| 1 | | | November 1985 |
| | Ruby | Keller | A State Department Foreign Service officer. |
| | Nikita | Khrushchev | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| | John F. | Kennedy | 35th U. S. President. |
| 2 | Caroline | Ryan | An ophthalmic surgeon. aka: Cathy. |
| | John Patrick | Ryan | CIA liaison officer. aka: Jack. |
| | Sally | | Cathy and Jack's daughter. |
| | John Patrick | Ryan Jr. | Cathy and Jack's son. |
| | Maeve | Norwood | Jack's Jr. girlfriend. |
| | Warren James | Norwood | Honorable member of the Parliament. |
| | James | Greer | Deputy Director of the CIA. |
| 3 | Dennis | McCambridge | An Army Intel signals clerk with the Berlin Brigade. |
| | Sergeant | Ramirez | McCambridge's colleague. |
| 4 | Jennifer | North | CIA operations officer, West Berlin Base. |
| | Skip | Hulse | CIA chief, West Berlin Base. |
| | Farrah | Fawcett | American actress. |
| | Billy | Dunn | CIA operation officer, West Berlin Base. |
| | Percy | Fawcett | A British geographer. |
| | Miyamoto | Musashi | A Japanese philosopher. |
| | Arnold | Schwarzenegger | Former governor of California. |
| | | Taylor | A tech guy. |
| | Lane | Buckley | CIA assistant deputy director. |
| | Gustav | Mahler | Austrian late-Romantic composer |
| 5 | Boden | Lee | A pilot. aka: Slinky. |
| | Gary | Dundees | An aviator. aka: Heeler. |
| | Rita | Anderson | Major Lee's wife. |
| | Colonel | Spoon | Lee's commander. |
| 6 | | | Whitney Pocket, Nevada |
| | Garit | Richter | Stasi HVA illegal in the United States. |
| | Hilda Frau | Battenberg | Richter's manners and
evolution instructor. |
| | Heather | Beasley | A UFO watcher. |
| 9 | Firefighter | Steve | One of the UFO watchers. |
| 11 | Daniel | Murray | FBI special agent. |
| | Tanner | | A lead firearms instructor. |
| 12 | Arthur | Moore | A judge. |
| | Robert | Ritter | CIA Deputy Director on operations. |
| | William J. | Donovan | Founding Father of the CIA. aka: Wild Bill. |
| | Erich | Mielke | Ran the East German Ministry for State Security. |
| | Jason | Newell | CIA chief of the East Berlin. |
| 13 | Betty | Harris | FBI special agent from Washington Field office. |
| | Calvin | Coolidge | 30th U.S. President. |
| | Buck | Smith | A pilot. aka: Slinky. |
| | Donna | Everett | One of the first female graduate of the US Air Force Academy. |
| | Pritchard | | FBI special agent. |
| 14 | Elke | Hauptman | A professional singer in East Berlin. |
| | Hansie | | Elke Hauptman's son. |
| | Gisselle | | Elke's sister. |
| | Uwe | | An aeronautical physicist. Elke's husband. |
| | Dr. | Galkin | Elke's acquaintance. |
| | Evgeni | Zima | A KGB colonel, East Berlin. |
| 15 | Kurt | Pfeiffer | A Stasi major, East Berlin. |
| 16 | Carol | Morandini | CIA cipher clerk, West Berlin Base. |
| | Peter | Crane | Jack Ryan's alias. |
| | Mary Pat | Foley | CIA operations officer in Moscow. |
| 17 | Ed | Foley | CIA chief of Station in Moscow. |
| | Nicholas II | | Last Emperor of Russia. |
| | Abraham | Lincoln | 16th U.S. President. |
| | Groucho | Marx | American comedian. |
| | Konstantin | Chernenko | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| | Jack | Avery | Jack Ryan's alias. |
| 18 | | | Kona Coast, Hawaii |
| | John | Clark | CIA operations officer, Special activities division. |
| | Sato | Ichiro | Clark's acquaintance. |
| | Takako | | Sato's friend. |
| | Greg | Armstrong | CIA agent. |
| | Dave | | A new agent from Alabama. |
| 19 | Nathan | Gillum | OSI special agent. |
| | Sgt. | Allred | A Nevada Highway Patrol trooper. |
| | Lumberjack | | Allred's acquaintance. |
| 21 | | | Moscow |
| | Little Eddie | | Foley's son. |
| | Opie | | A surveillance goon. |
| | Floyd | | Opie's partner. |
| | Jane | O'Keefe | A flight attendant worked for British Secret Intelligence Service. |
| 22 | Rolfe | Schneider | A Stasi officer. |
| | Burt | Reynolds | American actor. |
| 23 | Robert | Stethem | A U.S. Navy driver. |
| | Leon | Klinghoffer | A wheelchair-bound. |
| | Robert | Redford | American actor. |
| | David | Bowie | English singer-songwriter. |
| 24 | Richard | Cobb | Worked with the U.S. office of Strategic Services. |
| 25 | Dieter | Fuchs | Former thief turned
assassin. |
| | Felix | Becker | A gymnast. |
| | Selma | Kraus | Former East German
Olympic swimmer turned assassin. |
| 26 | Tony | Pena | A staff sergeant. |
| 27 | Aretha | Franklin | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Pat | Benatar | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Herr | Schuman | A general prosecutor for the Ministry of Justice. |
| | Christina | | Herr Schuman's wife. |
| 28 | Boone | Grissom | A military policeman. |
| 29 | Bob | Robertson | American former baseball player. |
| 31 | Gavrilo | Princip | A Black Hand
assassin. |
| | Franz | Ferdinand | Heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. |
| | Andreyer | | A Soviet colonel. |
| | John | Kelly | A retired U.S. marine corps. |
| 34 | Dolly | Dupont | Jen North's alias. |
| 35 | Mitzi | Graff | A Stasi guard. |
| 36 | Gunter | Wolfe | A Stasi guard. |
| 37 | Lorna | Shuman | Hauptman's neighbor. |
| | Vladimir | Mikhailov | A KGB junior officer, East Berlin. |
| | Ivan | Popov | A KGB major officer, East Berlin. |
| 38 | Marko | Ramius | A deputy defector. |
| | Mike | Rogers | A member of Helsinki team. |
| | Truly | Bishop | CIA officer, East Berlin Station. |
| | Ian | Fleming | British writer. |
| 40 | | Green | Salt Lake City agent. |
| | | LaRue | Salt Lake County deputy sheriff. |
| 41 | Adolf | Hitler | Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany. |
| 44 | Jonas | | A guard. |
| 45 | Marta | Wunch | Pfeiffer's secretary. |
| 46 | Freddie | Heinrich | A punk rocker. |
| | Erich | Honecker | General secretary of the DDR. |
| 48 | | | Six Minutes Earlier... |
| | Linus | | Dieter's father. |
| 55 | J. Edgar | Hoover | Served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| | Harry S. | Truman | 33rd president of the United States. |
| | | Morino | CIA agent. |
| | | Blackwell | A navy pilot. |
| | Potter | | Murray's acquaintance. |
| 60 | | Rawlings | A special agent. |
| | Peggy | | An Amtrak staffer. |
| | Paul | Davis | A murder suspect. |
| | Jerry | Gonzales | The Elko RA. |
| 61 | Marita | Koch | East German runner. |
| 62 | Dave | Finn | A colonel. Murray's new acquaintance. |
| | Chief | Robbins | A pilot. aka: Slinky. |
| | George | Ortiz | A resident agent in the Reno FBI office. |
| | Rodgers | | An Amtrak agent. |