Strategic Scientific Reserve

The Strategic Scientific Reserve, or SSR, was a top-secret Allied intelligence agency during World War II. It was formed in 1940 by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to combat HYDRA, the Nazi special weapons division. After the war, the SSR came in conflict with the Soviet deep science division Leviathan and the corrupt Council of Nine. The SSR was later absorbed into the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division after its founding.
==History==
===World War II===
====Project Rebirth====
The Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed in 1940 on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Although the United States was not directly involved in World War II at the time, Roosevelt knew that the situation was only temporary, because Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich were the greatest threat to the free world.
The commanding officer of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was Colonel Chester Phillips. The same year the Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed, he persuaded the American industrialist Howard Stark to join the agency, after a group of assassins sent by HYDRA, Hitler's special weapons division, tried to kill them both.
Shortly after, they organized the rescue of Abraham Erskine from Castle Kaufmann, where he was being held by Johann Schmidt, the commanding officer of HYDRA. Phillips sent one of his best agents, Peggy Carter, to secure Erskine's release.Captain America: First Vengeance
The goal of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was to create an army of super soldiers that could defeat anything the Axis powers had on the battlefield. This led to, Project Rebirth, based on the work of their newest acquisition, Erskine, and the subsequent transformation of Steve Rogers into Captain America.
After Abraham Erskine was killed by Heinz Kruger, the top priority of the Strategic Scientific Reserve was to take down HYDRA.
====Battling HYDRA====
In November 1943, several members of the Strategic Scientific Reserve were in Italy. When Steve Rogers discovered that his friend Bucky Barnes was captured by HYDRA, he flew behind enemy lines and led a successful escape of prisoners from HYDRA Base Camp C3.
In the SSR's headquarters in London, Chester Phillips wanted to form a team of soldiers to assist Rogers in taking down HYDRA bases, but he turned down the offer, instead forming the Howling Commandos from the rescued prisoners.
Over the next year, the Howling Commandos progressively managed to destroy most major HYDRA operations, every time postponing Schmidt's planned worldwide offensive. At the beginning of 1945, Schmidt's top scientist Arnim Zola was captured and brought to the SSR's headquarters in London, where he revealed Schmidt's plans.
====Loss of Captain America====
With the intelligence obtained from Arnim Zola, the SSR planned an attack on Schmidt's fortress in the Alps. A huge detachment of the United States Army assisted the SSR in the attack and the fortress was captured after a relatively short fight. Though Red Skull escaped with the massive aircraft bomber, the Valkyrie, with the intent to use weapons of mass destruction on the United States of America, Steve Rogers managed to board the plane and cause its fall into the icy waters of North Atlantic.
====Last Battle====
In 1945, the efforts of the Strategic Scientific Reserve were successful. Peggy Carter and the Howling Commandos took down the last known HYDRA base in Austria, capturing General Werner Reinhardt and a weapon that became known as the first 0-8-4, the Obelisk.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.01: Shadows Reinhardt was placed in the SSR facility called the Rat, interrogated by Carter, and given a life sentence for his crimes.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.08: The Things We Bury HYDRA was destroyed, and the Axis powers defeated, and the SSR facility in London was dismantled.
===Post-War Actions===
====Stolen Weapons====
The Strategic Scientific Reserve continued with its activities, because new threats to the USA arose after the war. Howard Stark was accused of selling arms to the enemy during the war, and then he disappeared without a trace. Chief Roger Dooley of the New York City SSR branch was ordered to find Stark.Agent Carter: 1.01: Now is Not the End
Eventually, Dooley and his men discovered that the real mastermind behind the theft was Leviathan, the Soviet spy agency formed after World War I. A team of agents led by Jack Thompson and Peggy Carter went to Belarus, where they were assisted by the Howling Commandos in liberating Doctor Ivchenko, a prisoner of Leviathan, whom they brought back to the United States of America.Agent Carter: 1.05: The Iron Ceiling
This was a part of Ivchenko's plan to get revenge on Howard Stark for the death of his brother. Stark had created a gas named Midnight Oil that was deployed during World War II causing the man's death; Johann Fennhoff blamed Stark and sought revenge. Peggy Carter, Jack Thompson, and Daniel Sousa thwarted the plot,Agent Carter: 1.08: Valediction but not before the death of Roger Dooley. Agent Carter: 1.07: SNAFU Stark was cleared of all charges and the SSR was recognized by the President for its work with agent Thompson taking much of the credit and being congratulated by Walt Cooper personally.
====Branching Out====
=====Los Angeles=====
By 1947, the SSR branched out, opening a facility in Los Angeles, California under the leadership of Daniel Sousa. Using the front of Auerbach Theatrical Agency, Sousa used the alias of "Mr. Auerbach"Agent Carter: 2.02: A View in the Dark to cover the reality of the organization. One of the first transfers from the New York Bell Company Office branch was Rose Roberts, who continued her duties as the first line of defense by acting as a secretary. One of the first cases that the new branch received was the murder of Jane Scott, found frozen in a lake in Echo Park on one of the hottest days of the year. Peggy Carter was sent to assist in the matter.
Meanwhile, Chief Jack Thompson of the New York Bell Company branch was going through a crisis of faith after the successful capture of Dottie Underwood; the FBI took over her custody and FBI agent Vernon Masters, an old family friend of Thompson's, told him that since the SSR was a wartime organization, it would soon be deemed defunct and replaced.Agent Carter: 2.01: The Lady in Lake
Investigating the Scott case caused the SSR to learn that the Council of Nine was manipulating events to hide the discovery of Zero Matter and to get their member Calvin Chadwick ultimately elected to the presidency of the United States.Agent Carter: 2.03: Better Angels When the SSR desired to raid the Arena Club to learn the secrets of the Council, Masters, a Council member, thwarted the plan by getting an executive order to cease-and-desist and threatened Sousa and Carter that they might not survive the changes soon to take place.Agent Carter: 2.04: Smoke & Mirrors This showed the agents that few could be trusted and the reach of the Council was extensive.Agent Carter: 2.05: The Atomic Job
Tired of Carter interfering in the schemes of the Council and wanting the uranium rods which she stole during her Infiltration into the Roxxon Warehouse, Masters talked Thompson into finding information to discredit the agent,Agent Carter: 2.06: Life of the Party had Sousa assaulted by masked thugs, and took command of the Los Angeles branch.Agent Carter: 2.07: Monsters
The next year, a new agency, the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, also known as S.H.I.E.L.D., was formed. The SSR was absorbed into S.H.I.E.L.D., becoming one of its subdivisions.Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
===Subdivision of S.H.I.E.L.D.===
====Zodiac====
The end of the war did not mean the end of the agency. The Strategic Scientific Reserve worked on the Zodiac case, that was successfully solved by Agent Peggy Carter.
====Succeeded by S.H.I.E.L.D.====
The Strategic Scientific Reserve became the research division for S.H.I.E.L.D., a newly created organization, making weapons and inventions for the organization. One of the SSR's facilities was re-purposed as the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy of Science and Technology and was used to train gifted young adults to become S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists.Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.12: Seeds
Director Nick Fury took possession of several old SSR bases and secretly furnished them with modern technology. He put only the most trusted agents in charge of those bases, the Koenig brothers among them. These bases became the first facilities of the reorganized S.H.I.E.L.D. led by Phil Coulson, as the agency lost several facilities during the HYDRA Uprising. One of them, nicknamed the Playground, became the agency's headquarters.
==Members==
Name 	Position 	Status
Chester Phillips 	Leader 	Deceased
Roger Dooley 	Chief - New York City 	Deceased
Jack Thompson 	Chief - New York City 	Unknown
Daniel Sousa 	Chief - Los Angeles 	Deceased
John Flynn 	Senior Agent 	Active
Peggy Carter 	Agent 	Deceased
Norris Roux 	Major General 	Active
Johnson 	Agent 	Active
Miller 	Agent 	Active
Wilkes 	Agent 	Active
Ray Krzeminski 	Agent 	Deceased
Yauch 	Agent 	Deceased
Henry 	Agent 	Active
Butch Wallace 	Agent 	Active
Mike Li 	Agent 	Deceased
Rick Ramirez 	Agent 	Active
Reese 	Agent 	Active
Comden 	Agent 	Active
Corcoran 	Agent 	Deceased
Messner 	Agent 	Active
Fisher 	Agent 	Active
Vega 	Agent 	Active
White 	Agent 	Deceased
Beringer 	Agent 	Deceased
O'Malley 	Agent 	Active
Ryan 	Agent 	Active
Howard Stark 	Scientist 	Deceased
Abraham Erskine 	Scientist 	Deceased
Alex Doobin 	Scientist 	Active
Aloysius Samberly 	Scientist 	Active
Rose Roberts 	Phone Operator 	Active
Steve Rogers 	Captain America/Howling Commando	Presumed Deceased
Bucky Barnes 	Howling Commando 	Presumed Deceased
Dum Dum Dugan 	Howling Commando 	Unknown
Jim Morita 	Howling Commando 	Active
Gabe Jones 	Howling Commando 	Active
Jacques Dernier 	Howling Commando 	Active
James Montgomery Falsworth	Howling Commando 	Active
Gilmore Hodge 	Super Soldier Program Candidate 	Denied
==Facilities==
*Strategic Scientific Reserve Headquarters
*Strategic Scientific Reserve New York Office
*New York Bell Company Office‎
*Auerbach Theatrical Agency
*Playground
*Camp Lehigh
*Strategic Scientific Reserve Brooklyn Facility
*Rat
*Guest House
==Equipment==
*Vita-Ray Detector:
*Sweet Dreams Lipstick:
*Pick-Lock Wristwatch:
*Brooch Key:
*Stun Light Device:
*Memory Inhibitor:
*Motion Detector:
*Vacuum Syringe:
==Symbols==
This insignia was used by the Strategic Science Reserve from its creation in 1940. It retained its use after the SSR was absorbed into S.H.I.E.L.D. as one of its scientific research and development subdivisions until it was dissolved and fully absorbed into other S.H.I.E.L.D. subdivisions several years later.Marvel One-Shot: Agent CarterAgent Carter (TV series)
SSR-SHAEF.png|The symbol used on the Colonel Phillips memo.Colonel Phillips Memo
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SSR.png|Variant seen inside the Playground.Coulson's room inside the Playground
==Behind the Scenes==
*According to Ryan Meinerding, the Head of Visual Development at Marvel Studios, "The SSR logo was a way of unifying the modern S.H.I.E.L.D. logo with its 1940s counterpart using the eagle symbol, as well as using the eagle's wings as a symbol for Cap's helmet."The Art of Captain America: The First Avenger
*In Captain America: The First Avenger: America's Secret Weapon and Captain America: The First Avenger: Operation: Super-Soldier, the SSR is called the Special Scientific Reserve.
==Appearances==
Appearances for the Strategic Scientific Reserve
==References==
==External Links==
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