
“We want you to ask, ‘What is real?’” said Murray Kraft, the lead writer on Cold War, during a virtual preview last week. While there absolutely were Soviet spies hidden in US and United Kingdom atomic labs at the end of WWII, Perseus is widely considered to be a lie created by the USSR. There are vague references to Perseus in the pages of the Verona Project, a WWII US counterintelligence program that intercepted messages from Soviet sources, and Russian officers themselves have whispered about a spy named Perseus who had access to the Manhattan Project.

Perseus is the name of a well-known, yet likely fictional, Soviet spy who supposedly infiltrated the United States’ atomic-weapons program in Los Alamos around the end of World War II.
