Perseus

Perseus

Perseus (Russian: Персей, romanized: Persey) was the code name of a hypothetical Soviet atomic spy that, if real, would have allegedly breached United States national security by infiltrating Los Alamos National Laboratory during the development of the Manhattan Project, and consequently, would have been instrumental for the Soviets in the development of nuclear weapons. Among researchers of the subject there is some consensus that Perseus was actually a creation of Soviet intelligence. Hypotheses include that "Perseus" was created as a composite of several different spies, disinformation to distract from specific spies, or may have been invented by the KGB to promote itself to the Soviet leadership to obtain more state funding. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Perseus has received more than 8,323,926 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Perseus is the 1,649th most popular military personnel (down from 1,473rd in 2019).