OPERATION BABYLIFT.

INTERNATIONAL adoption; ADOPTION; VIETNAMESE American children; ANTI-communist movements; CHRISTIAN missionaries; ADOPTEES; ORPHANS; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION

The article examines Operation Babylift, an effort to bring Vietnamese orphans to the U.S. begun in 1975. The author sees the effort as allied with anti-communism and Christian mission work with a goal of converting Asian children to Christianity. He cites U.S. State Department analysis indicating that at least some of the children were not orphans. He supports efforts of transnational adoptees to research their origins. The domino theory, the cold war and Amerasian children are also discussed.