Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

Christopher Denham: Mike Vickers

Quotes 

• Gust Avrakotos : The Swiss-made Oerlikon STA antiaircraft cannon - that's what you'd use to shoot down an Mi-24 HIND gunship in the mountains, right.

  Mike Vickers : Well, the Oerlikon's a good start, but the Russians would just start flying higher-altitude missions.

  Charlie Wilson : So what else do they need?

  Mike Vickers : Same thing they'd give us: AK-47s, AK-74s, AKMS. The Soviets didn't come into Afghanistan on a Eurail pass, they came in T-55 tanks. The fighters need RPG-7 antitank grenade launchers, Katyusha 170-millimeter rockets, wire mines, plastic mines, bicycle bombs, sniper rifles, ammunition for all of the above, and frequency-hopping radios and burst transmitters so these guys aren't so fucking easy to find. I've written it all in a report you can read; you'd be the first one who did.

• Charlie Wilson : How old are you?

  Mike Vickers : I'll be 30 next week.

  Charlie Wilson : This is CIA's weapons expert?

  Gust Avrakotos : One of them.

  Charlie Wilson : But he's the most senior.

  Gust Avrakotos : Look...

  Chess Player #1 : Mike!

  Mike Vickers : Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.

  Gust Avrakotos : See, he's playing without even looking at the board.

  Charlie Wilson : That's a useful skill... if Afghanistan's ever invaded by Boris Spassky.

• Mike Vickers : I've written it all in a report you can read. You'd be the first one who did.

• Mike Vickers : Yeah! Let's go kill some Russians!