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Originally Posted by speede5
Clancy know's alot of intelligence and military people, he must have some very interesting conversations around the pool table.
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Clancy has had some interesting theories in his day, and a lot of them could in theory be based on real life events that either occured or occured after
Red Rabbit - The assasination of the Pope was facilitated by then KGB head Yuri Antropov in response to John Pauls support of the solidarity movement in Poland. He strung together the involvement of the KGB and Bulgerian Intelligence services based around the murder of Georgy Markov on the streets of London.
The Hunt for Red October - Could be based around the fire and destruction of a Soviet Golf Class Submarine off of the coast of Cuba, I believe B-103. There were conflicting thoughts that this sub was either trying to defect and sank by its political officer, or it was being used by the KGB to launch a nuclear warhead at the U.S. to provoke a war between America and China
Cardinal of the Kremlin - The main spy Character was probably based losely around a KGB agent named Dmitri Polyakov who was executed by the KGB for spying on the Soviet Military for the CIA.
The Sum of all Fears - Based around the real life Rumor that Israel had lost a nuclear weapon during the 7 day war (I think)
Debt of Honor - The suicide crash enough said there.
He does some interesting research, Red Storm Rising which he wrote in conjunction with another excellent writer Larry Bond is probably the best theoretical WW3 book that I've ever read.
The other interesting Tidbit was that Clancy was called into a presidential briefing after the publication of the Hunt for Red October and he's disclosed very little about that conversation.