History
Professor Rodchenko was a programmer for the Red Room in the 1970s, working on brainwashing, implanting cover identities into operatives before they would go on missions. He defected to the U.S. in the 1980s and worked for them until he was kidnapped by Leo Novokov, who threatened his family to force him to brainwash the Black Widow[1]. He was also forced to create a program for the Winter Soldier to turn him back into an assassin. After Rodchenko programmed the Black Widow to think that she was still working for the Red Room, Novokov tied him up in his hideout, and Rodchenko was found and captured by S.H.I.E.L.D.. Thinking that it would help him find Black Widow, Winter Soldier implanted Rodchenko's programming into his head, and then used the same machine on Rodchenko so that he wouldn't be able to tell anyone else what was in the program.[2]