While Grant Ward, Kebo, and their men moved to another base, Werner von Strucker went to Gideon Malick, the head of another HYDRA cell and the only modern HYDRA leader that all other heads feared.

The government wanted to use the weapon against the rebels, but due to the instability of the Tesseract energy, the weapon ended up stuck in the undiscovered Incan temple. Gideon Malick learned that Glenn Talbot had been appointed as the new head of the Advanced Threat Containment Unit; he kidnapped George Talbot and extorted him to cooperate with him.Also used by HYDRA assassins who attempted to eliminate Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon, as well as Nick Fury. For many months, HYDRA's forces led by John Garrett fought a vicious fight against the small team of loyal S. Nick Fury started Project Insight, an operation which involved three heavily armed Helicarriers that were designed to proactively strike out against potential threats against the United States before they actually happened. In the rise of Nazi Schutzstaffel, the brutal Johann Schmidt re-branded the cult Hydra and incorporated itself into the Nazi government as a division for both deep science and the investigation of the occult.

Adolf Hitler gave Schmidt a military base in the Alps, which he turned into a headquarters of HYDRA. Figure out who they are and retrieve the Cosmic Cube from the evil Red Skull to complete the mission. D. also invaded the HYDRA Preparatory Academy, so Hale took the advantage and surrender willingly to Daisy Johnson and Melinda May. He also demanded Inhumans for an army, so Hale took adventage of her new position to hunt down the key S.In the ensuing fight, Kebo was electrocuted to death in a swimming pool and his men were beaten by the intruders. Malick insured him that although he would have to close some of his offices, he could not be defeated so easily. In the aftermath of World War II, the United States government started Operation Paperclip, a program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States and deny their scientific expertise and knowledge to the Soviet Union. Hardball, however, deeply hurt and shamed by the compromises Woodman forced him to endure and Komodo's attempt to bail him out of Hydra by telling his secrets to his field leader Gravity, mercilessly killed Congressman Woodman in front of his subordinates.

Howard, the footage you're about to see was just smuggled out of Nazi Germany by Agent 13, an undercover operative the British have planted deep within HYDRA, Hitler's advanced weapons program. After they met with Qovas, Hale revealed to Coulson her true intentions and Ruby's part in her plan. He surrendered to the Shadow Initiative, and is sent to the Negative Zone prison, destroying his Hydra cell. In the meantime, Reinhardt managed to capture a group of people from China who had found the Obelisk, an object which could turn people into stone. A key ingredient for the serum was given to a HYDRA member in the United States of America, Wilfred Malick, and he was tasked to deliver it to Germany by Viola.

Repeated attempts were made throughout the course of history to send people to the other side to either serve or rescue the entity, but no one who went in ever came out. HYDRA then began building several factories across Nazi-occupied Europe and the territories of Germany's allies. The former HYDRA operatives stationed at the Schoonebeek Oil Field were moved to Union City to serve as security personnel, and many of them were slaughtered by the Kree Reapers. D. learned about the exact location of their Sokovian base from their facility in the Arctic and passed that information to Maria Hill, who gave it to the Avengers. By 1942, they had factories in Switzerland, Italy, [10] Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.