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The Taylor Committee Investigation of the Bay of Pigs Chapter 1 Introduction More than twenty years after the event, CIA personnel who were closely involved in the Bay of Pigs (BOP} operation continue to speak bitterly about the outcome. That the criticism of the Agency for its "fiasco" began even as the search for survivors from the beaches at Playa Giron and Playa Larga was underway--and continues to the present--has done nothing to mollify the feelings of those who were involved that they have taken a IIbum rapll for a political decision which insured the military defeat of the anti-Castro forces the Agency had been authorized to organize and train for the overthrow of Fidel Castro. As a result of the collapse of the anti-Castro invasion effort, reference to the Bay of Pigs continues to be used by any media expert, academician, politician, or demagogue who chooses to snipe at the Agency. As late as ]979 one worshippper of John F. Kennedy published a volume which, at among other charges, claimed that/the time of the Bay of Pigs, the Agency acted lIout of control and independent1y,1I IIcovered up, II and was IIroutinely, daily, committing unconstitutional acts. against its own citizens in its own country.lI* * ~yden, Peter H. Bay of Pigs (New York; Simon and Schuster, 1979, pp • 7- 8) •