Testimonial letter from Olof Willgren

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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 Olof Willgren. It is "Exhibit A-786" 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.

SVERIGES TELEVISION
Datum 18.7.83
Sida

TO WHOM IT MAY CONSERN

I am director at the swedish broadcasting corporation . In my work in the artistic field the teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajheesh has been a constant source of inspiration . I consider him a wise man and a great teacher and hes contributions to modern man are of importans .

To me The United States is a country of freedom political as well as religious ...let it stay that way !

Stockholm 18.7.83
[signed]
OLOF WILLGREN
/ Director /


(Please note: We assume that the above letter is still copyrighted, but we regard its historical interest to constitute a Fair Use exception for publication in this wiki.)