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Charlie Wilson was known for his hawkish US military foreign policy and supported the DNC's platform on women's rights, social security, and abortion during the 1980s. As a freshman representative, Wilson achieved the designation of the Big Thicket in Southeast Texas as a National Preserve in 1974. [15]
Charles A. Wilson Jr. [1] (January 18, 1943 – April 14, 2013) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party , he previously served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives .
Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos, whose efforts led to Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989).
The book contains 33 chapters and an epilogue, spanning Representative Charlie Wilson's life from his early political career to the end of the Soviet-Afghan War.The book is based on a series of interviews that Crile conducted with Congressman Wilson. [1]
Malcolm Wilson (politician) (Charles Malcolm Wilson, 1914–2000), Governor of New York Charles H. Wilson (1917–1984), U.S. Congressman from California and State Assemblyman Charlie Wilson (Texas politician) (1933–2010), U.S. Congressman from Texas, 1973–1997; previously State Representative, then State Senator
Throughout the 1980s, Herring lobbied for United States support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in collaboration with U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson. [4] These events inspired the book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History ; Herring is portrayed by actress Julia Roberts in the 2007 film ...
The efforts of U.S. Representative Charlie Wilson (D-TX) to help the Afghan Mujahideen fight Soviet forces through.....the CIA's Operation Cyclone, the official name of the covert war itself; Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, a 2003 book by George Crile III documenting the above events
In the 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ramped up its congressional-liaison staff to deal with the large number of investigations coming from the Congress. It was the era of the Rockefeller Commission , the Church Committee , and the Pike Committee , all of which requested large amounts of information from the agency.