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38. Memorandum From Harold Saunders of the National Security Council Staff to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs ( Sisco )

g a hearing for the argument, I have—at the risk of being brushed aside by the experts as naive—made myself an advocate for a general policy that would justify country quotas for a few selected friends like Iran, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and possibly Nigeria. 2. The longer range point is how this relates to developing a foundation for the US presence in the Mid-East in the 1970’s. Obviously we may not have much future there if the Arab-Israeli impasse continues. But planning around that for the moment, I see a fundamental problem: US programs as presently constituted—economic aid, military aid,…

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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	1969-11-05
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–4, Documents on Iran and Iraq, 1969–1972
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve04/d38
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Record ID	`frus:frus1969-76ve04/d38`

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38. Memorandum From Harold Saunders of the National Security Council Staff to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs ( Sisco ). Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1969-76ve04/d38.