Chapter Five

Brief Summary-  Admiral Yuri Ilych Padori receives Ramius's letter after the Red October has been at sea for five days, a panic ensues. 

      On board the USS Dallas, the sonarman Ronald Jones picks up an unusual noise, which he runs through the BC-10 computer to analyze the sound.  The BC-10 determined that the noise was caused by magma displacement.  However, Jones believes the noise to be too regular to a natural anomaly.

      Moscow responds to the Red October by sending out an alarming number of vessels.  The National Security Agency's report on this development leaves the CIA baffled; the Russians had just conducted a large scale exercise a month before and the amount of data taken in during an operation of that size takes much longer than a month to analyze.

      Meanwhile the CIA can't even be sure that the Red October even sailed yet.

Journal-  I think its obvious that the Red October is planning to defect, why else would the Moscow officials send out so many of their vessels?  I don't think their planning on attacking the United States because Ramius said he wants Russia to suffer, and he couldn't be planning to attack the State because he's moving toward the Americas.