The Fourth Protocol

The Fourth Protocol is a novel written by Frederick Forsyth. In 1987 it was made into a movie starring Michael Caine and Pierce Brosnan.

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Frederick Forsyth - Michael Caine - Pierce Brosnan

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The plot centres on a supposed secret East-West set of clauses which made up a 1968 agreement to halt nuclear proliferation. The fourth of these clauses, or Fourth Protocol, is the only one remaining. The protocol forbids the assembling of a suitcase-sized nuclear weapon. The Chairman of the KGB plans to breach this protocol and destroy the NATO alliance by planting an agent (Brosnan) in England to assemble and detonate an atomic device. One of Britain's most astute spycatchers, Preston (Caine), discovers details of the plan and races against time to stop it.

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Nuclear proliferation - KGB - NATO - Spycatchers

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The politics present in the book are not represented in the film, in which Kim Philby hatches a plan to topple the Conservative government and bring the unilateralist Labour party (at the time) to power. While in the novel Philby is in charge of the execution of the Plan Aurora, in the film he is shot to death outside a house.

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Kim Philby - Conservative - Labour party

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