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?NO TE DEJES QUITAR A TU HIJO! OPERATION PEDRO PAN AND THE CUBAN CHILDREN’S PROGRAM By Jean Abreu Department of History A Thesis Submitted for Honors To the Department of History In the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences of Duke University Durham, North Carolina April 2008 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS………………………………………………………………3 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………6 CHAPTER 1: The Catholic Church, the CIA, and the Bureaucrats………………………14 CHAPTER 2: Propaganda and Media Surrounding Operation Pedro Pan………………..43 CHAPTER 3: Firsthand Perspectives on the Operation…………………………………...73 CHAPTER 4: The Legacy of Pedro Pan ………………………………………………...104 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………...125 BIBILOGRAPHY…………………………………………………………………..…….131 APPENDIX………………………………………………………………………..……...136 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS There are a number of people who helped in developing this thesis for the past year. First of all I would like to thank those who spoke candidly about their experiences and the politics of being Cuban American. Maria Ferrer both ignited my interest in the subject as a child and offered her home and car, and memories to me last summer. Magaly, Rosendo, Carmen Cecilia, and Raphael Ferrer were accommodating and allowed me into their most personal moments. Connie Cuello allowed me to sort through her personal collection of letters and official documents, and shared her own very unique experience. Her husband Tony gave an uncensored account of life as a young man during the Revolution. My grandmother, Zoila Abreu, has been supportive, honest, and open-minded in our conversations. Thanks to a generous grant from the Duke Undergraduate Research Support Program I was able to travel to Miami last May and find invaluable sources. The archivists in Miami were also generous with their time and collections. Sister Dorothy Jehle is doing an amazing job at Barry University with the limited resources she has to archive the personal collection of Monsignor Walsh. She also gave me her perspectiv