Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-112155-20160203033421/@comment-27112771-20160207213008

Council of Nine being connected to Hydra would be completely appropriate for this series. I know we're all a little burned out on them from Agents of SHIELD, but this is a spin off of The First Avenger, and we know Hydra has been inside SHIELD since the very beginning.

I reckon SHIELD will probably begin to form in 1949, when Operation Paperclip was enacted. Could always be earlier though.