Editing Black Ops '61 (section)

===Background===
Irina doesn't know where she was born or who her birth parents are. She was found in a lab, and she showed signs of having been experimented upon. "Irina" was what she responded with when asked her name. At the time she looked to be about five years old. 

The raid had been the result of a prolonged surveillance by German assets of the company that owned the building; the lab appeared to be operating independently. Everyone in the lab either escaped or died in the assault, and investigations of the corporation came up blank…

In the course of trying to learn more, several interviews were recorded with Irina. That's when they discovered her ability with languages: she could already speak Russian, English, and several Slavic languages—fluently, at a level that no five-year-old should be capable of.

Irina was adopted by agent Bob Davidson and brought up in as normal a manner as circumstances permitted. She continued to be taught languages, but she was warned not to let on how many she knew. By the time she finished her Ph. D. in Linguistics, she spoke more than twenty languages. She has continued to learn even more since then, but has been finding it more difficult the older she gets.

She was always intended to be an operative, and her adopted family has instilled in her a love for the Company and a sense of gratitude that she was allowed to grow up here. As an adult, she is genuinely grateful—they ''did'' rescue her, after all. She still has nightmares, centering around a chair and pain, most likely related to her early life which she does not consciously remember. 

For most of her time as an agent, she has been desk bound, or on intelligence operations where the knowledge of languages was the primary reason for her inclusion. She has had little experience of ''direct'' combat ops. 

In her personal life, she was almost engaged, but ended it when he started hinting that she would have to give up her job as a "U.N. interpreter." Her mother hasn't quite given up on the dream of a white wedding, but she is definitely starting to worry that Irina may have been left on the shelf. Her father, of course, totally understands that she can't have a normal career and marriage. (Their relationship is not unlike that of the Miss and Mister Parker in the early seasons of ''The Pretender.'')