Testimonial letter from Alexander Kreger

This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.

This letter is from Alexander Kreger. It is "Exhibit A-2184" in the Noles collection.

The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.

CENTURY SPECIALTY ADVERTISING P.O. Box 1393 • Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90028 • (213) 465-6571 August 30, 1983 Rinzai %Hotel Rajneesh 1115 S. W. 11th Avenue Portland, OR 97205 Dear Rinzai, I want to express my personal feelings regarding Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh as I feel he is an outstanding individual and certainly deserves special consideration from my Government regarding staying in the United States. He is one of a kind and his teaching certainly makes one look at oneself and if anger occurs from some; I would suggest they say Thank You for the opportunity to get in touch with anger and have a direct way to learn from and go thru the feeling. He is an outstanding individual who has chosen to live in the United States and I feel we should make him welcome with open arms. If you wish to hear more of my feelings please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, CENTURY SPECIALTY ADVERTISING [signed] Alexander Kreger President

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