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Weird how this keeps happening every time the US has a not-a-war-conflict with other countries
I like how evacuating civilians into a country they probably have relatives in (Russia) is being called various flavors of evil
They also did this in Cuba, right?
Just the most normal country doing the most normal shit.
Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a clandestine exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors ages 6 to 18 to the United States over a two-year span from 1960 to 1962. They were sent after parents feared that Fidel Castro and the Communist party were planning to terminate parental rights and place minors in communist indoctrination centers, commonly referred to as the Patria Potestad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Peter_Pan
"indoctrination centers" :thonk: :curious-marx: :blob-no-thoughts:
Yep, there it is.
I have relatives who were part of this group. They ended up becoming the most stereotypical conservative Americans ever, and one is a cop.
it's the modern equivalent of being a Gaulish soldier for rome :biggus-dickus:
Least sus western "humanitarian" operation
There's a part of me that can't help wonder ho many of them got trafficked to whoever the :epstein: was back then and there's another part of me that doesn't want to know
There was a chapo episode about the CIA and something involving the word Franklin that was basically mega- :epstein: before its time. I couldn't finish it, my sanity bar went to zero only halfway through
Here's a documentary from 1993 about the Franklin Scandal that was supposed to be on TV but never aired
https://www.monsterchildren.com/watch-conspiracy-of-silence/
CW: CSA and a bunch of other terrible shit including murder to silence victims
The fact that the Catholic church and the US government collaborated to create a giant orphanage the size of a town literally called Boy's Town should raise everyone's eyebrows even if the scandal had never broke
Franklin Community Federal Credit Union