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Youll never find another history that reads more like a cross between Flashman and a Tom Clancy novel. While Ronald Reagan and William Casey were unable to persuade Congress to give them a mere $19 million to fund the Nicaraguan Contras, Wilson was procuring hundreds of millions of dollars to support his Afghan freedom fighters through back-room machinations that would have made even LBJ blush. Other voices added to the unease, claiming that the KGB had infiltrated most Western intelligence services and that they were mounting devastatingly effective "disinformation" campaigns, which were blinding America to the danger it faced. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Crile also sketches a variety of other figures in this drama with an eye for what makes them strange and interesting.
Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy. It's unlikely that any of them would be able to talk about their debauchery in such a way that it would sound almost fresh and innocent. The Cold War was effectively over but what began as a war against Communism was continuing to be funded."The question that has puzzled so many Americans: 'Why do they hate us?' is not so difficult to understand if you put yourself into the shoes of the Afghan veterans in the aftermath of the Soviet departure," Crile says. The intelligence scandals in the late 1970s had only reinforced the widespread suspicion that the CIA was out of control-a virtual government within the government. It was a later trip to the Arab world with Wilson, the Wilson's "princely" reception, and the events of 9/11 that opened his eyes to the far bigger picture of CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR.Among the book's more startling revelations: By the latter years of the 1980s the CIA was not just providing arms to a half million Afghans, it had taken 150,000 of them and transformed them into what it called a force of "techno holy warriors." "From today's perspective," Crile observes, "that may seem more than a bit ill advised-particularly when you factor in the specialized training in urban warfare that the Agency sponsored to include the use of pipe bombs, bicycle bombs, car bombs, camel bombs, along with a host of other tactics to wreak havoc with the army of a modern superpower." The United States continued to fund the Afghan rebels long after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union. Wilson returns home to lead an effort to substantially increase funding to the mujahideen. Tom Clancy's fiction pales in comparison with the amazing, mesmerizing story told by George Crile.
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