Editing Red Rabbit (section)

==Characters==
* '''Oleg Ivanovich Zaitzev''': Communications officer in the [[KGB|Committee for State Security]], later a conscience defector to the United States (known in the CIA lexicon as "Rabbit")
* '''[[Jack Ryan (character)|Jack Ryan]]''': [[Central Intelligence Agency]] liaison to the [[Secret Intelligence Service]]
* '''[[Yuri Andropov|Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov]]''': KGB chairman
* '''Colonel Boris Andreyevich Strokov''': Bulgarian [[Committee for State Security (Bulgaria)|KDS]] intelligence officer working for the KGB
* '''Ed Foley''': CIA chief of station in Moscow, under cover as [[Embassy of the United States, Moscow|embassy]] press attaché
* '''Mary Pat Foley''': CIA operative, Ed Foley's wife
* '''Sir Basil Charleston''': [[Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service]]
* '''Simon Harding''': SIS analyst who works directly with Ryan
* '''Arthur Moore''': Director of Central Intelligence
* '''James Greer''': CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence
* '''Robert Ritter''': CIA [[Deputy Director of Operations]]. Distrustful of Ryan, an analyst, taking part in field operations.
* '''Cathy Ryan''': Clinical instructor in ophthalmic surgery on an exchange program at St. Guy's Hospital, London; Jack Ryan's wife