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Robert Priddy said, "Not a single detail in the letters can be shown to be out of place or not in character." Well, he is wrong:

Letter 1:
Notice how the "Physical Ed. & Health at the College skews up from the line and corrects itself at "for" with the "r" half missing. Also the word "who" that looks like "wbo", the "b" is not a typewriter character. It is clear when it is enlarged:

Letter 1:
Notice the word "so" is missing from between "moves...many people". The "so" is present on Alexandra Nagel's copy:

Letter 1:
Notice how the "whereas" is misplaced. Also the "Gov. Leaders are swami's strong devotees" is misplaced. It is at an unusual angle. Just above this sentence is another sentence that says, "without indictment from parents & Government". This sentence is at an agle too, but in the opposite direction of the sentence below it!

Letter 2:
Look at the first three words, "can see the probable" and compare them with the lettering in the same passage. The words "can" and "the" are not the same as the other letters. In the word "probable", the two "b's" do match each other:

Letter 2:
Look at the words "please me" and the word "escalate". Compare them to the other lettering. It's different:

Letter 3:
Look at the words, "devotees is beside the point" and compare them to the other lettering. It is not the same:

Letter 3:
Look at the word "laimed". It is supposed to be "claimed". It is typed correctly on the text versions:

Letter 3:
Look at the words "been receiving". It is different the the other lettering and also the top of the letters on "receiving" has been cut off:

Letter 3:
Look at the first word. It is supposed to be "how". It is correct on the text versions but not on the "original" scan:

Letter 3:
Look at the second part to the word "attitudes". The "udes and activities" is a very different type of lettering:

Letter 3:
Look at the blank space before "allegations". The word is supposed to be "of". It is listed on the text versions but is missing here, despite the space being there!:

Letter 3:
Look at the beginning of the third line. Again, the word has been cut off despite the space being there. The word is supposed to be "reason":

Letter 3:
Look at the words, "Officers, as they are consumated". It is at an unusual angle. Also, the comma after "officers" is not a real typewriter comma. It was changed:

Letter 3:
Look at the word "theory". The "r" is not a typewriter character.
It looks like handwriting: