a nervous breakdown upon remembering everything that had happened to him, she was alerted to another team of KGB agents sent to the bar to recapture Lewis, as well as Peterson. Amazingly, Lewis was still able to fight off the KGB agents attempting to recapture him, and Agnes aided his escape from the bar. Unable to find more leads on Gromov, Agnes hid with Lewis in Budapest. Lewis asked Agnes why she was helping him, but Agnes responded by saying that ever since Lewis told her of what he had gone through at the hands of Iron Wolf, she felt an obligation to protect him at all costs.
At that very moment, a team of KGB agents and Soviet soldiers led by Lev Bratchenko and Zina Volkova-having survived her previous encounter with Lewis-broke into the safehouse, resulting in a fistfight that saw Lewis killing Bratchenko and Agnes killing Volkova by stabbing her to death with her own knife.