Schweizer, Peter. 1994. Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (NY: Atlantic Monthly Press). The author is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution with good access to many of the key sources. 31: William Casey met with Prince Turki of Saudi Arabia. He showed him raw intelligence reports to make him fearful about Saudi security. "What Casey was trying to do was to send a prince a message. No single world oil producer had a greater effect on world oil prices than Saudi Arabia." "By raising the issues of oil pricing and the U.S. -- Saudi security relationship in the same conversation, Casey was in effect saying that the two were related. It was an element of the Reagan strategy. "We wanted lower oil prices, "recalls Weinberger. "That's one of the reasons we were selling them arms"." citing an interview with the author.
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