Well... Ramius trained most of their officer corps, which would put him in a position to select men willing to help him...
7 seconds sound clip from the The Hunt for Red October movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:39:26.816 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- You son of a bitch. You son of a bitch!
- You wish to add something to our discussion, Dr. Ryan?
- Well, sir, I was just thinking that perhaps there's another possibility we might consider.
- Ramius might be trying to defect.
- Do you mean to suggest that this man has come...
- And he's not Russian. He's Lithuanian by birth, raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman.
- And he has no children, no ties to leave behind.
- And today is the first anniversary of his wife's death.
- Oh, come on. You're just an analyst. How can you possibly know what goes on in his mind?
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