638 Ways to Kill Castro is a Channel 4 documentary film, broadcast in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2006, which tells the story of some of the numerous attempts of the Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuba's leader Fidel Castro. It was directed by Dollan Cannell.
A screenshot of Fidel Castro from the documentary trailer
CIA assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
The United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made numerous unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. There were also attempts by Cuban exiles, sometimes in cooperation with the CIA. The 1975 Church Committee claimed eight proven CIA assassination attempts between 1960 and 1965. In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued an Executive Order banning political assassinations. In 2006, Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba's counterintelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts. The last known plot to assassinate Castro was by Cuban exiles in 2000.
Fidel Castro visiting Washington, D.C., in April 1959, shortly after the Cuban Revolution
Sam Giancana, head of the Chicago crime syndicate
CIA Director George H. W. Bush meeting with President Gerald Ford in the Oval Office in December 1975
CIA Director Richard Helms with President Lyndon B. Johnson in July 1969
