To Kill a Dictator

Episode 1

Fidel Castro

In the 1960s, the spectre of Communism looms large, as the United States ramps up its efforts to quell leftist movements across the world and in the Americas. In Cuba, a leftist lawyer leads a revolution against a fearsome dictator and takes office. CIA intelligence fears a Communist threat, now terrifyingly close to home. Authorised to launch an offensive by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the CIA trains anti-Castro militants to undermine and eventually take out the dictator. Before long, a cabal of conspirators takes shape, as the CIA colludes with mafia, American business leaders, and local revolutionaries. Plots involving poison pills, psychedelic drugs, and a disastrous landing at the Bay of Pigs all fail, and spark a crisis of confidence in the CIA. As Castro's grip on Cuba grows stronger, and as Cuba confirms a Soviet connection with the Cuban Missile Crisis, efforts to dispatch Fidel Castro become more desperate. Plot after plot, Fidel Castro becomes the man who survives. But, as an assassin goes rogue and vows his revenge, will this dictator finally succumb to a deadly threat?