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Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson (June 1, 1933 – February 10, 2010) was a United States naval officer and former 12-term Democratic United States Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district. Wilson is best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operation which, under the Carter and Reagan administration, supplied military equipment including anti-aircraft weapons such as obsolete FIM-43 Redeye MANPADS surface-to-air antiaircraft missiles and paramilitary officers from their Special Activities Division to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book ''Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History'' by George Crile III and the subsequent film ''Charlie Wilson's War'' starring Tom Hanks as Wilson. ==Early life and naval career== Wilson was born in the small town of Trinity, Texas, to Charles Edwin Wilson, an accountant for a local timber company, and Wilmuth (née Nesbitt), a local florist, on June 1, 1933.〔Sharon Allison, interviewed by Scott Sosebee and Paul Sandul, June 17, 2011, part of the Charlie Wilson Oral History Project, available at the East Texas Research Center, Ralph W. Steen Library, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX (hereafter referred to as ETRC)〕 Wilson had one younger sister, Sharon Wilson Allison, former chair of Planned Parenthood and president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, who currently resides in Waco, Texas. Growing up, Wilson attended Trinity public schools and, upon graduation from Trinity High School in 1951, he attended one semester at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, before being appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.〔 While at Annapolis, Wilson earned the second most demerits in the history of the academy (his roommate, Robert Mullen, earned the most demerits). Despite the excessive number of demerits Wilson graduated eighth from the bottom of his class in 1956 with a B. S. in Engineering, specializing in electronics.〔"The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History," Truthout, accessed November 6, 2011, truthout.org/docs_03/061403H.shtmt.〕 Between 1956 and 1960, Wilson served in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant and gunnery officer on a destroyer. While in the Navy, Wilson's commanders reported that he was the "best officer on ship but the worst in port." Wilson's exploits in port did not impede his career in the Navy and he was assigned to the Pentagon as part of an intelligence unit that evaluated the Soviet Union's nuclear forces.〔George Slaughter, "WILSON, CHARLES NESBITT (), Handbook of Texas Online, published by the Texas State Historical Association, accessed on December 4, 2011, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fwicr.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlie Wilson (Texas politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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