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Love the name.  "Pedro Pan"  :D

 

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/operation-pedro-pan-one-new-jersey-familys-journey/4878976/

It is a story of triumph over tyranny: A clandestine mission in 1960 to airlift thousands of unaccompanied children from Communist Cuba to the United States.

The program, which became known as Operation Pedro Pan, was orchestrated by Catholic Charities of Miami, sanctioned by the U.S. State Department.

Among the 14,000-plus secreted children covertly moved in a two-year-period were eight members of the Fernandez family, who eventually settled in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The children were flown out of Havana in separate groups so as not to arouse suspicion in the gestapo-like state. A ninth child was later born in the U.S.

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