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	Operation Peter Pan
		"Operation Peter Pan" written by Ramón Torreira Crespo y José Buajasan Marrawi, in April of 2000.
		This operation based on gross lies, became fertile ground for the deranged minds of those anticommunists; some of the anticommunist hysteria formed in some private schools, taught by teachers.
		The gross lie, which stated that the revolutionary government was going to take the children away from their parents, depriving them of parental rights, was circulated by the CIA and the counterrevolutionary element, occurred at the same time that the govt.
	cubasocialista.com /peterpan.htm (659 words)

	Operation Peter Pan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Peter Pan (Operación Pedro Pan), which took place between 1960 and 1962, was an operation coordinated by the United States government, the Roman Catholic Church and Cuban dissidents in which over 14,000 children were saved from Communist tyranny in Cuba.
		Pan Am flights took the children to Miami, Florida, in the United States, which was referred to as "Never-Never Land." and the children became known as the "Peter Pans." One of the most famous of these was Florida Senator Mel Martinez.
		Singer Tori Amos wrote a song about the incident, by the same name/title, which was available as a B-side to the limited edition release of her single "A Sorta Fairytale." In it she expounds on the tragedy of the situation by using metaphor from the original Peter Pan story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Peter_Pan (277 words)

	Operation Peter Pan
		Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again.
		Pan Am flights took the children to Miami, FL, referred to as "Never-Never Land, and the children became known as the "Peter Pans."
		Singer Tori Amos wrote a song about the incident, by the same name/title, which was available as a B-side to the limited edition release of her single "A Sorta Fairytale." In it she expounds on the tragedy of the situation by using metaphor from the real story of Peter Pan.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/op/Operation_Peter_Pan.html (142 words)

	OPERATION PETER PAN Articles Operation Peter Pan (Operación Pedr
		Operation Peter Pan (Operación Pedro Pan), was an operation coordinated by the United States government, the Roman Catholic Church, and Cuban exiles in which over 14,000 children were brought from Cuba to the United States.
		The operation was designed to transport the children of parents who opposed the Communist government, and was later expanded to include children of parents concerned by rumors that their children would be shipped to Soviet work camps.
		Pan Am flights took the children to Miami, Florida, which, in the Operation's jargon, was referred to as "Never-Never Land"; the children became known as the "Peter Pans." The proposals of the operation were that the children were to be joined by their parents within a matter of months.
	www.amazines.com /Operation_Peter_Pan_related.html (613 words)

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		The CIA printed up as handbills a "Law on the Nationalization of Children," said to have been "taken from the offices of the Prime Minister." This purported draft law provided that all children from the age of three on were to become wards of the state raised in state-sponsored institutions, in essence, orphanages.
		Nearly 15,000 children were separated from their parents by Father Walsh's and the CIA's "Operation Peter Pan." On the pretext of keeping the communists from breaking up their families, the CIA and the Catholic Church DID break up their families.
		The first to come, those with the highest priority, were parents with minor children in the States, the children of Operation Peter Pan, as well as many other parents who'd made their own "Peter Pan" arrangements with friends or relatives stateside in 1960.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001act/Elian,_Operation_Peter_Pan_and_Msgr._Walsh (3038 words)

	granma.cu -Children’s stories for adults
		Thanks to these despicable lies an operation, dubbed Operation Peter Pan by the CIA itself, was mounted via which certain parents, terrified at the supposed hecatomb that was hanging over them, sent their children to the United States and other countries.
		This operation was conceived from the beginning as one of the most secret actions of subversion and psychological warfare developed by the CIA although it soon became public and received the support of the Catholic Church of Cuba and the United States.
		Operation Peter Pan was designed for the children staying in the United States for a short period, returning to Cuba after a successful invasion like the Bay of Pigs was not.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2006/septiembre/juev28/40peterpan.html (1057 words)

	HEREINMYHEAD.COM \| lyrics \| operation peter pan
		Pan Am flights took the children to Miami, Fl, Never-Never Land, and the children became known as the "Peter Pans." I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics."
		The lyrics "second star to the right, straight on til morning" combined with the song title Operation Peter Pan is an obvious reference to the children's fairy tale Peter Pan.
		Peter's land where no child ever grows up is named, Neverland, and the lyrics refer to how to fly there.
	www.hereinmyhead.com /collect/beesides/opp.html (303 words)

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		Peter Pan is such a well-known story that most English-speaking 20th-century people know it by heart.
		Peter Pan is an excellent film to introduce children to the magic of silent cinema.
		Peter Pan has a special place in the realm of classic animated Disney films: it instills an element of childlike wonder.
	www.lycos.com /info/peter-pan.html (737 words)

	OPERATION PETER PAN © ABIP 1997 & 1999
		Baker raise the funds for this operation were a group of members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Havana whose properties were confiscated by Castro.
		The children from Operation Peter Pan have grown up to be doctors, lawyers, technicians, musicians, entertainers, etc. Among the most well known musicians is Willy Chirino.
		Sixto Aquino, the first official Peter Pan child who arrived in Miami on November 26, 1960, obtained an degree in Economics in 1969 from Georgetown University and is Division Chief for the Andean Countries at the Inter-American Development Bank and has two children.
	www.nocastro.com /atrocities/opeterpan.htm (7120 words)

	POVs
		Operation Peter Pan, which was run by the Catholic Church and the State Department, transferred 14,048 children from Cuba to the United States between 1960 and 1962.
		The author's own Peter Pan experience, as well as the testimonies she quotes, seem to be driven by a political project rather than a neutral voice organizing a collective memoir.
		Operation Peter Pan was carried out under a religious cloak as "humanitarian assistance" provided by the Catholic Services Bureau in Florida.
	teresita.org /POV.html (3730 words)

	Roadside View \| BusRide
		In fact, when I spoke to him, he was just coming back in from having lunch with Peter A. and Peter L. "They've done a super job with Peter Pan, and they understand this end (charter) of the business, as well as the line end," says Dupuis.
		"Peter Pan will be able to concentrate on this region and make it better for the consumer, which is the most important thing."And that's just what Peter A. is excited about.
		Peter Pan will also standardize safety procedures, but not before they closely examine their new divisions.
	www.busride.com /Page.cfm/PageID/2074 (863 words)

	EXCERPTS FROM "SUPPORT FOR A DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION IN CUBA"
		Operation Mongoose was approved by the Kennedy administration on March 1962 in response to Cuban dirty wars, Cuban subversion of other governments, and Cuban assault on the vital interest of the United States.
		The main objective of this operation that began developing in November 1961 by a Special Group of the National Security Council was the overthrow of Castro dictatorship.
		The operation was under the general supervision of the Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy.
	www.camcocuba.org /news/jack.html (2451 words)

	Media Alliance - OPERATION PETER PAN: Elian custody battle not the first international dispute over Cuban children, by ...
		Throughout the entire operation, the U.S. press released few, if any, stories on this massive exodus that linked church and state and spent an unknown amount of taxpayer money on a plan not even known about by the public.
		There's this woman, Maria de los Angeles Torres, at De Paul University who's a Peter Pan child, and she's suing the CIA to get access to her files.
		She was a Peter Pan person and she started telling me her story.
	www.media-alliance.org /article.php?story=20040514124520958 (1755 words)

	Green Left - Cuba's struggle for emigres' rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the early 1960s, through the kind offices of the Catholic Church in Cuba and the US, the CIA carried out “Operation Peter Pan”, in which nearly 15,000 children were brought to the US without their parents and basically given to anyone who would have them.
		Many Peter Pan children were taken in by Cuban relatives or friends, others by well-meaning US couples.
		Operation Peter Pan was the beginning of the Cuban Revolution's struggle to force the US to facilitate the emigration of people from Cuba to the US.
	www.greenleft.org.au /2000/393/24395 (2475 words)

	Peter Pan at the Round Barn Theatre at Amish Acres. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Peter Pan at the Round Barn Theatre at Amish Acres.
		Peter's permanence lies in the fact that he is every small child crying out against the unfairness of the big people world.
		The four-man firm has been responsible for Cathy Rigby's 1990 Broadway Peter Pan production and has visited the theatre at Amish Acres to take measurements, photographs and blueprints back to the office in Las Vegas to prepare their magic in time for opening night.
	www.amishacres.com /aa_musical_theatre/2000_season/peter_pan/peter_pan.htm (1011 words)

	GOSHCC: Peter Pan Patients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Peter Pan has been helping children to get better for over a century.
		Patricia Moore was born with a growth on her neck as big as her head, and made medical history when she survived the operation.
		Janet Nightingale is a 63-year-old grandmother, but in the early 1940s she spent long periods at GOSH, one of the first children to be diagnosed with Coeliac Disease.
	www.gosh.org /about_us/peterpan/Peter-Pan-patients.html (293 words)

	Pan peter, - Peter Pan's Flight -- Magic Kingdom
		"Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14000 children were sent I was going to write that song once I knew that was Peter Pan’s address.
		Peter Pan is directed by PJ Hogan and staring.
		Peter Pan can be a children's story and it can be an adult's story.
	www.thensearch.com /?q=pan+peter (687 words)

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		As a result, a wave of panic swept the island and more than 14,000 children were shipped unaccompanied to the "safety" of Miami in what became known as "Operation Pedro [Peter] Pan".
		Father Bryan Walsh, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in Miami which coordinated Operation Pedro Pan has always maintained that the "rescue" plan had to be kept secret because of the fear that the Cuban government would prevent the departure of the children.
		The truth is that during Operation Pedro Pan, the Cuban government did not prevent any child from leaving the country if they had their parents' consent.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2000cov/Elian_Only_the_Latest_Peter_Pan_Victim (731 words)

	Price of freedom for Cuban children was high, but worth it
		Ramón Grau was a key figure in setting up Operation Peter Pan, which in the 1960's brought thousands of Cuban children to the United States.
		As part of the Cuban communist regime's effort to eliminate families, it had determined that children "belonged" to the government and was sending them to camps or socialist countries overseas.
		My crime was to help establish Operation Peter Pan, the exodus of 14,000 children and – eventually – their relatives, a total of more than 50,000 people in five years.
	www.autentico.org /oa09150.php (825 words)

	Back to Operation Pedro Pan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The name Pedro Pan came from a Miami Herald reporter, Gene Miller, who in an article about children who were going to Evansville, Indiana on March 9, 1962, wrote, "This is a railway in the sky- Operation Peter Pan.
		The two main founders/coordinators of this operation were Father Bryan O' Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau and James Baker, headmaster of the Ruston Academy, an American school in Havana.
		Of the 14,000 minors that arrived under Pedro Pan, the majority were Catholic, and usually of a lower-class family.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/asc32/operation_pedro_pan.htm (411 words)

	PETER PAN Sweepstakes Official Rules
		Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize winner will receive a four pack of tickets to Peter Pan and Round trip airfare for four (4) on any ATA Operated Scheduled Service Flight from Oakland to Hawaii.
		ARV of prize: $1,700.00 US Runner-Up: Nine (9) winners will receive a four pack of tickets to Peter pan.
		ARV of prize: $100.00 US All expenses not specifically provided for herein are the winner’s sole responsibility. Some restrictions may apply.
	abclocal.go.com /promotions/kgo/kgo_peterPan06/rules.html (600 words)

	Black Garden: a site about Manic Street Preachers
		Peter Pan: Hero of the play Peter Pan, written by Sir James M. Barrie in 1904.
		Operation Peter Pan: The so-called Operation Pedro (Peter) Pan was a reaction to the Cuban revolution in 1959, which brought Fidel Castro to power.
		The operation ended in October 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis terminated all flights out of Cuba.
	www.blackgarden.net /index.php?section=tmedetailsongs&ids=babyelian (1651 words)

	Peter Pan Bus Lines ends Trailways affiliation \| BusRide
		Peter Pan Bus Lines ends Trailways affiliation
		For the beter part of 10 years Peter Pan has questioned the value of its association with Trailways, particularly in light of the Peter Pan operation of a pool service with Greyhound Lines, Inc.
		Therefore, Peter Pan has determined that it will terminate its affiliation with Trailways and invest its dollars in organizations such as the American Bus Association, which continues to work on issues of importance to regular route carriers."
	www.busride.com /Page.cfm/PageID/6205 (241 words)

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		Flora Gonzalez is one of the children sent out of Cuba through Operacion Peter Pan (Operation Peter Pan) in 1962 and Raysa Mederos is a child born and raised post-revolution and relates the story of some of her experiences at Escuela al Campo (School in the Countryside).
		The second quote is about Operation Peter Pan and explains how this program was created so that Cuban children could migrate to the United States in order to avoid communist indoctrination.
		Raysa Mederos begins with a quote from a 1971 speech by Fidel Castro Ruz where he states that work and study must be combined throughout all levels of the educational system.
	www.lesley.edu /journals/jppp/7/gonzalez.html (3986 words)

	Business Wire: Greyhound Lines and Peter Pan Bus Lines Plan Jo... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a typical coordinated operation, for example, where each carrier previously had departures at 5 and 6 p.m., after coordination there would be departures at 5, 5:30 and 6, giving passengers more choices.
		David W. Batchelor, chief operating officer of Peter Pan, said the proposal would result in more efficient operations for the two companies.
		Peter Pan now operates 16 round-trips daily between the two cities, all non-stop.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:19071184&refid=ink_tptd_g1 (483 words)

	The Arts Center -- Press Room -- Press Releases -- "Exhibitions for April 2005"
		Students will also be able to enroll in a master artist class focusing on still-lifes taught by Legagneur, with an emphasis on the selection of a composition which best conveys the essence of a subject.
		Born in Cuba during the 1940s, Maria Emilia was exiled to the U.S. in 1961 under Operation Peter Pan.
		The anxiety of separation from her family and homeland is a frequent theme in her works, which include installations, sculpture, painting and drawings.
	www.theartscenter.org /press_room/releases/030805.htm (564 words)

	Peter Pan Contest Rules
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	www.tribute.ca /contest/PeterPan-030607/rules.html (1102 words)

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