So, it looks like the Activision’s Perseus is rather different from the “real” one. Stone was forced to accept his arguments and apologize “for the unfavorable publicity”. The latter proved his innocence by pointing out numerous discrepancies between his biography and that attributed to Perseus. Arms-control advocate Jeremy Stone claimed in his book ‘Every man should try’ that Philip Morrison, a respected professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was in fact this mysterious spy. In 1999, a major scandal connected to Perseus occurred. The fake Perseus/Mlad was given characteristics that did not fit Hall. Others disagreed, saying it was a Soviet intelligence disinformation operation to protect agent Theodore Hall, who was the real ‘Mlad’. Since they contained the unidentified codename ‘PERS’, many believed it could be this Soviet agent, who stole U.S. counter intelligence program, known as the ‘Venona’ project, triggered another wave of discussions. In 1995, a partial declassification of the Soviet secret messages, collected within the U.S. Still without real proof, all of them (as well as Chikov’s info) remain as speculation. New versions of his story appeared, new details: Perseus, according to the new theories, joined the Manhattan project at its launch in 1939 and didn’t quit his service to the USSR, cooperating with famous Soviet agent Rudolf Abel even in the 1950s. Perseus-mania gripped the world: some believed in his existence, others (such as powerful Soviet spymaster Pavel Sudoplatov) - did not. Since the Russian FSB again classified those “so thoughtlessly” opened secret archives, it was impossible to confirm Chikov’s words or deny them. In 1946, he stopped his cooperation with the Soviet intelligence, returned to the Chicago University and joined the movement against nuclear weapons testing. Right then, he was recruited to work for the Soviets and for several years delivered them top secret information on nuclear research. In 1944, this “ native American, who wore a straw hat, white sandals and white sport shirt”, joined the Manhattan project on creation of nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos laboratory. According to him, Perseus, also known under the code name ‘Mlad’, was a young physicist at the Chicago University in the 1940s. It was Colonel Vladimir Chikov, who told the world about Perseus for the first time. Top secret KGB archives were declassified and the secret service’s former operatives started to give interviews and write books. In the early 1990s, the country was going through the period of total publicity and openness. The first information on Perseus appeared in post-Soviet Russia.
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