Operation Peter Pan - Wikipedia
Operation Peter Pan was a secretive migration of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States between 1960 and 1962, spurred by unverified rumors that Castro planned to place children into communist indoctrination centers. Driven by fears based on these rumors, parents sent their children to the U.S. to protect them from possible governmental control. The operation involved large-scale coordination, where children were flown mainly to Miami and placed under the care of agencies like the Catholic Welfare Bureau....