Cuba and Its Propaganda Campaign

Operation Peter Pan was a campaign of disinformation and scaremongering beamed into Cuba by the CIA. Outposts like Radio Swan, a CIA station based in Honduras, were set up to spread misinformation, disinformation, and calls to abandon the new revolutionary government. Religious groups, particularly right-wing Catholics, organized a massive project to remove as many as 14,000 Cuban children from their homes in Cuba. The parents of these children helped these religious organizations ship their kids out of the country, ironically thinking that they were saving their kids from a mass kidnapping.