#im also in the quantum headcannon boat:

[dirtydoctorwho]

Steggy Week '23 Day 1: Headcanons and meta.

Reference credit to my.ragtime.gal on ig

Peggy never participated in Operation Paperclip. It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) and largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Peggy at this time was too busy head starting SHEILD along side Chester and Howard. Howard was the one who was first invited by CIC to work with Arnim Zola and ultimately decided to bring him to use as a SHEILD scientist.

While Phillips was convinced, Peggy was not. She knew what Zola had done to Steve. She knew about his work in Hydra and even had her suspicions about what he'd done to Barns in Azzano. This is the biggest fight Howard and Peggy ever had (and why she was not widely present in 616 Tony's life.)

In the split timeline, when Steve returns, he and Peggy use his foreknowledge to find Bucky and condemn Zola to life in prison.