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100 1  Crile, George. 
245 10 Charlie wilson's war :|bThe Extraordinary Story of How the
       Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the 
       History /|cGeorge Crile. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|b[publisher not 
       identified],|c2007. 
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520    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,... 
533    Electronic reproduction.|bNew York :|cGrove Press, Black 
       Cat,|d2007.|nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 
       4415 KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive
       Read (file size: N/A KB). 
650  7 History.|2OverDrive 
650  7 Military.|2OverDrive 
650 17 Nonfiction.|2OverDrive 
655  7 Electronic books.|2local 
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