The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol is an interactive fiction computer game based on Frederick Forsyth's 1984 spy novel "The Fourth Protocol". The detective-style gameplay resembles contemporary menu-driven adventures such as "The Vera Cruz Affair", and later titles such as "Yes, Prime Minister" and "Floor 13". The game was released in by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, a subsidiary of the publishing house Hutchinson. It was designed by John Lambshead and Gordon Paterson, and the programming was by Ben Notarianni, Rupert Bowater and Paul Norris of the Electronic Pencil Company. The game was released for the ZX Spectrum in July
The Fourth Protocol (film) his star officer Petrofsky. A surprised Karpov quietly investigates and learns about Petrofsky's unsanctioned mission – to violate the Fourth Protocol by assembling and detonating an atomic device as a false flag, to appear to be an American nuclear accident at a nearby military base, intended to strain British-US relations and strengthen the anti-nuclear movement in advance of an election in favour of the Soviet Union. In Glasgow, a Soviet sailor is struck by a truck while fleeing from a port guard. Among the dead man's possessions, Preston finds a disk of polonium, which could only be useful as a