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Red rabbit by tom clancy6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() The operation was later unanimously approved by the Politburo. Known only by its designated number 15-8-82-666 for security reasons, the assassin is then selected as a Turk Muslim (understood to be Mehmet Ali Ağca), who would then be eliminated by Bulgarian KDS officer Boris Strokov afterwards for deniability. He decides to plan the pope's assassination, which he believes will reinvigorate Communism in Eastern Europe, perceived by many to be in a state of decline. Called the Warsaw Letter, it was later forwarded to Moscow, enraging Committee for State Security ( KGB) director Yuri Andropov. In 1982, Pope John Paul II privately issues a letter to the communist Polish government, stating that he will resign from the papacy and return to his hometown unless they cease their repression of counterrevolutionary movements in Poland, particularly the Solidarity trade union. The book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. Main character Jack Ryan, now an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, takes part in the extraction of a Soviet defector who knows of a KGB plot to kill the pontiff. ![]() The plot occurs a few months after the events of Patriot Games (1987), and incorporates the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II. Red Rabbit is a spy thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 5, 2002. ![]()
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