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drills go deep into the Paleozoic strata and below. Today, there is a glut
on the market, and those who control oil are doing all they can to limit
production in order to keep the prices very high. To do this, they get a lot
of government help.

Shortly before William J. Casey became the head of the CIA, he made a speech
before the American Bar Association during which he advocated "
international agreements to establish commodity reserves and maintain
prices". This is the kind of policy oil men like. At the same conference,
Hans Heymann, one of Casey's deputies at the CIA, talked about the "enormous
oil inventory building that we've had", and that " we (CIA) developed a
system of institutions and codes of conduct that make it far easier for
those who influence the international marketplace to exercise that
influence". It is " those who influence the marketplace" who are the oil
barons, and they are taking us for hundreds of billions of dollars every
year - with the aid of almost all Western governments.

L. Fletcher Prouty