![]() ![]() The Pope was very powerful - but he was also mortal.Īnd so it begins, an almost unthinkable plot - a plan to bring down not just leaders, but nations. All it took was one man to cause everything he had worked for to crumble.and all it took was one man to stop him. Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the KGB, did not like what this meant for him or for his nation. ![]() In Moscow, another man was contemplating those very same consequences. ![]() The new Pope had just delivered a private ultimatum to Warsaw: If the government persisted in its repression, he would feel compelled to resign the papacy and return to Poland. Then Jack forgot about the rest of his work, because on his first day, an extraordinary document crossed his desk. ![]() A series of deadly encounters with an IRA splinter group had brought him to the attention of the CIA's Deputy Director, Vice Admiral James Greer - and when Greer asked him to come aboard Jack was quick to accept. In the early 1980s, long before he was President or head of the CIA, even before a submarine named Red October crossed the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was an historian, teacher, and recent ex-Marine temporarily living in England. ![]()
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