Boris Pash

Boris Theodore Pashkovsky (1900 – 1995), born Boris Fedorovich Pashkovsky (Russian: Борис Фёдорович Пашковский), and shortened to Boris Theodore Pash, was a colonel in the United States Army and a member of the American Brotherhood of Assassins during World War II. Pash was also the leader of Bloodstone Unit, an extremist Assassin cell active during the Vietnam War.

In 1942, he officially led the Alsos Mission, aimed at spying on secret German operations regarding their atomic bomb project as the Allies were developing their own program, the Manhattan Project. In this context, he also recruited the Londoner Eddie Gorm to infiltrate the entourage of Nazi General Gero Kramer, an SS Obergruppenführer secretly a member of the Templar Order. During the Vietnam War, through a relationship with Zenia, he became the father of Nathalie Chapman.

Biography[]

World War II[]

Before 1940, Pash placed a mole in Jack Turpin's criminal organization, Robert Burton, a British spy who kept the colonel informed on the activities of Turpin, who was in fact the Nazi infiltrator named Otto Hammerstein.^[1]

On September 1940, Pash learned that Hammerstein tried to recruit the docker Eddie Gorm in order to steal the research of a French scientist refugeed in London. Investigating Gorm's background, Pash discovered that the former war hero was unknowingly the descendant of an Assassin bloodline. The Assassin decided to use this opportunity to finally have a spy of the Brotherhood able to reach Turpin's superior, the Templar Gero Kramer. All the Assassins that Pash had sent to infiltrate the Uranprojekt were unmasked by Kramer, prompting him to devise a plan to send an Assassin who did not knew himself that he was an Assassin.^[1]

To do so, Pash approached Gorm with another Assassin, Julia Dusk, trying to convince the man to accept Hammerstein's offer and work for the Allies as a double-agent, but the Englishman rebuffed them. However, as they were arguing, an armada of German planes attacked London and a bomb hit Gorm's house, killing his whole family. Distraught, Gorm drowned his sorrows in alcohol until Pash and Dusk found him back one week later and convinced him to accept their offer. While Gorm was convinced to work for the Americans, Pash kept from his new recruit his true allegiance to the Assassin cause.^[1]

Eventually, Gorm gained the trust of Hammerstein, and by 1942, was a member of the Schutzstaffel living in Berlin, where he was handled by Dusk. However, during a ceremony presided by Kramer and held in honor of the Uranprojekt's lead scientist Werner Heisenberg, Gorm blew his cover, stabbing Hammerstein in blind rage and taking Heisenberg hostage, forcing the Assassins to come to his rescue. After Gorm isolated himself and Heisenberg in a laboratory where he interrogated the scientist about the atomic project, Julia Dusk jumped through a window to save him from the soldiers who were about to capture him. They escaped, though Julia was shot, and joined Pash and Burton who were waiting for them with a car.^[1]

Despite Gorm trying to strangle Burton after recognizing him as Hammerstein's henchman, the group successfully reached their Assassin hideout in the city. While Burton tended to Dusk, Pash revealed everything to Gorm, from his allegiance to the Assassin Brotherhood to their secret war against the Templar Order. After Pash told him that he was a descendant of an Assassin bloodline, Gorm decided to join the Brotherhood. By February 1943, Pash had completed Gorm's training and decided that the time had come to act on the information that his protégé extorted from Heisenberg, sending the Assassin after Gero Kramer in Vemork, Norway.^[1]

On 15 July 1943, after Gorm infiltrated Vemork, Pash was soon met by both his fellow Assassins near Książ Castle, Poland. Pash planned to infiltrate the abandoned Project Riese underneath the castle while Dusk and Gorm went to find Kramer, assassinate him, and recover the Apple of Eden in his possession. Once Kramer was dealt with, Pash met Gorm and Dusk underneath the castle as they prepared to leave. However, Pash recruited a captive Nikola Tesla from the castle, only for the scientist to reveal Pash's true intentions of using the Apple himself. Revealing the truth, Pash agreed that he made a temporary alliance with the Templars, which led Gorm to attack him. Pash responded severely with a grapple hook while Dusk, bereft, tried to destroy the Apple with a grenade.^[2]

Project Rainbow[]

Despite Dusk's suicide, Pash retained an intact Apple while leaving Gorm to die from blood loss. Within three months, he, Tesla, and Templar mathematician John von Neumann used the Apple to start Project Rainbow in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. However, during one of their tests, the machine malfunction as Pash went to seek Tesla for his help. Once he sought out the scientist, he noticed Tesla's guards killed as he found Tesla killed and Eddie Gorm still alive. Pash tried to persuade him to help with the project but Gorm noticed Pash's lack of respect for the Creed's tenets. Although he tried to subdue Gorm, Pash was stopped as he witnessed an unstable Gorm commit suicide in front of him.^[2] Afterwards, he continued the experiment, but its result proved disastrous due to hundreds of marines dying as a result. Thus, they stopped their project.^[3]

Vietnam War[]

ACBs - Pash dismissing Aleksei — Pash dismissing Gavrani

In 1950, Pash started to work on Project BLUEBIRD, a CIA initiative that, on a surface level, was tasked with researching mind control techniques to better interrogate subjects. However, this was only a cover up for Pash's real experiments, as he was researching the effects an Apple of Eden had in the human subconscious. He would later implement such mental augmentations and techniques in various members of the Brotherhood, including Julia Gorm.^[4]

In 1957, Pash recruited former Soviet Union hitman Alekseï Gavrani and begun training him. On February 8, both men traveled to Walter Reed Medical Center, where an ill John von Neumann was. Gavrani dispatched the guards, giving Pash privacy with von Neumann. After killing von Neumann, Pash exited the room with an Apple of Eden in hand. He claimed that von Neumann had died from his years in Los Alamos to Gavrani before they left.^[4]

By 2 January 1963, Pash and his mentor, William King Harvey, founded the Assassin taskforce, known as the Bloodstone Unit. On the same day, Pash assigned his unit to capture Cooper, a Templar infiltrator, for interrogation about President Ngô Đình Diệm. Pash himself interrogated Cooper for information. When Pash found out that Gavrani felt uneasy about his methods, he dismissed him for being weak-willed.^[4] In the next eleven months, Pash assigned Bloodstone member William Greer to help assassinate John F. Kennedy and take his Apple of Eden. However, Pash failed as former member Gavrani intercepted the Apple from Greer.^[4]

Meanwhile, Pash infiltrated Saigon in early November and killed President Diệm, which caused a domino effect in the region between the relations of U.S.A and Vietnam.^[4]

On the Run[]

By 30 July, 1964, Pash and his remaining Bloodstone members fled from their base in the Gulf of Tonkin, due to Gavrani hunting them and a mentally unstable Julia Gorm believing herself to be her vengeful father, Eddie Gorm. He assigned Dhogura to destroy all evidence of their presences of their base while he, a pregnant Zenia, and Doni tried to seek sanctuary. In three days, they all sailed down the Red River while avoiding Gorm and Gavrani's attention. However, one of their boats was attacked and decimated as Pash and Zenia took cover. However, Pash was met by Gavrani, who knocked him down with his gun. However, Pash is saved once Zenia convinced to a compromise due to Julia chasing them and her pregnancy.^[3]

Pash, Gavrani, Doni, and Zenia made their way to an abandoned hut and spent the night resting. However, Pash woke up to see Zenia and Gavrani talking and knocked him out with the butt of the gun. He argued with Zenia over the action and his distrust of him and Harvey. Suddenly, they are all attacked by Julia, who killed Doni and injured Zenia. Pash guarded Zenia as Gavrani fought Julia. However, once Julia killed Gavrani, Pash went to Julia, who was fell due to her own injuries. Pash and Zenia talked about their options and relented to give Harvey the Apple's location for their lives and their baby.^[3]

On 4 August, 1964, Pash sat besides an unconscious Julia as he later talked with Harvey. Within their conversation, Pash realized Harvey was a traitor and working with the Templars. He accused him of influencing his actions and threatened him in response. Pash was told that his work was revolutionary and was introduced to Dr. Warren Vidic, who was holding his baby. Pash was informed Zenia died from her injuries as Harvey held his baby's life over him. Pash, angry, agreed to help them on their ongoing work on memory resurrection as the young baby, Nathalie, would be taken into Vidic's care. Pash would then surrender all his research on Project BLUEBIRD, which would serve as the pillars for the early Animus Project^[3]

Pash later died on 11 May 1995 in Greenbrae, United States.^[5] He was buried in a graveyard near Lake Léman, Switzerland.^[3]

Legacy[]

In 1977, Vidic turned Pash's daughter, Nathalie, into his test subject. By reliving the memories of her father, she discovered that she was in fact a hostage of the Templars. Seeking revenge, the 13-year-old girl stole a copy of the Animus blueprints and gave it to William Miles before fleeing Vidic's lab with the Apple of Eden that Pash had given to Vidic.^[3]