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12. Memorandum From the Director of the White House Energy Policy Staff ( Freeman ) to the Executive Director of the Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Control ( Areeda )

meet world market competition. [Footnote in the original.] In any event, some imports from outside the Western Hemisphere are necessary because we would not want to shut off the U.S. market to such friendly oil producing nations as Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria and others now and in the future. It would, therefore, seem desirable to utilize the availability of low-priced Middle Eastern oil to provide some degree of competition for Western Hemisphere sources. One option is complete free trade. However, complete free trade does raise a problem of supply interruptions, poses a threat to Venezuelan sal…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1969-10-21
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXVI, Energy Crisis, 1969–1974
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v36/d12
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76v36/d12`

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12. Memorandum From the Director of the White House Energy Policy Staff ( Freeman ) to the Executive Director of the Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Control ( Areeda ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76v36/d12.