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Papers on the incident were filed in the United States Naval Institute in the early 1980s, which would in turn be discovered by a new author, [[Tom Clancy]], who, like many at the time, concluded that Sablin had made a futile run for freedom.  The unprecedented and audacious taking of a major warship to facilitate his defection led Clancy to base his first novel, ''The Hunt For Red October'', on the incident.

Papers on the incident were filed in the United States Naval Institute in the early 1980s, which would in turn be discovered by a new author, [[Tom Clancy]], who, like many at the time, concluded that Sablin had made a futile run for freedom.  The unprecedented and audacious taking of a major warship to facilitate his defection led Clancy to base his first novel, ''The Hunt For Red October'', on the incident.

==Links==

==External links==

*[http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1135.htm Federation of American Scientists; listing of the ''Krivak''-class warships]

*[http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/1135.htm Federation of American Scientists; listing of the ''Krivak''-class warships]

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