I have written here before about how I believe that the Tom Clancy novels (Hunt for Red October; Red Storm Rising, etc) were really a part of a sophisticated spy ring that infiltrated the top levels of US government. I am ready to name who I think the perpetrators were.
The name Jack Ryan in the novels had a meaning. If you use the full name that Clancy came up with, John Patrick "Jack" Ryan, I believe the following people were involved. I believe one of the missions of the spy ring was to try to install one of these men as President:
John……being John Edwards, a Vice-Presidential candidate and a Council on Foreign Relations member who was co-head of the Russian-American policy committee in the CFR
Patrick…..being Pat Buchanan, a Presidential candidate and sort of long-time occasional Russia apologist and Putinphile
"Jack"…….being Jack Kemp, a Vice-Presidential candidate and the other co-chair of the Russian-American policy committee for the CFR
Ryan……being Paul Ryan, a recent Vice-Presidential candidate
I am still working on other aspects of the theory such as how each of the book storylines fit in