Operation Peter Pan: An Early Example of Cold War Intervention

During 1956 and 57 there was a massive American program driven by a logic of competition with the Soviet Union to bring in specifically Hungarian refugees to the US coordinated with Catholic groups and clergy. This was in other words another example of a Cold War policy dressed up as humanitarian work. We may not call this the original case as Nelson will mention this sort of thing was also done during the wars against indigenous people of North America but we can certainly call it an early example that preceded Operation Pedro Pan in the Cold War.