Cuban leader Fidel Castro, lower right, sits inside a tank near Playa Giron, Cuba, during the Bay of Pigs invasion, in this April 17, 1961. The CIA's own assessment of its 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle is ignorance, incompetence and arrogance. The top secret document, released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act request late February 1998, criticized almost every aspect of the CIA s handling of the invasion.