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Perseus is the code name for a scientist who passed secrets to the communist Soviet Union beginning in 1943 in Los Alamos on the [[Manhattan Project]], before the acknowledged spy [[Klaus Fuchs]] arrived, and continuing into the 1950s.<ref>http://www.lanl.gov/history/wartime/spies.shtml</ref> The SVR (KGB) Colonel Vladimir Chikov identified the existence of Perseus beginning in 1991 in Russian periodicals, and then in a book in 1996.<ref>http://home.earthlink.net/~gwkern/books.htm</ref>
In Greek mythology, '''Perseus''' is a demigod and son of Zeus and Danae who slays Medusa and rescues Andromeda.
In astronomy, '''Perseus''' is a not-very-conspicuous [[constellation]] located near [[Cassiopeia]]. The [[Perseids]] are an annual meteor shower, peaking on August 12th; the meteors in this shower appear to radiate from a center in Perseus, hence the name.
'''Perseus''' was also the code name for a scientist who passed secrets to the communist Soviet Union beginning in 1943 in Los Alamos on the [[Manhattan Project]], before the acknowledged spy [[Klaus Fuchs]] arrived, and continuing into the 1950s.<ref>http://www.lanl.gov/history/wartime/spies.shtml</ref> The SVR (KGB) Colonel Vladimir Chikov identified the existence of Perseus beginning in 1991 in Russian periodicals, and then in a book in 1996.<ref>http://home.earthlink.net/~gwkern/books.htm</ref>
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