Andrew Eiva Andrew Eiva is a defense policy expert , former lobbyist , linguist and human rights defender . He is best known for his impact on policy and the selection of effective weapons systems during Afghanistan ' s struggle against Soviet occupation . Career . After graduating from West Point in 1972 , Eiva served in the US Army in Germany with Special Forces where he pioneered early UAV delivery systems . He specialized in guerrilla warfare support and as a refugee from the Soviet occupation in Lithuania , dedicated himself to overthrowing the Soviet empire . As a lobbyist , Eiva worked to organize committees of ordinary Americans to influence the Congress . Arming the Afghan Mujaheddin against the Soviets . At the 1984 Republican Convention , Eiva was responsible for having language inserted into the party platform calling for support of the Afghan Mujaheddin in their fight against the Soviets . From 1983 to 1988 , Eiva published the Afghan Update , a newsletter which provided detailed insight into and criticism of CIA and State Department policy . He was executive director of two sister organizations , the Federation for American Afghan Action and the American Afghan Education Fund . Despite his tiny budget , which George Crile mentions in " Charlie Wilson ' s War " , Eiva was able to galvanize Congress to effectively support the Afghan resistance . However , Eiva made powerful enemies among the American political leadership and elites . The CIA absolutely hated him . The Pentagon hated him . The military industrial complex could see no way to profit from his vision . Then there was Congressman Charlie Wilson who pushed his way into steering Afghan policy from his place on the Appropriations Committee . In Charlie Wilson ' s War , the late George Crile paints a picture that completely overlooks the real policy debate . It wasn ' t long before Wilson and the CIA snuffed out the crucial issue of supply with bluster , false bravado and carefully orchestrated news accounts . CIA officers now claim to have done things that , in fact , Eiva did before them . In 1988 , Robert Pear in the New York Times reported on Zalmay Khalilzad ' s assessment that the Afghan mujaheddin had " been taking over a lot more territory a lot quicker than anyone anticipated " . Eiva did not want the cause of the freedom fighters to be forgotten . Pear continues , " Lobbyists for the Afghan guerrillas feared that the State Department ' s upbeat assessment would be used to justify further cutbacks in shipments of weapons . Andrew L . Eiva , chairman of the Federation for American Afghan Action , said the United States had already suspended deliveries of two effective weapons : Stinger antiaircraft missiles and Spanish - made 120 - millimeter mortars . " According to Marguerite Johnson in Time Magazine in 2005 , " large amounts of military materiel purchased by the CIA and funneled through Pakistan reportedly are failing to reach the mujahedin guerrillas . Washington Lobbyist Andrew Eiva , executive director of the Federation for American Afghan Action , says that his organization has found ' up to 70 % slippage ' in CIA supplies " . Support for freedom and resistance movements . Leslie Gelb of the New York Times says that Eiva , in 1983 , counted the score of American support for liberation movements since World War II as " 0 to 12 , with Afghanistan as lucky 13 " . The other such ventures supported and then dropped by Washington he lists as Lithuania , Albania , the Ukraine , Poland , Tibet , China , Cuba , Kurdistan twice , Angola , the Hmong tribe in Laos and Sumatra . Eiva continues to support freedom and resistance movements around the world , including those in Sudan and Balochistan . He advocates that the people of Balochistan themselves author their own Freedom Charter , rather than accept one written by foreigners . On 23 February 2010 , founder of Christendom College Dr . Warren H . Carroll delivered a lecture entitled " Andrew Eiva and the End of the Communist Empire " . Carroll told how Eiva " dedicated his life to the destruction of the Communist Empire , which ruled his first homeland , and for which he had an abiding hatred " . Personal life . Mr . Eiva was born in a refugee camp in Bonn on Oct . 26 , 1948 , reared on stories about Lithuanian resistance , American support for a while and finally , abandonment . His parents escaped communism and fled from Lithuania to the U . S . in 1949 . His grandfather , Gen . Kazimieras Ladyga , fought the Russian revolutionaries at the end of World War I , and was chief of staff of the armed forces of independent Lithuania from 1925 to 1927 . General Ladyga was arrested , sent to Siberia , was tortured , and died . Awards . Andrew Eiva was presented with the Order of the Cross of Vytis in Vilnius , Lithuania on 16 February 2012 for his services to the cause of restoration of the Independent State of Lithuania . Eiva was integrally involved in defending the Lithuanian Parliament during the January Events of 1991 . Eiva was also honored on 16 December 2011 at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington , DC for his heroic service the cause of Lithuanian independence . Eiva described his participation in the January Events on that evening .