“I’ve got something else, too.” “What’s that?” “Oil.” “Meaning?” “I’m not sure. But I ran this guy past my friend from Harvard, State Department. He says the outfit our boy is with has links to some of the players who’re looking central to Russian oil.” “Russian oil?” “Saudi oil has not been looking so good to the really big guys, globally, since nine-eleven. They’re tired of worrying about the region. They want a stable source. Russian Union’s got it. Means huge changes in the flow of global capital. Means we’re going to be running on Russian oil.”
