by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

Most Americans don’t know that the current foreign Adoption Industry in the U.S. started in the 1950s, when Evangelical Christians petitioned Congress to allow them to adopt more children from Korea during the Korean War.

Harry and Bertha Holt, based out of Oregon and with six children of their own, wanted to adopt more children from Korean orphanages in South Korea.

U.S. law at the time only allowed a couple to adopt 2 children from outside of the U.S., so the Holts worked with the U.S. Congress to pass a new law allowing them to adopt 8 children from South Korea.

The Holt’s gained widespread media coverage, and they soon developed their own adoption agency to help Americans adopt Korean babies.

Being Evangelical Christians with support from many evangelical leaders, such as Billy Graham, the Holts tried to place the Korean children with Christian families.

Today, Holt International is a $28 million a year operation working in many countries besides Korea, and one of the largest adoption agencies in the world.

But from its inception in Korea in 1955, the majority of children adopted out to the U.S. are not orphans. The children adopted out of Korea after the Korean war were mostly children from unwed mothers, many of them babies conceived by U.S. military personnel who were there during the war.

Unfortunately, 90% of these Korean mothers did not want to give up their babies, but were pressured to do so.

At first, the women do not want to give up their babies. According to the questionnaire that we distribute at the orientation interview, 90 percent want to keep the babies, says Kim Yong sook, the director of Ae Ran Won.

But after counseling, maybe 10 per cent will keep them.

We suggest that it’s not a good idea to keep the baby without the biological father, explains Kim Yong Sook, and if the unwed mother and biological father are too young or too weak financially, we suggest that they give the baby up for adoption. We can’t push, we can suggest. (From: Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them – by Matthew Rothschild, January 1988.)

Americans rushing into countries that have been destroyed by war or other disasters and taking away all the babies they can find without even bothering to see if they are orphans, or have other family members who would care for them, has continued until modern times.

I have published in the past how American Christians have done this in Haiti also, including in 2010 just after much of Haiti was destroyed by an earthquake.

Evangelical Laura Silsby and American Baptist missionaries from Idaho tried to traffick 33 children out of Haiti, claiming they were “orphans.”

They were funded by the Clinton Foundation.

In an article written by William Craddick on ZeroHedge News in 2017, which has since been removed apparently and now is only found on Archive.org, Craddick reports how the media tried to cover this up and how Bill and Hillary Clinton intervened to make sure nobody was prosecuted for child trafficking.

Contrary to reports in the media, the crowd sourced investigation labeled by some as “Pizzagate” did not begin with internet sleuths digging through the Wikileaks Podesta Files releases looking for pizza parlors and encoded language discussing human trafficking. It began with the shocking discovery that Hillary and Bill Clinton provided assistance to convicted child trafficker, Laura Silsby, resulting in a reduced sentence for child trafficking.

Silsby was arrested at the Haitian border attempting to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti without documentation. Her sentence and charges were reduced after an intervention by Bill Clinton. In the aftermath of Silsby’s arrest, her originally retained lawyer Jorge Puello was arrested in connection with an international smuggling ring accused of trafficking women and minors from Central America and Haiti. The revelation of this news in November was either ignored by the Western media or attacked by Clinton controlled publications.

Laura Silsby is the former director of The New Life Children’s Refuge. Emails from her organization can be found in Wikileaks’ Hillary Clinton Email Archive discussing the NGO before her arrest. Silsby’s organization also appears in Clinton’s emails, soliciting donations for their “ministry.” The Refuge was founded by Silsby and Charisa Coulter, both attendees of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho. Silsby was reported to have a history of bad debts and unpaid wages.

Laura had claimed she planned to build an orphanage in the Dominican Republic, but a State Department diplomatic cable revealed that authorities in the country said she never submitted an application for this purpose. They instead located to Haiti.

On January 29, 2010, Silsby was arrested with nine other American nationals attempting to steal 33 children from the country, most of whom were not even orphans and had families according to some reports. CNN reported on February 9, 2010 that this was not the first time Silsby had attempted to traffic children out of Haiti.

Haitian police acting on a tip had intercepted Silsby in an earlier, separate attempt to remove 40 children out of the country. She was turned back at the Haitian border. For a brief period, Haitian authorities were considering adding a new kidnapping charge based on this evidence.

Hillary and Bill Clinton took an extraordinary interest in Silsby’s case from the moment she was arrested and almost immediately stepped in on her behalf. The Harvard Human Rights Journal stated that one of Bill Clinton’s first acts as special envoy for the United Nations in Haiti “was to put out the fire of a child abduction scandal involving American citizens.”

On February 7th, 2010, The Sunday Times reported that Bill Clinton had intervened to strike a deal with the Haitian government, securing the release of all co-conspirators except for Silsby.

Prosecutors ultimately sought a six-month sentence in Silsby’s case, reducing charges for conspiracy and child abduction to mere “arranging irregular travel.” A shockingly light penalty given the circumstances of her arrest, which would likely not have been possible but for the intervention of the Clintons in Silsby’s case. (Full article here.)

“Operation Baby Lift” in Vietnam

Camille Bromley, writing for The Verge, has just published an extraordinary investigative report about how the same thing happened with “Operation Baby Lift” after the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war.

Everyone in America living in the U.S. in the 1970s, especially Evangelical Christians, saw “Operation Baby Lift” as a wonderful thing. But now many of those adopted children are adults, and they paint a very different picture from the one that was portrayed in the media at that time.

Bromley must have spent months, if not more than a year, researching for this article and interviewing people, and I encourage everyone to read it, as it is part of our national history, and further documentation that many American Christians are child traffickers all in the name of “saving the orphans” whether the child is an orphan or not.

Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.

by Camille Bromley
The Verge

Excerpts (emphasis mine):

In 1975, to hear the Americans tell it, the mass adoption of Vietnamese children was a story of rescue and redemption. These children were war babies, children of dust.

A decade of death coupled with a thriving sex trade near US military bases had put nearly 20,000 children in more than a hundred orphanages throughout South Vietnam.

As the first babylift planes started landing in San Francisco, it soon became clear that many of the children were not, in fact, orphans.

Nhu Miller, a Vietnamese woman who was living nearby, came to the Presidio to interpret for the older children and found that some didn’t know where they were.

They wanted to see their parents, siblings, grandparents.

“When can I go home?” they asked.

In the chaos, many lacked identifying documents; their papers had been lost, mixed up, or fabricated.

“I went to help and saw people were just picking them out like puppies,” Miller said later.

How one viewed the babylift — as a mission to save children or to abduct them — depended in part on how one defined the purpose of adoption. Was it to provide for a child or to provide a child to eager Western parents?

Some of the first children were flown away on a C-5A Galaxy transport aircraft, a plane whose interior could rival a gymnasium.

Orphanage workers loaded the cargo hold with 200-plus children, an endeavor “like trying to carry loose eggs in the bed of a pickup truck,” as journalist Dana Sachs described in her book, The Life We Were Given.

Twelve minutes after takeoff, a door in the rear of the plane blew out, ripping a hole in the side of the plane. The plane crashed into a rice paddy, crushing the cargo hold where the children were kept — 138 died, including 78 babies.

Operation Babylift continued without a breath. The next day, 324 children, including survivors from the previous day’s crash, were loaded onto a commercial Pan Am flight.

This time, babies in white pajamas were packaged neatly in cardboard boxes. Boxes with babies were wedged under seats like carry-on luggage. Some babies were buckled into the red-and-yellow plane seats, slumped over like little dolls.

Americans had adopted children from abroad in previous decades, most notably from South Korea, but Operation Babylift created a story around adoption that transformed the displacement of a foreign baby to an American home into an act of charity.

Out of the horrors of war came an opportunity for benevolence and absolution.

“Everyone suffers in a war, but no one suffers more than the children, and the airlift was the least that we could do,” Ford wrote in his autobiography.

This narrative has never been without its critics — Grace Paley, writing for Ms. Magazine at the time of the babylift, called it “a cynical political game” — but even those who acknowledged the alarming messiness of the campaign’s logistics thought of the adoptions themselves as a win-win.

A Massachusetts senator put it this way: “Very simplistically, it is better to live in elitism in the United States than to be dead in Vietnam.”

One of the primary issues facing some American adoptees today is, appallingly, being denied citizenship.

Until 2001, foreign adoptions in the US were routed through the same legal pathway as for domestic adoptions. The result was that naturalizing the foreign-born children did not happen as part of that process.

Parents had to apply for their children’s citizenship separately, and many of them were either never informed or never did it.

In 2000, Congress passed legislation to grant citizenship to all adopted children who were under 18.

But the law did not apply to adopted adults, including the Operation Babylift cohort and thousands of other adoptees from Korea, China, and other countries.

The United States does not provide welfare checks on internationally adopted children, opening them up to potential harm. In 2022, research on a group of around 800 South Korean adoptees found that a third of them were abused by their adoptive families.

The US government also does not collect information about the wellbeing of adopted children later in life. Yet teenagers who were transnationally adopted are far more likely to suffer serious mental health disorders than children who were not adopted.

“As a taken child, I was never in any position to defend or protect myself. I had no voice,” Long said in her testimonial.

The United States has absorbed more adopted children than every other country put together.

Ethiopia was sending a couple thousand children to the US a year when the abuse and death of a 10-year-old girl pushed the country to ban all international adoptions.

Today, the country’s official policy is that every Ethiopian child should grow up in Ethiopia.

China — the country that has cumulatively sent the most children to the US — ceased overseas adoptions last year.

Read the full article.

How sad! I am truly grateful for Camille Bromley and her team and all the work that went into this excellent piece of journalism. I learned a lot from it.

The tragic part of this story is that the U.S. military had vast resources in the area at that time, including hospitals, in South Korea and the Philippines, where these children could have been air lifted to instead, with the goal of returning them to their families.

But that’s not how the American Christian Adoption industry works in the United States. Those babies were just too valuable to leave behind with their own families in their own culture.

So many American Christians believe they are the superior people on earth and have more rights than any other nation or group in the world, and that they will always be better parents than those in poorer countries.

Related Reading on this topic:

How the Christian Church and U.S. Government Work Together to Traffick Children Worldwide Through the Lucrative Adoption Business

Christian Churches Redefine the Meaning of “Orphan” to Justify Participating in Child Trafficking

This article was written by Human Superior Intelligence (HSI)

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