Original sentence: A book about his efforts in the Afghanistan war effort are detailed in Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile III, published in 2003.According to his biographer, George Crile, Wilson placed a call to a member of the US Congressional Appropriations Committee who dealt with "black appropriations" (CIA funds), and ordered a twofold increase in the appropriation for Afghanistan.Few however, were paying attention, even in the American government.In a forthcoming film version of the book, Congressman Wilson will be played by Tom Hanks.In the early summer of 1980, Wilson read an Associated Press dispatch on the congressional wires, that described  hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan.In this way, Wilson had a significant influence on the level of support the Afghan Mujahideen received from the United States.While the Mujahideen operating in Afghanistan never received direct support from the CIA, his actions, with the help of many others, helped bring down the communist government by supplying millions of dollars to the Afghan resistance to defeat the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan.Wilson had just been named to the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, part of a small groupe of twelve people in the House responsible for funding CIA operations, and thus had the authority to make such an order
Edited sentence: -supported refugee camps.Charlie Wilson's actions, with the help of many others, helped bring down the communist government by supplying millions of dollars to the Afghan resistance to defeat the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan.He was now part of the band of twelve men in the House responsible for funding CIA operations.His schedule called for the traditional tour of the U.In the early summer of 1980, Wilson, a news junkie, read an Associated Press dispatch on the congressional wires, that described  hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Afghanistan.In the film version of the book, Congressman Wilson will be played by Tom Hanks.Not many, however, were paying attention, not even in the American government, when Wilson picked up a phone and called the Appropriations Committee staffer who dealt with "black appropriations", the CIA funds, and ordered him to double the current appropriation for Afghanistan.See Charlie Wilson's War By George Crile III.The Mujahideen operating in Afghanistan never received direct support from the CIA.When Wilson first visited Afghanistan in 1982 it was the center of the Afghan military activity.Wilson had just been named to the Defense Appropriations subcommittee.Without Charlie Wilson's actions, the Soviet Union might have crushed the Afghan resistance