During a guerrilla offensive in the Soviet-Afghan war in 1984, this prisoner had escaped the Lamar Khaate Palace area. As a result of his escape, he was also being pursued by a four-man Soviet search team, although the leader of the Private Force Diamond Dogs, Venom Snake (who had been in the area as part of a mission to take out several Soviet mechanized reinforcements while the prisoner's fellow guerrillas were doing an operation at the same time), managed to intercept and rescue the prisoner before they could corner and summarily execute him. While being rescued by Snake, the prisoner, believing him to be the legendary soldier Big Boss, proceeded to relay some information regarding the guerrilla's assault, and also alluded to the Soviet development of a new weapon that would essentially