Zola kept up the appearance of being a fully reformed SHIELD agent, much the way the other HYDRA moles did. When SHIELD started up, they would have needed scientists with experience dealing in the kind of unusual stuff that SHIELD deals with, and Zola was right there. He then served a few years in prison, during which he was presumably a model prisoner. After he was initially captured, Zola exhibited none of the usually traits of the HYDRA operatives the SSR had dealt with: he didn't kill himself, he gave up information freely, and he even rolled over on the Red Skull with little prompting. With the MCU, this is basically how Zola came to work for SHIELD. In the vast majority of cases, these scientists were not particularly zealous supporters of their previous regime: they either worked for Hitler out of fear, our of desperation, or because it was where the really interesting work was happening. Operation Paperclip was a very real military project designed to recruit as many foreign scientists as possible (I believe the number was well over 1500). Lots of scientists who were originally working with the Nazis in Germany "defected" to the US.Īt the time, German scientists (especially physicists) were some of the most advanced and skilled in the world at the time, and the US really wanted their expertise - and more importantly, they didn't want the Soviets to get them. It may sound a bit crazy to us, but what happened with Zola is very similar to what happened in real life at the end of WWII. Plus, the fact that HYDRA had already begun infiltrating SHIELD, means Zola likely had support from higher-ups to keep suspicion off of him. SHIELD probably genuinely believed he was working for them the whole time. Secondly, at the time that Armin Zola was working on Bucky, he was not considered an "enemy". Even though Zola was working for SHIELD using SHIELD resources doesn't mean SHIELD "gave him" Bucky's body to fix. The Soviets found him, and gave him to HYDRA initially. Zola's care, who turned him into The Winter Soldier.įirst of all, it's important to note that the SSR didn't find Bucky's body. Zola allowed him to survive his fall from the train - but unfortunately delivered him back into Dr. In short, Bucky is still alive because the experimentation done on him by Dr. It is at this stage that Bucky underwent further experimentation, presumably including the addition of his mechanical arm and the beginning of the memory wipes that, judging from Captain America: The Winter Soldier he undergoes fairly frequently. Zola (who was, by this point, working for SHIELD while creating his new Hydra from within). Some point after falling off the train and losing his arm, Bucky was acquired by the new Hydra, lead by Dr. Zola's experiment didn't make Bucky as capable as Steve, it at least 'powered him up' somewhat. We don't know a whole lot about the details of the experiment that was performed, but we do know that since that experiment, Bucky has survived a lot of things that should have simply killed him (such as falling from the train, working as an assassin for a few decades, being frozen and thawed multiple times, etc) so we can conclude that even if Dr. Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum, and it is this that was being tested on Bucky when Steve found him. Zola was working on his own version of Dr. The first thing worth noting is that in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve Rogers rescued Bucky from Hydra captivity after finding him having recently been experimented on by Dr. There are several misconceptions in your question, so I'm just going to address the general question of "What happened to Bucky Barnes after he fell off the train?".
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