# Fourth Soviet spy at Manhattan (A bomb )project revealed

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**Created:** [December 1, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fourth-soviet-spy-at-manhattan-a-bomb-project-revealed/844234 "2019-12-01T13:53:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fourth-soviet-spy-at-manhattan-a-bomb-project-revealed/844234/1 "2019-12-01T13:53:35Z")

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He managed to escape to Moscow and was never arrested.

> **[Fourth Spy Unearthed in U.S. Atomic Bomb Project (Published 2019)](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/23/science/manhattan-project-atomic-spy.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesscience)**
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> His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.

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**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fourth-soviet-spy-at-manhattan-a-bomb-project-revealed/844234/2 "2019-12-01T14:35:40Z")

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This needs to be a movie or HBO mini-series:

**Code name: Godsend**

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**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fourth-soviet-spy-at-manhattan-a-bomb-project-revealed/844234/3 "2019-12-01T16:59:14Z")

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> [@Bijou\_Drains](#):
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> He managed to escape to Moscow and was never arrested.
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> [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/23/science/manhattan-project-atomic-spy.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesscience](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/23/science/manhattan-project-atomic-spy.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesscience)

I wonder how he and his family got recruited? His family was from Poland, but he was born here.

I also wonder who else’s involvement with the Soviet Union still slumbers away, locked in the FBI’s still-classified files?

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fourth-soviet-spy-at-manhattan-a-bomb-project-revealed/844234/4 "2019-12-01T18:11:58Z")

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There was a TV show based on the Manhattan project , it covered the spies but only lasted 2 years.

[Manhattan (TV series) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(TV_series))

Also there was a movie that starred Paul Newman.

[Fat Man and Little Boy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man_and_Little_Boy)