Arnim Zola (Earth-1600)

"Hydra was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom. What we did not realize is that if you try to take that freedom, they resist. The war taught us much. Humanity needed to surrender its freedom willingly. After the war, S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded, and I was recruited. The new HYDRA grew, a beautiful parasite, inside S.H.I.E.L.D."

- Arnim Zola Arnim Zola is a Hydra scientist who worked for the Red Skull during World War II. After the end of the war and Hydra's defeat, he was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D., the new peace-keeping organization at the time. He used this opportunity to secretly rebuild Hydra. He also transferred his mind into a complex computer system after learning that his body was dying.