{"id":2132,"date":"2008-01-04T21:53:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/video-the-true-story-of-charlie-wilson\/2132\/"},"modified":"2008-01-04T21:53:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T21:53:36","slug":"video-the-true-story-of-charlie-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/video-the-true-story-of-charlie-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The True Story of Charlie Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

As incredible as anything in the pages of Tom Clancy or John le Carr\u00c3\u00a9, this is a gripping story of international intrigue, booze, drugs, sex, high society and arms deals. It is the true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, and how they armed the Afghan Mujahideen in what became the CIA’s largest and most successful campaign in history. Their goal was to turn Afghanistan into the Soviet Union’s Vietnam. The effort would blow back to haunt America into the next century.<\/p>\n

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As incredible as anything in the pages of Tom Clancy or John le Carr\u00c3\u00a9, this is a gripping story of international intrigue, booze, drugs, sex, high society and arms deals. It is the true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, and how they armed the Afghan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16],"tags":[32],"class_list":{"0":"post-2132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"category-war-terrorism","8":"tag-cia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}