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[MCU] Why was Stephen Strange on the Project INSIGHT target list?

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we see the Hydra agents who are responsible for the Project INSIGHT helicarriers discussing targets, one of the people mentioned was Stephen Strange. At the time this happens(2014), Dr. Strange has not actually been introduced to the MCU, so the idea that he's already Sorc Supreme wasn't off the table, but his own movie two years later is an origin story in which he doesn't have his powers yet.

If Stephen Strange wasn't a powered individual at the time, what reasons would SHIELD/Hydra have had for targeting him?
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Zola's algorithm was meant to identify _potential_ threats and take them out before they became a problem. And apparently it was pretty good, because Steven Strange did actually go on to become someone who would be a huge threat to Hydra, even if he wasn't at the time. There would have been loads of people flagged with no powers and no obvious anti-Hydra activities.

As for why Sitwell would have chosen Dr. Strange as an example - he must have been moderately famous as a brilliant doctor, and he needed another example of someone _without_ superpowers.