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The Cardinal of the Kremlin
The Cardinal of the Kremlin is an espionage thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on May 20, 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_thriller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy
A direct sequel to The Hunt for Red October (1984), it features CIA analyst Jack Ryan as he extracts CARDINAL, the agency’s highest placed agent in the Soviet government who is being pursued by the KGB, as well as the Soviet intelligence agency’s director. The novel also features the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a real-life missile-defense system developed by the United States during that time, and its Russian counterpart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(character)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_bestseller_list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cardinal_of_the_Kremlin#cite_note-1
For thirty years, Colonel Mikhail Semyonovich “Misha” Filitov, a personal aide to the Soviet Minister of Defense and war hero, has been passing military, technical, and political intelligence to the CIA as their highest agent-in-place, codenamed CARDINAL.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Soviet_Union)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency
His latest mission concerns a Soviet anti-ballistic missile research project codenamed “Bright Star”, based at a secret defense installation located 50 km southeast of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-ballistic_missile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dushanbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajik_Soviet_Socialist_Republic
Colonel Filitov sends Gennady Bondarenko, a Soviet colonel skilled with lasers, to Dushanbe to evaluate the facility and unwittingly procure information that Misha will then send to his CIA contacts. Unfortunately, a minor slip-up in passing Filitov’s intelligence alerts the KGB, which then aggressively pursues the couriers involved. They later become suspicious of Filitov and place him under surveillance. The courier chain having been quickly shut down by the CIA station chief in Moscow, Edward Foley, Filitov’s more important intelligence on Bright Star is delayed; however, he reveals the presence of a KGB agent infiltrating Bright Star’s counterpart, Tea Clipper, which alarms the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
The CIA then tasks Foley with extracting CARDINAL out of the country.
However, when his wife Mary Pat, also a CIA agent, attempts to make a brush pass to Filitov, the two are arrested by the KGB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_pass
The Foleys are then declared persona non grata, while Filitov is imprisoned and psychologically tortured until he eventually confesses to his crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_non_grata
In an effort to salvage the mission, CIA analyst Jack Ryan, who had now learned of CARDINAL’s identity, concocts a plan to secure the return of Filitov and at the same time force the defection of KGB chairman Nikolay Gerasimov, who has been vying for the position of General Secretary since Filitov’s arrest; Ryan tries to prevent his ascension to power due to his anti-American ideology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(character)
Ryan, who is part of the American arms negotiation team, travels to Moscow for the arms reduction talks.
There he meets Gerasimov, and blackmails him into releasing Filitov and betraying his country; if his demands are not met, he will reveal what actually happened to the Soviet ballistic missile submarine Red October, which would disgrace the KGB chairman, who had used the incident to consolidate the KGB’s control over the military.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_missile_submarine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_October_(fictional_submarine)
As counter-leverage should he refuse to defect, Gerasimov arranges for the kidnapping of Tea Clipper’s top SDI researcher, Major Alan Gregory.
Gregory’s kidnapping was undertaken by KGB agent Tania Bisyarina, who has been handling a mole inside Tea Clipper.
The mole, a lesbian named Dr. Beatrice Taussig who unluckily falls in love with Gregory’s fiancée, eventually gives up Bisyarina to the FBI out of guilt, and the Hostage Rescue Team later saves Gregory from his Soviet captors in a shabby desert safe house in New Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_Rescue_Team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico
Ryan later informs Gerasimov, who finally caves into his demands.
The KGB chairman’s wife and daughter are later extracted by CIA operative John Clark from Estonia into the submarine USS Dallas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clark_(Tom_Clancy_character)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Dallas_(SSN-700)
Meanwhile, the secret ABM facility in Dushanbe finds itself under attack by the Afghan mudjahedin, whose leader was known as “the Archer” due to his expertise in using surface-to-air missiles to bring down Soviet ground support aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudjahedin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-air_missile
Colonel Bondarenko, who was there for a second round of evaluations, manages to repel the attackers, protecting Bright Star’s scientific and engineering personnel and eventually killing the Archer.
On the last day of the arms negotiation talks, Gerasimov releases Filitov so that they can both proceed to Sheremetyevo Airport, joining Ryan and the American negotiation team in returning to the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheremetyevo_Airport
They successfully board the American delegation’s aircraft, but Ryan allows himself to be captured by KGB officer Sergey Golovko, who is his counterpart in the arms talks and had become aware of their planned departure.
He is then led to the private dacha of General Secretary Narmonov, where they discuss the CIA’s interest in his political position and interference in the Soviet Union’s internal security.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union
Meanwhile, the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 attempts to force the American delegation’s plane to return to Russia, but the plane successfully evades it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25
Filitov, who was extensively debriefed by the CIA, later dies due to heart disease.
He was buried at Camp David, within twenty miles of the Antietam battlefield.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antietam_National_Battlefield
His funeral was attended by Ryan and the Gregorys, among others, as well as a Soviet military attaché who questions why Filitov would be buried close to American soldiers.
Ryan, always working to keep the peace, explains to him, “One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn’t that give us some common ground?”