<P> As the ship leaves the shipyard at Polyarny , Ramius kills Ivan Putin , his political officer , to ensure that Putin will not interfere with the defection . Before sailing , Ramius had sent a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin , Natalia 's uncle , brazenly stating his intention to defect . The Soviet Northern Fleet therefore sails out to sink Red October under the pretext of a search and rescue mission . Meanwhile , Jack Ryan , a high - level CIA analyst and a former Marine , flies from London to Langley , Virginia , to deliver MI6 's photographs of Red October to the Deputy Director of Intelligence . Ryan consults a friend at the U.S. Naval Academy , ex-submariner Skip Tyler , and finds out that Red October 's new construction variations house its stealth drive . </P>
<P> As the ship leaves the shipyard at Polyarny , Ramius kills Ivan Putin , his political officer , to ensure that Putin will not interfere with the defection . Before sailing , Ramius had sent a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin , Natalia 's uncle , brazenly stating his intention to defect . The Soviet Northern Fleet therefore sails out to sink Red October under the pretext of a search and rescue mission . Meanwhile , Jack Ryan , a high - level CIA analyst and a former Marine , flies from London to Langley , Virginia , to deliver MI6 's photographs of Red October to the Deputy Director of Intelligence . Ryan consults a friend at the U.S. Naval Academy , ex-submariner Skip Tyler , and finds out that Red October 's new construction variations house its stealth drive . </P>
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As the ship leaves the shipyard at Polyarny , Ramius kills Ivan Putin , his political officer
As the ship leaves the shipyard at Polyarny , Ramius kills Ivan Putin , his political officer