worthallthis | The Last Voyages: Inmate File

The file is made up to look like the file Steve Rogers got on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, right down to the photos and the typewriter font, with occasional handwritten notes in the margins. It's in English, at least, though. The details are expanding on (and in some cases varying a little from) the Wiki history data from the "World War II" section through the "Regaining memories" sub-section of "HYDRA Uprising". Some details on his HYDRA captivity are taken from The Terror of Knowing by girlbookwrm on A03.

The first two pages are about "Sergeant James Barnes's" tour in the army during World War 2. He was drafted (sorry, wiki, the actor has said he played it as if he was drafted) and received extensive extra training to hone his marksmanship skills. He had the first part of his tour with the 107th Division, until they were defeated and most of them captured at Azzano. They worked in the Kreischberg weapons facility where he was experimented on and then rescued by one Steve Rogers. Once recovered, he went on to work as the second-in-command of the Howling Commandos, and then to fall off a train into a deep ravine in the Alps. There's a footnote of the family members who received the consolation letters and his final affects.

The next five pages are on the testing of, experimenting on, and attempts at breaking the "American soldier", successful and not. There is a lot to this section. It includes translations of notes made by someone named "Arnim Zola" about the serum he was injected with and the robotic arm, and "Aleksander Lukin" who apparently spearheaded the brainwashing process and ran his missions for thirty years until Major Karpov took over. The trigger words for his brainwashing are listed, though they're in Russian, so while there is a translation into English, she might not be able to actually say them unless she wants to learn how to read and pronounce Russian. Only if the words are pronounced correctly do they actually work. The trigger words have been torn out of the page, though it's obvious from the surrounding text that's what they were.

The final three pages are a mission list for "the Asset", with names and dates, very brief mission notes, and level of success. The majority of the assassinations are civilian rather than military, with a few internal executions, and a handful of missions were protection or item retrieval rather then assassination. Many of the missions include collateral deaths, sometimes on purpose as his obedience was tested, sometimes just to keep the number of witnesses down.

There's a note from Karpov on his effectiveness at training "the Widows" in the late 1980s, and supporting the "Winter Soldier program" in 1991, the only entirely non-combat missions in the list. He was transferred to the American division of HYDRA in the late 1990s, under Alexander Pierce, at which point control came not from the trigger phrases but drugs, gaslighting, and an increasing frequency of memory wipes.

Every mission was at least a partial success if not a complete success, until the last two, in 2014, against Steve Rogers.