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Mr. Hart figures prominently in George Crile III’s book “Charlie Wilson’s War,” about the flamboyant Texas congressman and the covert CIA arms program in Afghanistan, as well as “Ghost Wars,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the U.S. conflict with al-Qaeda by journalist Steve Coll.

Mike Nichols’s film, adapted by Aaron Sorkin from the 2003 best seller by George Crile, offers “a bracing, cheering present-day moral,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

In the book “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the journalist George Crile III describes how the C.I.A. arranged for the account to earn no interest, in keeping with the Islamic ban on usury.

As the late, iconic, journalist George Crile observed in his chronicle of that victory Charlie Wilson’s War:

Crile meticulously investigated how the Cold War was won.