http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_wilson

They made a “heroic” movie about him called “Charlie Wilson’s War” where he’s played by Tom Hanks.

Charlie Wilson on a white horse while in Afghanistan. Photograph: AP (actual photo, not from the movie.)

Charles Wilson

More on Charlie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wilson_%28Texas_politician%29

The girls had cocaine, and the music was loud. It was total happiness. And both of them had ten long, red fingernails with an endless supply of beautiful white powder….The feds spent a million bucks trying to figure out whether, when those fingernails passed under my nose, did I inhale or exhale, and I ain’t telling.

— Charile Wilson

In 1980, Wilson was accused of using cocaine at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas; however, the investigation by Justice Department attorney Rudolph Giuliani was dropped due to lack of evidence.

Wilson was presented with the Honored Colleague Award by the CIA. He is the first civilian to receive the award. However, Wilson’s role remains controversial because most of the aid was supplied to Islamist hardliner Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now a senior Taliban leader and a supporter of al-Qaeda.

MWD