The Hunt for Red October's Leak

How the troubled 80's led the Feds to Tom Clancy and Clancy to the Feds

In 1989, based on a meeting with Vice President Dan Quayle, Tom Clancy was nominated for a consultant position on the National Space Council. Vice President Quayle, who once misspelled potato at national spelling bee, thought Clancy might be able to whip up enthusiasm for the Space Program. "I think they need people like me," Clancy says in a 1989 Peopl…