Talk:Operation Peter Pan

message: This Wiki article is fake regime propaganda.
"unsubstantiated rumors,[1] that Fidel Castro and the Communist party were planning to terminate parental rights and place minors in alleged "communist indoctrination centers", commonly referred to as the Patria Potestad.[2] No such actions by the Castro regime ever took place."
Actually, the rumors were not unsubstantiated. I was sent to a concentration/indoctrination camp in the 90's away from my parents for 4 years so the "rumors" did come true  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.253.93.67 (talk) 16:48, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

message: Castro "explained" that people were free to leave Cuba? Please. USA propaganda certainly came into play, but let's not be absurd.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.182.148.44 (talk) 03:49, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made some edits and I think it's neutral now. Not sure what all the stuff above is about. It should be possible to point out a POV problem without carrying on. In any case it's long ago and the entry is much changed. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 15:35, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: POV isues

message: After looking at many very solid sources in JSTOR, I am starting to believe that many of the claims made within the National Geographic article cited within the origins of Operation Pedro Pan are not credible on their own. The Nat'l Geographic article cites a book instead of being the primary source of information itself, which only represents a portion of what was truly happening that sprung the movement of Operation Pedro Pan forward. I am going to workshop this part of the article and see if I can bring a more holistic approach to what truly happened during this time period. It was not just that private schools were shutting down; it was mostly due to the fears coming from religious places of Castro. Jgarry25 (talk) 16:34, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Peter Pan's Origin 

message: I'm reading "The Inevitable Battle," by Juan Carlos Rodriguez (Editorial Capitan San Luis, Havana, 2009; ). Pages 59-63 are about Operation Peter Pan. According to Rodriguez: 
Operation Peter Pan was run by David Atlee Phillips of the CIA, under the alias Harry Bishop. The operation started in October 1960 on the CIA's Radio Swan 8pm news: 
"Cuban mother, don't let your child be taken away! The revolutionary government will take him away when he turns five years old and will return him to you at the age of eighteen. When this occurs, they will be monstrous materialists."
Later CIA broadcasts included "news" that Cuban government would send the children to Russia.
Radio Swan continued to broadcast this propaganda to Cuba for several months. In December 1960, Phillips met with Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Service Bureau in Miami. Walsh agreed that his organization would appear to be the running the American side of the operation. 
In Havana, Operation Peter Pan was run by Ramon Grau Alsina (nephew of the former president Ramón Grau), who was head of Catholic Welfare and a member of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FRD), a counter-revolutionary organization linked to the CIA; his sister Leopoldina Grau Alsina; and James Baker, headmaster of the Ruston Academy in Havana.
On December 26, 1960, the first dozen children and their parents arrived at José Martí International Airport in Havana. The children had passports and visas and their parents sent them unaccompanied to Miami. Over the next few months 500 more children followed. In accordance with the Radio Swan broadcasts, visas were only issued to children between the ages of five and eighteen.
Years later, after she was released from prison, Leopoldina Grau Alsina explained the purpose of Operation Peter Pan: "It was a way of destabilizing the government. For people to start losing faith in the Revolution."
The following statements are questionable:
"designed to transport the children of parents who opposed the revolutionary government"
It was designed to destabilize the Cuban government. I don't see any reference that the CIA wanted to take children away from parents who opposed the revolution. 
"later expanded to include children of parents concerned that their children would be shipped to Soviet labour camps"
The Russian part was later added to the Radio Swan "news." Saying that the parents were concerned about this is speculation.
"the children were placed with friends, relatives and group homes in 35 states." 
That should be two sentences: "Children whose families had relatives or friends in the United States were sent to them. Children without relatives or friends were placed into foster care or group homes." These two outcomes are very different!
As this is a controversial article I will wait 30 days for comments before I make edits. --TDKehoe (talk) 02:32, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radio Swan and other items 

message: I agree that the tone of this article seems to somewhat veer from the encyclopedic tone of wikipedia. The aftermath and in culture sections, I feel could be arranged/written differently. --AshleyRenea (talk)
The writers of this page appear to have very clear opinions of right and  wrong that definitely show through in the writing.  It may help to start by checking the wording and phrasing choices used in this page to try to remove some of the bias.
- Ahouston5 (talk) 05:30, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Review

message: As others have mentioned above, the tone doesn't seem to be encyclopedia-like, its more of an educational piece on what happened from your view.  In the opening section you write "This operation was the result of wary parents under the newly instated Castro Regime who did not want to give up their parental rights to the Cuban government. Largely unpublicized for fear of being viewed as political propaganda, this underground operation eventually became the largest recorded exodus of unaccompanied youth in the Western hemisphere." That is a very hard claim to substantiate without any sort of reference. The whole Demographics of Minors section could either be put in another section or completely deleted, because earlier you already state the children were Cuban, and their parents didn't agree with Castro, so it is in my belief their religion's and social status don't matter enough for its own section.- eo  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eodhiambo (talk • contribs) 17:52, 7 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer Review

message: The section that describes "controversy over CIA involvement" dismisses the idea based on ... a court reading a statement from the CIA. How is this sufficient for an encyclopedia? 69.113.236.26 (talk) 03:16, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA involvement