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Charlie Wilson's War
George Crile
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The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
出版Grove Press, 2003
主題Fiction / Media Tie-InHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / Asia / Central AsiaPolitical Science / International Relations / Arms ControlPolitical Science / Intelligence & Espionage
ISBN08021412429780802141248
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BYBFUTUSX-EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Charlie Wilson's War was a publishing sensation and a New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times bestseller. In the early 1980s, a Houston socialite turned the attention of maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson to the ragged band of Afghan "freedom fighters" who continued, despite overwhelming odds, to fight the Soviet invaders. Wilson, who sat on the all-powerful House Appropriations Committee, managed to procure hundreds of millions of dollars to support the mujahideen. The arms were secretly procured and distributed with the help of an out-of-favor CIA operative, Gust Avrokotos, whose working-class Greek-American background made him an anomaly among the Ivy League world of American spies. Avrakotos handpicked a staff of CIA outcasts to run his operation and, with their help, continually stretched the Agency's rules to the breaking point. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol, to secret chambers at Langley, to arms-dealers' conventions, to the Khyber Pass, this book presents an astonishing chapter of our recent past, and the key to understanding what helped trigger the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union and ultimately led to the emergence of a brand-new foe in the form of radical Islam.